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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints imposed by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the digital empowerment-control nexus by articulating the use of digital technologies - whether by migrants themselves, civil society actors or institutions - with their mediating role in the processes of empowerment, surveillance and migration control.Based on original empirical studies, the chapters bring contrasting and complementary insights into the use of digital technologies as agentic and/or surveillance tools in different national and supranational contexts (Turkey, Mexico, the United States, Switzerland, France, Romania, Greece and the European Union) and from different disciplinary perspectives (anthropology, sociology, geograph

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to AI and Intercultural Communication Education is the first, historic volume to explore the intersection of AI and intercultural communication education, interrogating both the transformative possibilities and ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies.Through diverse scholarly perspectives, the book examines how AI tools, ranging from language models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek to generative image systems, could reshape the way we teach, research and conceptualise interculturality. While AI offers innovative opportunities for virtual exchanges, automated translation and accessible learning, it also risks reinforcing stereotypes, Western-centric epistemologies and reductive narratives if used uncritically. The contributors address pressing questions: Can AI facilitate decolonial and reflexive approaches to intercultural communication education, or does it inevitably reproduce dominant paradigms? How can educators harness the potential of AI while safeguarding against its pitfalls, such as algorithmic bias and the erasure of indigenous knowledge systems? Combining theoretical critique with case studies, the volume highlights the need for ethical frameworks that prioritise epistemic justice, pluralistic perspectives and human agency in AI-assisted intercultural communication and education.This book is an indispensable resource for students, researchers and educators interested in the complexities of technology-mediated learning, as well as the broader fields of higher education, intercultural studies and internationalisation and globalisation.

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Book SynopsisAdvertising Creative, Sixth Edition gets right to the point of advertising by stressing key principles and practical information students and working professionals can use. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Creativity: Concept Still Rules Chapter 2 Strategy and Branding: Putting a Face on a Product Chapter 3 Ethical and Legal Issues: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons Chapter 4 Diverse Audiences: Not So General Anymore Chapter 5 International Advertising: It’s a Global Marketplace Chapter 6 Ideation: How to Think About Advertising Chapter 7 Design Fundamentals: Not the How, the Why Chapter 8 Streaming Media: Creating and Controlling Content Chapter 9 Web Strategy: Copy, Content and Design Chapter 10 Social and Mobile Marketing: You Can Take it with You Chapter 11 Print: Writing for Reading Chapter 12 Support Media: Everyone Out of the Box Chapter 13 Direct Marketing: Hitting the Bull’s-Eye Chapter 14 Business-to-Business: Selling Along the Supply Chain Chapter 15 Campaigns: Putting it all Together Chapter 16 Survival Guide: Landing or creating your first job and thriving

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Book SynopsisConcepts in Composition is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice, allowing prospective teachers to assume the dual role of both teacher and student as they enter the discipline of Writing Studies and become familiar with some of its critical conversations. Now in its third edition, the volume offers up-to-date scholarship and a deeper focus on diversity, both in the classroom and in relation to Writing Studies and literacy more broadly. This text continues to offer a wealth of practical assignments, classroom activities, and readings in each chapter. It is the ideal resource for the undergraduate or graduate student looking to pursue a career in writing instruction.