The Sound Handbook, Crook, Tim

The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.

The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.

Over the past forty years, media education research has emerged as a historical, epistemological and practical field of study. Action shifts in the field--along with radical transformation in media technologies, aesthetic forms, ownership models, and audience participation practices--have driven the application of new concepts and theories across a range of both school and non-school settings. The Handbook on Media Education Research is a unique exploration of this complex set of practices, theories, and tools of media research.

Featuring contributions from a diverse range of internationally-recognized experts and practitioners, this timely volume discusses the most recent developments in the field in the context of related scholarship, public policy, formal and non-formal teaching and learning, and DIY and community practice.

Offering a truly global perspective, the Handbook focuses on empirical work from Media and Information Literacy (MIL) practitioners from around the world. The book's five parts explore global youth cultures and the media, trans-media learning, media literacy and scientific controversies, varying national approaches to media research, media education policies, and much more. A groundbreaking resource on the concepts and theories of media research, this important book:

- Provides a diversity of views and experiences relevant to media literacy education research

- Features contributions from experts from a wide-range of countries including South Africa, Finland, India, Italy, Brazil, and many more

- Examines the history and future of media education in various international contexts

- Discusses the development and current state of media literacy education institutions and policies

- Addresses important contemporary issues such as cyberbullying, data privacy, social movement media, and digital rights advocacy

The Handbook on Media Education Research is an invaluable guide for researchers in the field, undergraduate and graduate students in media studies, policy makers, and MIL practitioners.

The Handbook of Strategic Communication brings together work from leading scholars and practitioners in the field to explore the many practical, national and cultural differences in modern approaches to strategic communication. Designed to provide a coherent understanding of strategic communication across various subfields, this authoritative volume familiarizes practitioners, researchers, and advanced students with an inclusive range of international practices, current theories, and contemporary debates and issues in this dynamic, multidisciplinary field.

This Handbook covers an expansive range of strategic communication models, theories, and applications, comprising two dozen in-depth chapters written by international scholars and practitioners. In-depth essays discuss the three core areas of strategic communication--public relations, marketing communication, and health communication--and their many subfields, such as political communication, issues management, crisis and risk communication, environmental and science communication, public diplomacy, disaster management, strategic communication for social movements and religious communities, and many others. This timely volume:

• Challenges common assumptions about the narrowness of strategic communication
• Highlights ongoing efforts to unify the understanding and practice of strategic communication across a range of subfields
• Discusses models and theories applied to diverse areas such as conflict resolution, research and evaluation, tobacco control, climate change, and counter terrorism strategic communication
• Examines current research and models of strategic communication, such as the application of the CAUSE Model to climate change communication
• Explores strategic communication approaches in various international contexts, including patient-oriented healthcare in Russia, road and tunnel safety in Norway, public sector communication in Turkey, and ethical conflict resolution in Guatemala

The Handbook of Strategic Communication is an indispensable resource for practitioners, researchers, scholars, and students involved in any aspect of strategic communication across its many subfields.