1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788809203321

Autore

Waltz Mitzi

Titolo

Alternative and Activist Media [[electronic resource] /] / Mitzi Waltz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, GBR, : Edinburgh University Press, 2005

Edinburgh University Press

ISBN

1-280-55392-8

0-7486-1957-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Media Topics : METO

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Alternative mass media

Mass media

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Media Studies

Journalism & Communications

Communication & Mass Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143- 146) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Who needs an alternative? An introduction to the role of alternative and activist media -- 2 A brief history of alternative and activist media -- 3 Unheard voices, unseen images -- 4 Anyone with a cheap transmitter can do radio -- 5 Broadcasting beyond the corporate sphere -- 6 Artistic impulses -- 7 Creating media spaces for the personal -- 8 ‘Cyberculture’: a study of the latest wave of alternative and activist media -- 9 From the margins to the mainstream -- 10 New directions for a new century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Internet resources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study of alternative and activist media provides an introduction to alternative media theories, audiences and practices. It brings diverse voices and concepts from outside the commercial media world to the fore, enriching and challenging mass media. Illustrated with historical and current examples, from both a UK and international perspective, it also includes carefully constructed exercises and discussion topics



based on case studies and available texts.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797050403321

Autore

Damico Helen

Titolo

Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin : politics and poetry in eleventh-century England / / Helen Damico

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Morgantown : , : University of West Virginia Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-938228-72-3

1-938228-73-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Medieval European studies ; ; XVI

Disciplina

829/.3

Soggetti

Politics and literature - England - History - To 1500

English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism

Epic poetry, English (Old) - History and criticism

Anglo-Saxons - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: From history to vernacular epic -- The severed head: poetic image and historical text -- The Gifståìl and the Grendel-Kin -- Ãülfã¡fa in Rã¡ka and the English Konungamã³ã°ir -- Emma and Wealhtheow: female sovereignty and poetic discourse.



3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00132680

Autore

Sivolella, Davide

Titolo

To Orbit and Back Again : How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space / Davide Sivolella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer ; Chichester, : Praxis, 2014

Titolo uniforme

To Orbit and Back Again : How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 502 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

85-XX - Astronomy and Astrophysics [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia