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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction

John Sutherland

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2007), 127 pp.

"Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. It lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, examines what makes a book into a bestseller, and asks what separates bestsellers from ... more

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Children and Media in Times of War and Conflict

Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2007), viii, 363 pp.

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Viewing the South: How Globalisation and Western Television Distort Representations of the Developing World

Emma Miller

Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2007), xi, 284 pp.

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Understanding the Local Media

Meryl Aldridge

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2007), 193 pp.

"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far ... short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, page 2-3) more

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Inclusion Through Media

Tony Dowmunt, Mark Dunford, Nicole van Hemert (eds.)

London: Goldsmiths, University of London (2007), 287 pp.

"The 'Inclusion Through Media' partnership has involved many imaginative and productive collaborations between creative media professionals and young and excluded people in cities and regions of the UK and Europe. Using media as a means of working with, and empowering marginalised people in their co ... more

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Cinémas engagés

Manière de Voir (Le Monde Diplomatique), issue 88 (2006), 98 pp.

"Un panorama du « cinéma engagé » sous deux de ses aspects : en première partie, onze auteurs examinent la façon dont le cinéma, dans différents pays et à différents moments de son histoire, aborde le plus chargé de tous les thèmes sociaux, celui de la guerre. La seconde partie entrepren ... more

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Alternative Media

Chris Atton

London et al.: Sage, reprint (2006), vi, 172 pp.

"In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to 'radical' media, but can also account for newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal websites. Alternative Media examines how and why people produce and use alternative media - to ... more

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Media Law for Journalists

Ursula Smartt

London et al.: Sage (2006), xi, 326 pp.

"An introduction and a reference guide to the main legal issues facing journalists, this book presumes no prior legal knowledge but covers all the relevant areas including defamation, privacy contempt of court, freedom of expression, and intellectual property." (Publisher description)

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Media and the British Empire

Chandrika Kaul (ed.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), 266 pp.

"'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonis ... more

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Comparing Media from Around the World

Robert McKenzie

Ian Werner; Nabil Dajani (contrib.)

Boston: Pearson (2006), 372 pp.

"This book discusses the fundamental elements of media systems and shows how they are used in eight sample countries. Unlike other books, it is organized according to media elements, with comparative discussions of all eight countries within each chapter. This helps readers make connections and comp ... more

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Access to Information: Building a Culture of Transparency. Jamaica

Laura Neuman (ed.)

Atlanta: Carter Center (2006), vi, 150 pp.

"In passing and implementing the Access to Information Act 2002, Jamaica has established a new and more open form of governance and accomplished what many other countries are still attempting. The Act, which provides citizens an enforceable right to official documents held by public authorities, is ... more

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From the Margins to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment

Peter M. Lewis, Susan Jones (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2006), vii, 248 pp.

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British Muslims: Media Guide

Ehsan Masood

British Council (2006), 73 pp.

"This publication gives an account of Britons who feel themselves to be the target of antagonism. A joint enterprise of the British Council and a number of Muslim organisations, the book is written in the belief that much hostility and negativity is founded in, and fostered by, misunderstanding. It ... more

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Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization

Jan Herman Brinks (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2006), 280 pp.

"A fascinating look at the role of the media in fostering nationalism, with a comparative approach that shows the interactions between American, Russian and German nationalism. Extreme nationalism is a subject of enormous contemporary significance today. Does patriotic pride inevitably develop into ... more

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Muslims and the News Media

Elizabeth Poole, John E. Richardson (eds.)

London: Tauris (2006), xv, 257 pp.

"Written by both leading academic authorities and by Muslim media practitioners, 'Muslims and the Media' is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook and is set in both the British and international contexts. The book clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and aud ... more

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Television Across Europe: Regulation, Policy and Independence. Vol. 3: Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Budapest: Open Society Institute (2005), pp. 1165-1662

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The Media and Zimbabwe

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 2 (2005), pp. 1-135

"This special volume is devoted to a selection of papers from the many that were presented at the ‘Reporting Zimbabwe: Before and After 2000 Conference’ held on 25th February 2005 at London’s Stanhope Centre, as part of the Africa Media Series organized by the University of Westminster’s Com ... more

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