How Australia Decides: Election Reporting and the Media by Sally Young

The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

We typically give some thought to the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of inventive power and freedom that arose in direct rebel opposed to the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early chilly conflict years. but, as Fred Turner finds within the Democratic encompass, the a long time that introduced us the Korean battle and communist witch hunts additionally witnessed a rare flip towards explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive rules of conversation and with them new, versatile versions of social order.

How Australia Decides: Election Reporting and the Media

In recent times, the Australian media have come less than fireplace for his or her reporting of politics and election campaigns. Political reporting is expounded to be too motivated by way of advertisement matters, too keen about gossip and scandal, and too all in favour of trivialities and 'sound bites' on the fee of significant matters.

Language, Society, and New Media: Sociolinguistics Today

Language, Society, and New Media makes use of an interdisciplinary method, integrating frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and rising strands of study on language and new media, to illustrate the connection among language, society, notion, and tradition to scholars with little to no history in linguistics.

Vermittlungskulturen des Amoklaufs: Zur medialen Präsenz spektakulärer Gewalt (Kulturelle Figurationen: Artefakte, Praktiken, Fiktionen) (German Edition)

Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes untersuchen Ereignisse, die sich tief in das Gedächtnis der Gesellschaft eingraben und eine kollektiv geteilte kulturelle Erfahrung des Spektakulären anzeigen: sogenannte Amokläufe und institution Shootings. Neben der spektakulär inszenierten Tatausgestaltung und ihrer willkürlich erscheinenden Grausamkeit ist an diesen Gewalttaten so frappierend, dass sich reales und mediales Geschehen in einer Weise überblenden, die beides nahezu ununterscheidbar werden lässt.