A Dictionary of Media and Communication

Author: Daniel Chandler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019105755X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 722

Book Description
The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, this wide-ranging A-Z covers both interpersonal and mass communication, in all their myriad forms, encompassing advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture, among many other topics. This new edition includes over 200 new complete entries and revises hundreds of others, as well as including hundreds of new cross-references. The biographical appendix has also been fully cross-referenced to the rest of the text. This dictionary is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Dictionary of Media and Communications

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317473116
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
Accessible to wide range of readers from student to lay people, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentaries. Written by distinguished scholar and author Marcel Danesi, and with an Introduction by Arthur Asa Berger, a leading figure in the world of media and communications, the dictionary also includes terms related to psychology, linguistics, aesthetics, computer science, semiotics, culture theory, anthropology, and more that have relevance in media studies. Each entry includes a definition in simple, clear language; an illustration where applicable; and, historical commentary (who coined a term for example, why, who uses it, etc.). A bibliography, a directory of online resources, and a time-line of media genres add to the dictionary's usefulness and appeal.

A Dictionary of Social Media

Author: Daniel Chandler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192518526
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
This fascinating dictionary covers the whole realm of social media, providing accessible, authoritative, and concise entries centred primarily on websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social networking. From the authors of the popular Dictionary of Media and Communication, Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday, comes a title that complements and supplements their previous dictionary, and that will be of great use to social media marketing specialists, bloggers, and to any general internet user.

A Dictionary of Media and Communication

Author: Daniel Chandler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199568758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
This new dictionary includes over 2,200 concise, accessible, and extensively cross-referenced entries for terms regularly encountered by students and professionals working within the diverse fields of media and communication studies, including advertising, digital culture, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture.

A Dictionary of Communication and Media Studies

Author: James Watson
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN:
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A dictionary of Communicaiton and media

A Dictionary of Journalism

Author: Tony Harcup
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199646244
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
This dictionary includes over 1,400 entries covering terminology related to the practice, business, and technology of journalism, as well as its concepts and theories, institutions, publications, and key events. An essential companion for all students taking courses in Journalism and Journalism Studies, as well as related subjects.

Dictionary of Mass Communication and Media Research

Author: David P. Demers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780922993352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
This is a clothbound version of the original paperback book (ISBN 0-922993-25-4). The dictionary contains more than 1,400 concepts and terms associated with mass communication--two-thirds of which are not found in other comparable dictionaries. This dictionary provides more comprehensive of most terms than other dictionaries.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications

Author: Richard Weiner
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
The only single source for definitions of the terms used in the media and communications field, this unique reference contains 25,000 definitions from broadcasting, advertising, publishing, and more.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083296
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Collected here are definitions and descriptions of terms, concepts, personages, schools of thought, and historical movements that appear frequently in the literature.".

Media and Society

Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442217812
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Media and Society: A Critical Perspective offers an accessible introduction to the role that the mass media play in our lives, our society, and American culture. Berger explores the relationship between consumers and media with an emphasis on the shaping influence that both have on each other. This lively text, illustrated with original sketches by the author, equips students with the tools necessary to analyze the media that permeates their lives. The third edition features a discussion of the impact of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media on youth culture, an expanded discussion of media ethics, including the Murdoch phone-tapping scandal, an analysis of how media has affected our political landscape, and updated examples and material on media theories and ideology.