Communication studies Books

Book SynopsisThis highly original, thought-provoking book written by a pioneer of communication studies is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture. Written in an engaging and candid manner by a leading expert in this field Argues that cross-cultural understanding can only be achieved by harnessing the power of global media, popular culture, information technology, and personal communications technologies Examines the global trend of using film, video, music, and TV on-demand as the framework through which we experience all cultural activity Draws inspiration from the work of a range of theorists, from Charles Darwin to Anthony Giddens Candidly interrogates the very latest developments in world affairs, especially the roles of fundamentalist religious ideology, media globalization, and individualism, whose complex relationships have yTrade Review“James Lull shows that religion and media ravenously feed off each other--often for the worse. But he also points the way to a future of 'global wisdom,' which leverages the best ideals of communication and faith. This is one gospel worth preaching.” Irshad Manji, author, The Trouble with Islam Today “With uncommon brilliance, extreme intellectual agility, and profound cultural wisdom, James Lull’s latest book faces courageously and optimistically the most daunting challenges of our troubled times.” Eduardo Neiva, University of Alabama at Birmingham “Taking global cultural analysis in refreshing new directions, James Lull offers the reader powerful insights into the social and symbolic realities of the 21st Century.” Gabriela Pedroza, Monterrey Institute of Technology "In this impressively wide-ranging study, Lull makes an impassioned plea for the new media technologies to be brought to the forefront of the struggle against cultural prejudice. Calling for cooperation rather than conflict, open-minded communication rather than fundamentalist pronouncements, Lull persuasively argues the case for greater diversity and tolerance across global society." Stuart Sim, University of Sunderland “An intriguing essay on culture and modern cultural practices. Lull is intellectually honest in assessing the counterarguments to his positions.” Communication Research Trends Table of ContentsList of figures. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. All Eyes on the Global Stage. Media Globalization. Modern Media Development. The Global Divides. China and the Middle East: Responses to Modernity and. Globalization. The Communications Revolution. 2. Human Expression. The Cultural Politics of Expression. The Need for Expression. Symbolic Creativity and the Expressive Self. Emotional Communication. The fear factor and the pleasure principle. The Active Pleasures of Expression and Communication. Mobile expression. Cultural Open Sourcing. Symbolic Power to the People. 3. Programming Our Personal Supercultures. Cultural Experience. Culture, culture, Superculture. The “supers”. Culture in common. Cultural Technology in the Communication Age. Cultural Programming. The Cultural Self and Self Culture. Encountering Culture. The Cultural Spheres. Universal values and concepts. Transnational cultural media. Civilizations. Nations. Regions and everyday life. The Cultural Mix in Action. Superculture Revisited. 4. The Push and Pull of Culture. The Push of Culture. Diaspora. Nation as contested push. The Pull of Culture. Individualism. “A life of one’s own”. New Cultural Horizons. 5. Globalized Islam. The Islamic Cultural Body. The visible visual body. Gender equality, political democracy, and economic prosperity. Islam in the West. The Opinion, and the Other Opinion. The global TV war. The New Imagined World of Islam. Instrumental modernity. The communications problem. 6. Cultural Transparency. Reflexive Cultural Globalization. The globalization of good and bad ideas. Loving to hate America. Open Society: The Guiding Principle for Cultural Development. The Power of Transparency. Transparency or surveillance?. 7. The Open Spaces of Global Communication. Stage 1: Cultural Technology, Industry, Abundance. Stage 2: Global Visibility and Transparency. Stage 3: Platforms for Participation. Stage 4: Global Consciousness and Public Opinion. Stage 5: Global Wisdom. Stage 6: Institutional Channels. Stage 7: Utopian Potential. 8. Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism. The Passion of the Religious Culture. Fundamentalist America. The active passivity of Islam. Other Fundamentalisms. Nationalism. Market fundamentalism. The Democratic Secular Imperative. One Moral Universe?. A “modest cosmopolitan” alternative. 9. Communicating the Future. The Paradox of Tolerance. The Great Chain of Communication. References. Index

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Book SynopsisMaking Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM Coordinated Management of Meaning one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication Defines the ''critical moments'' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds Trade Review"Making Social Worlds is an exciting and gutsy volume readable by a range of audiences. The focus on critical interaction moments allows intelligent probing communication–based analyses of everything from couples fighting to wars and international relations. The conversational writing style kept me engaged from beginning to end." Stanley Deetz. Professor Director of Peace and Conflict Studies National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar International Communication Association Past-President and Fellow "This is not only a marvelously lucid updating of CMM theory, it also demonstrates the broad applicability of this important conceptual work to problems and potentials of human communication." Kenneth J. Gergen, author of An Invitation to Social Construction Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Critical moments that shape our social worlds. 2. Taking a communication perspective on social worlds. 3. Paradigms and the “physics” of social worlds. 4. Communication: Coordinating Actions and Making/Managing Meanings. 5. Doing things in communication: Speech acts. 6. Episodes and patterns of communication. 7. Selves and forms of consciousness. 8. Relationships and relational minds. 9. Afterword: Something of a guide for using CMM. .

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of disciplines to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics.Trade Review“It is a blessing that bibliography follows each chapter where it can be quite use-ful, rather than being amassed at the end of the book.” (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 December 2012) “In sum, “The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication” promises to be a stimulating resource with the potential to inform and to invite debate, inspiring and equipping readers to ponder recent and enduring issues anew.” (Linguist List, 17 November 2012) “This book provides a rich and diverse sampling of the intercultural work going on from various linguistic perspectives, some authors being more reliant on established intercultural theory and practice and others resisting it.” (Dialogin, 1 October 2011) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Preface xv Introduction xvii Part I Background 1 1 Intercultural Communication: An Overview 3 Ingrid Piller 2 Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication 19 Leila Monaghan 3 Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology 37 John Edwards Part II Theoretical Perspectives 61 4 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication 63 John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz 5 Ethnography of Speaking 77 Scott F. Kiesling 6 Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse and Communication 90 Ryuko Kubota 7 Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes 110 Suresh Canagarajah Part III Interactional Discourse Features 133 8 Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication 135 Deborah Tannen 9 Silence 158 Ikuko Nakane 10 Indirectness 180 Michael Lempert 11 Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication 205 Janet Holmes Part IV Intercultural Discourse Sites 229 12 Anglo–Arab Intercultural Communication 231 Eirlys E. Davies and Abdelali Bentahila 13 Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication 252 Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto 14 “Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!” National Stereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other 272 Lars Fant 15 “Face,” Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction 292 Maria Sifianou and Arın Bayraktaroğlu 16 Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learning in South Africa: Law and Healthcare 313 Russell H. Kaschula and Pamela Maseko 17 Indigenous–Mestizo Interaction in Mexico 337 Rocío Fuentes Part V Interactional Domains 365 18 Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers 367 Eirlys E. Davies 19 Cultural Differences in Business Communication 389 John Hooker 20 Intercultural Communication in the Law 408 Diana Eades 21 Medicine 430 Claudia V. Angelelli 22 Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education 449 Amanda J. Godley 23 Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse 482 Jonathan M. Watt Index 496

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Book SynopsisBringing together top listening scholars from various scholarly disciplines and applied, real world perspectives, Listening and Human Communication in the 21st Century offers a state-of-the-art overview of what we know and think about listening behavior in the 21st century.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Perspectives on Listening in the 21st Century (Andrew D. Wolvin, University of Maryland). Part I: Theoretical Overview of Listening. 2. Listening Engagement: Intersecting Theoretical Perspectives (Andrew D. Wolvin, University of Maryland). Part II: Listening Research Methods. 3. Qualitative Research: Critical for Understanding Listening (Michael W. Purdy, Governors State University). 4. Quantitative Research in Listening: Explication and Overview ( Graham D. Bodie, Louisiana State University and Margaret Fitch-Hauser, Auburn University). Part III: Listening As a Cognitive and Relational Activity. 5. What Is Going On in the Mind of the Listener? The Cognitive Psychology of Listening (Margarete Imhof, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt). 6. Listening: A Dialogic Perspective (James J. Floyd, University of Central Missouri). 7. The Skills of Listening-Centered Communication (Judi Brownell, Cornell University). 8. Listening in a Second Language (John Flowerdew and Lindsay Miller, both Hong Kong University). Part IV: Listening in Contexts. 9. Listening Practices: Are We Getting Any Better? (Sheila C. Bentley, Bentley Consulting). 10. Listening Pedagogy: Where Do We Go From Here? (Laura A. Janusik, Rockhurst University). 11. Perspectives on Intercultural Listening (Melissa L. Beall, University of Northern Iowa). 12. Listening in Spirituality and Religion (Diana Corley Schnapp, former Executive Director of the International Listening Association). 13. The Integrative Listening Model (Kathleen Thompson, Pamela Leintz, Barbara Nevers, and Susan Witkowski, all Alverno College).