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Processes: Approaches and Issues Irene L. Clark Reading(s) Composing Behaviors of One-and Multi-Draft Writers Author: Muriel Harris (1989) Source: College English, 51 (2): 174–190 Author: Mary Jo Reiff (2006) Source: In Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. Eds. Peter Vandenberg, Sue Hum, Jennifer Clary-Lemon. NCTE: Urbana IL, 157–206 Invention: Issues and Strategies Irene L. Clark Reading: Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language, A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block Author: Mike Rose (1980) Source: College Composition and Communication, 31(4): 389–401 Revision: Issues and Strategies Betty Bamberg and Irene L. Clark Reading: Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers Author: Nancy Sommers (1980) Source: College Composition and Communication, 31(4): 378–388 Audiences Irene L. Clark Reading: Closing My Eyes as I speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience Author: Peter Elbow (1987) Source: College English, 49(1): 50–69 Genre, Transfer, and Related Issues Irene L. Clark Reading: "Emphasizing Similarity" but Not "Eliding Difference": Exploring Sub- Disciplinary Differences as a Way to Teach Genre Flexibly Katherine Schaefer (2015) WAC Journal, 26: 36–55 Reading/Writing Connections Irene L. Clark Reading: Motivation and Connection: Teaching Reading (and Writing) in the Composition Classroom Author: Michael Bunn (2013) Source: College Composition and Communication, 64(3): 496–516 Assessment: Issues and Controversies Julie Neff-Lippman Reading: Across the Drafts Author: Nancy Sommers (2006) Source: College Composition and Communication, 58: 248–257 Teaching Multilingual Students in a Composition Class Olga Griswold and John Edlund Reading: Promoting Grammar and Language Development in the Writing Class: Why, What How, and When Author: Dana R. Ferris (2016) Source: In Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages. Ed. E. Hinkel. New York: Hinkel (2016) pp. 222–245 Language, Linguistic Diversity, and Writing Sharon Klein Reading: Clarifying the Multiple Dimensions of Monolingualism: Keeping Our Sights on Language Politics Authors: Missy Watson and Rachael Shapiro (2018) Source: Composition Forum, 38, http://compositionforum.com/issue/38/ Issues in Digital and Multimodal Writing: Composition Instruction for the 21st Century Jennifer Sheppard Reading: The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing Author: Cynthia L. Selfe (2009) Source: College Composition and Communication, 60(4): 616–663

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Book SynopsisPosing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the definition of education exposes the shaky ground on which some historical assumptions rest. For example, studying conventional pedagogical texts and practices used for girls'' home education alongside evidence gleaned from women''s diaries and letters suggests domestic settings were the loci for far more rigorous intellectual training than has previously been acknowledged. Contributors cast a wide net, engaging with debates between private and public education, the educational agenda of Hannah More, women schoolteachers, the role of diplomats in educating boys embarked on the Grand Tour, English Jesuit education, eighteenth-century print culture and education in Ireland, the role of the print trades in the use of teaching aids in earlTrade Review'This book is an outstanding contribution to the silent revolution that is placing education at the heart of the cultural history of the "long eighteenth century". The editors set out to redefine education as a cultural, rather than a political, social or purely instructive practice. The editors and contributors demonstrate convincingly the innovative work that is possible outside conventional disciplinary boundaries in the conceptual space constituted through education. This is a book that sets agendas for future research and debate as it sheds light on "new ways of seeing" in the history of education. It is a book with the potential to reconfigure both history and education.' Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester, UK 'A first-rate volume that is of considerable value, both for content and for methodology.' Enlightenment and DissentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin; 'O miserable and most ruinous measure': the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800, Sophia Woodley; Evangelicalism and enlightenment: the educational agenda of Hannah More, Anne Stott; Marketing religious identity: female educators, Methodist culture, and 18th-century childhood, Mary Clare Martin; Learning and virtue: English grammar and the 18th-century girls' school, Carol Percy; ' Familiar conversation': the role of the 'familiar format' in education in 18th- and 19th-century England, Michèle Cohen; Hosting the Grand Tour: civility, enlightenment and culture, c. 1740-1790, Jennifer Mori; 'Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity': English Jesuit education and culture in the long 18th century, 1688-1832, Maurice Whitehead; Colonising the mind: the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c 1750-1850, Deirdre Raftery; 'Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c.': booksellers and the infant school market, Jill Shefrin; Delightful instruction? Assessing children's use of educational books in the long 18th century, M.O. Grenby; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAwards2023 H.L. Bud Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo It's a Way of Life Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe, received the 2023 National Communication Association''s Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award.The second edition of the award-winning Handbook of Autoethnography is a thematically organized volume that contextualizes contemporary practices of autoethnography and examines how the field has developed since the publication of the first edition in 2013. Throughout, contributors identify key autoethnographic themes and commitments and offer examples of diverse, thoughtful, effective, applied, and innovative autoethnography.The second edition is organized into five sections:In Section 1, Doing Autoethnography, contributors exploreTable of ContentsPreface Autoethnography in the Time of Uncertainty: Finding Hope and Purpose; Introduction. Making Sense and Taking Action: Creating a Caring Community of Autoethnographers; SECTION 1: DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Doing Autoethnography 1. Mediations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe 2. Sketching Subjectivities 3. Individual and Collaborative Autoethnography for Social Science Research 4. Autoethnography as Acts of Love 5. Frank and the Gift, or the Untold Told: Provocations for Autoethnography and Therapy 6. Border Smugglers: Betweener Bodies Making Knowledge and Expanding the Circle of Us 7. Self and Others: Ethics in Autoethnographic Research; SECTION 2: REPRESENTING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Nepantleric Traveling: Writing and Reading Autoethnographies as a Mode of Inquiry 8. Writing Autoethnography: The Personal, Poetic, and Performative as Compositional Strategies 9. Artistic Autoethnography: Exploring the Interface Between Autoethnography and Artistic Research 10. How Intersectional Autoethnography Saved my Life: A Plea for Intersectional Inquiry 11. Collaborative Autoethnography: From Rhythm and Harmony to Shared Stories and Truths 12. The Matter of Performative Autoethnography 13. Exo-autoethnography as Method for Research on Intergenerational Trauma Transmission 14. Doing Digital and Visual Autoethnography; SECTION 3: TEACHING, EVALUATING, AND PUBLISHING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Purposes, Perspectives, and Possibilities: Enlivening Debates about Autoethnography 15. Autoethnography as/in Higher Education 16. Embracing Autoethnographic Anxiety: The Joyous Potential of Teaching and Advising Relationships 17. Thinking Through Rejection: Reflections on Writing and Publishing Autoethnography 18. Publishing Autoethnography: A Thrice-Told Tale 19. When Judgment Calls: Making Sense of Criteria for Evaluating Different Forms of Autoethnography 20. Failing Autoethnography; SECTION 4: CHALLENGES AND FUTURES OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Challenges and Futures of Autoethnography 21. Translation and Tango: Decolonizing Autoethnography 22. Naming and Reclaiming Decolonial, Feminist, Performative, and Other Approaches to Critical Autoethnography 23. Autoethnography Crosses Cultural Borders 24. Textual Experience: A Relational Reading of Culture 25. Writing Feminist Autoethnography: A Memo/ry to the Personal-is-Political 26. Girl, Disrupted: Trauma, Narrative Disruptions, and Autoethnography 27. Posthumanist Autoethnography; SECTION 5: AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC EXEMPLARS Section Introduction. Poking Around the Neighborhood: Autoethnography and the Search for… 28. "Sit with Your Legs Closed!" And Other Sayin’s from My Childhood 29, Risk and Reward in Autoethnography: Revisiting "Chronicling an Academic Depression" 30. On Evocative Autoethnography: Talking Over Bird on the Wire 31. Remixing/Reliving/Revisioning "My Mother is Mentally Retarded" 32. I AM (Still) an Angry Black Woman: Black Feminist Autoethnography, Voice, and Resistance 33. Staying I(ra)n: Negotiating Queer Identity through Narrative Trespass from within the Iranian American Closet 34. Revisiting "Body and Bulimia Revisited" 35. That Baby will Cost You (REDUX): A Story of an Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy (and Motherhood) 36. Revisiting "Bobcat" on the Eve of My 25-Year High School Reunion 37. A Year of Encounters with Privilege 38. The American Dental Dream: Sinking My Teeth Back In 39. Wayfinding the "Tapu" in Critical Autoethnography 40. Researching the Taboo: Reflections on an Ethno-autography 41. Using "Auto-Ethnography" to Write about Racism 42. Walk, Walking, Talking Home 43. An Autoethnography of What Happens

