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Media and cultural studies: keyworks
Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, this acclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture, media, and communication.A fully revised new edition of the bestselling anthology in this dynamic and multidisciplinary fieldNew contributions include essays from Althusser through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social MovementsRetains…
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781405132589
- Collation
- xxxviii, 755 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- Keyworks in cultural studies ; 2
- Call Number
- 302.23 DUR m
Convergent media and privacy
With Media Convergence, Tim Dwyer has given us a bold restatement of the political economy approach for a 21st century media environment where traditional industry silos are collapsing, and where media users are increasingly engaged with the production and distribution of media and not simply its consumption. The book displays considerable attention to institutional detail and comparative analy…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137306869
- Collation
- vii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
- Call Number
- 302.23 DWY m
Celebrity and power: fame in contemporary culture
Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are ex…
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780816695621
- Collation
- lii, 290 pages ; 23 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.0973 MAR c
Media & culture : mass communication in a digital age
Now, more than ever, media surround, enhance, and affect our everyday experiences. Navigating the converged worlds of text, audio, and visual media--and understanding how they fit together--can be challenging. "Media & Culture" recognizes these challenges and makes the media industries accessible in print and online. The new edition reflects the latest and most relevant changes to the digital m…
- Edition
- 12th.ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781319102852
- Collation
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some c
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.230973 CAM m
Cultural theory and popular culture: an introduction
In this eighth edition of his award-winning Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessib…
- Edition
- 8th ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415786621
- Collation
- xv, 302 pages ; 25 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.49 STO
Wordplay and the discourse of video games: analyzing words, design, and play
In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into gam…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415893060
- Collation
- x, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture
- Call Number
- [KOM-LIB-206]
The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies
The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, aims to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies, providing stu…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415533324
- Collation
- xxiv, 518 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Series Title
- Routledge companions
- Call Number
- [KOM-LIB-205]
Textual poachers: television fans & participatory culture
"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manip…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0415905710
- Collation
- viii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Studies in culture and communication
- Call Number
- [KOM-LIB-105]
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