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Book SynopsisThe Hollywood Film Musical examines the cross-fertilization between the genre and the popular music industry, tracing the function of this relationship in aesthetic, ideological and industrial terms, and outlining the influence of minstrel shows, vaudeville, the Broadway stage, the recording industry, and stardom.Trade Review“Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.” (Choice, 1 November 2012)Table of ContentsList of Plates ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Historical Overview 7 2 Critical Overview 38 3 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 55 4 Top Hat (1935) 70 5 The Pirate (1948) 85 6 West Side Story (1961) and Saturday Night Fever (1977) 99 7 Woodstock (1970) 116 8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 131 9 Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Across the Universe (2007) 146 References 165 Index 171

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Book SynopsisCommunications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box. Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kindsinformation, people, and commodities Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization Trade Review“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.” -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world" – European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Redefining Communications 1 Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19 1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21 2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno]zones 37 Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57 3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and “New Mobilities” 59 4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77 5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95 6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113 Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131 7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133 8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159 9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199 Index 233

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Book SynopsisExplorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences, the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange. Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among others Develops the original argument that the social history of cinema-going and of the experience of cinema should take precedence over production- and text-based analyses Explores the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange, including patterns of popularity and taste, the role of individual movie theatres in creating and sustaining their audiences, and the commercial, political and legal aspects of film exhibition and distribution Prompts readers to reassess their understanding ofTrade Review"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 November 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Part 1 Mapping Cinema Experiences. 1 New Cinema Histories (Richard Maltby). 2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a Post-Moviegoing Age (Robert C. Allen). 3 Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema (Jeffrey Klenotic). 4 What to do with Cinema Memory? (Annette Kuhn). Part 2 Distribution, Programming and Audiences. 5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent (Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de Vijver). 6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934–1936 (Clara Pafort-Overduin). 7 Patterns in First-Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s (John Sedgwick). 8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia (Mike Walsh). 9 Hollywood and its Global Audiences: A Comparative Study of the Biggest Box Office Hits in the United States and Outside the United States Since the 1970s (Peter Krämer). 10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial Change in Hollywood, 1975–1985 (Deron Overpeck). Part 3 Venues and their Publics. 11 ‘No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors’: Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s (Tim Snelson and Mark Jancovich). 12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New York’s Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s (Peter Stanfield). 13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and its Contexts in the Small-Town US South (Arthur Knight). 14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and National Cinema (Deb Verhoeven). Part 4 Cinema, Modernity and the Local. 15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional Mass Market for Movies (Paul S. Moore). 16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial (Kathryn Fuller-Seeley). 17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India (Stephen Putnam Hughes). 18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural Community Fundraiser in the 1950s (Kate Bowles). Index.

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Book SynopsisExplorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences, the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange. Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among others Develops the original argument that the social history of cinema-going and of the experience of cinema should take precedence over production- and text-based analyses Explores the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange, including patterns of popularity and taste, the role of individual movie theatres in creating and sustaining their audiences, and the commercial, political and legal aspects of film exhibition and distribution Prompts readers to reassess their understanding ofTrade Review"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 November 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Part 1 Mapping Cinema Experiences. 1 New Cinema Histories (Richard Maltby). 2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a Post-Moviegoing Age (Robert C. Allen). 3 Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema (Jeffrey Klenotic). 4 What to do with Cinema Memory? (Annette Kuhn). Part 2 Distribution, Programming and Audiences. 5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent (Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de Vijver). 6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934–1936 (Clara Pafort-Overduin). 7 Patterns in First-Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s (John Sedgwick). 8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia (Mike Walsh). 9 Hollywood and its Global Audiences: A Comparative Study of the Biggest Box Office Hits in the United States and Outside the United States Since the 1970s (Peter Krämer). 10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial Change in Hollywood, 1975–1985 (Deron Overpeck). Part 3 Venues and their Publics. 11 ‘No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors’: Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s (Tim Snelson and Mark Jancovich). 12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New York’s Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s (Peter Stanfield). 13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and its Contexts in the Small-Town US South (Arthur Knight). 14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and National Cinema (Deb Verhoeven). Part 4 Cinema, Modernity and the Local. 15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional Mass Market for Movies (Paul S. Moore). 16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial (Kathryn Fuller-Seeley). 17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India (Stephen Putnam Hughes). 18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural Community Fundraiser in the 1950s (Kate Bowles). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the rich and complex ways in which gesture precedes language development and then is used in conjunction with language over the lifespan.Trade ReviewNo more handwaving at gesture! The authors of this comprehensive volume examine moving and interacting bodies and minds across ages and languages, across theories and methods. Gesture in Language is an invaluable resource for anyone who wonders how we manage to understand each other—or, for that matter, to think our own thoughts. -- Dan I. Slobin, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThis volume presents the latest thinking by leading scholars in the field. It is essential reading for researchers interested in the development of language and communication. This is also a great resource for teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students. -- Sotaro Kita, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United KingdomMorgenstern and Goldin-Meadow open a fascinating new chapter on what our hands and visible body reveal about language development, learning, bilingualism, and aging. A must-read game-changer volume for linguists and cognitive scientists who are interested in human capacity for language and cognition in general. -- Asli Ozyurek, PhD, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContributorsChapter 1. Introduction to Gesture in Language Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow Part I: An Emblematic Gesture: PointingChapter 2. Pointing in Gesture and Sign Kensy Cooperrider and Kate MeshChapter 3. Early Pointing Gestures Aliyah MorgensternPart II: Gesture Before SpeechChapter 4. Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development Meredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. SaloChapter 5. Interaction Between Modalities and Within Development Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra Part III: Gesture With Speech During Language LearningChapter 6. Constructing a System of Communication with Gestures and Words Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. KellyChapter 7. Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4 Pauline Beaupoil-HourdelChapter 8. Gesture Can Facilitate Children's Learning and Generalization of Verbs Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow Part IV: Gesture After Speech is MasteredChapter 9. On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in Children Jean-Marc CollettaChapter 10. Understanding How Gestures are Produced and Perceived Susan Wagner CookChapter 11. Gesture in the Aging Brain Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, and Seda Akbiyik Part V: Gesture With More Than One LanguageChapter 12. Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson Chapter 13. Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users' Speech and Gestures Marianne Gullberg Chapter 14. Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Gale Stam and Marion TellierAfterword: Gesture as Part of Language or Partner to Language Across the LifespanAliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-MeadowIndexAbout the Editors

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Book SynopsisWhither the life of online images?Trade Review"Freedman's elegant new book...Transient Images is lyrically written, meditative, and palpably intelligent... Freedman attends carefully to the precise desires, pleasures, and risks that unfold in each example. The work is enriched by its strategic selection of a broad range of everyday cultural artifacts and practices, as well as by a richly interdisciplinary methodology... Significantly, the book offers a fresh take on thinking through the privileged role that networked and digital images play in relation to trauma... Freedman has provided us with a lively new methodology for understanding our images and our selves in an era of transience." Cinema Journal, Winter 2012Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Picturetown, USA; 1 'Have You Seen This Child?': From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abyme; 2 Private Photos/Public Traumas: National Memories and Moving Images; 3 Trauma and the Cellular Imaginary; 4 Intervention and the Kodak Moment; 5 The Architectures of Cyberdating; 6 The Social Fabric of Images References

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Book SynopsisHow Daniel Lerner's seminal work contributed to the overall professionalization of communication theory and sociologyTrade Review"Shah’s extensive archival research is really the treasure of The Production of Modernization. He has unearthed and smartly contextualized dozens of fascinating documents that help to frame not only Daniel Lerner’s career but wider currents in Cold War social science that Lerner reflected. I can’t emphasize enough how impressive is the author’s close, almost obsessive reading of the archival material. The Production of Modernization makes a genuine contribution to scholarship." —Jefferson Pooley, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg CollegeTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Rise of Modernization Theory2. Lerner at the Psychological Warfare Division3. Lerner at Stanford: Tools of the Social Science Trade4. Lerner at Columbia: The Voice of America's Turkey Studies5. Lerner at MIT:6. After Passing of Traditional SocietyBibliographyFigureTables

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Book SynopsisThe 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape. When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became the first federal property to feature a slave memorial. In Upon the Ruins of Liberty, Roger Aden offers a compelling account that explores the development of this important historic site and how history, space, and public memory intersected with contemporary racial politics. Aden constructs this engrossing tale by drawing on archival material and interviews with principal figures in the controversy-including historian Ed Lawler, site activist Michael Coard, and site designer Emanuel Kelly. Upon the Ruins of Liberty chronicles the politically-charged efforts to create a fitting tribute to the place where George Washington (and later, John Adams) shaped the presidency whilTrade ReviewAden's is one of the best book-length case studies I have seen on contested sites like the president's house. --Ken FooteTable of ContentsPreface1 Discovering the Truth: The Revelation of Ugly History2 Re-collecting the Past: The Complexity of Public Memory3 Displacing the Inconvenient: The Incomplete Story of Liberty4 Honoring the Ancestors: The Quest for Acknowledgment5 Shaping the Place: The Design Competition6 Revealing the Foundations: The Excavation of the Site7 Telling the Stories: The Opening of the Installation8 Continuing the Conversation: The Legacy of the President’s HouseAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by positioning sport as a source of theological trouble. Focusing on bodies, time, movement, and memory, he demonstrates how negative theology can be practically and theoretically useful as a critique of elite televised sport. Grano asserts that it is precisely through sport's highest religious ideals that controversies are taking shape and constituting points of political and social rupture. He examines issues of transcendence, legacye.g., greatest ever, or all-timeand witnessing through instant replay, which undermine institutional authority. Grano also reflects on elite athletes representing especially powerful embodiments of religious and social conflict, including around issues related to gender, sexuality, ability doping, traumatic brain injury, and institutional greed. Elite sport is in a period of profound crisis. It is through the ideals Grano analyzes that we can i

