From advertising and merchandising, to Bratz and Voodoo Dolls, to the images of Bill Henson, Getting Real puts the spotlight on the sexualisation a...

Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors provide an introdu...

In this book, the authors present new research in the study of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Topics discussed include the use of...

This textbook covers the topics all journalist needs to know for a career in journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. These include finding and writing ...

The main theme of the book Introduction to Communication Sciences is to provide information on (a) communication, language, speech & their comp...

The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope a...

SPECIAL SECTION: MULTILINGUALISM IN UKRAINE Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism RORY FINNIN and IVAN KOZACHENKO The Languages and Tongue...

Special Sections: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the “Near Abroad” and Russia's Annexiation of Crimea II This special section deals with Russia’...

The Chinese press was the largest foreign-language press in Sydney in the late nineteenth century, and the only foreign-language press to publish c...

Feature film has done more than any other medium to shape the image of Martin Luther held by the common public in the 20th century. Luther films ha...

Mass media has become an integral part of the human experience. News travels around the world in a split second affecting people in other countries...

Over the past 20 years, significant evidence has accumulated supporting the use of mass media campaigns in smoking cessation efforts. Studies have ...

Understanding the conceptual relationship between the building blocks of media and communication is important not just for one's knowledge, but for...

This volume of Northern Lights originates from the research programme Global Media Cultures. It is concerned with the ways in which media take part...

The media industry plays a vital role in informing and entertaining the public. Media ownership and the availability of diverse programming have be...

The media industry plays an important role in educating and entertaining the public. While the media industry provides the public with many nationa...

Dale Spender is a whole-hearted convert to computing and cyberspace, but she has her concerns. How much will the Internet live up to its potential ...

Jihadism has been an important issue of public discussions since 9/11. Internet media have been used by Jihadis as means of communication, propagan...

The book contains a CD-ROM with movie clip examples related to the articles. This publication meets the need for a fresh look at the narrative, tec...

The Australian publishing industry has transformed itself from a colonial outpost of British publishing to a central node in a truly global publish...

Reality television has become a world-wide phenomenon which has the capability to crossover cultural boundaries and appeal to distinctly different ...

Reality television has become a world-wide phenomenon which has the capability to crossover cultural boundaries and appeal to distinctly different ...

Many observers believe that it has sometimes been the mass media which has been the sole catalyst of change since 1985. Others believe that it spli...

There has been a lot happening on Australia’s small screens. Neighbours turned 30. Struggle Street was accused of poverty porn. Pete evangelised Pa...

The prevalence of social media avails individual users and organizations with unprecedented access to personal information that was once arduous to...

Contemporary society, the society of the future, will require us to develop entirely new knowledge, skills and competences. In this respect, functi...

On 8 September 2003 the Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Univision Communications, Inc., the dominant Spanish language medi...

Hidden from view, data centres process and store scientific data while requiring extensive energy and metal extraction. How can science become sust...

"Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human." --Amy Lebovitch S...

The Federal Communications Commission's Laboratory Division has completed a second phase of its measurement studies of the spectrum sensing and tra...

The Telescreen is the pervasive media screen put in front of, and injected into, the eyes and ears of humans in the American electronic techno-cult...

In a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive presence. From government policy to leisure television, the information age touch...

Throughout the world, television has become an important part of the way in which political candidates and parties present their messages to voters...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been bombarded with hundreds of thousands of complaints concerning the 2004 Super Bowl halftime sho...