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Book SynopsisThis revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in communication studies.How can we study communication? What are the main theories and methods of approach?This classic text provides a lucid, accessible introduction to the main authorities in the field of communication studies, aimed at students coming to the subject for the first time. It outlines a range of methods of analysing examples of communication, and describes the theories underpinning them. Thus armed, the reader will be able to tease out the latent cultural meanings in such apparently simple communications as news photos or popular TV programmes, and tTrade Review"Shows a welcome ability to provide lucid and balanced summaries of a complex and diverse field."British Book NewsTable of Contents@contents: Selected Contents: List of plates Acknowledgements Why Fiske Still Matters Henry Jenkins Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson Notes on Contributors General Editor’s Preface Author’s note INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? Chapter 1 COMMUNICATION THEORY Chapter 2 OTHER MODELS Chapter 3 COMMUNICATION, MEANING, AND SIGNS Chapter 4 CODES Chapter 5 SIGNIFICATION Chapter 6 SEMIOTIC METHODS AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 7 STRUCTURALIST THEORY AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 8 EMPIRICAL METHODS Chapter 9 IDEOLOGY AND MEANINGS CONCLUSION References Bibliography Further reading Books recommended for additional reading Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an indispensable cutting edge book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism have attracted scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, too often this analysis has reduced the work of journalists to text-characteristics alone. In contrast, this collection is united by the principle that journalistic discourse is always socially situated and the result of a series of processes â produced by journalists in accordance with particular production techniques and in specific institutional settings â and as such, analysis requires more than the methods offered by linguists.The contributors to this book draw on a range of the most prominent theoretical and methodological approaches to media discourse â including Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse AnalysTable of Contents1. Language and Journalism: An expanding research agenda John E. Richardson 2. Media(ted) Discourse and Society: Rethinking the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis Anabela Carvalho 3. "Upscale" News Audiences and the Transformation of Labour News Christopher R. Martin 4. Language Development, Knowledge and Use Among Journalists of European Minority Language Media Inaki Zabaleta, Nicolas Xamardo, Arantza Gutierrez, Santi Urrutia, and Itxaso Fernandez 5. "Objectivity" and "Hard News" Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism Elizabeth A. Thomson, Peter R. R. White, and Philip Kitley 6. Unnamed Sources as Rhetorical Constructs in News Agency Reports Maija Stenvall 7. Branding Newspapers: Visual texts as social practice David Machin and Sarah Niblock 8. The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview: A typology Martin Montgomery 9. The BBC’s Discursive Strategy and Practices vis-a-vis the Palestinian Conflict Leon Barkho

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Book SynopsisReligion's profound influence on politicsTrade ReviewThe intersection of religion and political communication is an understudied area ... this book is timely and important."" - Rebecca A. Glazier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Book SynopsisMedia do not reflect: media refract. In the United States, established and enduring prisms of prejudice about the projected Middle East are mediated through popular culture, broadcast news, government mission statements and official maps.This mediationserves to assert political boundaries and construct the United States as heroic against a villainous or victimized Middle East.These problematic maps and narratives are persistent over time and prevalent across genre, with clear consequences evidenced by the rise indiscriminatory sentiments in the US population and experiences of harm in US Arab and Muslim communities. Exploring a wide range of media, Karin Gwinn Wilkins illuminates the shape and scope of these narratives and explores ways tocounter these prisms of prejudice through informed and engaged strategic intervention in critical communication literacy.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Prisms of Prejudice 2 Mapping the Middle East 3 Narrating the Middle East 4 Mediating the Middle East 5 Visioning from the US Prism Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis`The book is easy to use and its layout demonstrates some skill in constructing volumes that `work' as study guides and reference tools. The merit of this book goes well beyond its suitability for course applications. Contemporary ideas on identity provide new meanings for an old concept' - Multilingual and MulticulturalIn recent years, identity and difference have been the focus of key debates in cultural studies. This broad-ranging book examines the challenge of these debates and outlines their applications to central questions of gender, sexuality, embodiment, health, `race' and nation.The text renders accessible some of the most exciting and controversial issues in recent cultural studies. It combines theoretical explanation with in-depth discussion of key areas of contested identities, together with activities and selected readings.Trade Review`The book is easy to use and its layout demonstrates some skill in constructing volumes that `work′ as study guides and reference tools. The merit of this book goes well beyond its suitability for course applications. Contemporary ideas on identity provide new meanings for an old concept′ - Multilingual and MulticulturalTable of ContentsIntroduction - Kathryn Woodward Concepts of Difference and Identity - Kathryn Woodward The Body and Difference - Chris Shilling The Body, Health and Eating Disorders - Susan Benson Sexualities - Lynne Segal Motherhood - Kathryn Woodward Identities, Meanings and Myths Diaspora and the Detours of Identity - Paul Gilroy

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of international contributors Media Organization and Production examines a wide range of global-local media organizations and the production of different mediums and genres. Following the editor's introduction which sets out the principal differences of approach and defining debates, chapters address: transnational and national, commercial and public service corporations; international film and TV co-productions; children's television news production, the historical development of 'liveness' on radio, and music journalism; the politics and organizational forms of alternative media production including radical newspapers, video and the internet; and the changing 'production ecology' of natural history television.These topics are examined through a variety of theoretical and conceptual frameworks that help to illuminate how cultural production often involves a complex articulation of differing influences and constraints, both material and discursTable of ContentsPART ONE: INTRODUCTION Media Organization and Production - Simon Cottle Mapping the Field PART TWO: GLOBAL CORPORATIONS, LOCAL ALTERNATIVES Corporate Media, Global Capitalism - Robert W McChesney Organization and Production in Alternative Media - Chris Atton PART THREE: CORPORATE CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES Strategizing Technological Innovation - Timothy Marjoribanks The Case of News Corporation Organizational Culture inside the BBC and CNN - Lucy K[um]ung-Shankleman PART FOUR: PRODUCERS PRACTICES AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURAL FORMS The Brains Trust - Paddy Scannell An Historical Study of the Management of Liveness on Radio Journalists With a Difference - Eamonn Forde Producing Music Journalism Cultures of Production - Julian Matthews The Making of Children′s News PART FIVE: CHANGING INTERNATIONAL GENRES AND PRODUCTION ECOLOGIES International TV and Film Co-Production - Doris Baltruschat A Canadian Case Study Producing Nature(s) - Simon Cottle The Changing Production Ecology of Natural History TV

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Book SynopsisThis exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures, and world views. Image Politics also exhibits how such events create opportunities for a politics that does not rely on centralized leadership or universal metanarratives. The book presents a rhetoric of the visual for our mediated age as it illuminates new political possibilities currently enacted by radical environmental groups. Chapters in the volume cover key areas of environmental activism such as:*The rhetoric of social movements;*Imaging social movements;*Environmental justice groups; and*Participatory democracy. This book is of interest to scholars and students of rhetoricTable of ContentsContents: Preface. Making Waves. Meditation I: The Rhetoric of Social Movements: A Theoretical Diagnostics and Overhaul. Imaging Social Movements. Meditation II: The Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups. Meditation III: Participatory Democracy in Enemy Territory. Audiences, Dissemination, and Contexts: Rereading "War in the Woods." Rhetoric and Social Change in a Postmodern Context.

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Book SynopsisArgues that brands are about culture as much as they are about economicsTrade ReviewBanet-Weiser success in her important project to show that branding is much more than commodification or marketingit is a co-production of culture, and in dismissing it we risk dismissing a pervasive and essential set of discourses on contemporary society. * Media International Australia *Each chapter stands on its own, making this a useful text to use in classroom. * Choice *Authentic by Sarah Banet-Weiser, is an interesting book, because it makes it its business to find the halfway point between this so-called infantilizing commerce and the world of the authentic and realthus that 'ambivalence.' * Slate.com *We all search for spaces where we can express ourselves or find others we value, but what happens when all those spaces are already aligned by the self-interested productivity of brands? No one has followed those searches more attentively than Sarah Banet-Weiser. As inherited politics falters, Banet-Weiser's major new book is an indispensable guide to an ambivalent future. -- Nick Couldry,author of Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After NeoliberalismIn this lively and penetrating analysis of the ubiquity and consequences of non-stop branding in the 21st century, Sarah Banet-Weiser pushes us to think beyond the false distinctions between consumer culture on the one hand and & authenticity on the other, and instead to contemplate what is at stake in living in branded culturesespecially for our very core identities and values. A stimulating, smart, and extremely timely book. -- Susan J. Douglas,University of Michigan and author of The Rise of Enlightened SexismThis profound and powerful book is replete with perceptive insights and persuasive arguments. Authentic ™ reveals how the pervasiveness of branding culture requires us to rethink our investments in authenticity and our understandings of citizenship and social membership. Banet-Weiser offers us the first fully theorized analysis of how the hegemony of branding culture and the eclipse of typographic culture by digital culture combine to make us fundamentally new kinds of social subjects. -- George Lipsitz,author of Time PassagesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Branding the Authentic 1. Branding Consumer Citizens Gender and the Emergence of Brand Culture 2. Branding the Postfeminist Self The Labor of Femininity 3. Branding Creativity Creative Cities, Street Art, and "Making Your Name Sing" 4. Branding Politics Shopping for Change? 5. Branding Religion "I'm Like Totally Saved" Conclusion: The Politics of Ambivalence Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCreating a stimulating social theory with long-lasting influence for generations of scholars is driven by multiple interacting factors. The fortune of a theory is determined not only by the author''s creative mind, but also by the ways in which principal concepts are understood and interpreted. The proper understanding of a social theory requires a good grasp of major historical, political, and cultural challenges that contribute to its making. Considering these issues, Marková explores Serge Moscovici''s theory of social representations and communication as a case study in the making of a dialogical social theory. She analyses both the undeveloped features and the forward-moving, inspirational highlights of the theory and presents them as a resource for linking issues and problems from diverse domains and disciplines. This dialogical approach has the potential to advance the dyad Self-Other as an irreducible intellectual, ethical, and aesthetic unit in epistemologies of the human and social sciences.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Socio-political Sources of the Theory of Social Representations; 2. A Political Refugee in Paris; 3. The 'Age of Intellectual Innocence' in Psychoanalysis 1961; 4. The Durkheimian in Psychoanalysis 1976; 5. The 'Great Smoky Dragon'; 6. Pseudo-dialogues and Building Bridges; Part II: 7. Social Representations and Common Sense; 8. Meanings and Knowledge as Semiotic Processes; 9. They 'Made Flowers Grow Where It Seemed Impossible'; 10. Social Representations as Unique Phenomena: Dynamics and Complexity; 11. Social Theories as Dialogues; Afterword; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisEstablished as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research findings, theoretical developments and applications.The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. People have a deep-seated and universal need to interact with others, and the greater their communicative ability the more satisfying and rewarding will be their lives. The main focus of this book is on the identification, analysis and evaluation of the core skills needed in these interactions. The first two chapters provide details of the nature of interpersonal communication and socially skilled performance, respectively, with a review of the main theoretical perspectives pertaining to each. The book then offers detailed accounts of the fourteen main skill areas: nonverbalTrade Review"This classic text on interpersonal communication has only grown in stature over the years. It offers a comprehensive guide to a range of vital communication skills that will fascinate academics and be of immense value to professionals in any occupation that involves dealing with people. It is that rare thing – an indispensable read."Dennis Tourish, University of Sussex Business School, UK"Owen Hargie is internationally known and cited worldwide for his expertise on the topic of communication skill. This new edition of Skilled Interpersonal Communication is therefore most welcome. The book is an invaluable resource not only for academics, researchers and students, but also for professional practitioners. I have no hesitation in giving it my strongest recommendation."Peter Bull, Universities of York and Salford, UK"The concept and complexity of communication is broken down into parts which the reader will find helpful. The presentation is enhanced with a number of models, diagrams, acronyms, case studies and worked examples which are interesting to read – these are sourced from a wide range of theory, literature and research." Jane Brett, London South Bank University, UK"This is an excellent comprehensive textbook on interpersonal communication. The book is both highly readable and theoretically informed. Key concepts are explored using interesting illustrative examples and underpinned by rigorous empirical research. Professor Hargie’s text has always been the standard work in this field and this latest revised and updated 7th edition is most welcome." Ian Somerville, University of Leicester, UK'This classic text on interpersonal communication has only grown in stature over the years. It offers a comprehensive guide to a range of vital communication skills that will fascinate academics and be of immense value to professionals in any occupation that involves dealing with people. It is that rare thing – an indispensable read.'Dennis Tourish, University of Sussex Business School, UK'Owen Hargie is internationally known and cited worldwide for his expertise on the topic of communication skill. This new edition of Skilled Interpersonal Communication is therefore most welcome. The book is an invaluable resource not only for academics, researchers and students, but also for professional practitioners. I have no hesitation in giving it my strongest recommendation.'Peter Bull, Universities of York and Salford, UK'The concept and complexity of communication is broken down into parts which the reader will find helpful. The presentation is enhanced with a number of models, diagrams, acronyms, case studies and worked examples which are interesting to read – these are sourced from a wide range of theory, literature and research.'Jane Brett, London South Bank University, UK'This is an excellent comprehensive textbook on interpersonal communication. The book is both highly readable and theoretically informed. Key concepts are explored using interesting illustrative examples and underpinned by rigorous empirical research. Professor Hargie’s text has always been the standard work in this field and this latest revised and updated 7th edition is most welcome." Ian Somerville, University of Leicester, UKTable of ContentsList of FiguresPreface The Features of Interpersonal Communication A Conceptual Model of Skilled Interpersonal Communication Communicating Without Words: Skilled Nonverbal Behaviour Rewarding Others: The Skill of Reinforcing Finding Out About Others: The Skill of Questioning Showing Understanding for Others: The Skill of Reflecting Paying Attention to Others: The Skill of Listening Getting Your Message Across: The Skill of Explaining Telling Others About Yourself: The Skill of Self-Disclosure Opening and Closing Interactions: The Skills of Set Induction and Closure Standing Up for Yourself: The Skill of Assertiveness Using Your Influence: The Skill of Persuasion Working Things Out Together: The Skill of Negotiating Working with Others: Skills of Participating in And Leading Small Groups Concluding Comments BibliographyName IndexSubject Index

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Book SynopsisIn a world that is awash in ubiquitous technology, even the least tech-savvy know that we must take care how that technology affects individuals and society. That governments and organizations around the world now focus on these issues, that universities and research institutes in many different languages dedicate significant resources to study the issues, and that international professional organizations have adopted standards and directed resources toward ethical issues in technology is in no small part the result of the work of Simon Rogerson.â Chuck Huff, Professor of Social Psychology at Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MinnesotaIn 1995, Apple launched its first WWW server, Quick Time On-line. It was the year Microsoft released Internet Explorer and sold 7 million copies of Windows 95 in just 2 months. In March 1995, the author Simon Rogerson opened the first ETHICOMP conference with these words:We live in a turbulent society where there is social, political, economic and technological turbulence â it is causing a vast amount of restructuring within all these organisations which impacts on individuals, which impacts on the way departments are set up, organisational hierarchies, job content, span of control, social interaction and so on and so forth. â Information is very much the fuel of modern technological change. Almost anything now can be represented by the technology and transported to somewhere else. It's a situation where the more information a computer can process, the more of the world it can actually turn into information. That may well be very exciting, but it is also very concerning. That could be describing today. More than 25 years later, these issues are still at the forefront of how ethical digital technology can be developed and utilised.This book is an anthology of the authorâs work over the past 25 years of pioneering research in digital ethics. It is structured into five themes: Journey, Process, Product, Future and Education. Each theme commences with an introductory explanation of the papers, their relevance and their interrelationship. The anthology finishes with a concluding chapter which summarises the key messages and suggests what might happen in the future. Included in this chapter are insights from some younger leading academics who are part of the community charged with ensuring that ethical digital technology is realised.Table of ContentsForeword. 1 Introduction. PART I JOURNEY. 2 Cyberspace: The Ethical Frontier [1995]. 3 But IS IT Ethical? [1995]. 4 Information Ethics: The Second Generation [1996]. 5 A Review of Information Ethics [2010]. 6 Towards a Chronological Taxonomy of Tourism Technology: An Ethical Perspective [2018]. PART II PROCESS. 7 The Ethics of Software Development Project Management [1996]. 8 An Ethical Review of Information Systems Development: The Australian Computer Society’s Code of Ethics and SSADM [2000]. 9 A Practical Perspective of Information Ethics [2001]. 10 Responsible Risk Assessment with Software Development: Creating the Software Development: Impact Statement [2005]. 11 Information Systems Ethics – Challenges and Opportunities [2019]. PART III PRODUCT. 12 The Social Impact of Smart Card Technology [1998]. 13 A Moral Approach to Electronic Patient Records [2001]. 14 Internet Voting – Well at Least It’s "Modern" [2003]. 15 Digital Existence – The Modern Way to Be [2018]. 16 Is Professional Practice at Risk Following the Volkswagen and Tesla Revelations? [2017]. 17 The Dangers of Dual-Use Technology: A Thought Experiment Exposé [2019]. 18 Grey Digital Outcasts and COVID-19 [2020]. PART IV FUTURE. 19 E.Society – Panacea or Apocalypse? [1998]. 20 The Virtual World A Tension between Global Reach and Local Sensitivity [2004]. 21 Future Vision [2015]. PART V EDUCATION. 22 Preparing to Handle Dilemmas in the Computing Profession [1996]. 23 Preparing IT Professionals of the Future [2014]. 24 Using Technology to Incorporate Students’ Work-Based Experiences into a Blended Learning Environment [2008]. 25 Poetical Potentials: The Value of Poems in Social Impact Education [2020]. 26 Start a Revolution in Your Head! The Rebirth of ICT Ethics Education [2020]. PART VI CONCLUSION. 27 Landscape for the Future. Index.