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Book SynopsisPublic art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics, Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities.Painting Publics draws on a combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico, Germany, and France, there is even some

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Book SynopsisPublic art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics, Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities.Painting Publics draws on a combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico, Germany, and France, there is even some

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Book SynopsisCampaign Communication and Political Marketing is a comprehensive, internationalist study of the modern political campaign. It indexes and explains their integral components, strategies, and tactics.Trade Review"This book provides a detailed and highly valuable account of the organizational processes that are driving these trends, but with important critical insights into improving the civic efficacy of political marketing." (European Journal of Communication, 1 February 2013) "Maarek, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Paris-East University, has authored various writings on political marketing, though this is perhaps his most comprehensive book on the subject to appear in English. . . This is an extensively well-researched and thorough book dealing with every level and stage of political campaigning." (The London School of Economics & Political Science, 7 August 2011)Table of ContentsDetailed contents. List of Figures. List of Tables. Introduction. Part I The rise of modern political communication. 1 Birth and rise of political marketing in the United States. Part II The foundations of modern political marketing. 2 Political marketing: a global approach. 3 The means of analysis and information. Part III Political marketing tools. 4 The traditional tools. 5 Audiovisual tools. 6 Direct marketing methods. 7 The growing importance of the Internet. Part IV The actual running of election campaigns. 8 Structure and organization of the campaign. 9 The particularities of local campaigns. Conclusion: how to use this book … . Appendix 1: Memorandum of Understanding between the Bush and Kerry Campaigns for the 2004 Televised Debates (extract). Appendix 2: Internet "Final Rules" decided by the Federal Elections Commission, March 27, 2006. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisCampaign Communication and Political Marketing is a comprehensive, internationalist study of the modern political campaign. It indexes and explains their integral components, strategies, and tactics.Trade Review"This book provides a detailed and highly valuable account of the organizational processes that are driving these trends, but with important critical insights into improving the civic efficacy of political marketing." (European Journal of Communication, 1 February 2013) "Maarek, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Paris-East University, has authored various writings on political marketing, though this is perhaps his most comprehensive book on the subject to appear in English. . . This is an extensively well-researched and thorough book dealing with every level and stage of political campaigning." (The London School of Economics & Political Science, 7 August 2011)Table of ContentsDetailed Contents ix List of Figures xv List of Tables xvi Introduction 1 Part I The rise of modern political communication 5 1 Birth and rise of political marketing in the United States 7 Part II The foundations of modern political marketing 31 2 Political marketing: a global approach 33 3 The means of analysis and information 72 Part III Political marketing tools 91 4 The traditional tools 93 5 Audiovisual tools 113 6 Direct marketing methods 140 7 The growing importance of the Internet 158 Part IV The actual running of election campaigns 177 8 Structure and organization of the campaign 179 9 The particularities of local campaigns 220 Conclusion: how to use this book … 232 Appendix 1: Memorandum of Understanding between the Bush and Kerry Campaigns for the 2004 Televised Debates (extract) 237 Appendix 2: Internet “Final Rules” decided by the Federal Elections Commission, March 27, 2006 244 Bibliography 248 Index 256

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Book SynopsisChromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary. Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dance films to current trends in digital color manipulation. In this richly illustrated study, Richard Misek offers both a history and a theory of screen color. He argues that cinematic color emerged from, defined itself in response to, and has evolved in symbiosis with black and white. Exploring the technological, cultural, economic, and artistic factors that have defined this evolving symbiosis, Misek provides an in-depth yet accessible account of color's spread through, and ultimate effacement of, black-and-white cinema.Trade Review“Chromatic Cinema provides a much-needed technological history of machines and techniques for producing moving images in color, as well as a cultural history of color films.” (BRIAN R. JACOBSON, Technology and Culture, July 2012) “An invigorating critical intervention into the history, theory and aesthetic analysis of colour in the cinema.” (JENNIFER M. BARKER, Screen, August 2012) “Chromatic Cinema provides a wealth of information and of examples of different approaches to colour in cinema and stimulates enough thoughts and reflections to be a worthy addition to any library on colour in cinema.” (NICOLA MAZZANTI, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, April 2012 "Chromatic Cinema is an excellent critical history of screen colour by Richard Misek, who teaches at the University of Bristol, near which, as I recall, is a plaque to mark the birthplace of William Friese-Greene, the somewhat unfortunate British movie pioneer, one of who patents was for his own colour system." (Times Literary Supplement, 25 November 2011) "The book touches on most of the important aspects of color cinema-from history to technology to ideology-and serves as an orientation course for a complex subject. It's a gateway read, neither intimidating nor frustrating. For a beginner (like me), it presented a smattering of philosophical ideas, a grounding in the why and how progression of color use, and a primer on the science of color technologies." (MUBI, September 2010)Table of ContentsList of Plates ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Film Color 14 Coloration in Early Cinema, 1895–1927 14 The Rise of Technicolor, 1915–35 25 Chromatic Cold War: Black-and-White and Color in Opposition 29 “Technicolor Is Natural Color”: Color and Realism, 1935–58 35 Chromatic Thaw: Hollywood’s Transition to Color, 1950–67 41 2. Surface Color 50 Color in European Film, 1936–67 50 Chromatic Ambivalence: Art Cinema’s Transition to Color 57 “Painting with Light”: Cinema’s Imaginary Art History 65 Unmotivated Chromatic Hybridity 68 Monochrome Purgatory: Absent Color in the Soviet Bloc, 1966–75 77 3. Absent Color 83 Black-and-White as Technological Relic, 1965–83 83 Black-and-White Flashbacks: Codifying Temporal Rebirth 89 Black-and-White Films, 1967–2007 97 Nostalgia and Pastiche 111 4. Optical Color 117 Cinema’s Newtonian Optics 117 White Light: Hollywood’s Invisible Ideology 122 Darkness Visible: From Natural Light to “Neo-Noir,” 1968–83 132 Cinematography and Color Filtration, 1977–97 139 Case Study: Seeing Red in Psycho 147 5. Digital Color 152 Crossing the Chromatic Wall in Wings of Desire 152 An Archaeology of Digital Intermediate, 1989–2000 155 Digital Color Aesthetics, 2000–9 164 Conclusion: Painting by Numbers? 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 195 Index 210

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Book SynopsisFeaturing several all-new chapters, revisions, and updates, the Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents an interdisciplinary collection of key readings thatexplore how interpersonal communication is socially and culturally mediated. Includes key readings from the fields of cultural and linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and communication studies Features new chapters that focus on digital media Offers new introductory chapters and an expanded toolkit of concepts that students may draw on to link culture, communication, and community Expands the Ethnographer's Toolkit to include an introduction to basic concepts followed by a range of ethnographic case studies Trade Review“This style, and the wide-ranging subject matter, should encourage both student and academic readers to follow the editors’ suggestion to see the material as a stepping stone towards their own research, rather than ‘the final word’ (p. 5). The reference lists at the end of the chapters could be another of these stones.” (Discourse Studies, 16 January 2014) Table of ContentsPreface for Instructors ix Editors’ Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1Jane E. Goodman, Jennifer Meta Robinson, and Leila Monaghan Part I: Ethnographer’s Toolkit 7 1 Body Ritual among the Nacirema 9Horace Miner 2 Culture Blends 12Michael Agar 3 Culture: Can You Take It Anywhere? 24Michael Agar 4 Five Principles 27Richard Bauman 5 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 29Clifford Geertz 6 Winking as Social Business 32Jane E. Goodman 7 Speaking of Ethnography 34Leila Monaghan 8 The Emergent Quality of Performance 38Richard Bauman 9 Poetics, Play, Process, and Power: The Performative Turn in Anthropology 41Dwight Conquergood Part II: Applying the Ethnographer’s Toolkit 45 10 Greetings in the Desert 47Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird 11 Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers 60Richard Bauman 12 “To Give Up on Words”: Silence in Western Apache Culture 73Keith Basso 13 Saying Hello in a Digital World: Emergent Performance and Social Competence 84Jennifer Meta Robinson 14 Writing Cousin Joe: Choice and Control Over Orthographic Representation in a Blues Singer’s Autobiography 93Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer 15 And Then She Texted Me: Entextualization and the End of Relationships 110Ilana Gershon 16 The License: Poetics, Power, and the Uncanny 120Susan Lepselter Part III: Ethnography of Talk: From Language Form to Social Solidarity 133 17 The Triangle of Linguistic Structure 135Robin Tolmach Lakoff 18 The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States 141James Wilce 19 Conversations: The Link between Words and the World 152Leila Monaghan 20 Conversational Signals and Devices 157Deborah Tannen 21 A Cultural Approach to Male–Female Miscommunication 168Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker 22 “Put Down that Paper and Talk to Me!”: Rapport-talk and Report-talk 186Deborah Tannen 23 Talking Text and Talking Back: “My BFF Jill” from Boob Tube to YouTube 199Graham M. Jones and Bambi B. Schieffelin 24 On the Uses of Obscenity in Live Stand-Up Comedy 220Susan Seizer 25 Swearing as a Function of Gender in the Language of Midwestern American College Students 233Thomas E. Murray Part IV: Communication and Social Groups: The Work of Belonging 243 26 Ethnography of Communication 245Donal Carbaugh 27 Encounters 249Erving Goffman 28 Symbols of Category Membership 255Penelope Eckert 29 Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture 274Mary Bucholtz 30 Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls 298Rachel Simmons 31 Sporting Formulae in New Zealand English: Two Models of Male Solidarity 315Koenraad Kuiper 32 Inner-City Teens and Face-Work: Avoiding Violence and Maintaining Honor 324Robert Garot 33 From Websites to Wal-Mart: Youth, Identity Work, and the Queering of Boundary Publics in Small Town, USA 347Mary L. Gray 34 “If I’m Lyin, I’m Flyin”: The Game of Insult in Black Language 356Geneva Smitherman Part V: Interpersonal Communication in Institutional Settings: Structure, Agency, and the Exercise of Power 365 35 Power and the Language of Men 367Scott Fabius Kiesling 36 Linguistic Ideology and Praxis in US Law School Classrooms 385Elizabeth Mertz 37 Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom 395Susan U. Philips 38 Footing 412Erving Goffman 39 “An Association for the 21st Century”: Performance and Social Change among Berbers in Paris 416Jane E. Goodman 40 Signing 429Leila Monaghan 41 Variation in Sign Languages 433Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan 42 The Founding of Two Deaf Churches: The Interplay of Deaf and Christian Identities 438Leila Monaghan Appendix I: Read This First: How to Read and Present on Complex Texts 455 Appendix II: Ethnography Assignments 462 Source Acknowledgments 468 Index 473

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers a comprehensive view of contemporary theoretical and applied research issues written by the top international scholars and practitioners in the field.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 Part I Perspectives on Communication and Global Health 7 1 Theoretical Divides and Convergence in Global Health Communication 9Silvio Waisbord and Rafael Obregon 2 New Perspectives on Global Health Communication: Affirming Spaces for Rights, Equity, and Voices 34Collins O. Airhihenbuwa and Mohan J. Dutta 3 Rethinking Health Communication in Aid and Development 52Elizabeth Fox 4 Toward a Global Theory of Health Behavior and Social Change 70Douglas Storey and Maria Elena Figueroa Part II Theoretical Perspectives on and Approaches to Health Communication in a Global Context 95 5 The Impact of Health Communication Programs 97Jane T. Bertrand, Stella Babalola, and Joanna Skinner 6 Promoting Health through Entertainment-Education Media: Theory and Practice 121William J. Brown 7 Interpersonal Health Communication: An Ecological Perspective 144Rukhsana Ahmed 8 Community Health and Social Mobilization 177Catherine Campbell and Kerry Scott 9 Health, News, and Media Information 194Jesus Arroyave 10 Using Complexity-Informed Communication Strategies to Address Complex Health Issues: The Case of Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua 215Virginia Lacayo 11 Community Media, Health Communication, and Engagement: A Theoretical Matrix 233Linje Manyozo 12 Global E-health Communication 251L. Suzanne Suggs and Scott C. Ratzan 13 Managing Fear to Promote Healthy Change 274Merissa Ferrara, Anthony J. Roberto, and Kim Witte 14 Innovations in the Evaluation of Social Change Communication for HIV and AIDS 288Ailish Byrne and Robin Vincent Part III Case Studies of Applied Theory and Innovation 309 15 Mobile Phones: Opening New Channels for Health Communication 311Katherine de Tolly and Peter Benjamin 16 Social Marketing and Condom Promotion in Madagascar: A Case Study in Brand Equity Research 330W. Douglas Evans, Kim Longfield, Navendu Shekhar, Andry Rabemanatsoa, Ietje Reerink, and Jeremy Snider 17 Participatory Health Communication Research: Four Tools to Complement the Interview 348Karen Greiner 18 Egypt’s Mabrouk! Initiative: A Communication Strategy for Maternal/Child Health and Family Planning Integration 374Ron Hess, Dominique Meekers, and J. Douglas Storey 19 Risk Communication and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Implications for Theory–Praxis from Avian Influenza Control 408Ketan Chitnis 20 Journalism and HIV: Lessons from the Frontline of Behavior Change Communication in Mozambique 426Gregory Alonso Pirio 21 jovenHABLAjoven: Lessons Learned about Interpellation, Peer Communication, and Second-Generation Edutainment in Sexuality and Gender Projects among Young People 444Jair Vega Casanova and Carmen R. Mendivil Calderón 22 Changing Gender Norms for HIV and Violence Risk Reduction: A Comparison of Male-Focused Programs in Brazil and India 469Julie Pulerwitz, Gary Barker, and Ravi Verma 23 Women’s Health and Healing in the Peruvian Amazon: Minga Perú’s Participatory Communication Approach 488Ami Sengupta and Eliana Elias 24 Positive Deviance, Good for Global Health 507Arvind Singhal and Lucía Durá 25 Health Promotion from the Grassroots: Piloting a Radio Soap Opera for Latinos in the United States 522María Beatriz Torres 26 “Children can’t wait”: Social Mobilization to Secure Children’s Rights to Social Security 539Shereen Usdin and Nicola Christofides Part IV Crosscutting Issues 557 27 Capacity Building (and Strengthening) in Health Communication: The Missing Link 559Rafael Obregon and Silvio Waisbord 28 Institutionalizing Communication in International Health: The USAID–Johns Hopkins University Partnership 582Jose Rimon II and Suruchi Sood 29 Communication and Public Health in a Glocalized Context: Achievements and Challenges 608Thomas Tufte Part V Conclusions: Rethinking the Field 623 30 Toward Social Justice in Directed Social Change: Rethinking the Role of Development Support Communication 625Srinivas R. Melkote 31 Conclusions: Why Communication Matters in Global Health 642Silvio Waisbord and Rafael Obregon Index 652

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Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the growing practice of participatory democracy and uses comparative analysis of cases in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy to show how policy makers, practitioners, students and academics can communicate more effectively.Trade Review"Advancing the communicative planning debate, Bartels examines neighbourhood case studies in Glasgow, Amsterdam and Bologna to show how diverse habits and presumptions in public encounters shape powerful practices of dialogue, debate and deliberation." John Forester, Cornell University“This book, which is both conceptually rich and practically useful, should be obligatory reading for citizens, public officials and policy analysts for years to come.” Hendrik Wagenaar, The University of Sheffield.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Communicating in participatory practice; Public encounters in participatory democracy: toward communicative capacity; Studying narratives of participatory practice; Communicative patterns: what happens when public professionals and citizens meet; Work in progress: engaging with the situation; Struggling: discussing the substantive issues at hand; Making connections: building and maintaining relationships; Conclusion: communicative capacity in participatory theory and practice; Recommendations: communicative capacity in practice and policy.

