A Dictionary of Media and Communication

A Dictionary of Media and Communication
Author: Daniel Chandler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 019105755X

The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, this wide-ranging A-Z covers both interpersonal and mass communication, in all their myriad forms, encompassing advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture, among many other topics. This new edition includes over 200 new complete entries and revises hundreds of others, as well as including hundreds of new cross-references. The biographical appendix has also been fully cross-referenced to the rest of the text. This dictionary is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Foreign-language and English Dictionaries in the Physical Sciences and Engineering

Foreign-language and English Dictionaries in the Physical Sciences and Engineering
Author: Tibor W. Marton
Publisher: Washington, U.S. Department of Commerce
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1964
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

The bibliography lists over 2800 unilingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias in the physical sciences, engineering and technology published during the past twelve years.The majority of the titles cited have English as the xource or target language, or are dictionaries giving definitions * in English.The bibliographic entries are arranged in 49 subject classes; within each subject, the entries are listed alphabetically by language, and within each language group by author.Forty-seven foreign languages are represented in the compilation.Lists of abbreviations and reference sources, and detailed author, language, and subject indexes complement the publication. (Author).

The Audio Dictionary

The Audio Dictionary
Author: Glenn D. White
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0295801700

The Audio Dictionary is a comprehensive resource, including historical, obsolete, and obscure as well as contemporary terms relating to diverse aspects of audio such as film and TV sound, recording, Hi-Fi, and acoustics. The Third Edition includes four hundred new entries, such as AAC (advanced audio coding), lip synch, metadata, MP3, and satellite radio. Every term from previous editions has been reconsidered and often rewritten. Guest entries are by Dennis Bohn, cofounder and head of research and development at Rane Corporation, and film sound expert Larry Blake, whose credits include Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven. The appendixes--tutorials that gather a lifetime's worth of experience in acoustics--include both new and greatly expanded articles.

Radio and Television

Radio and Television
Author: Patricia Beall Hamill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1960
Genre: Radio in education
ISBN:

Sixteen-year-old Tabitha, the daughter of a preacher who believes science is Satan's work, longs to study at a university and dig for dinosaur bones, but in South Dakota at the end of the nineteenth century such ambitions are discouraged.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 1948
Genre: Education
ISBN: