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Explore the breadth of resources available, oriented to meet the needs of academic and professional readers. We offer advanced-level textbooks for courses across the curriculum; authored and edited works on emerging topics; academic handbooks representing state-of-the-field theory and research; scholarly monographs on timely topics; resources for conducting research; and professional references for practitioners.
Creativity and Feature Writing explores how to generate ideas in feature writing. Using clear explanations, examples and exercises, experienced feature writer and teacher Ellie Levenson highlights how feature writers, editors and bloggers can generate ideas and how to turn these into published,…
Paperback – 2015-06-18
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Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists is written to inform, instruct and inspire journalists on the investigative possibilities offered by the Freedom of Information Act. Covering exactly what the Act is, how to make FOI requests and how to use the Act to hold officials to…
Paperback – 2015-06-17
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In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This…
Paperback – 2015-06-16
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The new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of…
Paperback – 2015-04-27
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What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their insightful and engaging book, now revised from its popular first edition. Every kind of cinema (and every film theory) first…
Paperback – 2015-03-25
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Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age. Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s…
Paperback – 2015-03-24
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Business Journalism: A Critical Political Economy Approach critically explores the failures of business journalists in striking the balance between the bottom line business model and their role in defending the public interest. Drawing on historical and political economic perspectives and…
Paperback – 2015-08-05
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Public service media (PSM) have been the mainstay of Western European broadcasting for a number of decades. Yet despite a general political consensus in favour of PSM, recent technological, economic and political changes have led to a questioning of their value. This new collection of essays…
Paperback – 2015-08-05
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Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also…
Paperback – 2015-08-03
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Join Routledge at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 2015, 6th-9th August in San Francisco, CA, USA!
Take a look at the titles we have coming up for the next year, and find out how you can save 20% off any order placed at the conference when you visit our tables. If you are an instructor, you can also request complimentary exam copies of any textbooks which you may want to review for use on a course you are teaching.
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We caught up with Sara Kelly to find out about what motivated her to pursue a career in journalism, and to discuss her latest book, The Entrepreneurial Journalist’s Toolkit.
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Compiled by leading academics our Handbooks feature specially commissioned chapters from internationally recognised experts in their field. Informed, rich and cutting edge, they provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of key topics, making them the perfect library research resource.
Routledge is proud to produce some of the most acclaimed, cutting-edge scholarship available in Media & Culture, and we're pleased to highlight the following positive reviews from CHOICE.
"The essays in this collection cover best practices in an era of networked, global journalism; the role of transparency in relation to other journalistic values; verification practices for social media; principles of linking; curation and aggregation; live blogging and tweeting; corrections and "unpublishing"; citizen collaboration; multimedia journalism; data journalism; and issues related to journalists' public and private selves. The essays are tightly integrated through attention to three key ethical frameworks: duty, virtue, and care. Case studies of best practices and questions for reflection offer opportunities for application. …. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - J. H. Fritz, Duquesne University, USA, in CHOICE, June 2015
We caught up with Alison Baverstock to interview her in honour of the fifth edition of her best-selling title, How to Market Books.
Click here to watch the interview and learn about how Alison started writing about the publishing industry, how her book compares to other competing titles and why this is such an important book to her.
The May Author of the Month is Caroline Tagg, whose Exploring Digital Communication came out earlier this year! Caroline Tagg is lecturer in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham. Her publications include The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence (edited with Ann Hewings, 2012) and The Discourse of Text Messaging (Continuum, 2012).
In a new interview, the author discussed her reasons for writing Exploring Digital Communication, the future of instruction surrounding digital communication in universities, and more.
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