Critical Media Studies, Brian L. Ott, Robert L. Mack

Автор: Ellis Cashmore
Название: Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption
ISBN: 1628920696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628920697
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption paints Taylor as the seminal representation of “celebrity.” A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, she intrigued a global audience with her marriages and extra-marital improprieties, as well as her extravagant jewelry, her never-ending illnesses, her dependency on alcohol, and her perplexing friendship with Michael Jackson. Despite her continued world-renown, however, most people would be hard-pressed to name even three of her films, though she made over seventy. Ellis Cashmore traces our modern, hyperactive celebrity culture back to a single instant in Taylor’s life: the publicizing of her scandalous affair with Richard Burton by photographer Marcelo Geppetti in 1962, which announced the arrival of a new generation of predatory photojournalists and, along with them, a strange conflation between the public and private lives of celebrities. Taylor’s life and public reception, Cashmore reveals, epitomizes the modern phenomenon of “celebrity.”

Автор: Ian Roderick
Название: Critical Discourse Studies and Technology: A Multimodal Approach to Analysing Technoculture
ISBN: 1472569482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472569486
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Making a new contribution to the developing field of multimodal critical discourse studies, Ian Roderick's book demonstrates how technologies that tend to be widely represented as innovative, or as simple pragmatic solutions, are always anchored in power relations and are therefore deeply ideological. A series of examples analysing technologies such as robotics, smart phones or bio-medicine, their functioning and uses, as well as their representations in the media, show that these are embedded within discourses that tell us about social and power relations, identities and political values. The book takes a tour of everyday technologies and how they are represented in different settings. A Disney theme park attraction showing how technology has improved family life makes many assumptions about what is natural in terms of interpersonal relations, pleasure and satisfaction. Advertisements that represent robot workers inform us about the kinds of worker-management relations now characterising work places. Roderick looks at the way that technologies, while often represented as divorced from their production and maintenance, as objects of wonder, need to be seen within a fabric of social relations that tends to be supressed from how we see them as part of a wider technological fetishism. Engaging with existing theories of technology, the book argues that we must take a more interdisciplinary approach to avoid the pitfalls of social constructivism and technological determinism. Our experiences of technologies are shaped through the relationship between knowledge, practices and institutional forms.

Автор: Mitchell W. J. T., Hansen Mark B. N.
Название: Critical Terms for Media Studies
ISBN: 0226532550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226532554
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 29570.00 T
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Описание: Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This title defines what this hybrid area aims to do, exploring our language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media.

Автор: Wickham Clayton, Sarah Harman
Название: Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon
ISBN: 1780766653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780766652
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Screening Twilight unpacks how this popular group of films work as cinematic texts, what they have to say about cinema and culture today, and how fans may seek to re-read or subvert these messages.

Автор: Jewkes Yvonne
Название: Media and Crime: A Critical Introduction
ISBN: 1446272532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781446272534
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Цена: 43290.00 T
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Описание: Fully updated with new crime statistics, case studies - including Jimmy Savile, the murder of Lee Rigby, and Wikileaks - and a student website, this bestselling text introduces students to this exciting area and encourages them to think critically about key issues

Автор: Allmer
Название: Critical Theory and Social Media
ISBN: 1138808768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138808768
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 148010.00 T
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Описание: This book examines both the constraints and emancipatory potential of new media. Allmer explores to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthening the idea of the communication and network commons and a commons-based information society.

Автор: Graeme Kirkpatrick
Название: Technical Politics: Critical Theory and Technology Design
ISBN: 1849660565 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849660563
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 47520.00 T
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Описание: In our rush for growth have we trusted too much to computers - and what bearing does this have on the current global economic meltdown?In Technical Politics Graeme Kirkpatrick clarifies the place of technology in critical theory, offering a strategic conception of the politics of technology design. In Part One he presents a social -relational definition of technology, locating technology design and innovation in terms of their social and economic co-ordinates in contemporary capitalism. Technology is positioned as a specific social sub-field with its own internal rules and a distinctive, structural relationship with economic processes and social conflicts. In Part Two he identifies the political openings presented by this definition. Going beyond existing critical and constructionist theory, he examines the role of information technology in the contemporary economic crisis, offering a radical new perspective on the future of technology and how that future might be organized to serve human interests. The book investigates: *The relation of technology and politics in Marxist political theory and the limitations of the Marxist framework *A social-relational definition of technology and technological development *The role of information technology in the contemporary economic crisis *The lost dreams of the 1970s - what went wrong? *A strategic conception of digital technology design and how its design might be shaped in the future.

Автор: Neil McCaw
Название: How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills
ISBN: 144119066X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441190666
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 26390.00 T
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Описание: Now in its second edition, How to Read d104s introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including:

- Debates around critical theory
- The role of history and context
- The links between creativity and criticism
- The relationship between author, reader and text.

The new edition now includes guidance on analysing a range of multi-media texts, including film and online media as well as the purely literary. In addition to new practical examples, readings, exercises and 'checkpoints' that help students to build confidence in their own critical readings of both primary and secondary texts, the book now also offers guidance on writing fully-formed critical essays and tips for independent research. Comprehensively updated and revised throughout, How to Read d104s is an indispensible guide for students making the transition to university study.

Автор: Christian Fuchs
Название: Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
ISBN: 0415628210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415628211
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 57150.00 T
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Описание: This book provides foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society. It elaborates a critical theory of the media, information, information technology, and the information society. It introduces methodological and theoretical tools for studying media and the information society in a critical way.