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Book SynopsisPresenting an alternative to traditional models of centralized crisis management, this book makes the case for decentralizing crisis response and building resilience where it matters most, and provides an accessible, pragmatic approach for doing so. Focusing squarely on crisis management, the book challenges the notion that corporate crisis teams can  be expected to swoop in and save the day: the role of the crisis team should be to advance a culture of readiness across an organization, and to foster leadership and crisis competency where it's needed, when it's needed. Crisis management expert Brendan Monahan draws from current management and leadership thinking that challenges hierarchies, finds incredible potential in the power of an organization's people, and aligns with many of today's highest-performing organizations that have already adopted this approach. This may run counter to current crisis management texts prescribing highly disciplined planning and commaTrade Review"Crises are progressively becoming more complex, frequent, and severe. As a result, your crisis preparedness and response capabilities must adapt to the new landscape when there is only one chance to "get it right." Brendan Monahan provides Crisis Management 2.0 insights that go beyond traditional preparedness and response approaches. Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building the Unconquerable Organization is a well written and visionary guide for handing crises of the future." Bruce T. Blythe, Chairman R3 Continuum (Ready, Respond, Recover)"As a corporate security senior leader with close to 40 years of federal law enforcement, state government, and private sector security experience, I am excited to see this book from Brendan. From his time as an intelligence analyst, crisis management and business continuity professional, Brendan has developed unique insights on the emerging and complex global risk environment facing businesses today. This book will serve as a great introduction to the next generation of crisis management and business continuity leaders. It will also serve as a clear reminder to my peer/legacy security professionals on the variety, complexity, and impact from these new threats and challenges. As Brendan’s book highlights, we should see such incidents/crisis as an opportunity for growth and betterment." Edward Dickson, Vice President, Global Security, Global Pharmaceutical Corporation "This book serves as a cautionary message to public and private sector managers and leaders that crisis will continue to confront them, increasing in number and unfamiliarity. While public sector organizations such as fire and police departments have come to rely on the usefulness of an incident command type system and command post for managing an unfolding crisis or critical incident, it would serve them well to heed the principles and recommendations of this author. Monahan brings to the fore the criticality of public and private sector organizations being adaptive to ever changing circumstance and situations, developing competencies among organizational personnel and planning and preparations that should continue to evolve. It is beyond difficult if not impossible to plan and prepare for the type and nature of every crisis, however, the author provides thoughtful insight into how leaders and crisis team members can better serve their organizations with the goal of successful outcomes." Russell Fischer, Retired Chief, Miami-Dade Police Department, Miami, Florida Table of Contents1. Preface - Unconquerable / Introduction – Into Action Part I 2 - Old Ideas Become New Again: What’s the Plan vs What’s the Story? 3 - The Problem, The Challenge and A Solution Part II 4 - Crisis Management for Complex Organizations: A Practical Approach 5 - Rapid and Responsible Escalation Part III 6 - The Only Three Questions You Need to Ask – "Who’s In Charge" – Crisis Leadership 7 - "What Needs to be Done?" - Defining Priorities & Action Management 8 - "Who’s Doing What?" – The Mapmakers: Crisis Teams and Responders 9 - Conclusion: Becoming Unconquerable

