Research

Creating Preschool Television: A Story of Commerce, Creativity and Curriculum

by Jeanette Steemers

(Professor in Media and Communication, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster)
published by Palgrave.

Further details and a downloadable first chapter are available at

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283287

"Metaverses and 3D Environments", IV Congress of Cybersociety.
http://blogs.cibersociedad.net/blog/2010/03/01/metaverses-and-3d-environments/#more-109

We (Gloria Gomez-Diago) considered that the work submitted by Pierre L=E9vy ("Toward a Civilization

Visual Cultures

PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication
Volume 2 Issue 1 (January 2010)

OUT ONLINE!
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/vol2_1.html

Welcome to the second issue of *PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication, an online academic journal edited and comprised of work by a global community of graduate media and communications emerging scholars.

I (Ben O'Loughlin) just wanted to share the link to a working paper that I have just co-authored with Nick Anstead of the University of East Anglia. It starts to examine a sample of more than 40,000 tweets we gathered during a broadcast of BBC Question Time in the UK in October 2009. This episode was especially significant, as the programme featured Nick Griffin, leader of the far right British National Party, making it a highly controversial event.

Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe

ISBN (13): 978-1-9066-7803-6 (paperback)
Price £17.99 (UK), $29.00 (US)
257pp.

Available for purchase from: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks 
and from online booksellers, Amazon.

In the past decade, the dramatic rise in migration and the demise of national borders

Cinema at the Periphery.
Edited by Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal.
Wayne State University Press, 2010.

Cinema at the Periphery offers a timely and useful collection of reflections
that challenge conventional definitions of national film cultures. This
engaging volume is a valuable addition to the growing canon of scholarship in
the field of transnational cinemas.”

B. Ruby Rich, professor of film studies at University of California­Santa Cruz

The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History
Edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak

Three Myths of Internet Governance

Making Sense of Networks, Governance and Regulation

By Richard Collins

 ISBN 9781841502335

The new special issue of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics on EU
Kids Online has just come out. More information can be found below. Apologies for
cross-posting.

Special issue: EU Kids Online
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6.1 (Intellect Books)
Guest editors: Liza Tsaliki and Leslie Haddon

As new media are rapidly becoming embedded in everyday life across Europe and elsewhere,
there are pressing questions regarding access and inequalities, the nature and quality