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The Business of Media presents the critical, yet careful, analysis of the rapidly changing media industry that students need in order to get behind the headlines and understand our increasingly media-saturated society. The writing is clear and jargon-free, accessible to undergraduates without requiring a background in economics.

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Examines the basic dynamics that underlie the changing media industry and the possible influence these changes are having on society (society's insatiable quest for profits and democratic society's need for a media system that serves the public interest)
Draws from both social and economic theory to create two conceptual frameworks: market model, and public sphere model
Focus on devlopments in the last decade to major media industry trends mapping structural organization, the rise of media conglomerates, and their new strategies
Assesses the impact of recent changes in the media industry using the public sphere model on social and political life
Offers clear, concise, jargon-free writing accessible to all students and professionals without an economics background

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incredibly knowledgeable.......2007-01-05

The uniqueness of this book written by Croteau and Hoynes is above all that they introduce two approaches in understanding the characteristics of modern mass media and the correlations between the media and the social forces including public opinion, commercial, political and cultural conditions. Based on the two different categories - Market and Public sphere - it helps better understand the significant role and effectiveness of media that generate not only the public opinion, but also its influences on the mainstream in politics, business, education, culture and society. These two authors provide profoundly useful and informative resources to grasp the key points of media's role and power in society based on two distinctive perspectives introduced in this book. The main concept of this book is basically about understanding the media and economies in market and public theory and how these two spheres differ from each other in terms of circulation of information and commercial activities. The authors categorize two different approaches in order to effectively analyze the media system and each of these ideas is very well organized and clearly explained along with suitable and apparent examples provided which demonstrate the importance and different evaluation in each concept. Additionally, thanks to the great job that the authors showed in this book, the contents in each chapter are really uncomplicated and even interesting to understand without any confusion. I definitely recommend this book to people who have interest in media especially considered from business and economic views.

In largely jargon-free and accessible terms.......2004-03-04

The expert collaboration of David Croteau (Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richard, Virginia) and William Hoynes (Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, New York), The Business Of Media: Corporate Media And The Public Interest is a candid revealing and detailed study of the rapidly evolving media industry, especially in an increasingly media-saturated society. A thoroughly scholarly work which deftly presents its in-depth study in largely jargon-free and accessible terms ideal for the non-specialist general reader, The Business Of Media offers insights and a close scrutiny into what really goes on behind newspaper and broadcast journalism headlines.

Corporate Public Affairs: Interacting With Interest Groups, Media, And Government (Lea's Communication Series) (Lea's Communication Series)

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Corporate Public Affairs: Interacting With Interest Groups, Media, And Government (Lea's Communication Series) (Lea's Communication Series)
Otto Lerbinger
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ASIN: 0805856439

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Corporate Public Affairs: Interacting With Interest Groups, Media, and Governments explores the increasing interest in public affairs by today's organizations. Lerbinger indicates that more and more frequently corporations are establishing public affairs positionstypically within public relations departmentsto respond to issues and concerns arising out of the sociopolitical environment in which the corporation functions. He articulates the functions and responsibilities of the public affairs role, and investigates the approaches to dealing with primary constituenciesinterest groups, media, and government. Divided into five parts, this book: provides an overview of the corporate public affairs function; explores strategies of the myriad interest groups in the United States, such as labor unions and environmental, consumer, women's, and human rights groups; recognizes the media's increasing coverage of business events, especially negative ones, that have tremendous power both to undermine corporate credibility and to support public policy positions; deals with legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government; and raises the question of how corporate power strategies have affected the political marketplace. This book will appeal to advanced-level students, scholars, and practitioners in public relations and business fields.