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Book SynopsisOffering unique coverage of an emerging, interdisciplinary area, this comprehensive handbook examines the theoretical underpinnings and emergent conceptions of intercultural mediation in related fields of study. Authored by global experts in fields from intercultural communication and conflict resolution to translation studies, literature, political science, and foreign language teaching, chapters trace the history, development, and present state of approaches to intercultural mediation. The sections in this volume show how the concept of intercultural mediation has been constructed among different fields and shaped by its specific applications in an open cycle of influence. The book parses different philosophical conceptions as well as pragmatic approaches, providing ample grounding in the key perspectives on this growing field of discourse. The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a valuable reference for graduate and postgraduate students sTrade Review"Today, the promises and pitfalls of multiculturalism, internationalism and globalization fill our headlines and our daily lives. As a result, there is an increasingly urgent need for peacemakers who can bring sensitivity, insight, evidence and skill to helping us navigate cultural differences, particularly those that are deep, invisible and sacred. This extraordinary book—The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation—is the most current and comprehensive resource for those intrepid mediators who serve as our guides in these tumultuous times. It will serve as the canon for this work, and a treasured resource for decades to come."Peter T. Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, USA"I cannot think of a better volume to help us make sense of the avalanche of intercultural ‘nightmares’ that we have been facing since early 2020—and before that! Dominic Busch has managed to put together a stimulating interdisciplinary and visionary compendium around intercultural mediation. Together with the authors they remind us that mediation does not just matter in times of emergencies but that it is pivotal to the very notion of interculturality at all times. The handbook retells the past of intercultural mediation, keeps us up-to-date with today’s research and inspires us for the future. It should be on everyone’s must-read list."Fred Dervin, Professor of Multicultural Education, University of Helsinki, Finland"The ideas and practices of intercultural mediation draw (or at least, should draw) from a wide variety of subject matter, fields and research traditions. A thorough academic treatment that crosses all these ‘silos’ is overdue, and The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation addresses this gap in style. Its array of authors shows not only the expected level of expertise as well as the range of cultures and nations for such a work, but also a creative selection of fields and backgrounds. A list of the wide variety of research settings in this book might begin with the sciences, business, law, engineering, health care and linguistics, but it won’t end there. This is an essential resource for anyone who is trying to understand what mediators can do, and how they can improve, in the complex interactions that make up intercultural work."Christopher Honeyman, Managing Partner at Convenor Conflict Management, Washington, DC, USA"A global pandemic, geopolitical ructions, social and economic inequality, and the rise of artificial intelligence provide stark reminders as to why intercultural mediation continues to matter. Learning to live well together is an enduring project of humanity, and understanding how to achieve this remains at the core of the concept and practices of intercultural mediation. This volume traces the evolution of this term and its various manifestations across diverse disciplines, paradigms and cultural worldviews. It represents a comprehensive, rich and compelling account of why intercultural mediation remains crucial for reciprocal engagement, justice and peace that must occur if we are to come together to face the great challenges that lie ahead."Michelle Kohler, Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, UniSA: Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Australia."This collection is particularly broad, being interdisciplinary and international as well as intercultural, including the topics covered, disciplines represented, and chapter authors, and thus should be relevant to an uncommonly large group of researchers, practitioners, and students."Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA"The new handbook weaves together interdisciplinary insights into the role of intercultural mediation in situations of conflict, dialogue, and more inclusive forms of community-building across varied cultural and organizational contexts. As well as contributing to debates about the meanings of culture and interculturality, the book provides a nuanced view of the field, laying out theoretical achievements and gaps and identifying promising practices."Kirstie McAllum, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal, Canada"A unique and stimulating collection of perspectives and insights on the interplay between mediation and culture. The authors come from a wide array of disciplines and cultures and explore a variety of situations at different levels of abstraction. This book can enrich anyone’s ability to recognize, understand, and deal wisely with cultural influences in mediation—and other situations."Leonard L. Riskin, Visiting Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, USA"Given the numerous wars between nations and violent conflicts within nations in today’s world, it’s obvious that neutral third parties trained in intercultural mediators are needed to help resolve such conflicts. In light of this, The Handbook of Intercultural Mediation should be required reading for this important group of professional mediators."Joseph A. Scimecca, Professor of Sociology, George Mason University, USA"The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a tour de force. This work is a dazzling achievement written with great skill by a global community of scholars, and whose usefulness will have a long life. This book makes a significant contribution toward nonviolent social change, especially when placed against the backdrop of the current urgencies of global pandemic and the horrors of war. Beginning with an initial review of the literature, the stage is set for current and future researchers and practitioners to reexamine how they (we) have thought about culture, conflict, and community. As the reader is invited to assume roles of observer and participant, an impressive gathering of international contributors explores diverse aspects of intercultural mediation as a process of dispute resolution, a byproduct of translation and pedagogy, and as a communicative or socio-political aspiration. These authors present a wide range of approaches, disciplines, voices, and perspectives that highlight, yet bring cohesion to disparate epistemological and methodological tensions."Mary Adams Trujillo, Professor Emerita of Communication Arts and Conflict Transformation, North Park University, USA"Full of innovative approaches and observations, including alternatives to and critiques of a Western-only approach to mediation, this Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a treatment of mediation that examines interculturality as it should be done- comprehensively, globally, and respectfully. This volume, appearing as the world struggles with the global impact of both epidemic and war, could hardly be more timely. It is unique in bringing both depth and breadth to the topic of intercultural mediation. Especially remarkable for the range of scales represented, from analyses of language to international politics, the volume is destined to be a touchstone for work in mediation, and for intercultural studies generally, for years to come."Geoffrey White, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i, USAToday, the promises and pitfalls of multiculturalism, internationalism and globalization fill our headlines and our daily lives. As a result, there is an increasingly urgent need for peacemakers who can bring sensitivity, insight, evidence and skill to helping us navigate cultural differences, particularly those that are deep, invisible and sacred. This extraordinary book—The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation—is the most current and comprehensive resource for those intrepid mediators who serve as our guides in these tumultuous times. It will serve as the canon for this work, and a treasured resource for decades to come. Peter T. Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, USA.I cannot think of a better volume to help us make sense of the avalanche of intercultural ‘nightmares’ that we have been facing since early 2020—and before that! Dominic Busch has managed to put together a stimulating interdisciplinary and visionary compendium around intercultural mediation. Together with the authors they remind us that mediation does not just matter in times of emergencies but that it is pivotal to the very notion of interculturality at all times. The handbook retells the past of intercultural mediation, keeps us up-to-date with today’s research and inspires us for the future. It should be on everyone’s must-read list. Fred Dervin, Professor of Multicultural Education, University of Helsinki, Finland."The ideas and practices of intercultural mediation draw (or at least, should draw) from a wide variety of subject matter, fields and research traditions. A thorough academic treatment that crosses all these ‘silos’ is overdue, and The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation addresses this gap in style. Its array of authors shows not only the expected level of expertise as well as the range of cultures and nations for such a work, but also a creative selection of fields and backgrounds. A list of the wide variety of research settings in this book might begin with the sciences, business, law, engineering, health care and linguistics, but it won’t end there. This is an essential resource for anyone who is trying to understand what mediators can do, and how they can improve, in the complex interactions that make up intercultural work. Christopher Honeyman, Managing Partner at Convenor Conflict Management, Washington, DC, USA.A global pandemic, geopolitical ructions, social and economic inequality, and the rise of artificial intelligence provide stark reminders as to why intercultural mediation continues to matter. Learning to live well together is an enduring project of humanity, and understanding how to achieve this remains at the core of the concept and practices of intercultural mediation. This volume traces the evolution of this term and its various manifestations across diverse disciplines, paradigms and cultural worldviews. It represents a comprehensive, rich and compelling account of why intercultural mediation remains crucial for reciprocal engagement, justice and peace that must occur if we are to come together to face the great challenges that lie ahead. Michelle Kohler, Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, UniSA: Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Australia.This collection is particularly broad, being interdisciplinary and international as well as intercultural, including the topics covered, disciplines represented, and chapter authors, and thus should be relevant to an uncommonly large group of researchers, practitioners, and students. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA.The new handbook weaves together interdisciplinary insights into the role of intercultural mediation in situations of conflict, dialogue, and more inclusive forms of community-building across varied cultural and organizational contexts. As well as contributing to debates about the meanings of culture and interculturality, the book provides a nuanced view of the field, laying out theoretical achievements and gaps and identifying promising practices. Kirstie McAllum, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal, Canada.A unique and stimulating collection of perspectives and insights on the interplay between mediation and culture. The authors come from a wide array of disciplines and cultures and explore a variety of situations at different levels of abstraction. This book can enrich anyone’s ability to recognize, understand, and deal wisely with cultural influences in mediation—and other situations. Leonard L. Riskin, Visiting Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, USA.Given the numerous wars between nations and violent conflicts within nations in today’s world, it’s obvious that neutral third parties trained in intercultural mediators are needed to help resolve such conflicts. In light of this, The Handbook of Intercultural Mediation should be required reading for this important group of professional mediators. Joseph A. Scimecca, Professor of Sociology, George Mason University, USA.The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a tour de force. This work is a dazzling achievement written with great skill by a global community of scholars, and whose usefulness will have a long life. This book makes a significant contribution toward nonviolent social change, especially when placed against the backdrop of the current urgencies of global pandemic and the horrors of war. Beginning with an initial review of the literature, the stage is set for current and future researchers and practitioners to reexamine how they (we) have thought about culture, conflict, and community. As the reader is invited to assume roles of observer and participant, an impressive gathering of international contributors explores diverse aspects of intercultural mediation as a process of dispute resolution, a byproduct of translation and pedagogy, and as a communicative or socio-political aspiration. These authors present a wide range of approaches, disciplines, voices, and perspectives that highlight, yet bring cohesion to disparate epistemological and methodological tensions. Mary Adams Trujillo, Professor Emerita of Communication Arts and Conflict Transformation, North Park University, USA. Full of innovative approaches and observations, including alternatives to and critiques of a Western-only approach to mediation, this Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a treatment of mediation that examines interculturality as it should be done- comprehensively, globally, and respectfully. This volume, appearing as the world struggles with the global impact of both epidemic and war, could hardly be more timely. It is unique in bringing both depth and breadth to the topic of intercultural mediation. Especially remarkable for the range of scales represented, from analyses of language to international politics, the volume is destined to be a touchstone for work in mediation, and for intercultural studies generally, for years to come. Geoffrey White, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i, USA.Table of ContentsPART I: Professional intercultural dispute mediation Chapter 1. Culture and mediation: A 2020s perspective on early criticism of Western paradigms Chapter 2. Cross-cultural disputes and mediator strategies Chapter 3. De-essentializing notions of self and identity in mediation Chapter 4. Cultural humility in intercultural mediation Chapter 5. Intercultural mediation training Chapter 6. Interculturality in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Chapter 7. Policing and intercultural mediation: Forms of triadic conflict management Chapter 8. Putting culture into a perspective in intercultural mediation PART II: Intercultural mediation in international politics Chapter 9. Interculturality in the concept of peace mediation Chapter 10. Hybrid peace mediation in the age of pandemics Chapter 11. The political dimensions of culture and religion in mediation Chapter 12. Third parties’ involvement in contexts of political conflict and power imbalances Chapter 13. Seeing people in interactive peacemaking through a consciousness lens Chapter 14. The past is the past⁠—or is it? Considering the role of the past in intercultural mediation Chapter 15. The politics of intercultural space: Inclusive, unobtrusive, and failed mediation PART III: De-Centering Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Chapter 16. Imagining a racially diverse and inclusive mediation field: Uncovering the structural hurdles Chapter 17. Intercultural mediation from a European perspective Chapter 18. Islamic forms of intercultural mediation Chapter 19. Transforming conflict cultures through mediation Chapter 20. Indigenous conflict resolution strategies beyond the ADR paradigm PART IV: De-essentializing culture in intercultural mediation Chapter 21. The discourse of thirdness in intercultural mediation Chapter 22. The triadic character of intercultural learning: Insights from edusemiotics Chapter 23. The bridge metaphor in intercultural mediation Chapter 24. Using creative non-fiction to pinpoint moments of deCentering in intercultural mediation Chapter 25. Emic and etic perspectives on culture in mediation Chapter 26. Professional dispute mediators’ notions of culture Chapter 27. Design thinking and design communication for intercultural conflict management PART V: Theorizing intercultural mediation Chapter 28. Theorizing mediation from the perspective of legal anthropology Chapter 29. Anthropological approaches to culture in conflict mediation Chapter 30. Anthropology and mediation in an environmental conflict: Worldview translation as synthesis Chapter 31. Weaving together three strands of research: Culture, communication, and conflict Chapter 32. Intercultural mediation as intercultural competence Chapter 33. It takes three to tango. A sociological triadology Chapter 34. A framework for understanding intercultural mediation from the standpoint of a systemic theory of communication PART VI: Linguistic explorations of intercultural mediation Chapter 35. Research from conversation analysis on intercultural mediation Chapter 36. Managing culturality in mediation sessions: Insights from membership categorization analysis and discursive psychology Chapter 37. Intercultural mediation from the perspective of linguistic pragmatics Chapter 38. Storytelling, culture, and identity in mediation PART VII: Psychological tools for analyzing intercultural mediation Chapter 39. Cultural intelligence in intercultural mediation Chapter 40. Research from psychology on intercultural mediation: Cultural values and emotional intelligence Chapter 41. Measuring intercultural mediation in the context of intergroup conflict: Classical and modern test theory approaches to scale assessment PART VIII: Translation research and intercultural mediation Chapter 42. Intercultural mediation in translation and interpreting studies Chapter 43. Translation as intercultural mediation—The evolution of a paradigm Chapter 44. The mediating role of empathy in community interpreting Chapter 45. Exacerbating cultural differences in translation/interpreting as intercultural mediation PART IX: Intercultural mediation in foreign language education and the arts Chapter 46. The intercultural speaker as an intercultural mediator Chapter 47. Intercultural mediation in contexts of translanguaging Chapter 48. Children as intercultural mediators Chapter 49. Intercultural mediation in the world language classroom

