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The international encyclopedia of media studies by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2013Explores media as it is being practiced, produced, and analyzed in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe. -
Dictionary of media and communication studies by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2015This volume chronicles major battles, milestones and terminology and reminds all citizens of the vital need to be media literate. -
Encyclopedia of journalism by Call Number: Central PN4728 .E48 2009; eBookPublication Date: 2009An authoritative, multivolume encyclopedia dedicated to journalism has been needed for several years, and this set should prove worth the wait. The first four volumes cover nearly 1,500 sequentially numbered pages. Each features a 171-page index to the entire set. -
The participatory cultures handbook by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2013How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it? Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture," in which knowledge is originated, created, distributed, and evaluated in radically new ways. -
Handbook of global media research by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2012Provides a framework for the critical debate of comparative media research.
Posits transnational media research as reflective of advanced globalization processes, and explores its roles and responsibilities.
Articulates the key themes and competing methodological approaches in a dynamic and developing field.
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