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A "must read" for anyone interested in Labor & the Internet........1998-04-11

The book gives a great background on the Labor movements use of the Internet. I was interested because, as a member of the Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) steering committee we have made extensive use of the Internet. We have set up a web site, an e-mail alert network, and communicate almost exclusively by e-mail. But I know very little about the history of organized labors use of the Internet. Not only does Eric's book give the essential history of Labors use of the Internet but he has an optimism about the future which we can all benefit from. He sees the opportunity for a "New Internationalism" developing because of this new technology. If labor can grab hold of this technology we can build cross border solidarity like we have never known before. I see what we at the CLR are doing as being on the cutting edge of this "New Internationalism". Most of us in the CLR are approaching this work from a little different direction (coming from the Central America Solidarity Movement) but we are moving in the same direction as the labor movement and their use of the Internet. It was interesting to see time and again the names of people we work with on a regular basis and get to know where they are coming from. Some of these people like Jagdish Parikh and Marc Belanger have extremely interesting histories in working in the labor movement and on the Internet. Reading this book gave me a much deeper appreciation of the people we work with. Much of the book focuses on concrete examples of how the labor movement uses the Internet to build a stronger and more democratic union. It is only with this technology that some things are made possible. For example, as corporations have become even more transnational there has developed a corresponding need for labor to respond internationally. You can't organize a company in one country if that company will shut down and move to another (unorganized and more repressive) country. Worker's of the world need to have the means to communicate with each other, compare notes and show solidarity. It has been prohibitively expensive to get workers in different countries to meet regularly and plan a strategy to confront multinational corporations. With the Internet workers can communicate frequently and inexpensively. There has never been a time like the present for workers to use technology to confront multi-national corporations. The labor movement is just starting to understand the potential of this technology. In addition to the above idea of online transnational company councils, we also learn about the International Labour University, an online International daily labor press, an online archive, discussion group and journal, and an Emergency Response Network (good idea huh Soren). In short this book is talking about building a "New Internationalism." I hope you will take the time to read the book for yourself. It is well worth your time.

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Wallowing in the murky haze of unhallowed unions everywhere, Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? offers solutions to some of life’s most vexing relationship predicaments, such as:

-Things to Do on a Date--If, in Fact, That’s What This Is
-Living Together vs. Marriage: A Handy Guide to Telling Them Apart
-Why Wait? Making the Most of a Rebound
-But Exactly How Great Is He?
-Are You in Love or Insane?

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Wallowing in the murky haze of unhallowed unions everywhere, Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? offers solutions to some of life's most vexing relationship predicaments, such as:

Things to Do on a Date -- If, in Fact, That's What This Is
Living Together vs. Marriage -- A Handy Guide to Telling Them Apart
Why Wait? Making the Most of a Rebound
But Exactly How Great Is He?
Are You in Love or Insane?

"Chocano's book is unlike any relationship manual you'll ever read: It's intentionally hilarious."
   DAN ZEVIN, AUTHOR OF THE DAY I TURNED UNCOOL

"In our quick-fix, feel-good culture, Carina Chocano provides an indispensable alternative: a guide to living a compromised, turbulent, and pitiably wrong-headed life. Her book is not so much a breath of fresh air as a whiff of something fetid and unseemly that has been left in the refrigerator too long. You will laugh, cry, read it aloud to your inadequate boyfriend, then cry some more. Quite a lot more."
   REBECCA MEAD

Customer Reviews:

Surpriseingly Good!.......2004-06-15

I dont ususally go in for this kind of thing but my godniece had a copy in the john and I read it and I'm damn glad I did. This writer is a smartalick but in a good way, alot like my niece which is probably why neither one of them will get a man any time soon. Now I'm way too old for the dating game, but this book had me cackling, right there in the john. Very irrevrant and witty, with lots of highfalutin language and observations. I'll look forward to any more books from this writer...maybe on a topic closer to home! How bout a book on fishing little missy!

Laugh out loud funny...and too true........2003-09-04

I'm sharing this little read with all my friends. I picked it up casually while on vacation and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I've never heard of the author before this, but she has a great talent for humor writing. And, she must have experience (and many single-adult friends) in the dating, cohabiting and everything-but-marriage realms because all her anecdotes rang all too true. I highly recommend it.

amazing.......2003-04-18

Carina Chocano is an amazing writer. This may be the funniest book I have ever read!!! My humor is pretty dry and sometimes jaded and, as I read, all I could think about is how I wish I was this clever. A very rare find. Much funnier than the typical 'humorist' writer.
Welcome sarcasm..