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Book SynopsisIn an age defined by divisive discourse and disinformation, democracy hangs in the balance. Let's Agree to Disagree seeks to reverse these trends by fostering constructive dialogue through critical thinking and critical media literacy. This transformative text introduces readers to useful theories, powerful case studies, and easily adoptable strategies for becoming sharper critical thinkers, more effective communicators, and critically media literate citizens. Trade Review"I did not think we, as a society, could agree to disagree, which makes this book incredibly powerful - and incredibly needed in our divisive times. Higdon and Huff have provided both depth and breadth to multiple areas of our mediated world and in so doing have presented readers with a cogent and incredibly valuable text that will enable readers to learn about the mass media, themselves, and concrete ways to make change."Allison Butler, Senior Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Advising, Director Media Literacy Certificate Program, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"In the age of new and powerful tools of communication, democracy has become more fragile and vulnerable to attacks by right-wing forces. What is clear is that the tools of communication, culture, literacy and critical thinking are more crucial than ever in creating both informed citizens and maintaining a substantive democracy. Let’s Agree to Disagree is a brilliant and informative guide and analysis to the most defining features of what it means to create critically literate citizens, to enable how they might communicate constructively with each other, and what it means connect an informed public to critically engaged actions. Higdon and Huff provide a brilliant, crucial analysis of the dangers that democracy now faces; they provide an invaluable analysis of what it means to understand and engage the role of communication in fighting against the forces of civic illiteracy, and the role that citizens can play in engaging, understanding, and assessing how to think, engage, and act through an informed lens of critical thinking. Let’s Agree to Disagree is both a primer and an invaluable resource on misinformation, critical thinking, a disregard for the truth, and what is necessary to address the new and powerful forms of communication that now shape politics, power and mass consciousness. This is a book that should be read by anyone is believes that matters of literacy, truth, rationality, and civic courage are essential to fighting for a radical democracy."Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, at McMaster University "Let’s Agree to Disagree provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges, failures, and successes of communication and critical thinking for justice and democracy. Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff have written an essential book for all educators because dialogue and critical reflection are the heart of progressive education. The better we learn to listen, question, and respond with compassion, empathy, and respect, the more likely we will build genuine relationships of caring and critical inquiry where authentic learning occurs and social justice thrives." Jeff Share, Ph.D., University of California, Los AngelesThe Real News:https://therealnews.com/polarizing-and-isolating-americans-is-good-business-for-media-monopoliesFull Measure News:https://fullmeasure.news/news/shows/agree-to-disagreeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Should We Agree to Disagree?Part I Communication1. Create Constructive Dialogue 2. Reflect on Communication Practices and CensorshipPart IICritical Thinking 3. Inquire: Be A Critical Thinker 4. Test Theory and Spot IdeologyPart IIICritical Media Literacy5. Investigate and Evaluate Mass Media6. Critiquing Content: "Fake News" and Ethical Journalism7. Assess and Analyze Digital Media Use and AbusePart IVLead by Example: Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFusing the academic with the applied, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to social media for future communications professionals.While most social media texts approach the subject through either a theoretical, scholarly lens or a professional, practical lens, this text offers a much-needed linkage of theory to the practical tactics employed by social media communicators. Concise and conversational chapters break down the basics of both social media theory and practice and are complemented by sidebars written by scholars and industry professionals, chapter summaries and end-of-chapter exercises.This book is ideal for introductory social media courses in communication, public relations and mass communication departments, as well as courses in digital media and public relations.Online resources include social media writing templates, sample posts and content calendar templates. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781032185873.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: What is Social Media? 1. Defining Social Media 2. Evolution of Social Media 3. Categories of Social Media 4. Social Media by Demographics, Psychographics and Region Part 2: Social Media and Theory 5. Theory and Communication Research 6. Mass Communication Approaches 7. Human Communication Approaches 8. Integrated Approaches Part 3: Social Media Practice and Strategy 9. Developing a Strategic Social Media Presence 10. Social Media Projects, Programs and Campaigns 11. Content Strategies 12.Writing for Social Media 13. Customer Service and Crisis Management 14. Social Media Law and Ethics

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Book SynopsisThis fifth volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society series presents foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of digital technology.Based on the notions of alienation, communication (in)justice, media (in)justice, and digital (in)justice, it analyses ethics in the context of digital labour and the surveillance-industrial complex; social media research ethics; privacy on Facebook; participation, co-operation, and sustainability in the information society; the digital commons; the digital public sphere; and digital democracy. The book consists of three parts. Part I presents some of the philosophical foundations of critical, humanist digital ethics. Part II applies these foundations to concrete digital ethics case studies. Part III presents broad conclusions about how to advance the digital commons, the digital public sphere, and digital democracy, which is the Table of ContentsI. Foundations 1. What is Digital Ethics? 2. Foundations of Communication/Media/Digital (In)Justice 3. The Ethics of the Digital Commons II. Applications 4. Information Ethics in the Age of Digital Labour and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex 5. “Dear Mr. Neo-Nazi, can you please give me your informed consent so that I can quote your fascist tweet?“: Questions of Social Media Research Ethics in Online Ideology Critique 6. Towards an Alternative Concept of Privacy 7. The Ethics and Political Economy of Privacy on Facebook 8. Information Technology and Sustainability in the Information Society 9. Theoretical Foundations of Defining the Participatory, Co-operative, Sustainable Information Society (PCSIS) III. Conclusion 10. The Digital Commons and the Digital Public Sphere: How to Advance Digital Democracy Today

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Book SynopsisAt a time when the traditional media have been reshaped by digital technologies and audiences have fragmented, people are using mediated forms of communication to manage all aspects of their daily lives as well as for news and entertainment.The Media and Communications in Australia offers a systematic introduction to this dynamic field. Fully updated and expanded, this fifth edition outlines the key media industries from print, sound and television to film, gaming and public relations and explains how communications technologies have changed the ways in which they now operate. It offers an overview of the key approaches to the field, including a consideration of Indigenous communication, and features a hot topics' section with contributions on issues including diversity, misinformation, algorithms, COVID-19, web series and national security.With chapters from Australia's leading researchers and teachers in the field, The Media and CommunicatioTrade Review"Representing a major expansion in the comprehensiveness of its coverage, as well as in the range of expertise provided by its list of contributors, this latest edition of The Media and Communications in Australia is an indispensable guide to understanding the contemporary ecology of our media environment." -Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO"With crucial updating, this new edition addresses Australian media after a decade of rapid change and usefully identifies a range of ‘hot topics’ that cut across multiple industries and present some of the biggest challenges to those seeking to understand and work in media today."-Professor Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of TechnologyTable of ContentsPart I: Approaches 1. Introduction: Thirty years on 2. A short history of the Australian media 3. Australian media 2.0 4. The media and communications: Theoretical approaches 5. Indigenous media and communications 6. Policy, regulation and ownership 7. Audiences Part II: Industries 8. Newspapers 9. Magazines 10. Book publishing 11. Radio 12. Podcastin 13. Music 14. Film, cinema and streaming 15. Television 16. Advertising and marketing 17. Public relations 18. Social media 19. Mobile media and telecommunications 20. The videogame industry Part III: Hot topics 21. Diversity 22. Privacy and ethics 23. Media and national security 24. Misinformation 25. COVID-19 and crisis communication 26. Media and the environment 27. Sport and the media 28. Web series 29. Algorithms 30. Monetisation and digital entrepreneurship 31. The future of public service media 32. National Broadband Network.

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Book SynopsisInterrogating the intersections of food, journalism, and politics, this book offers a critical examination of food media and journalism, and its political potential against the backdrop of contemporary social challenges.Contributors analyze current and historic examples such as #BlackLivesMatter, COVID-19, climate change, Brexit, food sovereignty, and identity politics, highlighting how food media and journalism reach beyond the commercial imperatives of lifestyle journalism to negotiate nationalism, globalization, and social inequalities. The volume challenges the idea that food media/journalism are trivial and apolitical by drawing attention to the complex ways that storytelling about food has engaged political discourses in the past, and the innovative ways it is doing so today. Bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the book will be of great interest to scholars and students of journalism, communication, media studies, food stuTrade Review"In the contemporary moment, food content—whether on Netflix, YouTube, the New York Times or Tik Tok—sits front and centre of post-broadcast media and journalism. No longer relegated to lifestyle supplements or the domestic realm, celebrity chefs and food journalists mix it up with politicians, climate change activists, and “me too” campaigners. Elizabeth Fakazis and Elfriede Fürsich’s timely and fascinating collection speaks to the power and political impact of food journalism at a time when an intensely mediatised foodie culture meets growing public awareness of ethical, environmental, labour, and animal rights issues in the food sphere. From food blogging and black lives matters to bad boy chefs practising culinary philanthropy, this rich array of chapters provided by an international cast of culinary scholars speak to the centrality of the critical politics of food to our everyday media engagement with food media and so-called lifestyle journalism. This book is a must read for journalism students, critical food studies scholars, and general readers interested in food citizenship, food media, and the politics of everyday life."Tania Lewis, author of 'Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform' and Co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia"Can lifestyle journalism ever contribute to civic responsibility? Is contemporary food media a symptom of the narcissism of high consumption and self-serving entrepreneurialism? Are Instagram and Twitter new sites of democratization of public culture or do they mark the death of common debate and discussion? Posing the most important questions that haunt food media today, this volume, carefully collected and closely argued, delivers bracing critique and surprising commentary on the viability of a journalism of everyday life, while alerting us to the symptoms of the fractious death of a common public culture."Krishnendu Ray, author of ‘The Ethnic Restaurateur,” Food Studies, New York University, USA"Food cultures and practices can be political, but often in covert ways. Thoughtful and impassioned journalism uncovers these politics, bringing issues such as food insecurity, environmental degradation, racism, classism, sexism, the cult of celebrity, and nationalism to the attention of the world. This wonderful book provides many examples of how food journalism and digital media content creators can challenge inequities, create controversy, and call for change."Deborah Lupton, Vitalities Lab and Australian Research Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia "Showcasing work from leading and emerging scholars and bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this volume offers a rich exploration into the intersections of food, media, and politics. A welcome, and timely, addition to the growing field of food communication, this project centers on the political relevance of food media and journalism and investigates their influence on personal and civic lives. A must-read for students and scholars in the fields of communication, media, and journalism, and anyone interested in food communication and politics."Alla Tovares, co-editor of ‘Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse,’ Howard University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: From the Racist Sandwich to Civil Eats: How Food Journalism Is Engaging with Politics; Part I: Engaging with Systems of Injustice and Disparity; 1. Influencer Activism: Visibility, Strategy, and #BlackLivesMatter Discourse on Food Instagram; 2. Super Bowl Food Politics: On the Menu, on the Screen, and on the Field; 3. Agribusiness, Environmental Conflict, and Food in Travel Journalism: Image Work for the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick; 4. Who Speaks and Are We Listening? Food Sovereign Voices in a Changing Climate; Part II: Raising Questions of Legitimacy, Power, and Good Citizenship; 5. From Bad Boys to Heroes: Culinary Philanthropy and Good Citizenship in the Age of COVID-19; 6. Cooking in the Time of Corona: The Politicized Domesticity of Food Journalism in The New York Times; 7. Paleo and Pain Free: Reporting on Scandals of Food Celebrities; Part III: Negotiating Regional, National, and Global Identities; 8. Of Clay Stoves and Cooking Pots: “Village Food” Videos and Gastro-Politics in Contemporary India; 9. How the Bendy Banana Became a Symbol of Anti-EU Sentiment: British Media, Political Mythology, and Populism; 10. Heritage, Belonging, and Promotion: Food Journalism Reconsidered; Part IV: Recovering History and (Re)producing Memory; 11. Patriotic Hens, Tomato Turbans, and Mock Fish: The Daily Mail Food Bureau and National Identity during the First World War; 12. Influencer before the Internet: The Extraordinary Career of Chef, Editor, and Food Entrepreneur Alma Lach; 13. Chef’s Table and a Collective Past: Netflix, Food Media, and Cultural Memories; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to growing debates on transcreation, applying an appraisal framework to texts from luxury brands in Chinese and English to reveal new insights into marketing transcreation and set out transcreation as an area of study in its own right. The volume charts the origins of the term transcreation, emerging from the interplay of established concepts of translation, creation, localisation, and adaptation and ongoing debates on what should be transcreated and how. Using these dialogues as a point of departure, Ho outlines a way forward for transcreation research by advocating for the use of an appraisal framework, taken from work in systemic functional linguistics and employed to evaluate persuasion in language. In focusing on marketing texts from the websites of three luxury brands in English and Chinese, the book explores how this approach can surface fresh perspectives on the different ways in which the processes and practices of marketing transcreation are used to generate persuasion across languages. The volume looks ahead to the implications for other language pairs and the applications of the appraisal framework to understand transcreation practice of other genres, such as literary texts. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies and marketing studies.

