ISBN:
9780230360129
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (143 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Key Concerns in Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media--Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
What type of book is it and at what level?. University undergraduate, 1st year upwards (UK); junior and senior level and graduate classes (US). What image(s) message(s) should the design convey, what is book's main thrust, what is particularly distinctive about it?. This book contests the view that developments in media and communications are giving rise to an increasingly placeless existence. The author offers an original account of media uses as place-making practices, insisting that these uses need to be investigated alongside other such practices in everyday living. His focus is on the ways in which physical and media environments become meaningful spaces as people routinely inhabit them, and he shows how this dwelling involves a combination of bodily and technologically mediated mobilities. For example, his discussion makes connections between the mobilities of walking or driving in the city, getting around in online settings and migrating across national borders. Could we convey modernity and motion in the image, perhaps by using an image taken using long-exposure camera technique. Who is design primarily aimed at? (e.g. individual in bookshop from face-out display, lecturer through desk copy/illustrated leaflet etc.). Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students of Media Studies, Communication Studies; A Level or GNVQ/AVCE Students of Media Studies and Communication Studies; Library Market. Are there other factors to take into account? (e.g. author suggestions, colours preferences). . Needs to fit in with the KCMS series cover design (colour rotation).
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 The Situational Geography of Social Life -- 2 When Space Feels Thoroughly Familiar -- 3 Forms of Dwelling in a World of Flux -- Conclusion: Non-media-centric Media Studies -- Bibliography -- Index.
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