Media Activism Peter Gabriel's (Genesis) way

Information overload Research Group

http://www.iorgforum.org/

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Paulo Coelho’s Blog

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Educational & Resource Website for Electronic Media

http://www.mediacollege.com/

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A community-maintained field mapping tool for researchers, policymakers, activists, and advocates working on the social dimensions of media, communications, and technology.

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Stuart Hall's lecture on Representation and the Media

Media and the Public Opinion

Call for Papers

Media and Society: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

Media and Society is a publishing project aimed at examining the influences of media on society and vice versa from the perspective sociology, psychology, politics, economics, culture, anthropology, and gender. The focus of the book is also to provide insights into global media scenario, new and emerging media technologies.

So far, no such comprehensive and holistic attempt has been made for the purpose of a single edited volume book. The objective is to bring a representative mix of authors from academia and industry on a common platform on the basis of expertise, domain knowledge and interest.

Tentative and Recommended chapters

Possible broad chapters covering all aspects of media and society may include (but are not limited to):

Chapter 1: Background and Theoretical Grounding

Chapter 2: Media through the Ages

Chapter 3: Contemporary Media: Print, TV, Films & Folk Media

Chapter 4: Media Support Systems: Advertising and Public Relations

Chapter 5: Media, Culture and Society

Chapter 6: Media and Politics

Chapter 7: Psychology of Media

Chapter 8: Sociology of Media

Chapter 9: Economics of Mass Media

Chapter 10: Media and Development

Chapter 11: Gender and Media

Chapter 12: Media and Marginalized People

Chapter 13: Media and Environment

Chapter 14: Media and Education

Chapter 15: Media and Identity

Chapter 16: Global Media

Chapter 17: Media and Emergent Technologies

Chapter 18: New and Emerging Media (Social Media)

Chapter 19: Media Literacy & Media Activism

Chapter 20: The Future of Media

Submission Procedure

• Quotations wherever required should be put as endnote with appropriate notation superscripted in the text; References (if any) should be provided in American Psychological Association style. (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)
• Authors are urged to submit line drawings or photographic illustrations with captions.
• Although there is no absolute limit on length, submitted chapters should be approximately 7000 words.
• All the chapters are to be original in approach and treatment of the chosen themes/topics.
• Chapters should be written in a lucid manner that suits the comprehension of lay readers.
• Contributors are requested to submit a brief autobiographical note including full name, affiliation, e-mail address full contact details and brief professional biography.
• This book is scheduled to be published and anticipated to be released in 2010.

For further query, write to: Dr. Md. Firoz (firozrahi@gmail.com)