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Publisher
The Disinformation Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines Rupert Murdoch's Fox News media empire. Takes an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. Examines how the FCC helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores the impact on society when media is controlled by one person. A system was created to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how...
Publisher
North-Holland
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 541-773 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics.ïŽChapters span the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are...
44) Megamedia: how giant corporations dominate mass media, distort competition, and endanger democracy
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages)
Language
English
Description
This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. However, this is the first volume that offers a varied analysis which has wider implications for several disciplines, thus providing the reader with a text that is both multi-faceted and accessible....
Author
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xi, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gone are the days of enjoying life's simple pleasures for pleasure's sake. Twenty-first-century Americans are on a mission to cram every second of their earthly existence with significant accomplishments and momentous events. Even the most mundane undertaking must be approached with zeal, gusto, and expertise, or so the media persuade us to believe. Are we capable of doing anything casually anymore? This first book-length treatment of media's obsession...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
52) Over the edge: how the pursuit of youth by markerters and the media has changed American culture
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations...
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