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Book SynopsisThe creative citizen unbound explores the potential of civically-minded creative individuals in the era of social media and in the context of an expanding creative economy. Contributors examine creative citizenship's contribution to civic life and to social capital and its economic and cultural definitions of value.Trade Review"Packed with evidence, this readable book shows that while dismay grows around issues such as online surveillance, creative citizens can still connect digital media and community engagement to fantastic effect." David Gauntlett, University of Westminster and author of Making is Connecting"Offers a practical course of action for collaborative research with communities." LSE Review of Books"This fantastically diverse, rich and colourful book provides critical reflection on the notion of the `creative economy’ whilst tracking emergent forms of citizenship associated with new social media. " Nick Gallent, University College London"An ambitious rethink of core concepts of communication and media studies and a close analysis of how digital networks and sharing cultures can add value and generate social and industrial benefit in a creative economy" Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"An outstanding illustration of how researchers and citizens can produce knowledge together for and of this emerging field of creative citizenship." Engin Isin, The Open University"A timely and exciting contribution at the intersections of media, cities, and subversity creativity. Insights on alternative civic cuture in the UK and on the opportunities and challenges collaborative work presents for conceptualising and practicing citizenship in the 21st century." Myria Georgiou, LSETable of ContentsAre You a Creative Citizen? ~ Ian Hargreaves; A problem of knowledge – solved? ~ John Hartley; Citizenship and the Creative Economy ~ Caroline Chapain and Ian Hargreaves; Citizenship, Value and Digital Culture ~ Jon Dovey, Giota Alevizou and Andy Williams; Varieties of creative citizenship ~ Theodore Zamenopoulos, Katerina Alexiou, Giota Alevizou, Caroline Chapain, Shawn Sobers, Andy Williams; From networks to complexity: two case studies ~ David Harte, Jon Dovey, Emma Agusita, Theodore Zamenopoulos; Conversations about co-production ~ Catherine Greene, Shawn Sobers, Theo Zamenopoulos, Caroline Chapain and Jerome Turner, with contributions from Ingrid Abreu Sherer, Vince Baidoo, Ian Mellett, Annette Naudin and James Skinner; Asset mapping and civic creativity ~ Katerina Alexiou, Emma Agusita, Giota Alevizou, Caroline Chapain, Catherine Greene, Dave Harte, Gail Ramster and Theodore Zamenopoulos; Civic cultures and modalities of place-making ~ Giota Alevizou, Katerina Alexiou, Dave Harte, Shawn Sobers, Theodore Zamenopoulos and Jerome Turner; Technology and the creative citizen ~ Jerome Turner, Dan Lockton and Jon Dovey; Reflecting and Unbinding: implications for policy ~ Ian Hargreaves and John Hartley; Annex: The Creative Citizens Debate.

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Book SynopsisTaking a life course and generational perspective, this collection examines topics such as work-life balance, transnational families, digital storytelling and mobile parenting. It offers tools that allow for an informed and critical understanding of ICTs and family dynamics.Trade Review“Connecting Families.... offers a vital and timely contribution to the multivalent links of ICTs with families. That its backbone is life course gives an additional bonus of insight and perspective.” Susan A. McDaniel, Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, President of the ISA Family Research Committee, University of Lethbridge, Canada“Well-written, thorough and up to date, this is an essential book for both graduate and post-graduate students and all professionals who wish to improve their knowledge on ICT and family relationships today.” Fausto Amaro, University of LisbonTable of ContentsForeword: The family has become a network ~ Barry Wellman Connecting families? An introduction ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia Casimiro Part I: Theoretical and methodological approaches Theoretical perspectives on technology and society: implications for understanding the relationship between ICTs and family life ~ Natasha Mauthner and Karolina Kazimierczak Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor-network theory and strong-structuration theory ~ Geoffrey Mead and Barbara Barbosa Neves Weaving family connections on- and offline: the turn to networked individualism ~ Anabel Quan-Haase, Hua Wang, Barry Wellman, and Renwen Zhang Oversharing in the time of selfies: an aesthetics of disappearance? ~ Amanda du Preez The application of digital methods in a life course approach to family studies ~ Alexia Maddox Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family, and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life ~ Barbara Barbosa Neves, Ron Baecker, Diana Carvalho, and Alexandra Sanders From object to instrument: technologies as tools for family relations and family research ~ Cláudia Casimiro and Magda Nico Part II: Empirical approaches Use of communication technology to maintain intergenerational contact: toward an understanding of `digital solidarity’ ~ Siyun Peng, Merril Silverstein, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Woosang Hwang, Sangbo Nam, and Brianna Routh Careful families and care as `kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia ~ Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth Floating narratives: transnational families and digital storytelling ~ Catalina Arango Patiño Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents ~ Sondra Cuban `Wherever you go, wherever you are, I am with you … connected with my mobile’: the use of mobile text messages for the maintenance of family and romantic relations ~ Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller Permeability of work-family borders: effects of information and communication technologies on work-family conflict at the childcare stage in Japan ~ Yuka Sakamoto Afterword: Digital connections and family practices ~ Elizabeth B. Silva

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Book SynopsisIn this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Dustin Tahmahkera examines the way Native people have been represented in the genre. Analyzing dozens of television comedies from the United States and Canada, Tahmahkera questions assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist.

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Book SynopsisThis new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. With a new foreword and five new essays, this book takes stock of the transformations in radio documentary since the publication of the first edition.Trade ReviewHow could something so good get better? Well, John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth have managed to do just that. Reality Radio will remain required reading for all my students--especially given the addition of essays from some of my radio heroes like Alix Spiegel, David Isay, and Sarah Koenig.- Rob Rosenthal, independent radio producer and lead instructor at the Transom Story Workshop;""Somehow in this manic digital age, Reality Radio-a mere book!-is more relevant than ever. Form and function manifest, here is the story of contemporary documentary audio, thoughtfully composed and offered straight from its most respected producers. Reality Radio is required reading for anyone at the beginning of her audio career. Or in the middle. Or finishing up. And for all invested listeners. This is radio canon.""- Julie Shapiro, executive producer, Radiotopia from PRX

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Book SynopsisThe words of business leaders matter. They can spark action, enhance branding, share knowledge, transmit values, and influence social and cultural behavior. Decoding CEO-Speak critiques the public language of a powerful class of people the Chief Executive Officers of major companies. Interest in the behavior and thinking of CEOs is not confined to their corporation’s direct stakeholders only: the public is increasingly interested in how CEOs stand on current issues and community debate. Through case study analysis of companies such as News Corporation, BP, Wells Fargo, Satyam, Uber, Canadian National Railway, Tesla, and Boeing, authors Russell Craig and Joel Amernic illustrate ways of mining meaning or decoding a CEO’s written words and speeches. They critically examine a variety of public media, including social media, testimony, and speeches, performed by leaders of major companies. Decoding CEO-Speak demonstrates how monitoTrade Review"The language used by corporate bosses is a rich genre that informs – or misleads – entire societies. In their book, Decoding CEO-Speak, accounting professors Russell Craig and Joel Amernic have dived deep into the hyperbole and distortions routinely uttered by chief executive officers." -- Jane Gadd * Director Journal *Table of ContentsList of Exhibits Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Tone at the Top 3. Ethicality 4. Reputation 5. Deception 6. Safety Culture 7. Twitter 8. Tweets as Propaganda 9. Accounting-speak 10. Autobiographical Vignettes 11. Narcissism and Hubris 12. Monitoring CEO-speak Epilogue: Pandemic

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after another. It characterizes Donald Trump's willful disregard for political correctness (and proofreading) and inspires multinational corporations to stake activist claims in ways that few "woke" brands ever dared before. It buttresses a multibillion-dollar influencer industry of everyday folks shilling their friends with #spon-con and burnishes the street cred of rock stars and rappers alike. But, ironically, authenticity's not actually real: it's as fabricated as it is ubiquitous. In The Authenticity Industries, journalist and scholar Michael Serazio combines eye-opening reporting and lively prose to take readers behind the scenes with those who make "reality"—and the ways it tries to influence us. Drawing upon dozens of rare interviews with campaign consultants, advertising executives, tech company leadership, and entertainment industry gatekeepers, the book slyly investigates the professionals and practices that make people, products, and platforms seem "authentic" in today's media, culture, and politics. The result is a spotlight on the power of authenticity in today's media-saturated world and the strategies to satisfy this widespread yearning. In theory, authenticity might represent the central moral framework of our time: allaying anxieties about self and society, culture and commerce, and technology and humanity. It infects and informs our ideals of celebrity, aesthetics, privacy, nostalgia, and populism. And Serazio reveals how these pretenses are crafted, backstage, for audiences, consumers, and voters.Trade Review"This book offers a compelling, important inside view of how professional image-makers perceive and attempt to manufacture authenticity. An ambitious survey of the rising currency of 'authenticity' in contemporary life."—Laurie Ouellette, author of Lifestyle TV"This book is crisp and often playful, yet theoretically and historically robust. The interviews with the people who work to produce authenticity make this a truly unique and compelling book—a must-read for those in the media and cultural industries."—Sarah Banet-Weiser, coauthor of Believability"An incredibly engaging, deeply researched book that details just how our taken-for-granted mediated realities are strategized, constructed, and managed—and provides necessary solid ground for understanding how perceptions of authenticity shape 21st-century American life."—Emily Hund, author of The Influencer Industry"Serazio adds a crucial industrial perspective to the growing literature on authenticity in contemporary culture. He pulls back the curtain on fascinating, tension-filled considerations that drive industry practitioners to craft and parade various versions of authenticity in the media."—Joseph Turow, author of The Voice Catchers"Written with Serazio's trademark eloquence and drawing on insights from politics to pop music, and from industrialists to influencers, this timely and incisive book reveals why the ideal of authenticity animates so many spheres of social and civic life."—Brooke Erin Duffy, author of (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love"A fascinating, commended academic exploration of the ways in which products and experiences are marketed to consumers."—Library Journal"The internet now feels like a place whose sole purpose is selling you something. And it's not going to change—in fact, it's going to get much, much worse... [Serazio] explores the commodification of identity, why 'selling out' has no meaning anymore, and why amateurs—that is to say, regular people on social media—make the most effective salespeople."—Rebecca Jennings, VoxTable of ContentsIntroduction: Our Enduring Quest for Authenticity 1. Casting Reality Television: Stages of Self-Disclosure 2. Social Media Designs: The Amateur Ideal 3. Pop Music's Sponsorship Play: The Art of Selling Out 4. The Commercial Brand Sell: Humanizing the Corporate 5. The Rise of Influencers: Corporatizing the Human 6. Performative Politics: Unscripting the Identity Show 7. Populist Politics: Technologies of Informality Conclusion: The Business of Keeping it 'Real'

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Book SynopsisWith the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'. In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them. The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2017 "Lupton's book is an excellent primer for readers interested in data surveillance, self-tracking cultures, and the increasing push to metricize aspects of personal experience that were previously not considered in statistical terms. Lupton's insight that no one alive today is exempt from becoming subjectedto digatization lends her project great immediate urgenc."The British Society for Literature and Science"The Quantified Self offers an excellent overview of the breadth and depth of issues related to self-tracking cultures. It is not only a useful resource for scholars and practitioners focusing on the value of quantified data with regard to health and bodily practices, but also an invitation to use self-tracking research in new kinds of political initiatives. Ultimately self-tracking is defined as a means of communicating and challenging dominant interests and aims." Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki "Lupton's book is a fascinating read and I highly recommend it to researchers and practitioners who wish to gain a comprehensive account of self-tracking practices. Along with the commonly discussed topics of motivation and data representations, Lupton sheds light onto less explored topics, such as data-surveillance, while offering various theoretical foundations to support her arguments. Her writing is both visionary and provocative, and the book is a must read for researchers and practitioners of the Quantified Self movement." Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Director, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University "Impressive and comprehensive overview of the way in which people are tracking their lives using digital technologies" Times Higher Education "The Quantified Self is a careful, evenhanded survey of a trend that is on the cusp of seeming so ubiquitous that we'll soon forget how utterly specific the problems associated with this aspect of our sci-fi future are to the wealthy countries." Inside Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 ‘Know Thyself’: Self-tracking Practices and Technologies2 ‘New Hybrid Beings’: Theoretical Perspectives3 ‘An Optimal Human Being’: the Body and Self in Self-Tracking Cultures4 ‘You are Your Data’: Personal Data Meanings, Practices and Materialisations5 ‘Data’s Capacity for Betrayal’: Personal Data PoliticsConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Internet has united the world as never before. But is it in danger of breaking apart? Cybersecurity, geopolitical tensions, and calls for data sovereignty have made many believe that the Internet is fragmenting.In this incisive new book, Milton Mueller argues that the “fragmentation” diagnosis misses the mark. The rhetoric of “fragmentation” camouflages the real issue: the attempt by governments to align information flows with their jurisdictional boundaries. The fragmentation debate is really a power struggle over the future of national sovereignty. It pits global governance and open access against the traditional territorial institutions of government. This conflict, the book argues, can only be resolved through radical institutional innovations. Will the Internet Fragment? is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communications, international relations, political science and STS, as well as anyone concerned about the quality of Internet governance.Trade Review“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School “There have been political and economic interests to 'Balkanize' the Internet as we know it for a quarter of a century. Mueller's razor-sharp arguments help us to understand the dimension of the challenge.”Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of AarhusTable of Contents1. Coming Undone? 2. A Taxonomy of ‘Fragmentation’ 3. The Illusion of Technical Fragmentation 4. Alignment: Cyberspace Meets Sovereignty 5. Confronting Alignment 6. Popular Sovereignty in Cyberspace Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Internet has united the world as never before. But is it in danger of breaking apart? Cybersecurity, geopolitical tensions, and calls for data sovereignty have made many believe that the Internet is fragmenting.In this incisive new book, Milton Mueller argues that the “fragmentation” diagnosis misses the mark. The rhetoric of “fragmentation” camouflages the real issue: the attempt by governments to align information flows with their jurisdictional boundaries. The fragmentation debate is really a power struggle over the future of national sovereignty. It pits global governance and open access against the traditional territorial institutions of government. This conflict, the book argues, can only be resolved through radical institutional innovations. Will the Internet Fragment? is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communications, international relations, political science and STS, as well as anyone concerned about the quality of Internet governance.Trade Review“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School “There have been political and economic interests to 'Balkanize' the Internet as we know it for a quarter of a century. Mueller's razor-sharp arguments help us to understand the dimension of the challenge.”Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of AarhusTable of Contents1. Coming Undone? 2. A Taxonomy of �Fragmentation� 3. The Illusion of Technical Fragmentation 4. Alignment: Cyberspace Meets Sovereignty 5. Confronting Alignment 6. Popular Sovereignty in Cyberspace Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFew trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are a global business with hundreds of programmes adapted across the world at any one time, from mundane game shows to blockbuster talent competitions, from factual entertainment to high-end drama. Based on exclusive industry access, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the complex world of the TV format from its origins to the present day. Chalaby delivers a comprehensive account of the TV format trading system and conceptualizes the global value chain that underpins it, unpicking the corporate strategies and power relations within. Using interviews with format creators, he uncovers the secrets behind the world’s most travelled formats, exploring their narrative structure and cultural meanings.Trade Review"The Format Age is the most exhaustive analysis yet undertaken of a modern TV phenomenon. It explores both the economy and the culture of a global entertainment business which delivers local value. And it explains why and how it came about."Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England"With his customary élan, Jean Chalaby has done a great service to our understanding of the international flow of culture. The Format Age is a judicious theoretical and empirical intervention. Bravo!"Toby Miller, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsTables and FiguresIntroduction Part One: Birth of a New TradeChapter 1 TV Formats as an Anglo-American Invention Chapter 2 The Making of an Entertainment RevolutionChapter 3 The Advent of The Super-FormatsPart Two: Production and Globalization Chapter 4 The Formation of the Global Format Trading SystemChapter 5 Nations and Competition: Upgrading Strategies in the TV Format Commodity ChainChapter 6 A Globalized Intellectual Property Market: The International Production ModelPart Three: TV Formats: Structuring NarrativesChapter 7 Journeys and Transformations: Unscripted Formats in the 21st CenturyChapter 8 Talent Competitions: Myths and Heroes for the Modern Age Chapter 9 Drama without Drama: The Late Rise of Scripted FormatsConclusion: Trade, Culture and TelevisionNotesPersonal Communications and Interviews by the AuthorReferences

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Book SynopsisInformation overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying attention� and �investing one�s attention� attest to our mistaken belief that attention can be conceptualized in narrow economic terms. We are constantly drawn towards attempts to quantify and commodify attention, even down to counting the number of 'likes' a picture receives on Facebook or a video on YouTube. By contrast, Citton argues that we should conceptualize attention as a kind of ecology and examine how the many different environments to which we are exposed – from advertising to literature, search engines to performance art – condition our attention in different ways. In a world where the demands on our attention are ever-increasing, this timely and original book will be of great interest to students and scholars in media and communications and in literary and cultural studies, and to anyone concerned about the long-term consequences of the profusion of images as well as digital content in the age of the internet. Trade Review"Within the growing field of attention studies, Yves Citton�s new book is a superb and indispensable intervention. He provides a devastating analysis of the neoliberal attention economy and opens up crucial pathways for resisting its imperatives." Jonathan Crary, Columbia University "Citton offers a valuable critique and alternative to talk about an �economy of attention�. He shows how attention produces the individual who is usually presupposed as �paying� it, and he shows how the creation of attentiveness may not really be an economy at all. He starts by debunking the unthought assumptions of a whole field, and moves on to a media and social theory of breadth and subtlety." McKenzie Wark, author of Telesthesia

