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Rating the audience : the business of media
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research …
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- 9781849663410
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- xvi + 272 p
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- 302.23 MAR r
Cyber Public Sphere and Social Movements : Calling to Cyber Spaces
The diversification and politicisation of the mass media within itself and also societal pressure created by the mass media at a social level have caused changes to our social structure. The first change began with the contextual changes to the mass media, and this change led to visible changes in societies. That transformation has almost erased the distinction between the private and the publi…
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- 9783845291260
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- 132p
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- 303.484 COT
Fashion media and sustainability : encouraging ethical consumption via journa…
ashion is among the biggest polluters, yet the media still promote throwaway fast fashion. The growing fashion public relations industry encourages and enables this media coverage. This policy brief identifies patterns in the way journalists and influencers cover fashion which contribute to unsustainable buying behaviours. Recent research recommends practical steps to improve media coverage to …
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- 9781912656912
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- iii + 36 p
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- 746.92 DEN f
Beyond narrative : exploring narrative liminality and its cultural work
This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs i…
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- 9783839461303
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- 271 p
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- 420 HER b
The democratization of artificial intelligence : net politics in the era of l…
After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance ne…
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- 9783837647198
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- x, 335 p
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- 006.301 AND
Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy
Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis. Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that a…
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- 9781000590265
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- 174 p
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- 028.7 DER P
Digital humanities and libraries and archives in religious studies : an intro…
How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible in return? This volume showcases the perspectives of faculty, librarians, archivists, and allied cultural heritage professionals who are drawing on primary and secondary sources in innovative ways to c…
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- 9783110536539
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- 167 pg; ill.
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- 001.30285 DIG d
Zootechnologies : a media history of swarm research
Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of com…
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- 9789048537426
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- 006.3 ZOO
The orientalist semiotics of dune religious and historical references within …
Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe – ›spice‹ – is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually tur…
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- 9783963173028
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- ill; 118 p.
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- 300 JAC t
Global Media Sport; Flows, Forms And Futures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. How has globalization impacted on sports media? What are the economic ramifications? And what is the future of sports media? In order to answer these questions, this book investigates the constituents, dimensions and implications of the flows of media sport from …
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- 9781849666763
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