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Book SynopsisRadical Orthodoxy is the most influential theological development in a generation. Many have been bewildered by the range and intensity of the writings which constitute this movement. This book spans the breadth of the history of thought discussed by Radical Orthodoxy, tackling the accuracy of the historical narratives on which their position depends. The distinguished contributors examine the history of thought as presented by the movement, offering a series of critiques of individual Radical Orthodox 'readings' of key thinkers. Contributors: Eli Diamond, Wayne J. Hankey, Todd Breyfogle, John Marenbon, Richard Cross, Neil G. Robertson, Douglas Hedley, David Peddle, Steven Shakespeare, George Pattison, and Hugh Rayment-Pickard.Trade Review’... the collective impact of these essays, if even half of the conclusions are correct, is devastating for Radical Orthodoxy as a movement. This work must thus feature as essential reading in the task of critically assessing Milbank and al.'s work.’ Theological Book Review ’The contributors offer careful counter-readings of many of the main figures in the metanarrative of Radical Oxthodoxy.’ TheologyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Catherine Pickstock, Plato and the unity of divinity and humanity: liturgical or philosophical?, Eli Diamond; Philosophical religion and the neoplatonic turn to the subject, Wayne J. Hankey; Is there room for political philosophy in postmodern critical Augustinianism?, Todd Breyfogle; Aquinas, radical orthodoxy and the importance of truth, John Marenbon; Duns Scotus and Suárez at the origins of modernity, Richard Cross; Milbank and modern secularity, Neil G. Robertson; Radical orthodoxy and apocalyptic difference: Cambridge Platonism, and Milbank's romantic Christian cabbala, Douglas Hedley; Theology, social theory and dialectic: a consideration of Milbank's Hegel, David Peddle; Better well hanged than ill wed? Kierkegaard and radical orthodoxy, Steven Shakespeare; After transubstantiation: blessing, memory, solidarity and hope, George Pattison; Derrida and nihilism, Hugh Rayment-Pickard; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition provides a comprehensive overview of current theory and research written by the top theorists and researchers in each area. It has been updated to address the growing influence of technology, changing relationships, and several growing integrated approaches to communication and includes seven new chapters on: Digital Media Media Effects Privacy Dark Side Applied Communication Relational Communication Instructional Communication Communication and the LawThe book continues to be essential reading for students and faculty who want a thorough overview of contemporary communication theory and research.Table of ContentsPreface to the 1996 EditionPreface to the 2007 EditionPreface to the Third EditionPart One: Studying "Theory": Doing "Research1 Integrating Theory and Research: Starting with QuestionsDon W. Stacks and Michael B. Salwen2 Thinking about TheorySteven H. Chafee3 Thinking QuantitativelyMichael J. Beatty4 The Qualitative Method in Communication ResearchMark Hickson III and Brennan HicksonPart Two: Mass Communication: Approaches and Concerns5 Mass Communication Theory and Research: The Dynamic Nature of Theoretical ApproachesWayne Wanta and Barbara Myslik6 Privacy Issues in CommunicationFritz Messere7 Media GatekeepingTim P. Vos8 The Agenda-Setting Role of the News MediaSebastián Valenzuela and Maxwell McCombs9 Cultivation Analysis: Research and PracticeNancy Signorielli, Michael Morgan, and James Shanahan10 Theories and Methods in Knowledge Gap ResearchCecilie Gaziano and Emanuel Gaziano11 Uses and GratificationsPaul Haridakis and Zachary Humphries12 Spiral of SilenceCharles T. Salmon and Thanomwong Poorisat13 International CommunicationLindita Camaj14 Violence and Sex in the MediaWes Fondren, Kyle J. Holody, and Jennings Bryant15 AdvertisingEsther Thorson and Shelly Rodgers16 Digital Media: Identity ManagementLee Humphreys, Alexa Paley, and Sierra Rinaldi17 Media Effects: A Functional PerspectiveNicholas David BowmanPart Three: Human Communication Approaches and Concerns18 Human Communication Theories and Research: Traditions and ModelsVirginia P. Richmond and James C. McCroskey19 The Rhetorical Perspective: Doing, Being, Shaping, and SeeingJ. David Cisneros, Kristen L. McCauliff, and Vanessa B. Beasley20 PersuasionMichael D. Miller and Timothy R. Levine21 Interpersonal CommunicationCharles R. Berger and Michael E. Roloff22 Delineating the Dark Side of CommunicationBrian Spitzberg23 Intercultural CommunicationThomas M. Steinfatt and Diane M. Millette 24 Intrapersonal Communication and Imagined Interactions: A Musical ApplicationJames M. Honeycutt25 Nonverbal CommunicationAmy S. Ebesu Hubbard and Judee K. Burgoon26 Applied CommunicationLawrence R. Frey and Jeanette German27 Organizational Communication: Theory and PracticeJessica Wendorf Muhamad, Tyler R. Harrison, and Fan YangPart Four: Integrated Approaches to Communication28 Relational CommunicationSean M. Horan and Leah E. Bryant29 Internet Communication (and Social Media)Marcus Messner, Bruce Garrison, and Marcia W. DiStaso30 Corporate CommunicationShannon A. Bowen31 Diffusion of InnovationsEverette M. Rodgers, Arvind Singhal, and Margaret M. Quinlan32 CredibilityCharles C. Self and Chris Roberts33 Political CommunicationSharon E. Jarvis and Kassie M. Barroquillo34 Public Relations and Integrated CommunicationDustin Supa35 Health Communication: Social Support and Health OutcomesKevin B. Wright36 Feminist TheoryCarolyn Garrett Cline37 Communication EthicsDonald K. Wright38 Instructional CommunicationMarian L. Houser39 Communication and the LawJason ZenorPart Five: Future of Theory and Research in Communication40 The Future of Communication Theory and ResearchMichael J. Beatty and Paola Pascual-Ferrá