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Book SynopsisThis inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way that is accessible to non-experts, as well as providing a clear, authoritative context for academic study. The Closing of the Net explains: Why apps are never 'free', and how data profiling got into politics How the entertainment industries went head-to-head with Internet companies over online copyright Why we got the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and why Europe has stronger privacy laws than the US How post-Snowden surveillance politics is embedded in data retention law Why net neutrality matters How cloud service Megaupload was brought down Monica Horten's compelling account of these issues concludes with an outline of the risks we face in the future if monitoring and blocking of the Internet becomes the norm. And the results are chilling. This book is a must-read for all followers of cyber-policy, and is suitable for courses addressing digital media and society, communications policy, Internet and copyright law.Trade Review"Today's communications fabric relies on a layered connective space (the Internet). The corporate power that underwrites that space generates an unprecedented power problem for democracy. Monica Horten's sharply written book confronts that problem head-on, with striking case studies. Who really benefits from the "fingertap of desire" that drives our device use? Read this illuminating book to find out." Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science "Monica Horten writes about human beings' greatest invention – the Internet – and the emerging political and social trends that may cloud its future. Few thinkers could paint such a compelling, unified picture of the political forces across net neutrality, privacy, and mass surveillance – it is politics, not technology, that will most determine the Internet that our children inherit." Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society "a book well worth reading ... both original and valuable" Times Higher Education "Future histories of information technology may record that the 'open' Internet proved but a transitory phase, and that those old enough to remember taking it for granted recall a golden era when views and ideas could be freely expressed online; for though we might still be able to express ourselves on tomorrow's Internet, 'The Closing of the Net' warns, it may not be for free." E&T"Considering the scope and breadth of the research and the clarity of the corresponding analysis, this book would be extremely helpful to those working in the fields of politics, law, media and technology as well as being a general interest text. It is an extremely relevant and timely addition to the growing body of cyber-related literature that I do not hesitate to recommend."LSE Book Review"Many books are insightful. The author has a vision, or an interpretation, or a prediction to make. These books all show insight, used by their writers to express a unique viewpoint. Rarer than all is a book which offers its readers insight; where the author does not simply demonstrate their own understanding, but allows the reader to gain new understanding of their own. Chapter by chapter, The Closing of the Netpaints an intricate picture of the politics and law of data privacy in Europe and beyond. Monica Horten’s understanding of internet politics is succinct and incisive, making this just such a book."It Security "Meticulously well-researched and thoughtfully written, the book takes the pulse of the open web. ... a must-read for any lawyer studying the legislation that internet politics produces." Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice "This book leads the reader to understand the intricate net of lobbying underpinning core Internet policy issues such as government surveillance, net neutrality, online piracy or the TTIP agreement." Journal of Cyber Policy (2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 Power and the Internet 2 Private Lives, Public Policy 3 The PRISM Agenda 4 Surveillance Liabilities 5 Not Neutrality Under Pressure 6 Filtering Policy 7 The Cooperation Agenda 8 Blocking Judgements 9 A Dark Cloud 10 Closing Pressures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way that is accessible to non-experts, as well as providing a clear, authoritative context for academic study. The Closing of the Net explains: Why apps are never 'free', and how data profiling got into politics How the entertainment industries went head-to-head with Internet companies over online copyright Why we got the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and why Europe has stronger privacy laws than the US How post-Snowden surveillance politics is embedded in data retention law Why net neutrality matters How cloud service Megaupload was brought down Monica Horten's compelling account of these issues concludes with an outline of the risks we face in the future if monitoring and blocking of the Internet becomes the norm. And the results are chilling. This book is a must-read for all followers of cyber-policy, and is suitable for courses addressing digital media and society, communications policy, Internet and copyright law.Trade Review"Today's communications fabric relies on a layered connective space (the Internet). The corporate power that underwrites that space generates an unprecedented power problem for democracy. Monica Horten's sharply written book confronts that problem head-on, with striking case studies. Who really benefits from the "fingertap of desire" that drives our device use? Read this illuminating book to find out." Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science "Monica Horten writes about human beings' greatest invention – the Internet – and the emerging political and social trends that may cloud its future. Few thinkers could paint such a compelling, unified picture of the political forces across net neutrality, privacy, and mass surveillance – it is politics, not technology, that will most determine the Internet that our children inherit." Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society "a book well worth reading ... both original and valuable" Times Higher Education "Future histories of information technology may record that the 'open' Internet proved but a transitory phase, and that those old enough to remember taking it for granted recall a golden era when views and ideas could be freely expressed online; for though we might still be able to express ourselves on tomorrow's Internet, 'The Closing of the Net' warns, it may not be for free." E&T "Considering the scope and breadth of the research and the clarity of the corresponding analysis, this book would be extremely helpful to those working in the fields of politics, law, media and technology as well as being a general interest text. It is an extremely relevant and timely addition to the growing body of cyber-related literature that I do not hesitate to recommend." LSE Book Review "Many books are insightful. The author has a vision, or an interpretation, or a prediction to make. These books all show insight, used by their writers to express a unique viewpoint. Rarer than all is a book which offers its readers insight; where the author does not simply demonstrate their own understanding, but allows the reader to gain new understanding of their own. Chapter by chapter, The Closing of the Netpaints an intricate picture of the politics and law of data privacy in Europe and beyond. Monica Horten�s understanding of internet politics is succinct and incisive, making this just such a book." It Security "Meticulously well-researched and thoughtfully written, the book takes the pulse of the open web. ... a must-read for any lawyer studying the legislation that internet politics produces." Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice "This book leads the reader to understand the intricate net of lobbying underpinning core Internet policy issues such as government surveillance, net neutrality, online piracy or the TTIP agreement." Journal of Cyber Policy (2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 Power and the Internet 2 Private Lives, Public Policy 3 The PRISM Agenda 4 Surveillance Liabilities 5 Not Neutrality Under Pressure 6 Filtering Policy 7 The Cooperation Agenda 8 Blocking Judgements 9 A Dark Cloud 10 Closing Pressures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisToday's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global networks – digital libraries, file–sharing, live–streaming, free software, free–access publishing, the free–sharing of scientific knowledge, and open-source pharmaceuticals – not only challenges the dominance of a scarcity–based economic system, but also enables a more efficient, innovative, just and free culture. In a series of seven explorations of contemporary sharing, Matthew David shows that in each case sharing surpasses markets, private ownership and intellectual property rights in fostering motivation, creativity, innovation, production, distribution and reward. In transforming the idea of an information economy into an information society, sharing connects struggles against inequality and poverty in developed and developing countries. Challenging taken-for-granted justifications of the status quo, Sharing debunks the 'tragedy of the commons' and makes the case for digital network sharing as a viable mode of economic counterpower, prefiguring a post–capitalist society.Trade Review"Through a remarkably broad cross-industry synthesis, Matthew David demonstrates how information industries could benefit by adjusting market mechanisms to support the vitality of sharing-based economies. Anyone with a serious interest in intellectual property policy and practice should read this provocative case for building business models around sharing." William H. Dutton, Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy, Michigan State University "Matthew David has written a thought-provoking book that challenges the view that property rights are the only solution to the 'tragedy of the commons'. He brings a much needed analytical perspective to the study of the sharing economy and suggests that capitalist societies might just not be the end of history. A fascinating read."Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology, University of OxfordTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Libraries and the Digital World 3. Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Online 4. Live-streaming and Television Rights Management 5. Open Source Software and Proprietary Software 6. Publishing: Academic, Journalistic and Trade 7. Genes, Genetically Modified Organisms, Patents and Agribusiness 8. Pharmaceutical Patents and Generic Drugs 9. Conclusions Ð Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism References

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Book SynopsisFrom mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces. While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization, gaming, at its most subversive, can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created and endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones, videogames, computers and other forms of technological entertainment. Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers, this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality.Trade Review“The universe of video games and the action they involve us in render perfectly the illusions and antagonisms of our ideological predicament - the popularity of post-apocalyptic games tells it all. But perhaps even more important is the type of subjectivity a gamer has to adopt when immersed into a game: a mixture of extreme engagement and loss of reality, a universe of immortality where actions are indefinitely repeatable. So it is not that we can understand the impact of these games only through the analysis of our social reality - it's also the other way round: to understand how our societies work you have to know video games And Alfie Bown does this at such a high level that he produces an instant classic, a book that everyone who seeks to find a way in our confused social life will have to read. The Playstation Dreamworld is unputdownable, once you start reading it you will get addicted to it... as in a good video game!” Slavoj Žižek “If you ever asked yourself what Freud and Lacan would think if they had a chance to play video games, Alfie Bown gives you the answer. As a passionate gamer and a playful philosopher, he succeeds in showing not only why video-games matter but why they might carry subversive potential. This exciting psychoanalysis of video games shows why Pokémon GO and other games were only the beginning of a brave new world."Srećko Horvat From mobile phones to consoles to tablet, we are now a generation of gamers. This book dissects the structure of our relationships to all forms of technological entertainment at a time when digital enjoyment has become ubiquitous.Alfie Bown is Assistant Professor of Literature at HSMC, Hong Kong and co-editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books."A significant contribution to the debate around virtual reality" TLSTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Games Tutorial: The Pokémon Generation Level 1. From Farming Simulation to Dystopic Wasteland: Gaming and Capitalism Work and Play - Cultures of Distraction - Pastoral Dystopia, Apocalyptic Utopia – No Alternative Level 2. Dreamwork: Cyborgs on the Analyst’s Couch Japanese Dreams, American Texts – The Dreamworld - Repetitions and the Dromena – Immersion and Westworld Level 3. Retro Gaming: The Politics of Former and Future Pleasures 90s Rational Gaming – Virtual/Reality - Subject, Object, Enjoyment - Jouissance in the Arcades Bonus Features: How to be a Subversive Gamer Game Index Endnotes

