Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News
Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world's dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen's biography is a globe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the most important institution in ......
The paradoxical relationship between Chinese creative workers and the state Chinese Creator Economies dives into the paradoxical lives lived by creative professionals in emerging economies across China. Jian Lin contextualizes the socioeconomic conditions in which cultural production takes place and pushes back against the dominant ......
This is the first far-reaching historical analysis of how press critics have kept American journalism honest and working on behalf of a free and democratic society. Merging history, biography, and forthright critique, Shame the Devil chronicles press commentary from the bitter aftermath of World War I to the paradoxes of the post-truth era.
How did an Ivy League-educated lawyer and his wife from a prominent newspaper family end up in a small Colorado town as publishers of a newspaper that quickly gained national attention? Arthur and Morley Ballantine impacted not only their adopted home, but also the state and the nation.
In this book, Joshua Jackson examines how passion becomes weaponized in videogame production and what contextual issues people in the videogame production industry are facing. Using certain theorizations regarding, passion, bodies, assembly, and assemblage, this text wrestles with what can be done to manifest change in videogames.
A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy during the two World Wars, the ......
A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy during the two World Wars, the ......
Pullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era of experimentation in early twentieth-century news publishing to chart how the Sunday paper ......
Creative production processes are central to all media industries, and there is a need for more detailed understandings of how these industries facilitate and understand their own creativity. This book offers a theoretical framework to consider how researchers can conduct studies of creativity in different media industries.