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ISSN: 1329-878X |
Books Available for ReviewMIA receives review copies of recent publications from a number of publishers, and these can be made available to reviewers who will undertake to produce the review within the stated time. The policy is to publish many short reviews of two types:
Reviewers are typically members of the academic community, including postgraduates. We also encourage our colleagues in industry to contribute to this part of the journal. A styleguide for reviewers is available here. If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, please contact the Book Review Editor, Kitty van Vuuren, k.vanvuuren@uq.edu.au. Alley, Dodd, Gamers and Gorehounds: The Influence of Videogames on the Contemporary American Horror Film, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007, ISBN 978 3 8364 12737 1, 85 pp., US$54.00. Bang, Henrik & Esmark, Anders (eds), New Publics with/out Democracy, Samfundslitteratur Press/NORDICOM, Frederiksberg, 2007, ISBN 87 593 1149 3, 380 pp., DKK348.00 Barbosa, Roberto, International Copyright Law and Litigation: A Mechanism for Improvement, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2008, ISBN 978 3 8364 3745 5, 285 pp., US$111.00. Barfield, Ray, A Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences, Praeger, Westport, 2008, ISBN 0275998707, xvi + 158 pp., AU$74.95. Distributor: DA Information Services. Bloustien, Peters and Luckman (Eds), Sonic Synergies: Music, Identity, Technology and Community, Ashgate, Hampshire, 2008, ISBN 978-0754657217, xxviii + 236 pp., UK£55.00. Bontempo, Melissa, Online Museum Communities: Challenges and Possibilities, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007, ISBN 978 3-8364-1653-5, 120 pp., US$64.00. Burchett, George and Shimmin, Nick (eds), Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007, ISBN 0521718264, xxi + 314 pp., AU$37.95. Burkitt, Ian, Social Selves : Theories of Self and Society (2edn), Sage, London, California, New Delhi, Singapore, 2008, ISBN 978 1412912723, ix + 203 pp., AUD 65.00, Distributor: Footprint Books. Carlsson, Ulla & Helland, Knot (eds), Media Structures and Practices: As Time Goes By. Studies and Reflections from a Scandinavian Horizon, Nordicom, Goteborg University Sweden, 2007, ISBN 978-9189471474, 231pp Churchill, S.W. & McKible, A. (eds), Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches, Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire, 2007, ISBN 0754660149, xvii + 276 pp., UK£55.00. Distributor: DA Information Services. Cormack, M. Hourigan, N., Minority Language Media, Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon, Avon, 2007, ISBN 1 8535 9963 7, 274 pp., A$66.78. Cvjeticanin, Biserka (editor), Dynamics of Communication: New Ways and New Actors, Institute for International Relations, 2006, Croatia. ISBN 978-953-6096-39-8. De Vere Brody, Jennifer, Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Duke Uni Press, Durham & London, 2008, ISBN 978 0822342359, xi + 221 pp., USD 21.95. Gieseler, Carly, Killing the Vamp: Analyzing the Silent Film Vamp as Gendered "Other" and Embodiment of the Psychoanalytic Death Drive, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007, ISBN 978 3 8364 2638 1, 193 pp., US$76.00. Hartley, John, Television Truths, Blackwell, Malden, Oxford, Melbourne, 2007, ISBN 1405169790, xii + 290 pp., AU$54.95. Hawk, Byron, Reider, David M. & Oviedo, Ollie (eds), Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2008, ISBN 978 0816 6497 85, xxiii + 236 pp., US$ 25.00. Heckman, Davin, A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day, Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2008, ISBN 978 0822 3415 81, x + 214 pp., US$21. Grimes, T., Anderson, J. and Bergen, L., Media Violence and Aggression: Science and Ideology, Sage, London, California, New Delhi, Singapore, 2007, ISBN 1412914413, xi + 268 pp., AU$54.95. Distributor: Footprint. Jensen, Klaus Bruhn (ed), Interface:// Culture: The World Wide web as political resource and aesthetic form, Samfundslitteratur Press/NORDICOM, Frederiksberg, 2005, ISBN 87 593 1146 0, 254 pp., €34.00 Jones, Meredith, Skintight: An Anatomy of Cosmetic Surgery, Berg, Oxford, New York, 2008, ISBN 1845206697, xi + 222 pp., AU$65.00. Distributor: Footprint. Jones, Russell, M., Inside the Graffiti Subculture: Why Graffiti is not Art, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007, ISBN 978 3 8364 3663 2, 85 pp., US$54.00. Kim, Hyowon, Adopted Colors: Identity, Race, and the Passion for Other People's Nationalism, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2008, ISBN 978 3 8364 6604 2, 217 pp., US$111.00. Larkin, Brian, Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8223-4108-6, xi + 313 pp., US $84.95. Lehmann, Niels, Qvortrup, Lars & Walther, Bo Kampmann (eds), The Concept of the Network Society: Post-Ontological Reflections, Samfundslitteratur Press/NORDICOM, Frederiksberg, 2007, ISBN 87 593 1189 9, 210 pp., €31.00 Maingard, Jacqueline, South African National Cinema, Routledge, London and New York, 2007, ISBN 0 415 21680 7, xii + 220 pp., AU$61.00. Distributor: Palgrave Marschall, Nicolas, Methodological Pitfalls in Social Network Analsyis: Why Current Methods Produce Questionable Results, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007, ISBN 978 3 8364 3003 6, 105 pp., US$54.00. Marx, Karl, and Ledbetter, James, Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx, Penguin, London, 2007, ISBN 0141441924, xxx + 322 pp., AU$31.68. Distributor: DA Information Services. Mayra, Frans, An Introduction to Game Studies : Games and Culture, Sage, London, California, New Delhi, Singapore, 2008 ISBN 1412934466, ix + 196 pp., AU$61.00. Distributor: Footprint. McChesney, Robert W., The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2008, ISBN 978 1583671610, 589 pp., AUD 32.95. Distributor: Footprint Books. Moll, Marita & Shade, Regan, For $ale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada, 2008, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, ISBN978 0 88627 591 4, xi + 143 pp., CAN$14.95. Ott, Brian R., The Small Screen: How Television Equips us to Live in the Information Age, Blackwell, Malden, Oxford, Melbourne, 2007, ISBN 1405161558, xiv + 199 pp., AU$48.49. Poletti, Anna, Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2008, ISBN 978 0522855654, x + 310 pp., AUD 49.95 print on demand/ AUD 39.95, E-Book. Rasmussen, Terje, Techno-Politics and Some Structural Challenges Facing the Internet, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2008, ISBN 978 3 8364 6977 7, 65 pp., US$64.00. Samuel-Azran, Tal & Caspi, Dan (eds), New Media and Innovative Technologies, Ben-Gurion University Press/Tzivonim Publishing, Beer-Shiva & Mevasseret Zion, 2008, ISBN 0 079400000231, 295 pp., AU$27.00. Sarikakis, Katharine (ed), Media and Cultural Policy in the European Union, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, 2007, ISBN 9 0420 2175 4, 249 pp., €50.00 Sellier, Genevieve (Translated by Kristin Ross), Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2008, ISBN 978-0822341925, vi + 269pp., US $25.00. Servaes, J. & Liu, S. (eds) Moving Targets: Mapping the Paths between Communication, Technology and Social Change in Communities, Southbound, Penang, 2007, ISBN 9 8390 5450 7, iv + 275 pp., US$ 25.00 Starks, Michael, Switching to Digital Television: UK Public Policy and the Market, Intellect / UNSW Press, Bristol UK, Chicago USA, 2007, ISBN 9781841501727, xii + 251 pp., AUD 60.00. Storment, Ryan, Other Spaces, Other Voices: Heterotopic Spaces in Island Narratives, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2008, ISBN 978 3 8364 3808 7, 101 pp., US$64.00. Storsul, Tanja & Stuedahl, Dagny (eds), Ambivalence Towards Convergence Digitalization and Media Change, Nordicom, Sweden, 2007, ISBN 978-9189471504, 251 pp., € 30. Tahvonen, Erik, The Crisis of Imagination: Representation and Resistance in Holocaust Diaries, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2008, ISBN 978 3 8364 3816 2, 137 pp., US$76.00. von Krogh, Torbjorn, Media Accountability Today… and Tomorrow: Updating the Concept in Theory and Practice, Nordicom, Göteborg, 2008, ISBN 9189471580, 158 pp., €25.
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