New books
The Second Life Herald : the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse - Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace
ISBN/ISSN: 0262513226
Takes us behind the scenes of the Herald as they report on the emergence of a fascinating universe of virtual spaces that will become the next generation of the World Wide Web: a 3-D environment that provides richer, more expressive interactions than the Web we know today. They chronicle the issue that the mainstream media often ignore: conflicts across the client-server divide over who should write the laws governing virtual worlds.
Social issues in television fiction - Lesley Henderson
ISBN/ISSN: 0748625321
Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience? Does TV fiction have a greater impact on public understandings than TV news? This exciting new book draws on unique empirical data to examine the relationship between popular television fiction and wider society.The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s.
Beyond the multiplex : cinema, new technologies, and the home - Barbara Klinger
ISBN/ISSN: 0520245865
Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media--from cable television and VHS to DVD and the Internet--shape our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema. Barbara Klinger explores topics such as home theater, film collecting, classic Hollywood movie reruns, repeat viewings, and Internet film parodies, providing a multifaceted view of the presentation and reception of films in U.S. households.
Understanding community media - Kevin Howley, ed.
ISBN/ISSN: 1412959055
With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community.
Language and media : a resource book for students - Alan Durant, Marina Lambrou
ISBN/ISSN: 0415475740
This book is a comprehensive introduction to how language interacts with media. It investigates the forms of language found in media discourse; how patterns in such language use contribute to recognizable media genres and styles; and broader social themes and consequences that arise from media language. It uses a wide variety of real texts from the media that include: newspapers covering events such as the Asian tsunami, speeches, blogs, emails, advertizements and interview transcripts from television talk shows including Oprah, etc.
Guide overview
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Featured new book
News media communication of sustainability and the environment : an exploration of approaches to improvement - Komathi Kolandai-Matchett
ISBN/ISSN: 3639162668
News media coverage of sustainability and environmental issues is often regarded as informal education necessary for gaining public support towards related actions. However, most media content and effect studies on this topic have identified many inadequacies and problems. Moving forward, this book focuses on three improvement approaches that could be instrumental in advancing related news media communication: the educational approach, the media social responsibility approach, and the message framing approach. Those interested in mediated communication as a method for encouraging social change for sustainability, including environmental and social interest groups, universities, media education and training providers, government agencies, journalists, media organisations, and researchers in this field, should find this book useful. (Originally published as a Ph.D. thesis in Mass Communication, University of Canterbury, 2009.)
New titles list (last 3 weeks)
Scroll down to browse new e-journal issues and NZ TV programmes on DVD. See also: Cinema Studies guide for recently-added films on DVD.
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- The art of videogames / Grant Tavinor
- Beyond the multiplex : cinema, new technologies, and the home / Barbara Klinger
- A bomb in every issue : how the short, unruly life of Ramparts magazine changed America / Peter Richardson
- Celebrity and the environment : fame, wealth and power in conservation / Dan Brockington
- Communication theories : perspectives, processes, and contexts / Katherine Miller
- Encyclopedia of journalism / general editor, Christopher H. Sterling
- Ham radio's technical culture / Kristen Haring
- An introduction to intercultural communication : identities in a global community / Fred E. Jandt
- Language and media : a resource book for students / Alan Durant and Marina Lambrou
- Maps with the news : the development of American journalistic cartography / Mark Monmonier
- Networking futures : the movements against corporate globalization / Jeffrey S. Juris
- The news at any cost : how journalists compromise their ethics to shape the news / Tom Goldstein
- News media communication of sustainability and the environment : an exploration of approaches to improvement / by Komathi Kolandai-Matchett
- Online interviewing / Nalita James and Hugh Busher
- Peter Bush : a life in focus / with Paul Thomas
- The Second Life Herald : the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse / Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace
- Shoveling smoke : advertising and globalization in contemporary India / William Mazzarella
- Social issues in television fiction / Lesley Henderson
- Tactical media / Rita Raley
- Understanding community media / editor, Kevin Howley
- Wiki government : how technology can make government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more powerful / Beth Simone Noveck
Latest e-journal issues for media, communication, journalism
Alerts were received in the last 2 weeks for these journals (in order of most to least recent).
For more Media, Communication & Journalism journals, see: Current journals list
- Journal of computer-mediated communication : JCMC
- St Louis journalism review
- Journalism & communication monographs
- Journalism history
- Media report to women
- Visual studies
- Media, culture & society
- New media & society
- Communication, culture & critique
- Discourse : journal for theoretical studies in media and culture
- European journal of communication
- Political communication
- Vital speeches of the day
- Business communication quarterly
- International communication gazette
New DVDs - NZ TV programmes
- 15 years of Shortland Street. Volume one, disc one [DVD]
- The amazing extraordinary friends. Series 1 [videorecording] / created by Stephen Campbell ; written by Stephen Campbell ; Jon Bridges
- Back of the Y [DVD] : masterpiece television / directed by Chris Stapp ; produced by Matt Heath
- The best of Country calendar 2006 [DVD] / [executive producer, Frank Torley]
- The Billy T. James show. Vol. 1 [DVD] / devised by Tom Parkinson and Billy T. James
- Children of the Dog Star [DVD] / written by Ken Catran ; producer, Caterina De Nave ; director, Chris Bailey
- Country calendar [DVD] / Television New Zealand
- Diplomatic immunity. Series one [DVD] / created by James Griffin
- Flight of the conchords. The complete second season [DVD] / HBO Entertainment ; created by James Bobin, Jemaine Clement & Bret McKenzie
- Intrepid journeys. Volume 2 [DVD]
- The Jaquie Brown diaries. Series one [DVD] / director, Gerard Johnstone ; producer, Hayley Cunningham ; writers, Gerard Johnstone, Jodie Molloy
- Kiwi kitchen. Series two [DVD] / presenter, Richard Till ; producer, Graham Ritchie ; director, Kate Fraser
- Maddigan's quest [DVD] / by Margaret Mahy ; written by Margaret Mahy, Gavin Strawhan, Rachel Lang ; produced by Simon Bennett ; directed by Charlie Haskell
- The man who lost his head [DVD] / [a TVNZ/ITV co-presentation ; a South Pacific Pictures/Greenlit Rights co-production]
- MooN Television. Series 1 [DVD] / [written and directed by Leigh Hart, filmed and edited by Brent Spillane]
- Outrageous fortune. Series 1 [DVD] / South Pacific Pictures ; producer, Mike Smith ; created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang
- Pulp sport. Volume 2 [DVD]
- Pulp sport. Volume 3 [DVD]
- Rude awakenings [DVD] / a charter programme commissioned by Television New Zealand ; created by Garth Maxwell
- Seven periods with Mr Gormsby [DVD] / Direct Hit ; directed by Danny Mulheron
- The Topp Twins. Volume 1 [DVD] / written, performed and produced by Jools & Lynda Topp
- The Topp Twins. Volume 3 [DVD] : do not adjust your twin-set / written & produced by Jools & Lynda Topp
Recent new books
The encyclopedia of journalism [e-resource] - Christopher H. Sterling (ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 0761929576
Also available on the Reference shelves at:
PN 4728 .E56 2009
Media and political engagement : citizens, communication, and democracy - Peter Dahlgren
ISBN/ISSN: 0521527899
Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole - Benjamin R. Barber
ISBN/ISSN: 0393049612
Beyond prime time : television programming in the post-network era - Amanda D. Lotz (ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 0415996694
The myth of digital democracy - Matthew Hindman
ISBN/ISSN: 0691138680
I, avatar : the culture and consequences of having a second life - Mark Stephen Meadows
ISBN/ISSN: 0321533399
Born digital : understanding the first generation of digital natives - John Palfrey, Urs Gasser
ISBN/ISSN: 0465005152
We the media : grassroots journalism by the people, for the people - Dan Gillmor
ISBN/ISSN: 0596102275
Mobile communication - Rich Ling, Jonathan Donner
ISBN/ISSN: 0745644147
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