Network Neutrality and Digital Dialogic Communication (Routledge Studies in Media Law and Policy)
by Alison N. Novak and Melinda Sebastian
In the months after the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 decision to repeal network neutrality as US policy, it is easy to forget the decades of public, organizational, media and governmental struggle to control digital policy and open access to the internet. Using dialogic communication tactics, the public, governmental actors and organizations impacted the ruling through YouTube comments, the FCC online system and social network communities. Network neutrality, which requires tha...
Der Medienkonsum verandert sich. Neben die klassischen Programmfamilien treten netzbasierte Angebote global agierender Player, die auf allen Endgeraten aus einer Hand lineare und nicht-lineare Inhalte sowie zahlreiche begleitende Dienste anbieten. Hinzu kommt eine umfassende Personalisierung durch Big-Data-Systeme. Diese Entwicklung lasst sich unter dem Schlagwort Cloud-TV zusammenfassen. Der gesetzliche Rahmen fur das oeffentlich-rechtlich verfasste Fernsehen stellt gleichwohl noch den linearen...
Triple Award Winner: 2006 History Division Book Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2006 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Communications Award, and 2005 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research The public often views television investigative reporting as a watchdog on the government. In fact, some of the centerpiece moments of TV muckraking relied heavily on official sources for inspiration, information,...
A provocative collection of interviews with the sublimely talented author of The Journalist and the Murderer The legendary journalist, Janet Malcolm, opened her most famous work The Journalist and the Murderer with the line: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” Ever since its publication in 1980, she only increased her reputation as a devastatingly sharp writer, whose eye for observation is m...
The Post-Racial Mystique (Critical Cultural Communication)
by Catherine R. Squires
Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted in the last decade: Wha...
Contemporary Latina/o Media
The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media. Just ten years ago, discussions of Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political economy have resulted in an unprecedented rise in major new media ventures for Latinos as everyone seems to want a piece of the Latina/o media market. While current scholarship on Latina/o media have mostly revolved around important issues of r...
Business and Legal Forms for Fine Artists (Business and Legal Forms)
by Tad Crawford
The fourth edition of this eminently useful book includes new forms for hiring and firing employees, agreements to arbitrate, promissory notes, and general releases. Also included are a contract for the sale of an artwork, contract for a commission, delivery-of-art confirmation form, artist-gallery contract, contract for an exhibition loan, model release, commercial lease, sublease, and lease assignment, and much more. Each form includes step-by-step instructions, advice, and unique negotiation...
The Social Media Reader
The first collection to address the collective transformation happening in response to the rise of social media With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production...
This Business of Television (This Business of)
by Howard J Blumenthal and Oliver R. Goodenough
Broad in scope and rich in detail, "This Business of Television" has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve, "This Business of Television" evolves along with it. This comprehensive guide to the legal, economic, and production aspects of the industry has been completely revised and restructured to reflect the rapid ch...
Fifty years after the Moors Murders and 15 years since Myra Hindley died in prison, after one of the longest sentences served by a woman, The Monstering of Myra Hindley raises some delicate and searching questions.They include: "Why was Hindley treated differently?", "Why do we need to create demons?" and "What impact does this have on our whole notion of crime, punishment and justice?" Set against the political backlash of one of the most noto-rious cases in English criminal history, this is a...
Spreadable Media (Postmillennial Pop)
by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today’s ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called “user-generated content.” Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of participatory culture, from internet memes to presid...
Gen Combo Looseleaf Mass Media Law; Connect Access Card
by Clay Calvert, Dan V Kozlowski, and Derigan Silver
Prevent Your Voicemail & Cell Phone Being Hacked
by Myerson Laurence
Seit der Entwicklung des Internets zum Web 2.0 sind Social Media aus unserem privaten und beruflichen Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Dienste wie Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp, berufliche Netzwerke oder Plattformen fur Bewertungen und Blogs haben erhebliche praktische Bedeutung erlangt und werfen zahlreiche, oft ungeklarte oder im Fluss befindliche Rechtsfragen auf. Seit dem Erscheinen der 1. Auflage dieses Handbuchs im Jahre 2015 hat sich zudem der Gesetzgeber dem Phanomen Soci...
Funksysteme bilden zunehmend die Grundlage von Kommunikation, privat ebenso wie in Industrie und Wirtschaft. Von WLAN bis zur Satellitenkommunikation mussen die Kommunikations-, Navigations- und Rundfunksatelliten und ihre Bodenanlagen national und international regulatorisch koordiniert werden. Das Buch beschreibt anschaulich das Prozedere einer Funkanmeldung, eroertert Beispiele von Satellitenprojekten und zeigt Wege auf, wie das endliche Spektrum effektiv genutzt werden kann, damit auch in Zu...
Crime in Tv, the News, and Film
by Beth E Adubato, Nicole M Sachs, Donald F Fizzinoglia, and John M Swiderski
This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. During the criminal trial, evidentiary material is tightly regulated; it is formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence and criminal procedure. However, these rules and procedures cannot govern or control this material after proceedings have ended. In its ‘afterlife’, criminal evidence continues to proliferate in cultural contexts. It might be photographic o...
Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth-century Britain (Ford Lectures)
by Ian R. Christie
Ian Christie here discusses the factors that influenced the widespread acceptance of the existing social and governmental structures in the face of much pressure for revolutionary change in 18th-century Europe. He points to the distribution of wealth among the lower and middle class, the growth of industry, social support offered by the poor law, and the success of self-help organizations as rays of social cohesion that counterbalanced stress with stability and fostered resistance to the winds o...