Anti-Guide to romance for the "living together" generation.......2003-03-26

Carina Chocano's charmingly poisonous Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid? is, in short, an anti-guide to dating. "Is there any advice contained in this book? Yes, but it's terrible."
The sly barbs of the Contents page had me hooked from the get-go, with such chapter titles as "You and Your Precious Feelings," and "The Five-Year Breakup Plan." Throughout most of this short book, Chocano attempts to explicate Serial Monogamy, a term of her own coinage denoting men and women who move in together for years with no intention of either breaking up or marrying, the two antipodes, she suggests, modern Americans regard with equal terror.
Chocano wields various weapons of humor with considerable skill: wild analogy (how fear of love is like being attacked by a marauding bear), esoteric classification systems (types of Dad to blame for life's problems: Absent Dad, Doting Dad, Sugar Dad, & Dad Who Can Beat Up Your Dad), and relevant juxtaposition (love or insane? The symptoms of each). Her mock-sardonic sentences have also been sharpened to that Marcel Proust/Nick Hornby perspicacious edge; namely, they force you to laugh out loud and announce, "it's so true!" to yourself every five minutes (even though no one's around, you dork).
Serial monogamists, Chocano hints, are intelligent people who may be too intelligent for their own good, dating addicts who crave one terrible relationship after another like junkie fixes. Rather than offer up the Methadone, however, Chocano revels wickedly in the illness: "No matter how trying the company of your current partner, it is important to remember that your own company, undiluted, may be even more loathsome."
Amatory missives by such literary lovers as Joyce, Kafka, and Charlotte Brontë are included, serving to illuminate, by contrast, the sorry state of modern romantic communication, which has only recently been saved by the rising importance of carefully-drafted emails: "Try to avoid overly long and clever responses, which will only make you seem dull-witted in person."
With Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?, Carina Chocano may well have penned, in the history of Western letters, the first ever postmodern guide to love.

It's Funny But It's All So True!!.......2003-02-09

If you're a woman within shouting distance of 30 and not married, then you will see yourself in this book! Even if you never bought "The Rules" or "Bridget Jones" and her clones, you will laugh out loud when Chocano lists all the things you've seen go wrong before in your relationships but were too in love--then too lazy, to do anything about. This is a book for anyone who is a veteran of the relationship wars. Carina Chocano has found the funny, dark side of shacking up.

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Pixies are unquestionably the most influential rock band to come out of Boston in the late 80s. They are credited with influencing everyone from Nirvana to Radiohead to Weezer and countless others. With the coming of age of the alternative rock generation Pixies are finally getting their due. Trompe le Monde: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies is the book that will document the bands place in rock history. The timing for this book is perfect, as Pixies are entering a renaissance after over a decade of posthumously but steadily increasing popularity and importance. The band reunited last year for one of the highest grossing tours of the year (ending in December) and released a best-of CD. Older fans were obviously hungry for more Pixies and their rocker appeal has brought them an entire new and younger audience. The reunion was so successful that theyre back on tour. Trompe le Monde will be the most definitive and cohesive book on early 90s rock ever written. It features never-before-seen interviews with the band as well as interviews with anyone and everyone from the world of 90s rock.

Customer Reviews:

Fooled no more!.......2007-07-18

Being a big fan of a band that breaks up just after you discover them is gut wrenching! That's how I felt in the early 90's. Josh's book does what 1000 music magazine publications couldn't: it left me with more knowledge and respect for this band than I did before I picked it up. So much of the mystery behind this bands rise, fall and resurrection is revealed, and that's not a bad thing at all. An awesome read from start to finish! I'm a born again PIXIES fan. Neighbors beware!

entertaining.......2006-10-24

just bought the book and could not put it down. Interesting insight to the history of the "pixies".

Nearly perfect.......2006-09-06

This book's strengths far outweight its weaknesses. True, the flow is somewhat disjointed, Throwing Muses and its members get too much coverage, and the copy editing is somewhat sloppy. Nonetheless, the depth of Pixies coverage is amazing. I've been listening to them since Surfer Rosa came out, but they've always been an inscrutable band lyrically, musically, and in interviews. Frank's collection opens the curtain, and gives us a peek into the life and history of a band.

