This study guide uses text integrated with video to help you gain real-world skills that will get you started in your career in designing and publishing both print and online media and lays the foundation for taking the InDesign ACA exam. A mix of project-based lessons, practical videos, and regular[...]

Used by graphic designers worldwide, Adobe InDesign CC is a layout powerhouse. But that power is easy to harness, as you'll soon learn. These real-world projects teach you to think like a designer and master the details that set your work apart. Hone your InDesign skills as you: Produce an adverti[...]

A topic with ever-increasing appeal and scope, Media Studies is attracting more and more higher education students as well as the thousands of practitioners within its various fields. Written by two prominent experts, "The Penguin Dictionaries of Media Studies" gives the definitive overview of this [...]

Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the "New York Times Book Review," and in "The Sack of Rome" he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one[...]

The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper [...]

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the enti[...]

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media surveys the contemporary landscape of audiovisual media. Contributors to the volume look not only to changes brought by digital innovations, but to the complex social and technological past that informs, and is transformed by, new media. This c[...]

The free press cannot be free, Robert Entman asserts. Inevitably, it is dependent. In this penetrating critique of American journalism and the political process, Entman identifies a vicious circle of interdependence as the key dilemma facing reporters and editors. To become sophisticated citizens,[...]

Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the reverberations of the Arab uprisings. The strength of this volume lies in its multi-disciplinary approach to the t[...]

This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction-from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!-to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was disciplined and masked by the recurren[...]

Actionable Media illuminates the new wave of digital communication and culture emerging from the rise of ubiquitous computing.[...]

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System shows how the interactions among older and newer media technologies, genres, norms, behaviors, and organizational forms now shape power relations among political actors, media,[...]

There is a hidden question at the heart of media studies, so fundamental that it has largely remained implicit and unexamined. Where do you end, and where do media begin? In Media in Mind, author Daniel Reynolds draws upon naturalist philosophies of the mind from John Dewey through contemporary theo[...]