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Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview

By Glenn G. Sparks

2013 | Wadsworth
Copy Available: Yes

MEDIA EFFECTS RESEARCH, FOURTH EDITION, provides an excellent introduction for students studying mass media's effects on society. Through an engaging narrative style, the author presents fascinating research findings on media's impact and related mas ...
 
 
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Unmasking Deep Democracy: An Anthropology of Indigenous Media in Canada

By Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson

2013 | Intervention Press
Copy Available: Yes

This timely book examines the media practices of the first indigenous national television network in the world, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) in Canada. Scholarship on indigenous media often focuses on its role as an organizing mechani ...
 
 
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TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War over the Internet

By Cynthia Littleton

2012 | Syracuse University Press
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Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work

By Matt Stahl

2012 | Duke
Copy Available: Yes

In Unfree Masters, Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He argues that the widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work ...

 
 
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Mediatization and Religion: Nordic Perspectives

Edited By Stig Hjarvard, Mia Lovheim

2012 | Nordicom
Copy Available: Yes

This book presents new research on the changing relationship between the media, religion and culture from a Nordic perspective, while engaging with ...
 
 
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Communication, Media and Development

Edited By Florencia Enghel, Karin Wilkins

2012 | Nordicom
Copy Available: Yes

Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development is the title of a book Nordicom published in collaboration with The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) in 2005. Seven years later, we see that this book has spr ...
 
 
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The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By Raymond Boyle, Lisa W. Kelly

2012 | Ashgate Publishing Company
Copy Available: Yes

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular business-oriented shows such ...
 
 
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Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay

By Michele White

2012 | Duke University Press
Copy Available: Yes

In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule ...
 
 
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Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics

Edited By Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Graham Longford, Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade

2012 | AU Press
Copy Available: Yes

Connecting Canadians represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community informatics, ...

 
 
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The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By Raymond Boyle, Lisa W. Kelly

2012 | Ashgate Publishing Company
Copy Available: Yes

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular business-oriented shows such ...
 
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