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This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström's influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the second of two volumes. It contains a concluding article by Elleström and seven contributions concentrated on the issue of media transformations: how media characteristics are transferred and transfigured among various media products and media types.

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström's influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the first of two volumes. It contains Elleström's revised article and six other contributions focusing especially on media integration: how media products and media types are combined and merged in various ways.

This editorial introduces a thematic issue on "Rethinking Media and Social Space". By critically rethinking the relationship between media and social space this issue takes initial steps towards ensuring that media studies is appropriate for a mediatized world. Contemporary societies are permeated by media that play important roles in how people maneuver and position themselves in the social world. Yet, analyses of media-related social change too often fail to engage with the complex and situated nature of power relations. This editorial highlights three enduring problems: (1) the annihilation of the socially structured and structuring role of media technologies and practices; (2) the conflation of inherent social capacities of media technologies and discourses with existing mediations of power, and (3) the reduction of social space to one predominant dimension which overshadows all other forms of social power that media technologies, discourses, and practices are part of. As a response to these problems -and in bringing together the arguments of the five articles included in the thematic issue- this editorial calls for sociologized approaches to media technologies, discourses, and practices.

Our new media landscape of social networking, blogging, and interactivity has forever changed how media content is produced and distributed. Choices about how to gather, evaluate and publish information are ever more complex. This blurring of boundaries between general public values and the values of media professionals has made media ethics an essential issue for media professionals, but also demonstrates how it must be intrinsically part of the wider public conversation. This book teaches students to navigate ethical questions in a digital society and apply ethical concepts and guidelines to their own practice. Using case studies, judgement call boxes and further reading, Understanding Media Ethics clarifies the moral concepts in media contexts, and enables students to apply them to practical decision making through real-life worked ...

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. The Eagleton and Watergate stories -- ch. 3. The Iranian hostage crisis, the news code, and mediated diplomacy -- ch. 4. Gonzo justice -- ch. 5. The missing children problem : a case study in media sensationalism -- ch. 6. The Gulf War and the military-media complex -- ch. 7. The Columbine shootings and terrorism -- ch. 8. The propaganda project and the Iraq War -- ch. 9. Consuming terrorism and the politics of fear -- ch. 10. Mediated fear : digital booty, WikiLeaks, ISIS, and ebola.

In 2010, as part of the Troika intervention into Ireland, the then government agreed to the imposition of domestic water charges and the creation of a centralized water company. The imposition of charges for domestic water, which was until then universally available, met spontaneous militant action, including mass protests and the blockading of districts to prevent meter installation. The campaigns were quickly dubbed "violent" and accused of being "infiltrated" by "dissidents" and other "sinister" elements, while minor acts of disobedience, such as pickets and sit-down protests, were recast as violent. In response, water activists used social media networks to disseminate opposition and as a critical media literacy tool. This article offers a comparative analysis of legacy print media and activist-driven social media coverage of a politically important court case involving water activists as an example of how the hybrid media system operates in a political conflict.

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The datafication of media and the application of big data services to that data are facilitating new forms of networked associations between media companies. Moreover, big data represents an emerging global format, theoretically analogous to the global proliferation of television formats; media organizations around the world are using big data in an effort to compete in a globalized media marketplace and to better tailor content to local audiences. The article argues that these two interrelated trends have intensified the merging of Internet networks and communication networks, creating new centres of power – not based on control of content but on control of data. The first section provides theoretical and historical context surrounding the proliferation of big data within media industries. The second section examines how 'hyperscale' big data networks are solidifying the relationships between large Internet companies and media companies. The article concludes with an exploration of how big data have emerged as a global format in the media industries.

An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland