Within corporate media industries, adults produce children’s entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, make their own contributions to it—creating and posting unboxing videos, for example, that provide content for toy marketers. Many adults, meanwhile, avidly consume entertainment products nominally meant for children. Media industries reincorporate this market-disrupting participation into their strategies, even turning to adult consumers to pass...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book is the best solution amongst all other books on parkinson's disease because it addresses the emotional and psychological impact of the disease, as well as the physical symptoms.It offers practical advice on managing medications, dealing with healthcare providers, and coping with the day-to-day realities of living with parkinson's. But more importantly, it offers hope - hope that you can find light in t...

"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry."—Heather Hendershot, author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public InterestWhile immediately recognizable...

Every day you walk the tightrope between idealism and pragmatism.Getting things done can mean compromising your principles. If you let it, the paralysis this tension creates will stop us from acting on the risks and opportunities that direct our future. And this problem is multiplied when working together in organizations where our values are diverse or even in conflict.We call these two mindsets The Missionary and The Mercenary. They bot...

In popular culture, management in the media industry is frequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, and market researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces of creative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversion of bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the reality of how media management operates as a culture of shifting discourses, dispositions, and tactics that create meaning, generate value, an...

Derek Johnson ha i giorni contati: costretto nel letto d’ospedale da una malattia incurabile, ripensa alla sua esistenza e si rende conto di non aver vissuto la vita che voleva; la paura lo ha sempre spinto a rinunciare a qualunque cosa rendesse la vita degna di essere vissuta. Ora, però, è troppo tardi per cambiare le cose o almeno questo è quello che crede Derek. Dopo essersi addormentato, si risveglia come quindicenne nella sua vecchia camera da letto e, senza spiegarsi come tutto quest...

Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented synergy, this book examines how television and film culture interact in the 21st century.Both media appear side by side in many platforms or venues, stories and storytellers cross between them, they regularly have common owners, and they discuss each other constantly. Jonathan Gray and De...

Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to industries as well as a crucial locus of meanin...

Die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften einfach erklärt• Über 100 wichtige Theorien aus Physik, Chemie, Biologie und Geowissenschaften einfach und anschaulich erklärt• Chronologische Gliederung in Epochen – von der Antike bis heute• Kurzbiografien berühmter Wissenschaftler*innen wie Nikolaus Kopernikus, Albert Einstein oder Friedrich Wilhelm und Caroline Herschel• Anschaulich & verständli...

Chart the history of Star Trek from the big bang to the end of the universe.Explore hundreds of Star Trek events in the Prime universe and many alternate realities. This title spans the entire breadth of the iconic Star Trek franchise from The Original Series through to its latest series, including Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.Discover fascinating alternate timelines from the infamous Mir...

In an age of cowardice and compromise, the church is asking one question:"Where are the men?"The Redeemed Man prepares you to answer Christ's call to become a man in His image—the kind of man the world needs.Featuring the contributions of trusted pastors, fathers, and husbands, this book answers the questions you're asking as you strive to glorify God in your relationships, work, and spiritual life. Each author gives a uniq...

How to Get a PhD is the market leading, classic book for PhD students and their supervisors.