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Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In recognition of the multitude of research trajectories within media effects, this edition also includes new chapters on narratives, positive media, the self and identity, media selection, and cross-cultural media effects. As scholarship in media effects continues to evolve and expand, Media Effects serves as a benchmark of theory and research for the current and future generations of scholars. The book is ideal for scholars and for undergraduate and graduate courses in media effects, media psychology, media theory, psychology, sociology, political science, and related disciplines.

advertising --- attitude --- communication studies --- digital media --- education --- emotion --- entertainment --- health --- identity --- media psychology --- persuasion --- public relations --- social media --- technology --- violence

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Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse.

comedy and humour;Islamophobia;transnational culture;migration and labour migrants;mainstream entertainment;Turkish German studies;ethnicity;racism;multi-media;social division

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IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property --- Civil Law --- Public Law --- Big Data --- Persönlichkeitsrecht --- Datenverarbeitung --- Datenhandelsrecht --- Immaterialgüterrecht --- Open Access --- Entertainment & media law --- Systems of law: civil codes / civil law --- Private or civil law: general

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This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of the 19th century. Holmes reconceived law as prophecy based on experience, prefiguring the buzzwords of the machine learning age—prediction based on datasets. On the path to AI introduces readers to the key concepts of machine learning, discusses the potential applications and limitations of predictions generated by machines using data, and informs current debates amongst scholars, lawyers and policy makers on how it should be used and regulated wisely. Technologists will also find useful lessons learned from the last 120 years of legal grappling with accountability, explainability, and biased data.

Science and Technology Studies --- Human Geography --- IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property --- Artificial Intelligence --- AI --- Machine learning --- artificial intelligence --- 'big data' --- probability theory --- history of ideas --- legal interpretation --- Transhumanism --- Futurism --- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr --- Wendell Holmes Jr. --- legal philosophy --- machine bias --- algorithmic bias --- Open Access --- Sociology --- Human geography --- Entertainment & media law --- Artificial intelligence

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This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. Gathering data from a content analysis of 870 news articles, Ogbebor shows how journalists cover debates on media policy and illustrates the impact of their coverage on democracy. Through this analysis, the book contributes to knowledge of paradigm repair strategies; public sphere; gatekeeping theory; the concept of journalism as an interpretive community; political economy of the press; as well as the neoliberal and social democratic interpretations of press freedom. Providing insight into factors inhibiting and aiding the role of the news media as a democratic public sphere, it will be a valuable resource for the press, media reform activists, members of the public, and academics in the fields of journalism, politics and law.

Journalism --- British Culture --- Media Policy --- Media Policy and Politics --- Leveson Inquiry --- News of the World --- Phone hacking --- Phone hacking scandal --- Media policy --- Media and democracy --- Journalistic metadiscourse --- open access --- Media studies: Journalism --- Media, entertainment, information & communication industries --- Cultural studies --- Media studies