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Brazil
This book explores five key themes: the new face of news and journalism, social movements and protest, television, cinema, publicity and marketing, and media theory. Chapters reflect the Brazilian case as a laboratory for exploring the evolving media environment of one of the world’s most fascinating societies.
Writing Journalism History
This book examines the trajectory of the historical knowledge about journalism produced by its scholars in Brazil, from the early accounts originating from the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute in the 19th century to the specialized academic field at the turn of the 21st century. The history of journalism historiography shows that during the Empire and the Old Republic, the press was idealized as a means of education and a form of mirror of events. After the New State, there was a tendency to view it as an instrument for manipulating public opinion and a suspicious documentary source in the eyes of historians. Finally, with the end of the Military Regime, and with the emergence o...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Audiovisual Tourism Promotion
This book deploys the concept of ‘audiovisual tourism promotion’ to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials. From this point of view, this volume fills a major gap in the literature by providing the first comprehensive critical overview of audiovisual tourism promotion as a distinct media field. In this book, the study of audiovisual tourism promotion is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach which combines film studies, media studies, human geography, sociology, tourism studies, history, postcolonial and gender studies. This book will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars from different disciplines.
Corporate Reputation and the News Media
This volume examines agenda-setting theory as it applies to the news media’s influence on corporate reputation. It presents interdisciplinary, international, and empirical investigations examining the relationship between corporate reputation and the news media throughout the world. Providing coverage of more than twenty-five countries, contributors write about their local media and business communities, representing developed, emerging, and frontier markets – including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Greece, Japan, Nigeria, Spain, and Turkey, among others. The chapters present primary and secondary research on various geo-political issues, the nature of the news media, the pra...
Who Owns the World's Media?
Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.
Football and Fascism
Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu’s field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese “New State” and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of primary materials, this groundbreaking work offers new insight on the administrative structures of the ...
Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design: Advancing Techniques
As the increased demand for high-speed communication creates an interest in the development of optical networks, intelligent all optical networks have emerged as the next generation for reliable and fast connections. Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design: Advancing Techniques is a comprehensive collection of research focused on theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent methodologies as applied to real world problems. This reference source is useful for research and development engineers, scholars, and students interested in the latest development in the area of intelligent systems for optical networks design.
Comunicação midiática & religião: ensaios teóricos e metodológicos
Instigado pela constatação do longo percurso histórico da Igreja no âmbito da Comunicação, evidenciado por teóricos e estudiosos da área, principalmente, no contexto dos estudos das Teorias da Comunicação, quanto às contribuições do catolicismo nas pesquisas e reflexões, desejo problematizar a questão do conceito de Comunicação empregado pela Igreja Católica ao longo de 50 anos. Essa coletânea de artigos constata que, no âmbito da história, a atuação da Igreja no contexto da Comunicação esteve marcada por uma postura reflexiva, a começar pelo protagonismo do Papa João XXIII, ao convocar o Concílio Vaticano II. A presente publicação é fruto de uma trajetória de...