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Book SynopsisBy imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication and employing coded language to evade detection.Far-right extremism has spread extensively across online platforms. Flourishing within echo chambers, these groups propagate different types of online and offline actions and advance their hateful ideologies to a wide-ranging audience. This book highlights the issues surrounding far-right extremism, which distinguishing it from terrorism and examining its contemporary digital manifestations. Importantly, it sheds light on how far-right groups utilise online platforms for communication, radicalisation, and on-ground actions, relying on alternative truths, misinformation, conspiracy theories, fashion, and memes to connect with like-minded individuals. The book also addresses content moderation challenges and the impact of rising po

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Book SynopsisThis third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers.Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the book takes the reader through the research process from beginning to end. The text continues to help students link the research methods they learn to practical contexts through its activities and features, which include Voices From Industry boxes written by practitioners that give insight into application of methods; Steps to Success research review checklists; and numerous end-of-chapter activities to reinforce concepts. This third edition contains updates throughout, including an expanded discussion of reliability and validity across both qualitative and quantitative research contexts as well as new Research in Action boxes that showcase how research is used in professional and public contexts.The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in communication research methods within communication, media, and mass communication programs.Online resources, including sample syllabi, PowerPoint slides, and test banks are available at www.routledge.com/9781032288819.Table of Contents1. Basic Principles of Research and a Guide to Using This Book 2. Basic Concepts of Research 3. Scholarly Research and the Creation of Knowledge 4. Ethical Research 5. Concept Explication and Measurement 6. Sampling 7. Effective Measurement 8. Validity 9. Studying People quantitatively 10. Studying people qualitatively 11. Analyzing texts and other artifacts 12. Reliability and subjectivity 13. Descriptive Statistics 14. Estimation and Inference 15. Bivariate and Multivariate Statistics

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Book SynopsisCombining theory with practical application, this collection of real-life, provocative case studies on social issues in sports provides students with the opportunity to make the call on ethical and professional dilemmas faced by a variety of sport and communication professionals. The case studies examine the successes and failures of communication in the corporate culture of sport intersecting with social issues including race, gender, religion, social media, mass media, public health, and LGBTQ+ issues. Topics include the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, sexual abuse scandals, domestic violence, cultural appropriation, and mental health. Each chapter contextualizes a specific issue, presents relevant theory and practical communication principles, and leads into discussion questions to prompt critical reflection. The book encourages students to view the evidence themselves, consider competing ethical and professional claims, and formulate practical responseTable of ContentsPART I: Introduction to Sport and Social Issues Chapter 1. Sport and Social Issues: The Touchdowns and Strikeouts PART II: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chapter 2. "The Rooney Ruse": Systemic Racism and Hiring NFL Head Coaches Chapter 3. When Fandom Stains Your Team: Evaluating the effectiveness of the Utah Jazz’s organizational responses to racist incidents Chapter 4. Concussion settlement and racial norming: The NFL fumbles into a crisis Chapter 5. Major League Soccer’s Navigation of the 2019 Iron Front Crisis Chapter 6. Protecting the Brees brand: How Drew Brees Said "Sorry" for his National Anthem Protest Comments Chapter 7. ‘Kicking Hate Out of Our Game’: San Diego Loyal Soccer Club’s Stand Against Racism and Homophobia Chapter 8. Issues and Crisis Management in Athlete Activism: Colin Kaepernick and Take a Knee Chapter 9. Reputation Management Strategies at ESPN Chapter 10. From Les Esquimaux to The Elks: Addressing Social Responsibility in the Canadian Football League Chapter 11. In the Space of Indecision: Social and Cultural Challenges Facing Major League Soccer NEXT Academies Chapter 12. #WeAreAllMonkeys: Eating Bananas as the Intersection of Hashtag Activism and Anti-Racist Solidarity Chapter 13. The Milwaukee Bucks: Professional Athletic Labor’s Position in Racist Late-Stage Capitalism PART III: Gender Equity, Identity, & Sexual Misconduct Chapter 14. Conquering a Boy’s Club Using an Issues Management Approach: How Women’s Soccer May Pioneer a Path to Pay Equity Chapter 15. Communicating in Crisis without the Power to Act Chapter 16. Strategic Resistance through Communication Capital: Rapinoe’s Reframing of Women-Identified Athletes through Mind-Body Performance for Social Change Chapter 17. Alysia, Allyson, and Nike’s ‘Band of Brothers’: Exposing the Hypocrisy between Corporate Marketing and Internal Practices Chapter 18. Let Them Wear Shorts! Analyzing the Norwegian Women’s Beach Handball Team’s Uniform Code Protest Chapter 19. Sports News Media, Major Leagues, and Intimate Partner Violence Chapter 20. ‘Play like the Lady you are’: Marketing Women’s Gaelic football Chapter 21. Trans inclusion in sports: assumed advantages, (un)fairness, and athlete well-being PART IV: Mental Health & COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter 22. Athlete Influence in Regard to Mask Wearing: An Application of Social Cognitive Theory Chapter 23. Controlling the Narrative: NBC, USA Gymnastics, and Simone Biles at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games Chapter 24. "We Hope to See You Soon" The Green Bay Packers Crisis Management through a Letter to the Fans during COVID-19 Mega-Crisis Chapter 25. Blaming Biles: Intersectionality and Organizational Obligations to Mental Health Chapter 26. How Can Organizations Better Support Athletes? A Case Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on Minoritized Communities in Intercollegiate Sport

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Book SynopsisPeople Skills for Behavior Analysts provides a much-needed introduction to the people skills needed to succeed as a behavior analyst.Divided into two primary parts Foundational Skills and Specialized Skills this book addresses an impressive breadth of people skills, focusing on intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, collaboration, consultation and training, leadership, and resource development. Relying on recent evidence-based practices and relevant literature tailored to meet the new BACB Task List, Professional & Ethical Compliance Code, and Supervised Independent Fieldwork requirements, the text includes contributions from leading figures from a wide variety of applied behavior analysis subfields to provide a truly balanced overview. The book delves into the literature from fields related to behavior analysis, such as counselling, psychology, graphic design, management and education, and applies these perspectives to behavioral theories and principles to provide Table of ContentsPart I: Foundational Skills Chapter 1: Intrapersonal Skills 1.1 The Importance of Intrapersonal Skills for Behavior Analysts 1.2 The Discerning ABA Practitioner 1.3 Self-Care for Behavior Analysts: A guide to eating fewer doughnuts and taking more naps Chapter 2: Interpersonal Skills 2.1 20 Key Behaviors for Rapport Building 2.2 Cultural Competence in Communication 2.3 A Critical Look at Autism 2.4 Accepting Feedback Makes the World Go ‘Round: From Student to Practitioner 2.5 How to Teach Rapport Building Skills to Behavior Analysts Chapter 3: Collaboration 3.1 No More “Train And Train More”: A Functional, Contextual Approach to Collaboration with Families 3.2 Playing Nicely in the Interdisciplinary Sandbox: A How to Guide on Effective Collaboration with Various Professionals 3.3 Whose the King of the Castle? Collaborating with Educators and Schools as a Behavior Analyst 3.4 Overcoming the Aversive: Handling Difficult Conversations with Professionalism and Compassion 3.5 Running Efficient and Effective Meetings with Collaboration and Compassion Part 2: Specialized Skills Chapter 4: Consultation & Training 4.1 Don’t Blame the Mediator: Keeping Applied Behavior Analysis Doable for Best Possible Outcomes 4.2 Beyond the PowerPoint: Becoming an Engaging Presenter 4.3 Behavior Analyst as Changemaker: Science, Advocacy and Activism in Practice 4.4 Using Movement Education, Motor Learning, and Phenomenology to Inform Teaching Strategies in Other Professional Contexts Chapter 5: Leadership 5.1 It’s Not You, It’s Us: Fostering a Behavior Analytical Supervisor/Supervisee Relationship 5.2 People Skills for Behavior Analysis: Putting the Super in Your Supervisory Relationships 5.3 Giving Performance Feedback that Makes a Difference 5.4 Interviewing Strategies: Integrating Practices from Industrial/Organizational Psychology into Behavior Analysis for Successful Hiring Chapter 6: Innovative, Creative Ways to use ABA 6.1 Making Applied Behavior Analysis Accessible to Consumers 6.2 Telehealth to Implement Applied Behavior Analysis 6.3 You’re on mute! People skills behind the screens and behind the scenes 6.4 Making a Document People will Actually Read 6.5 A Trauma-Informed Approach to Behavior Analysis 6.6 Behavior analysts' skills for co-developing virtual reality game-based technologies as applied behavior analysis programs for autistic adults

