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Bringing scientific rigor to a culturally and politically charged issue, this book transcends the nature/nurture debate. Examines media influences, adolescent brain development, misperception of youth crime and manipulation of science by prevailing attitudes.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) -- Introduction (Lars C. Grabbe, Patrick Rupert-Kruse & Norbert M. Schmitz) -- The Aesthetics of Virtual Art: A Phenomenological Approach (Fabrizia Bandi) -- Art and Perfect Illusion: From Architecture to Cinema in the Era of Technological Convergence (Christiane Wagner) -- The Rise of Things is the End of Images: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Hands (Andreas Schelske) -- Image Transformation: The Hyperaisthesis of Digital Images (Lars C. Grabbe) -- Orientation and Cartographic Imagination in the Age of the Digital Earth: Notes Toward an Aesthetics of Google Earth (Tommaso Morawski) -- Cinegrams of Premediation: Harun Farocki's Videograms of a Revolution and the Future of Cinema (Dario Cecchi) -- An Economical Model for Theorizing the Perception of Visual Narrative in Digital Cinema (Giorgos Dimitriadis) -- From Images of Lines to Images of Particles: The Role of the Film Camera in Flow Visualization (Mario Schulze & Sarine Waltenspül) -- Authors

The war in Angola provides a classic example of all the deficiencies of US media coverage of African affairs. Most of the more general criticism has centred on such shortcomings as superficiality, sensationalism, infrequency and inadequacy, but propaganda and disinformation are also prevalent, and critical in the Angolan case. The main reason for this poor coverage is that most journalists who have written about the war have relied upon sources committed to one side of the conflict: the rebel movement known as UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi. The most important of these sources have been the US government, Savimbi and other rebel spokesmen, the UNITA lobby in Washington, and governmental and other sources in South Africa. As media critics have pointed out, the tendency of American journalists to accept their government's agenda has reached new heights during the Reagan and Bush administration. (Documentatieblad/ASC Leiden)

In der Untersuchung zur aktuellen, im Zusammenhang mit neuen technologischen und politischen Entwicklungen stehenden französischen Debatte über Rundfunk und Fernsehen werden die Initiativen der sozialistischen Regierung für die "neuen Medien" (Kabel- und Satelliten-Fernsehen) überprüft. Dabei zeigt sich: Das Interesse der Regierung beruht auf der Einschätzung industriepolitischer Erfordernisse; die unter staatlicher Kontrolle stehende Einführung ermöglicht neuen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen und Interessen den Zugang; neue Programmquellen stellen das bisherige Berufsethos im französischen Rundfunkwesen ("public service") in Frage. (AuD-Hng)

"Mapping BRICS Media brings together distinguished scholars from the BRICS nation's to assess the effects of the exponential growth in media in some of the world's fastest growing major economies and examine how the emergence will impact on global media and communication.Transnational in scope and comparative in approach, the book will focus on significant and yet hitherto largely ignored developments in the globalization of media. By interrogating the relationship between the inter-BRICS media and media practices and perceptions, this volume will provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to the complex debates about the impact of the rise of the rest on the media globe"--

This thesis seeks to analyse the historical interpretations produced by societies in order to interpret and understand their past events, thus being capable of creating and rebuilding their collective imagination and their identity. In this sense, this study will particularly focus on the meanings that "collective imagination(s)" give to recent historical events and battles that are emerging from the social conflict to control "historicity" and "memory".It will start from the study of a political process of the Spanish transition. This event, controversial in the Spanish society, is subject to constant review both by historiography and literature, but most particularly by the media. Therefore, the analysis of the social and media representations of the Spanish transition proves to be, from our perspective very interesting, because they are historical productions with a strong influence on the construction of the Spanish "social memory".This research is therefore part of the disciplinary field of "history of present time" and is interested in the "memory" and "the public uses of history", including the historical representations that contribute to the creation of the "social memory". Within this context, our study will address the construction of this social memory by starting to analyse the role played by mass media as instruments of transmission of "memory" and historicity. Therefore, this research will dedicate a particular attention to the historical storytelling that forms what some authors have called "media historiography" and that has been an important contribution to the social construction of the interpretation of the past and then the present time.In order to do so, we propose to examine the official storytelling that arises from public institutions and that has been conveyed by the media through different generic forms: informative productions, reports and documentary shows. Later, we will undertake the analysis of historical productions, as well as the contributions of historiography, in the ...

"Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics fully up to date and is written for students of the media, of linguistics and those interested in studying the ever-changing media in more detail. Offering an in-depth guide to help students investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory, this book assumes little previous knowledge of semiotics or linguistics, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. With in-depth case studies, practical accounts and directed further reading, Understanding Media Semiotics provides students with all the tools they need to understand semiotic analysis in the context of the media. Semiotic analysis is sometimes seen as complicated and difficult to understand; Marcel Danesi shows that on the contrary it can be readily understood and can greatly enrich students' understanding of media texts, from print media right through to the internet and apps"--