Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control...read more

Product Description: Examining the place of the media in everyday life and social relationships, Modern Media in the Home focuses on ten diverse households in Wales. What emerges is a fascinating account of the diversity of contemporary media uses. Reporting the fine-grained detail of domestic interaction, the book explores how the media are used and understood, and the sorts of experiences, interaction, and identities that are sustained or developed through media use...read more

Product Description: We often blame the ills of society on the mass media: violent television programs, shock news stories, and the insidious influence of advertising. But do the media really shape our beliefs and behavior in the ways we imagine or fear? Can we blame them for any of the ills of modern society? In Media Mania, Hugh Mackay examines the influence of the media in our lives...read more

Product Description: Drawing on a rich body of empirical work, it explores three core themes of information society debates: the transformation of culture through the information revolution, changing patterns of work and employment and the reconfiguration of time and space in everyday life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of:* theorists of the information society, particularly Manuel Castells and Daniel Bell * social research methodologies, including positivist, interpretivist, critical and cultural * qualitative and quantitative research methods and criteria for social science evaluation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: `Alertness to the changing terms of debate, familiarity with the latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in teaching make this collection a very worthwhile addition to course reading lists' - John Corner, University of Liverpool The Media Reader is an essential sourcebook of key statements about transformations in media culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The rich and idiosyncratic nature of local consumption practices is illustrated through cases from different parts of the world...read more

Product Description: In recent years `culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Of all the changes required by the National Curriculum, technology is the most dramatic. Technology's rise to pre-eminence in recent years - culminating in its status as one of the seven foundation subjects in the National Curriculum - provides exciting possibilities for changing educational practices and resolving some key educational dilemmas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)