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Book SynopsisInteractive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling provides media students and industry professionals with strategies for creating innovative new media projects across a variety of platforms. Synthesizing ideas from a range of theorists and practitioners across visual, audio, and interactive media, Kelly McErlean offers a practical reference guide and toolkit to best practices, techniques, key historical and theoretical concepts, and terminology that media storytellers and creatives need to create compelling interactive and transmedia narratives. McErlean takes a broad lens, exploring traditional narrative, VR and AR, audience interpretation, sound design, montage, the business of transmedia storytelling, and much more.Written for both experienced media practitioners and those looking for a reference to help bolster their creative toolkit or learn how to better craft multi-platform stories, Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling serves as a Trade Review"In an age of ubiquitous social media, interaction is the new normal. Pitched precisely on the leading edge of media theory/practice and industry/academy interests, Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling is a best-of-both-worlds, how-to guide for practitioners (AKA creatives) across the relevant multidisciplinary and cross-platform fields of research, pedagogy and commercial production. Grounded in a confident, non-jargonistic understanding of narrative (and narration and narratology), this book deep-mines scholarly explanation of the customarily closed-circuit of ‘classical’ (linear-consequential) and non-linear (avant-garde) storytelling in TV, cinema, photography and fine art, in order to apply key conceptual insights, tools and techniques to the aesthetic practice of making of innovative digital forms, open to two-way and multilinear fictive plotting. Staying current with fast-changing genres and supporting technologies will of course always be tricky. To that end it is surely wise, as in this instance, to situate the work conceptually and in relation to a range of writers and approaches. In debt to the modernist praxis of pioneers such as Brecht as well as the example of Hollywood auteurs, notably Hitchcock, the reader will appreciate McErlean’s skilled use of recurring focus on key objects of analysis, illuminated through a critical compass of perspectives and practices."—Dr. David E. Butler, Independent Academic Consultant (University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts)"A storytelling future has arrived and here is its Book of Revelation. McErlean shows us how, five centuries on from Caxton, we can engage with new technologies to transform the familiar immersive experience in ways previously only imagined, and be inspired to connect anew both inside and outside of ourselves."—Dr. Daniel Meadows, Photographer/Viusal Storyteller; Former Lecturer at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies"The digital world is full of paradox; reading is crucial to master its development. If you want to be serious about interactive narratives and transmedia storytelling, this book is for you. The author is adamant about it: ‘Reading is not always easy as many worthwhile texts require significant effort to get through . . . I have always promoted the importance of critically analysing narrative texts.'"—Nathalie Labourdette, Head of EBU Academy – EBU Geneva"In an age of ubiquitous social media, interaction is the new normal. Pitched precisely on the leading edge of media theory/practice and industry/academy interests, Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling is a best-of-both-worlds, how-to guide for practitioners (AKA creatives) across the relevant multidisciplinary and cross-platform fields of research, pedagogy and commercial production. Grounded in a confident, non-jargonistic understanding of narrative (and narration and narratology), this book deep-mines scholarly explanation of the customarily closed-circuit of ‘classical’ (linear-consequential) and non-linear (avant-garde) storytelling in TV, cinema, photography and fine art, in order to apply key conceptual insights, tools and techniques to the aesthetic practice of making of innovative digital forms, open to two-way and multilinear fictive plotting. Staying current with fast-changing genres and supporting technologies will of course always be tricky. To that end it is surely wise, as in this instance, to situate the work conceptually and in relation to a range of writers and approaches. In debt to the modernist praxis of pioneers such as Brecht as well as the example of Hollywood auteurs, notably Hitchcock, the reader will appreciate McErlean’s skilled use of recurring focus on key objects of analysis, illuminated through a critical compass of perspectives and practices."