The Return of the Public - Democracy, Power, and the Case for Media Reform by Dan Hind
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Young People and the Future of News by Lynn Schofield Clark; Regina Marchi
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Communication, Society and Politics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social media rather than produced and circulated solely by professional news organizations. The book introduces the concept of connective j ...Show more
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree
$35.00 NZD
Category: Media | Reading Level: near fine
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edict ...Show more
Unreliable Sources - How the 20th Century was Reported by John Simpson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Media | Reading Level: very good
Gives an account of how the British press reported key moments in our history. This book shows how, while the press likes to pretend it's independent, they have enjoyed the power they have over the events they report and have at times exercised it irresponsibly.
A Wikipedia Reader by Geert Lovink (ed.); Nathaniel Tkacz (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Media | Series: Critical Point of View | Reading Level: very good
Society of the Query Reader - Reflections on Web Search by Miriam Rasch; Rene Kanig
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
Literary Art in Digital Performance - Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism by Francisco J. Ricardo (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
Literary Art in Digital Performance examines electronic works of literary art, a category integrating the visual+textual including interactive poetry, narrative computer games, filmic sculpture and projective art. Each case study/chapter is followed by a 'post-chapter' dialogue between editor and author ...Show more
The Dominion of Signs - Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions by Nick Perry
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A sociologist turns his attention to NZ culture in a series of brilliant, provocative and illuminating essays. The eight chapters discuss television programmes, advertisements and magazines, as well as works of fiction and non-fiction. They try to break down the barriers between high and popular culture ...Show more
Letter from America 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in C ...Show more
Shaping the News - Waitangi Day on Television by Sue Abel
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A study of the way in which New Zealand television presents local news. It takes the Waitangi Day commemorations, and explores how this has been handled from 1990 to 1995. As well as giving a picture of how television is produced, it offers insights into the way in which Maori issues are treated by main ...Show more
Early Conflicts of Press and Government - A story of the first New Zeland Herald and of the foundation of Auckland by G M Meiklejohn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: good-very good
The Truth about the Dardanelles by Sydney A Moseley
$45.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good