With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the …

This essay reviews major theories, concepts, and perspectives that have been used to
ground and defend arguments about the difference that gender makes in media professions …

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and
cultural workplace. It first aims to 'do justice'to the kinds of objects and texts produced by …

The second edition of The Political Economy of Communication substantially revises and
updates the 1996 first edition. I decided to write this book because the field has grown …

Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media,
Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and …

Feminist news researchers have long argued that in the macho culture of most newsrooms,
journalists' daily decisions about what is newsworthy remain firmly based on masculine …

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time,
certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second …

Sometimes I think that I'm happiest in an empty stadium in the hours before the action
begins, when the place is filled with a sense of what might be about to happen. Or when the …

It's just after 7 am in Auckland, New Zealand. Media and journalism student Emily Johnson
wakes and thinks about the busy day ahead in college. Before she even gets out of bed, she …

3 of the day. What they are now pressed to do is to provide a version of that daily
conversation in an environment that has many other technologies competing to provide that …