—Dr. David E. Butler, Independent Academic Consultant"A storytelling future has arrived and here is its Book of Revelation. McErlean shows us how, five centuries on from Caxton, we can engage with new technologies to transform the familiar immersive experience in ways previously only imagined, and be inspired to connect anew both inside and outside of ourselves."—Dr. Daniel Meadows, Photographer, Writer, Documentarist; Pioneer of Participatory MediaTable of ContentsIntroduction Who is this Book For? Defining Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Stories The Author New Modes of Storytelling A Summary of the Chapters Commercial Imperative The Command to Read Lateral Thinking Pitching your Idea Developing an Ideas Book / Visual Diary Traditional Narrative Texts Talking Pictures - Finding Narrative in Photography Geometry in Photo Composition Story Sequences in Stills Pedro Meyer’s The Illusion of Real Space Navigating Linear Texts Verisimilitude Brechtian Realism Aristotle’s Poetics Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress Baudelaire’s l'Art mnemonique Film Editing - Walter Murch The Rule of Six The 3rd Effect Eisenstein’s Diagrammatic Score Precipitant Sounds Embodied Sounds Narrative Progression Interpreting the Author’s Intent Narrative Reality versus Audience Reality Text on Screen Constructing a Storyline Narrative Distance, Depth and Alignment Bazin’s Invisible Witness Story Rhythm - the Haiku Silent Era Techniques Bonitzer on Hitchcock The Macguffin Zizek on Hitchcock Subjective Interpretation Narrative Perspectives Entgrenzung: The Dissolution of Perspectival Boundaries Linguistic Flexibility: Blending Words into Chords Narrative Deconstruction The Loop: IF, THEN, GOTO Cause and Effect Relinquishing Authorial Control Attentional Blink Confabulation: Emotional Experiences Without Context Evolving Language Calvino: the Malleable Relationship between Reader and Narrator Subjective Responses to Colour and Form Active and Passive Colours Emotional Responses to Colour Digital and Analogue Colour Palette Instinctual Responses to Geometric Forms The Will-to-Art Knowing Your Audience Controlling the Narrative / Owning the Text Kandinsky’s Chain of Related Sensations Sound Design Primal Responses to Sound Classifying Harmonics in Terms of Emotional Response Narrative Soundscapes Affective Audio Cueing-In Emotions Separating Dialogue from Background Noise Prosody and Syntax Musical Motifs Representations of Emotions Universal ‘Palette’ of Sound Memories of Feelings - the Limits of the Codification of Musical Forms Anticipation and Resolution Rhythmic Organisation and ‘Percussive Barriers’ Psychological and Ontological Time Musical Notation Accidental Counterpoint Communicating Emotion through Music Syncopation The Soundtrack Cinematic Allusionism Sound Elements of Film Imitative-Denotative Instrumentation Limitations of Visual and Dialogue Leitmotif Empathetic / Anempathetic Soundtracks Visual Montage Montage: Juxtaposing Visual Elements Affidavit-Exposition Vertical Montage Photo Montage: Hockney’s Joiners Burroughs’s Literary Cut-Ups The Lettrists Brueghel’s Micronarratives Marker’s La Jetée Spatial Representation of Temporal Sequences Multiple Narrative Perspectives On-Screen Vertov’s Kino-Eye Codifying Story Elements Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale Narratology: How Narrative Structures Affect Our Perception Narratology Terminology: Synecdoche, Contiguous, Metonym Embedded Narratives: Fabula and Syuzhet A Perspectival Approach to Narrative Subjective Retroversion The Photograph: A Message Without a Code War Primer: Brecht’s Photo-Epigrams Talking Pictures: Photographic Stills and Audio Vignettes Perec’s ‘Infra-Ordinary’ De Quincey’s Record of Regency London The Photograph: Flat Anthropological Fact Brecht’s Theory of Distanciation Primacy of Lexis Over Plot Visualisation of Large Data Sets Metadata - Tagging Archived Content The Photo Archive Photogrammetry: Cyber-Archaeology Trend-Identifying Algorithms Netflix Quantum Theory Authoring Multiple Narrative Trajectories The Database Hypernarrative Extractive Hypertext and Immersive 3D Associative Linkage Genre Classification The Cinematic Metaphor Non-Traditional Film: Gordon’s ‘Temporal Deceleration’ Emergent Narratives Triangulating Content Interactive Narratives Textual Interaction Char Davies - Osmose Proprioception Artist and Audience: Atherton’s Interactive Discourse Non-Linear Texts Syncretic and Synaesthetic Language The Disrupting Effect of Latency Within Simulated Stories Interactive StoryTelling Immersion in the Textual World