Intellect imprint: 532 books
European Media Governance
The Brussels Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Media Governance today is shifting media rules and regulations from national government policies to local, regional, national, multinational and international ones and away from exclusively governmental domains to others, such as market, professional and public interest/pressure groups. Many media-related...
Communication Skills
Stepladders to Success for the Professional
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different...
by Chris Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is about advertising and culture. Advertising is a significant aspect of modernsocieties and plays an important part in economic activity. It is a highly visible component of everyday life and increasingly of contemporary culture. The book considers culture as a broad category of human endeavour...
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Essays by 40 Working Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative...
Global Technological Change
From Hard Technology to Soft Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Professor Jin’s new book, Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft Technology, is a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the 21st century. As Zhouying Jin correctly points out:...
TV Format Mogul
Reg Grundy’s Transnational Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to get to grips with the prevalence of programme franchising across international...
by Moira Monteith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This book considers the cognitive nature of courses connected with ICT or using ICT as an integral part of the course, including some views on the associated learning and teaching styles. Which factors lead to learning outcomes and are these intended or fortuitous? Factors may include ones specific...
The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies
Shedding New Light on Formal and Actual Independence against the National Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it.The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within Europe, which...
Sustainability, Participation & Culture in Communication
Theory and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
At a time when sustainability is on everyone’s lips, this volume is one of the first to offer an overview of sustainability and communication issues - including community mobilization, information technologies, gender and social norms, mass media, interpersonal communication, and integrated communication...
by Edmund W. Jupp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might. The first was Bridge Watching, and when this was put ''on the Net'' it produced, to the surprise of the author, such a pleasant flood of e-mail...
Consumer Culture
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how. Every day we make purchasing decisions that express our sense of belonging, our commitments to the environment, and our systems of belief. We often choose to buy things, not necessarily because we need them, but because we believe that...
Media & Values
Intimate Transgressions in a Changing Moral and Cultural Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Media & Values' provides a major empirical investigation into the moral performance of the media. Based on 22 focus groups, three nationally representative questionnaire surveys and interviews with senior media personnel and regulators, this book charts the changing position of the media as a...
The Propaganda of Peace
The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern Ireland’s troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemies...
Journalism Re-examined:Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations
Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism. Journalism Re-examined sets out an institutional theoretical framework for exploring the journalistic institution in the digital age and analyses how it has responded to profound changes in its social and...