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Book SynopsisAddressing 21st-century issues, threats, and opportunities with time-tested principles, this book empowers corporate communications professionals to protect, inspire, and energize organizations in the face of a crisis. Whether due to an external incident or an internal misstep, every major company or institution will find itself scrutinized, its normal operations disrupted, and its reputation and business continuity threatened at some pointâand how it prepares for, and reacts to, a crisis can make a critical difference in the ultimate outcome of events. This book focuses on strategic crisis communication as a function of three elements: 1. crisis preparationâestablishing a robust and nimble infrastructure and plans, in advance of any crisis 2. crisis managementârapidly gathering information, activating and adjusting plans, making decisions, and relentlessly monitoring outcomes 3. crisis communicationâreaching multiple audiences, on multiple platforms, with clear, consistent, and purposeful messages that tell the truth and defend the organization. Bringing together best practices gleaned from hundreds of recent case studies, this book is an unmatched resource enabling corporate communications and PR professionals, and the organizations that employ them, to understand how to weather any reputational storm that may threaten their enterprise.Table of Contents1 A Few Important Distinctions. 2 Be Strategic in Your Planning. 3 Set Up a Rapid Response Team. 4 Get the Facts . . . Fast. 5 Determine the Real Problem. 6 Put Someone in Charge. 7 Activate the Crisis Communication Team. 8 Develop a Strategy. 9 Establish Goals. 10 Centralize Communication. 11 Consider All Stakeholders, All Markets You Serve. 12 Expect the Best, Plan for the Worst. 13 Communication Is Your Primary Tool in a Crisis. 14 The Importance of Being Earnest. 15 Put Your Employees First. 16 Engaging with Legacy Media. 17 Responding to News Media Inaccuracy. 18 Deploy Your Websites. 19 Social Media Has Changed the Crisis Communication Landscape. 20 Ten Best Practices in Crisis Communication

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Book SynopsisWith a particularly student-friendly and engaging style, this third edition gives readers the fundamental tools necessary to e?ffectively communicate in interpersonal interactions.Natural Bridges in Interpersonal Communication, Third Edition, is a concise and practical book that introduces students to the basic concepts and skills of interpersonal communication in both face-to-face and online interactions in personal and professional settings. Each chapter features human interest stories and review exercises to help students better understand the concepts covered. This edition continues its expanded coverage of foundational research and devotes additional space to discussions of cultural safety, race and ethnicity, issues of mental health, and technology and social media.This textbook is designed for communication studies, business, and career and trade courses in interpersonal communication and communication skills at the community college and four-year unive

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic good versus evil terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukrainewith his division of the world into civilized us versus barbarian themthe book argues that such a one-dimensional representation of complex social reality leaves no space for understanding the conflict and has little, if any, potential to bring about peace.To deconstruct the civilization versus barbarism discourse propagated by Zelensky, the book incorporates into its analysis alternative articulations of the crisis by oppositional voices. The author looks at the writing of several popular Ukrainian journalists and bloggers who have been excluded from the field of political representation within Ukraine, where all oppositional media are currently banned. Drawing on the discourse theTrade Review"Olga Baysha’s riveting War, Peace, and Populist Discourse exposes the lethality of simplistic judgments that fictionalize highly dangerous geopolitical struggles between Russia, Ukraine, and the West. Her devastating perspective is an indispensable contribution to studies in global communication and transnational populism." Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University "Olga Baysha’s War, Peace, and Populist Discourse challenges the good-versus-evil oversimplification of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and argues that the road to peace must include a shift from antagonism to agonism. This is a valuable addition to the analyses of the ongoing crisis."Natalia Knoblock, Associate Professor, Saginaw Valley State UniversityTable of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Transnational Populism and Global PolarizationPart I: Populist Discourse of Civilization1. From the Euromaidan to the Russia–Ukraine War: 2013–2022 2. Analyzing Populist Discourses: Contingency, Sedimentation, and Antagonism3. Zelensky’s Transnational Populism: "Civilized Us" Versus "Barbaric Them" Part II: Alternative Articulations of the Russia–Ukraine Conflict4. Ukraine Under External Control5. Authoritarian Populism in the Name of Democracy6. The Deadlock of the Peace TreatyConclusion. A Road to Peace: Giving Voice to the Silenced

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Book SynopsisDesigned to engage, inspire, and challenge students while laying out the fundamentals of the craft, this textbookânow in its fourth editionâintroduces readers to the core values of journalism and its singular role in a democracy.From the First Amendment to Facebook, this popular textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of the guiding principles of journalism and what makes it unique. Authors Stephanie Craft, Charles N. Davis, and Joy Jenkins cover the profession's ethical and legal foundations, its historical and modern precepts, the economic landscape of journalism, the relationships among journalism and other social institutions, and the key issues and challenges that contemporary journalists face. They also discuss the current ambiguities and transitionsâeconomic and technologicalâoccurring in the field, from nonprofit news sites to social mediaâs effects on journalism.Filled with relevant case studies, exercises, and discussion questions that encourage critica

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the how and why of digital reporting, this interactive textbook equips readers with all the skills they need to succeed in today's multimedia reporting landscape.The Journalist's Toolbox is an extension of the JournalistsToolbox.ai website, which provides links to tools, organized by beats and topics, as well as social channels, a newsletter, and more than 95 training videos relevant to journalists. This handbook offers a deep dive into these digital resources, explaining how they can be manipulated to build multimedia stories online and in broadcast. It covers all the basics of data journalism, fact-checking, using social media, editing and ethics, as well as video, photo, and audio production and storytelling. The book considers digital journalism from a global perspective, including examples and interviews with journalists from around the world.Packed full of hands-on exercises and insider tips, The Journalist's Toolbox is an essential compTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsVisual Tour IntroductionChapter 1Reporting, Writing and Editing for the WebChapter 2Searching the Web and Using AI in ResearchChapter 3Fact-Checking and Building TrustChapter 4Social Media and Audience EngagementChapter 5Data JournalismChapter 6Mobile JournalismChapter 7Multimedia: Podcasting | Audio | Photo EditingChapter 8Google Earth | Satellite ImageryChapter 9Artificial Intelligence and the Future of JournalismChapter 10AI | Productivity Tools and ExercisesChapter 11Digital Security | Advanced Exercises Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection introduces English and literacy educators to the theoretical, research-based, and practical dimensions of using digital memetic textsmemesin the classroom. Digital memetic texts come with new affordances, particularly as avenues for student creativity, voice, and advocacy. But these texts can also be put to manipulative, propagandistic, and nefarious purposes, posing critical challenges to an informed, democratic citizenry. Grounded in multimodality and critical literacy, this book investigates the fascinating digital dimension of texts, audiences, and meaning, and considers how English educators might take up these conversations in practical ways with students. With authentic examples from teachers and students, this volume provides a road map to researchers and educatorsboth preservice and in-serviceinterested in critical and productive uses of these modern phenomena.Table of ContentsEditorsList of ContributorsAcknowledgements Historical Damage, Modern Resonances, and Speculative Futures: English Education through Memes Part One. A Critical Memetic Curriculum Introduction: Rethinking Reading in a Critical Memetic Curriculum Making "Meme"ing: Questions for Critical Memetic Inquiry in High School English Classrooms Critical Media Analysis through Memes: Considerations and Applications for ELA Classrooms Mimetic Masculinities: Young Men of Color Analyze Anime Texts They Love The Meme Museum: Depictions and Analysis of COVID-19 with High School Students Part Two. Multimodal Composing with Memetic Texts Introduction: Deconstructing Purposes and Outcomes for Composing Socially Conscious Memetics Through a Culturally Digitized Pedagogy Lens Young People Reading and Writing the World through Meme Curation, Creation, and Critical Conversation Critical Memetic Analysis as Testimony: Restorying Memes as Healing Pedagogies What do you Meme? Using Memes for Argument Construction and Understanding We’re not Joking Anymore: Context, Audiences, and Memetics Part Three. Memetics and Language Introduction: Critiquing Linguicism with Critical Memetic Language Study Using Memes to Teach Linguistic Concepts in the ELA Classroom "I want to use my voice": Youth Literacies Disrupting Critical Memetic Analysis Part Four. Memes and Community Identities Introduction: Transgression and Control Framing Critical Memetic Literacy: Helping Students Grapple with Manipulative Memes Repurposing Problematic Memes in a Middle School Superhero Storytelling Project The Plagiarism Paradox: Memes, Originality, and Authorship Key TermsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece offers an innovative approach to archaic and classical Greek literature by focusing on an original and rather unexplored topic. Through close readings of epic, lyric, and tragic poetry, the book engages into a thorough discourse on error, loss, and inadequacy as a personal and collective experience. Stamatia Dova revisits key passages from the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Pindar''s epinician odes, Euripides'' Herakles, and other texts to identify a poetics of failure that encompasses gods, heroes, athletes, and citizens alike. From Odysseus'' shortcomings as a captain in the Odyssey to the defeat of anonymous wrestlers at the 460 B.C.E. Olympics in Pindar, this study examines failure from a mythological, literary, and historical perspective. Mindful of ancient Greek society''s emphasis on honor and shame, Dova''s in-depth analysis also shedsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Odysseus' failure and the opening of our Odyssey; 2. Theseus, Peirithoos, and the poetics of a failed katabasis; 3. Herakles and the limits of sanity; 4. Whose fault is it?; 5. Achilles, Melikertes, and the perils of immersion; 6. Who wants Tithonos' Immortality?; 7. On heroes and athletes in Homer; 8. Winner takes all; 9. Neither silver nor bronze; 10. Collective aposiōpēsis and the failure of the Ionian revolt

