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Video revolutions: on the history of a medium
"Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium that bridges analog and digital, amateur and professional, broadcasting and recording, television and cinema, art and commercial culture, and old media and new digital networks. In this history, Michael Z. Newman casts video as a medium of shifting value and legitimacy in relation to other media and technologies, particularly film and television. Video has been imagined as more or less authentic or artistic than movies or television, as more or less democratic and participatory, as more or less capable of capturing the real. Techno-utopian rhetoric has repeatedly represented video as a revolutionary medium, promising to solve the problems of the past and the present -- often the very problems associated with television and the society shaped by it -- and to deliver a better future. Video has also been seen more negatively, particularly as a threat to movies and their culture. This study considers video as an object of these hopes and fears and builds an approach to thinking about the concept of the medium in terms of cultural status"--Provided by publisher
Quantitative ecotoxicology
"This book provides a quantitative treatment of the science of ecotoxicology. The first chapters consider fundamental concepts and definitions essential to understanding the fate and effects of toxicants at various levels of ecological organization as covered in the remaining chapters. Scientific ecotoxicology and associated topics are defined. The historical perspective, rationale, and characteristics are outlined for the strong inferential and quantitative approach advocated in this book. The general measurement process is discussed, and methodologies for defining and controlling variance, which could otherwise exclude valid conclusions regarding ecotoxicological endeavors, are considered.Ecotoxicological concepts at increasing levels of ecological organization are discussed in the second part of the book. Quantitative methods used to measure toxicant effects are outlined in this section. The final chapter summarizes the book with a brief discussion of ecotoxicological assessment. Numerous figures and tables accompany text, with many statistical tables found in the appendix for quick reference. Although the book primarily focuses on aquatic systems, with appropriate modification the concepts and methods can be applied to terrestrial systems"--
Ecotoxicology: a comprehensive treatment
In: Environmental chemistry and toxikology
Quantitative methods in aquatic ecotoxicology
In: Advances in trace substances research
Television's New Men
In: Feminist media studies, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 182-185
ISSN: 1471-5902
New media, young audiences and discourses of attention: from Sesame Street to 'snack culture'
In: Media, Culture & Society, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 581-596
ISSN: 1460-3675
A Prescription for Peace
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 111-113
ISSN: 1469-9982
Democratizing the European Union: issues for the twenty-first century
In: Perspectives on democratization
Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left
In: Labour / Le Travail, Band 54, S. 320
Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 86, S. 215
ISSN: 1839-3039
Book Reviews - Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 357
ISSN: 0032-3179
Book Reviews - Rethinking Europe's Future
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 357-360
ISSN: 0032-3179