"In der Fernsehforschung vollzog sich in den letzten Jahren ein Prozess der Verselbstständigung: Paradigmen, Theorien und empirische Erkenntnisse der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft haben eine medienspezifische Weiterentwicklung erfahren, die eine Zusammenschau der Ergebnisse lohnend erschei
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nen lässt. Das Lehrbuch bietet einen Überblick zu den wichtigsten Arbeiten, die sich mit dem Medium Fernsehen befassen. Bislang disparat erscheinende Untersuchungsgebiete wie z.B. Gattungen und Genres von TV-Programmen, Einstellungen und Strukturen der Zuschauer, die Unternehmensorganisation der TV-Anbieter, rechtliche Bestimmungen sowie politische Voraussetzungen und Folgen des Fernsehens erscheinen so in einem Zusammenhang, der die Eigenarten des Mediums deutlich macht und allen Interessierten einen schnellen Zugriff auf kompakte Information bietet." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Minutes of a joint workshop of Sida (Sweden), Norad (Norway), Danida (Denmark), the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SDC (Switzerland) and UNESCO Communication Sector. Planned activities include research "on the links between poverty reduction and support to the media sector in developing count
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ries" and "the use of indicators in assessing media development." (commbox)
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"This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio continues to provide distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, yet also enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. Ranging from radio
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among the primordial communities to digital broadcasting and the internet, these essays suggest that the benefits and gratifications which radio confers remain unique and irreplaceable in this multi-media age." (Publisher description)
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"This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems
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and the political variables that have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development, the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist, and Liberal models; to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems; and to explore the forces of change that are currently transforming them. It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of comparative analysis in political communication, and a clear overviewof the variety ofmedia institutions that have developed in theWest, understood within their political and historical context." (Publisher description)
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"The Handbook of Political Communication Research is a benchmark volume, defining the most important and significant thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. Editor Lynda Lee Kaid brings together exemplary scholars to explore the current state of political communicatio
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n research in each of its various facets. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of political communication scholarship, contributions represent research coming from communication, political science, journalism, and marketing disciplines, among others." (Publisher description)
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"Part of the successful Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications series which provides concise introductions to key areas in contemporary communications, Bill Osgerby's innovative Youth Media traces the development of contemporary youth culture and its relationship with the media. From th
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e days of diners, drive-ins and jukeboxes to today's world of iPods and the Internet, Youth Media examines youth media in its economic, cultural and political contexts and explores: "youth culture and the media, the 'Fab Phenomenon': markets, money and media, generation and degeneration in the media: representations, responses and 'effects', media, subculture and lifestyle, global media, youth culture and identity, youth and new media. "Analyzing the nature of different forms of communication as well as reviewing their production and consumption, this is an essential introduction to this key area in communication and cultural studies." (Publisher description)
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