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Book SynopsisCommunication studies is a fragmented field. As a result of its roots in various disciplinary traditions, it is built on fluid intellectual boundaries with no theoretical or analytical center. Should we worry about this state of dispersion or be concerned that the discipline does not meet the basic conditions that define an academic field of inquiry? Silvio Waisbord argues that communication studies is a post-discipline and that it is impossible to transcend fragmentation and specialization through a single project of intellectual unity. What brings communication studies together is an institutional architecture of academic units, professional associations, and journals, rather than a shared commitment to a common body of knowledge, questions, and debates. This should not, Waisbord argues, be a matter of concern. Communication studies is better served by recognizing dispersion, embracing pluralism, fostering cross-cutting lines of inquiry, and tackling real-world problems, rather than hoping to meet conditions which would qualify it as a discipline. Communication: A Post-Discipline is important reading for scholars and advanced students of communication studies, as well as anyone interested in the state of this fascinating and vital academic field.Trade Review“Silvio Waisbord’s journey across communication yields insights that are both contemplative, generative and bold. Making an impassioned call for recognition of the field’s post-disciplinary status, Communication: A Post-Discipline should end up in the collections of all those who care about the discipline of communication moving forward.”Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania “This magnificent book traces the history and continuing transformation of the communication field and suggests ways to find perspective in a post-discipline era. This is a must-read for all communication scholars.”Lance Bennett, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Fragmentation and Hyper-Specialization Chapter 2: The Patchwork of Communication Studies Chapter 3: The “Digital Communication” Turn Chapter 4: What has Globalization Wrought? Chapter 5: A Post-Discipline References Index

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Book SynopsisCommunication studies is a fragmented field. As a result of its roots in various disciplinary traditions, it is built on fluid intellectual boundaries with no theoretical or analytical center. Should we worry about this state of dispersion or be concerned that the discipline does not meet the basic conditions that define an academic field of inquiry? Silvio Waisbord argues that communication studies is a post-discipline and that it is impossible to transcend fragmentation and specialization through a single project of intellectual unity. What brings communication studies together is an institutional architecture of academic units, professional associations, and journals, rather than a shared commitment to a common body of knowledge, questions, and debates. This should not, Waisbord argues, be a matter of concern. Communication studies is better served by recognizing dispersion, embracing pluralism, fostering cross-cutting lines of inquiry, and tackling real-world problems, rather than hoping to meet conditions which would qualify it as a discipline. Communication: A Post-Discipline is important reading for scholars and advanced students of communication studies, as well as anyone interested in the state of this fascinating and vital academic field.Trade Review“Silvio Waisbord’s journey across communication yields insights that are both contemplative, generative and bold. Making an impassioned call for recognition of the field’s post-disciplinary status, Communication: A Post-Discipline should end up in the collections of all those who care about the discipline of communication moving forward.”Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania “This magnificent book traces the history and continuing transformation of the communication field and suggests ways to find perspective in a post-discipline era. This is a must-read for all communication scholars.”Lance Bennett, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Fragmentation and Hyper-Specialization Chapter 2: The Patchwork of Communication Studies Chapter 3: The “Digital Communication” Turn Chapter 4: What has Globalization Wrought? Chapter 5: A Post-Discipline References Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary societies demand clear-minded, evidence-based ideas to address complex social issues. Communication scholarship has a rich trove of knowledge and experiences to help address such problems. In this passionately argued manifesto, Silvio Waisbord examines public scholarship in communication studies and its potential for contributing to the common good. He discusses the various ways scholars seek to serve the public as practitioners, experts, advocates, activists and critics, and underscores their significant contribution which has not, to date, been properly supported or recognized. Only by tackling academic institutional politics, he argues, will it be possible to strengthen public scholarship as central to the mission of communication studies. The Communication Manifesto is a roadmap to action and will inspire communication scholars and students to be public citizens, thereby connecting their work and expertise to the causes of solidarity, humanity and social justice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Public Scholarship 2 Purpose 3 Practice 4 Positions 5 Proposals References

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Book SynopsisThis is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is organized and amplified around common buzzwords. This method enables us to navigate more easily the huge volume of online utterances, but it also increases the risk of leveling statements and extinguishing difference, as exemplified by the #MeToo debate. Andreas Bernard traces the young and spectacular career of the humble hashtag. He follows the history of the # sign, documenting its use by Twitter and Instagram, and then examines the most prominent contemporary domains of the sign in socio-political activism and in marketing – two apparently very different fields which are united in their passion for the hashtag. Theory of the Hashtag shines a bright light on a small but pervasive feature of our contemporary digital culture and shows how it is surreptitiously shaping the public sphere. Trade Review“A lucid and lively history of this most polymorphous of punctuation marks. Andreas Bernard traces the hashtag's rise from technical utility to seeming ubiquity with wit and insight.”Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London"Slim but weighty"Morning Star Table of ContentsContents 1. A Sign of the Times 2. Hashtags and the Dispersion of Statements 3. The Biography of a Symbol 4. Where Was the Keyword Before the Hashtag? 5. Venues of the Hashtag I: Political Activism 6. Venues of the Hashtag II: Marketing 7. Empowering and Levelling Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAuthored by renowned communication and relationship scholar Steve Duck, Rethinking Relationships Through Rhetoric: Coordinating Interpersonal Approaches invites readers to reconsider their assumptions and understanding of relationships. The second edition of the text features a fresh emphasis on rhetoric and its insights into the ways in which individuals use discourse to promote vantage points and opinions or to make arguments or representations that are intended to influence others.The book posits that everyday communication is largely argumentative, propositional, sermonic, and intentionally influential in nature. Readers learn how even mundane communication subtly pitches the views of the speaker towards the listener and invites approval or objection. The text reconsiders the implications of seeing acquaintance as an ongoing, unfinished, and largely communicatively-based activity that is not captured in laboratory snapshots, and so challenges readers to better understand how relationships are formed through series of everyday interactions and active inquiry by listeners rather than "self-disclosure" by speakers. It also explores how cultural influence, the assessment of behaviors, and moral judgements affect everyday interactions and consequently, our relationships.Providing readers with a deep examination of the ways in which individuals practice their relationships and embody them in social spaces, Rethinking Relationships Through Rhetoric is an ideal textbook for advanced courses and graduate programs in interpersonal communication and interpersonal relationships.

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Book SynopsisCritical Questions in Persuasion Research presents students with a refreshing way to study persuasion, communication theory, and human behavior. Rather than examining different types of persuasion research and reviewing each one at a time, communication scholars Franklin J. Boster and Christopher J. Carpenter explore eight key controversies, as well as research and theory related to each topic: What constitutes a strong persuasive message, and does it matter? How do we adapt persuasive messages to diverse audiences? Do persuasive messages have side effects? How can we manage the buzz? How can we maintain attitude change? Can a persuasive message be counterproductive? How can we encourage resistance to persuasion? To what extent does action follow from attitudes? By focusing on how various disciplines deal with the big controversies in the persuasion process, students gain an understanding not only of key ideas and theories, but how the ideas and theories fit together in a meaningful whole. By framing persuasion as a series of critical questions, students learn that social science is a dynamic and exciting way in which to study persuasion.Critical Questions in Persuasion Research is an ideal textbook for courses with focus on persuasion, communication, and human behavior.Trade ReviewThe Boster and Carpenter approach is very unique in that they have chosen topics and organized them in such a way that it walks the reader through the natural progression of a persuasive attempt addressing important issues along the way ... The organization and integrative approach to presenting/teaching persuasion is fantastic and a vast improvement on other persuasion textbooks ... This text presents persuasion in an entirely refreshing and new way that I think will be very attractive to students." —Michael R. Kotowski, Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"The premise of the book is clever. I appreciate that the theory is clearly central to the book. What is novel is that the authors deliver theory in the context of a broader organizing framework that will make is easy for students to see connections. Rather than a laundry list of theories, students get a sense of the broader questions that theories address and how individual theories fit together in a broader framework. This is a clear strength and distinguishing feature of this text ... This text has very good potential to help students have a more meaningful and informative experience in a persuasion course." —Stephen Rains, Professor of Communication, University of Arizona"In addition to the organization around central questions, a strength of the chapters is their adherence to actual studies and the treatment of central questions as open, rather than closed debates. This is a good textbook for faculty interest in connecting theoretical conclusions more closely to the evidence. In addition, the authors have well contextualized the communicative study of persuasion in other (non-communication) perspectives." —Ryan Goei, Direct of University Honors, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Book SynopsisOn contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman formsContemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Machine communication—to communicate not just via but also with machines—is therefore the focus of this volume. Diving into digital communications history, Finn Brunton brings to the fore the alienness of computational communication by looking at network timekeeping, automated trolling, and early attempts at communication with extraterrestrial life. Picking up this fascination with inhuman communication, Mercedes Bunz then performs a close reading of interaction design and interfaces to show how technology addresses humans (as very young children). Finally, Paula Bialski shares her findings from a field study of software development, analyzing the communicative forms that occur when code is written by separate people. Today, communication unfolds merely between two or more conscious entities but often includes an invisible third party. Inspired by this drastic shift, this volume uncovers new meanings of what it means “to communicate.”

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Book SynopsisDigital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures. Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology studies and media studies to the arts.Table of Contents1. Arrival 2. Vanishing Points 3. In-between 4. Beyond 5. Beneath 6. Opacity 7. Order Variability Openings

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