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.By offering an account of three milestones in the development of the frontier mythology in its intersection with presidential imagery, the book shows how the image of Donald Trump fits into the line of cowboy presidents, together with Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It also offers insights into the reasons for making Russian president Vladimir Putin a part of Trump's story and a routinely mentioned figure in American presidential politics.Applying the means of philosophical anthropology to this topical issue at the intersection of politics and the media, this volume will appeal to those working and studying in the areas of media studies, political anthropology, American studies, and myth studies. Table of ContentsPreface "The toughest guy in the office" The tough guy theme in politics Masculine politics and the origin of the tough Theodore Roosevelt: the becoming of the frontier and the arrival of the hero Performative frontier: staging the myth The enduring contradiction of myth The land and the man The man and the towners The girl: gendered opposition Ronald Reagan: extension of the frontier and inversion of the hero Myth gains primacy The exhauster of myth Donald Trump: recovered meanings of the frontier and resurgence of the hero Back to the beginning New scapes: cowboy goes metropolitan Myth continued Vladimir Putin: "stolen" meanings of the frontier and a supplementing hero Here comes the villain "Is he one of us?" Concluding thoughts

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Book SynopsisGlobal Journalism Collaborations offers guidance on detailed ways to create collaborative international projects in the communications and journalism fields  a hot topic in higher education.The chapters are contributed by professors and journalists from around the world. The authors explain, step-by-step, the process of collaborating with students and instructors at universities in dozens of countries in order to produce digital storytelling projects that are streamed worldwide. The book will inspire academics and students in any discipline to develop and create their own collaborative projects by sharing lessons learned through case studies of successful global collaborations.This truly interdisciplinary work will interest scholars and instructors of journalism, media studies, mass communication, higher education and anyone working on collaborative projects across a variety of disciplines. 

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Book SynopsisPlatforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections delves into one of the most polarizing phenomena of the digital age. Bringing together global, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspectives, this edited collection unpacks the evolving dynamics of cancel culture, examining its practices and implications across diverse political and cultural landscapes.While some hail cancel culture as a tool for social justice, amplifying marginalized voices and calling out systemic inequalities, others critique it as performative virtue signalling or a form of censorship. This book navigates these tensions by analysing the complex interplay of digital platforms and governance mechanisms that shape cancel culture. It explores how platform architectures enable or resist cancel practices, how narratives and media discourses surrounding cancel culture are constructed and contested, and how these dynamics differ across national and cultural contexts.The contributors engage with cutting-edge research and offer localized insights from a range of contextsâincluding India, South Africa, China, Southeast Europe, the US and Russiaâto challenge the universalizing assumptions often made about cancel culture. Methodologically diverse, the book employs sentiment and corpus analysis, digital ethnography, interviews, case studies, and critical cultural studies to provide a multifaceted examination of this volatile site of politics and cultural expression.By weaving together perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies, Platforming Cancel Culture presents a nuanced understanding of how cancel culture functions as a driver of accountability and a locus of contested power. This collection is an essential resource for scholars, students, and anyone seeking to critically engage with the intersections of digital media, culture, and identity in the 21st century.

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Book SynopsisInteraction of Symbols is a book for everyone engaged with icon design. It presents a theory of how icons work: symbols in an icon interact to evoke meaning. From this theory flow design principles and practices based on evidence from Design and other disciplines such as Psychology, Perception and Cognition. The theory. principles, and practices impact how all symbol-based communications are conceived, designed, and appliedThe book focuses on icons that elicit a concept without any previous training or use of language. Findings from twenty years' worth of empirical design research studies explore, illustrate, and support each principle, process, and recommendation. The book begins with a review of icon research from various fields before laying a conceptual foundation that grounds the theory of the book. After and elaborating on that theory are chapters that demonstrate how to Establish Contexts to Guide Comprehension, Glean Which Symbols to Draw,

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores innovations in journalism: the goals and expectations associated with them, promoting and hindering framework conditions, and their social and industrial impact.Drawing on an international research project conducted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, the book takes a complex approach, considering media policy preconditions and the social impact of journalistic innovation from a comparative perspective. The key findings are examined and presented on different levels: theoretical, methodological, and â as the focus â empirical.Having identified the most relevant innovations in each of the five countries, a total of 100 case studies are examined to explore the influence of these innovations on the quality of journalism and its normative role in democratic societies and to analyze which preconditions support or inhibit the development and implementation of the innovations in news organizations. The interdependencies betwee

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Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, this edited volume provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and limitations.Digital technologies have reshaped our way of life. To grasp their dynamics and implications, people often rely on metaphors to provide a shared frame of reference. Scholars, journalists, tech companies, and policymakers alike speak of digital clouds, bubbles, frontiers, platforms, trolls, and rabbit holes. Some of these metaphors distort the workings of the digital realm and neglect key consequences. This collection, structured in three parts, explores metaphors across digital infrastructures, content, and users. Within these parts, each chapter examines a specific metaphor that has become near-ubiquitous in public debate. Doing so, the book engages not only with the technological, but also the social, political, and environmental implications of digital technologies and relatio

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Book SynopsisThere has been a recent shift in the nature of public engagement from a culture of paternalism and control towards a public-centred approach involving collaboration and co-creation. This book draws on public relations and development communication insights to build a new community engagement model for public sector organisations who wish to engage with rural communities in developing countries. This theoretical model also offers a practical framework for Government in particular to engage with and empower rural communities as they adopt and exploit infrastructure developments. The outcome is mutual benefit.By examining in detail how Government communicates with rural communities on renewable energy infrastructure projects in Indonesia, and underpinned by empirical research with those communities, this new participatory framework has been developed. It envisages progressive empowerment of rural communities as Government encourages active engagement on the installation and expl

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Book SynopsisUsing sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty.Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a taxonomy of categories which are deduced from a critical inventory in philosophy, social and natural sciences, and risk research. Comprising six parts, the philosophical grounding of uncertainty sets the stage for the following philosophical and social scientific accounts and explanation of four distinctive guises of uncertainty that form a taxonomic notion and rationale: ontological, epistemological, linguistic-communicative, and teleological uncertainty. The theoretical-conceptual rumination provides a complex, differentiated view of the anatomy of uncertainty and an understanding that can be used in further theoretical and empirical research, as well as socio-political practice. The la

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised textbook is a friendly step-by-step guide to public speaking that explores the fundamental skills necessary to present a natural and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing an overview of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and improve upon students' natural strengths. Featuring a warm and humorous writing style, The Natural Speaker illustrates the concepts and skills required for enjoyable public speaking as the authors invite readers to view speaking as a life-long journey. It is an easy-to-read book that introduces each chapter with relevant and engaging stories, explains concepts in simple language, and presents practical skills for improving public speaking. Its supportive tone encourages the reader to practice, improve, and use these oral presentation skills in formal and informal settings. This eleventh edition features new sections on topics including social anxiety in public speaking, the role of artificial intelligence in speech research and outline construction, and public speaking as a form of personal growth. This book serves as an accessible core textbook for Public Speaking courses and provides guidance for individual readers and public speaking workshops. Online resources include an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, a sample course outline, and sample test questions. They are available at www.routledge.com/9781032826929.

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Book SynopsisMost digital content, whether it be thousands of news articles or millions of social media posts, is too large for the naked eye alone. Often, the advent of immense datasets requires a more productive approach to labeling media beyond a team of researchers. This book offers practical guidance and Python code to traverse the vast expanses of dataâsignificantly enhancing productivity without compromising scholarly integrity. Weâll survey a wide array of computer-based classification approaches, focusing on easy-to-understand methodological explanations and best practices to ensure that your data is being labeled accurately and precisely. By reading this book, you should leave with an understanding of how to select the best computational content analysis methodology to your needs for the data and problem you have.This guide gives researchers the tools they need to amplify their analytical reach through the integration of content analysis with computational classification approaches, including machine learning and the latest advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs). It is particularly useful for academic researchers looking to classify media data and advanced scholars in mass communications research, media studies, digital communication, political communication, and journalism.Complementing the book are online resources: datasets for practice, Python code scripts, extended exercise solutions, and practice quizzes for students, as well as test banks and essay prompts for instructors. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781032846354.

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