I enjoyed this book immensely.

As a Pixies fan I loved this book.......2006-08-16

I have been a Pixies fan my whole life. This band has meant so much to me and my wife accidentally stumbled onto this book. So I started reading it and I had problems putting it done. This is an oral account of the Pixies, it's all about people's feelings and emotions being told by those that were close to the pixies and that's after all what really matters when you're talking about a bands history. Nobody cares about what exact date they started (like someone in a previous review mentioned). It's the story that matters. I don't think anybody will be able to produce a more in depth look into the Pixies then this book provided.

Fooling around is good for the soul........2006-08-01

Fool the World is an excellent account of the birth, death and reincarnation of a band called The Pixies. A band that is one of the most important and influential yet underated bands in the history of rock n roll. Without the Pixies there would be no Nirvana, no White Stripes, no Screamo. For better or for worse they are a band that you need to know about and understand. The way that Fool the World is put together is brilliant. Interview segments from people like Courtney Love, J. Mascis, as well as band members themselves add the colour to the picture. There is also a directory of who's who for easy reference. Who else but someone who was there could remember a quote like "Fist I'm going to piss like a race horse and then dance like a black woman." The old magazine interviews with producer Steve Albini were wonderful to read. The fact that Kristin Hersh was dying to get the Pixies onto 4AD because she felt lonely being the only Yank on a Brit label is hilarious and finding out,in his own words, that Ivo Watts-Russell signed certain bands after being stuck in traffic with their tape is genius. Who would know those things except people that were there when it happend. Music fans, Pixies fans, and fans of pop culture check out this book.

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In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices—how we work, what we buy and consume—Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification of these and other social practices in the late-twentieth century, what we often understand to be the needs of the body are in fact means for capital accumulation.
Moving beyond studies of representations and images of the body, Lowe focuses on the intersection of body practices, language, and the Social to describe concretely the reality of a lived body. His strongly synthetic work brings together Marxist critique, semiotics, Foucaultian discourse analysis, and systems and communications theory to examine those practices that construct the body under late capitalism: habits of work and consumption, the ways we give birth and raise children, socialization, mental and physical healing, reconstructions and contestations of sexuality and gender. Lowe draws upon a wide range of sources, including government and labor studies and statistics, diagnostic and statistical manuals on mental illness, computer manuals, self-help books, and guides to work-related stress disorders, to illustrate the transformation of the body into a nexus of exchange value in postmodern society.

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Okay....

A great retrospective

Beautiful history of one of the best daytime dramas ever!

THIS BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE SHOW

ABC will cancel OLTL when their contract exp in JULY '99

One Life to Live: Thirty Years of Memories
Gary Warner
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786863676

Customer Reviews:

Okay...........2007-06-23

Well, this book talks about OLTL first thrity years. It made me go to sleep, so it's great as a sleeping pill. What's so great about thrity years of a show that has shown the dark side of humankind?!

A great retrospective.......2006-02-23

This book has all that any fan of 'One Life To Live' would want. You can relive the storylines through all of the recaps. The book features listings of every character to ever appear on the show, along with many pictures of past and present greats from the show. It is definitely a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
The book did a wonderful job of cramming 30 years into something that is totally enjoyable. I really can't think of anything that was missed.

Beautiful history of one of the best daytime dramas ever!.......2002-11-14

This book is a wonderful historical memoir of one of the most daring and well-written shows on daytime.

Not only does it chronicle the show's rich history, it includes wonderfully bright and vivid color photos of many of the most-loved actors/actresses/characters that have been on the show.

I highly recommend this book to all fans of OLTL!

THIS BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE SHOW.......2001-04-01

I HAVE BEEN A BIG FAN OF OLTL FOR 25 YEARS. THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING I COULD WANT IN COVERING MY FAVORITE SOAP OPERA. THE INTERVIEWS, PHOTOS, RESEARCH DONE MR. WARNER IS OUTSTANDING. IT BROUGHT BACK SOME GREAT MEMORIES FROM THE PAST 25 YEARS. ALL FANS OF ONE LIFE TO LIVE AND SOAPS SHOULD OWN THIS GREAT PIECE OF WORK. A WONDERFUL BOOK DEDICATED TO A WONDERFUL SHOW THAT FILLED MANY OF MY AFTERNOONS. A MUST READ.

