Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences provides a framework to help students understand the relationship between media and society and helps students develop skills for critically evaluating both conventional wisdom and one's own assumptions about the social role of the media. The Seventh Edition retains its basic sociological framwork, but also includes additional discussions of new studies and up-to-date material about a rapidly changing media landscape. This edition significantly...

Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing shows students how to approach stories and think on their feet in the evolving media landscape. Author Vincent F. Filak guides them through essential newswriting elements like lead writing, structure, and storytelling, while teaching them to think critically and focus on what matters most to readers.

What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.

Combining established theory with original analysis, this book provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots and calls for a more critical approach to the rollout of emotional AI in public and private spheres.

Examining the role of the media in the generation, circulation and contestation of racist ideas, this text provides the theoretical and analytical tools needed to interrogate how media dynamics and processes impact on racism and anti-racism

Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who's connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and practice in socio-digital inequalities. She makes an urgent call to broaden our horizons, to expand our theoretical and methodological toolkits, and work collectively to achieve a fairer digital future ...

A student introduction to the history, present and future of global communication from one of Europe's most respected communication scholars.

Ouvrage de préparation au TCF en français langue étrangère (FLE), dans la collection ABC Delf, pour grands adolescents et adultes.

ABC TCF est une préparation complète et efficace aux épreuves du TCF.

Le TCF est un test de français langue étrangère composé d'épreuves obligatoires et facultatives. Elles se présentent sous la forme d'un questionnement à choix multiple comportant 80 items présentés dans un ordre de difficulté progressive allant du niveau A1 au niveau C2 du Cadre...

Dieses Buch möchte eine Einführung in die Möglichkeiten eines kommunikativ-produktionsorientierten Unterrichts sein, mit einem knappen theoretischen Unterbau und vor allem Beispielen aus der Praxis. Es will herkömmliche textanalytische Methoden nicht ersetzen, sondern sie ergänzen. Zugleich will es eine Auseinandersetzung mit wichtigen Veröffentlichungen aus den letzten zwanzig Jahren zu diesem Thema ermöglichen. Das Buch soll u.a. mit wichtigen Auswahlkriterien vertraut machen, es sol...