ABC will cancel OLTL when their contract exp in JULY '99.......1999-06-06

The other 2 reviews were right about ABC daytime canceling ONE LIFE TO LIVE in July 16,1999!,to make room for a new soap opera, PACIFIC CITY.Please right to ABC DAYTIME about this, they aren't going to tell the public 'til OLTL is cancelled. Don't let this happen, like what happened to NBC SOAP ANOTHER WORLD. Write to ABC DAYTIME about this, why?

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Best overall Wi-Fi Guide written.....

Masterful

Very Useful Book

One of the best Wi-Fi guides
One of the best Wi-Fi guides

A "must-read" for Wi-Fi networking

Jeff Duntemann's Wi-Fi Guide, Second Edition
Jeff Duntemann
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The first edition of this book has quickly become the best-selling guide for Wi-Fi users around the world. Master technical author, Jeff Duntemann, makes tangled Wi-Fi technological issues very comprehensible. Jeff explains the blizzard of Wi-Fi concepts and standards, including the new 802.11g, the complex and fluky security issues, and shows users how to protect themselves from both obvious and non-obvious threats. He also covers the human element in the Wi-Fi movement, including hacker threats and Wi-Fi communities. Jeff's coverage of wardriving has been highly praised by many Wi-Fi experts and the top Wi-Fi Web sites. Many technical drawings clarify difficult concepts, with abundant Web pointers to further information. The book features numerous hands-on projects that can dramatically increase the performance of home and small business Wi-Fi systems. Some of the important and new topics covered in the book include:

Money-saving Wi-Fi network design and implementation techniques
Wi-Fi communities
Access points and gateways
Security and privacy
Wireless security auditing with WarLinux and Kismet
The art of wardriving
How to create powerful low-cost antennas
How to protect yourself against clever hackers

Customer Reviews:

Best overall Wi-Fi Guide written............2007-04-11

Bold statement, I know, but in my opinion Jeff has done what many have not been able to do in the past; develop a guide that is both easy to follow and very complete. I would not hesitate to recommend this guide to my IT guys as well as someone looking to learn about Wi-Fi that may not even know where to start. Both would find this guide book the most valuable book on their shelf.

Masterful.......2006-01-12

One of the most comprehensive guides I've found to date. Easy to follow with excellent detail, offering explanations for various methods. A bright light for Wi-Fi instruction, it's an extraordinary volume. Both the novice and expert alike, would certainly find benefit from it well structured format.

Very Useful Book.......2005-09-01

Jeff has put together a extremely useful guide to wireless networking. It is well organized, allowing quick access to specific topics, and broad enough to cover most relevant issues for smaller (and maybe some medium sized) networks. He wisely discusses that which is truly important, avoiding complexity when it is not needed.
There is a considerable amount of practical advice, product information and helpful hints regarding installation, setup and security.
This is not likely very usable for a novice, but would be helpful for anyone who has at minimum a basic understanding of networks.

One of the best Wi-Fi guides
One of the best Wi-Fi guides.......2004-09-26

It's a toss-up for me between this book and O'Rielly's "Wi-Fi Hacks" book. Both books have up-to-date, well written content. The Hacks books is organized more aggressively into a set form that may or may not appeal to you. This book has a more traditional topic based organization.

Topics include antenna coverage and construction, operating system information and coverage of the different types of Wi-Fi security that are available.

I recommend this book for anyone serious about building their own Wi-Fi networks. I don't recommend this book, or O'Reilly Hacks, for someone just looking for how to get their computer on a wireless network. For that I would recommend a book specific to their operating system.

A "must-read" for Wi-Fi networking.......2004-08-29

Whether you're a newbie or a WiFi master, this book has something for you.
Jeff does a great job of taking the subject of Wi-Fi networking and breaking it down into basic, easy to understand elements. This book is a `must-read' for anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of the Wi-Fi world.

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