Visual Writing Temporal Immersion Backstory Ergodic Texts Constant Recontextualisation Depth-First Exploration Structures of Interactivity Spatial and Emotional Immersion The Greek Chorus Audience Participation: Living Theatre The Perspectivist Approach The Freytag Triangle Narrative Constraints Joyce’s Epiphany The Language of Television Impositional and Expressive Narratives The Objective Correlative Virtual Identities Flat and Round Characters VR Storytelling Techniques Performative Gestures Gesture Controlled Interfaces Technology and Art Hoey’s The Weight of Water: Manufacturing Presence in VR Mixed Storytelling: Fran Bow Interactive Poetry: Dear Esther Location-Based AR The Narrative Architect Experimental Narrative Riffs: Grammatron Remediating Stories Interactive Design: Twine The Business of Transmedia Storytelling #FindTheGirl Blast Theory - Ivy4EVR Karen Content Creation Departments - Going Viral The Digital Newsroom - Transmedia and VR Storytelling on Social Media Platforms Data Analytics Story Development Tools and Technologies Augmented Reality Recreating the Theatre Experience ConclusionAppendix 1 - Making The Little Extras Towards a New Film Paradigm Storytelling using Spatial Montage The Spectator’s Gaze The Primacy of the Author Abdicating Authorship Deconstructive Cinema The Function of Embedded Narratives Learning New Modes of Interaction Narrative Immersion Foveal and Peripheral Vision Altering Perspective The Little Extras Sound Design Interpreting and Re-Interpreting the Textual World Storyboards and Animatics Appendix 2 - Digital Data Compression Spatial and Temporal Compression - Exploiting Redundancy Quantisation: Threshold Levels and Banding Coding Compression Frame Prediction: Keyframes and Checksum Values BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features influence their relationship with the UN. The case studies include some of the most renowned players on the international scene, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Oxfam International.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword Preface PART 1: NGOS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE UN SYSTEM: INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS NGG Participation in Global Affairs Theoretical Approaches to NGO-IGO Relations Contributions of this Study Organization of the Book PART 2: NGO INSTITUTIONALIZATION INTO THE UN SYSTEM: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Current Theoretical Approaches to NGO-IGO Relations Transnational Relations Transsocietal Approaches NGOs in the UN System NGO Activities in the UN System Institutionalizing NGO-UN Relations Categories of Internationally Operating NGOs Case Selection Summary PART 3: ACTIVITIES IN THE UN CONTEXT: CHANGING PATTERNS OF INTERACTION NGO Activities with the UN and New Opportunities for Interaction Policy Initiating Activities Policy Developing Processes Policy Implementing Practices Exploring Individual Cases of NGOs and their Activities with the UN FIDH: Deepening Established Areas of Activity CARE International: Broadening the Spectrum of lnteraction Oxfam International: Acting Individualistically with the UN Other NGOs Summary PART 4: REPRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATIVES TO THE UN: INSTITUTIONALIZATION AS AN INTERNAL FACTOR General Observations about NGO Representation to the UN The Image of NGOs at the UN in the Past NGO Representation at the UN Today NGO Representatives at the UN in Total Exploring Individual Cases of NGO Representation to the UN Amnesty International: Mobilizing Resources for its UN Representation FIDH: Using Limited Resources to its Advantage CARE International: Increasing Investment in its UN Representation Oxfam International: Only Few Resources Mobilized Other NGOs Summary PART 5: ACCREDITATION TO THE UN THROUGH RULES AND REGULATIONS: INSTIUTIONALIZATION AS AN EXTERNAL DEMAND General Observations on Consultative Status of NGOs at the UN Previous Resolutions on NGO-UN Relations and Current Legal Foundations NGOs and the Consultative Status Today Selection Process of NGOs Withdrawal of Consultative Status as a Threat Consultative Status - Two Sides of the One Coin? Single Cases and their Consultative Status at the UN under Examination Amnesty International: Consultative Status as an Entrance Key FIDH: Dependence on Formal Status as Mouthpiece CARE International: Consultative Status as Lowering Bureaucratic Hurdles Oxfam International: Little Significance of Consultative Status Other NGOs Summary PART 6: NGOS IN THE UN SYSTEM AND BEYOND: FINAL REMARKS Conceptualization and Theoretical Frame Adjustments in NGO Patterns of Activity with the UN NGO Representation and Representatives Rules and Regulations for NGO Accreditation at the UN Level Contribution of this Study and Future Prospects Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the multiple meanings of European citizenship, which has been represented and publicly communicated by the European Commission in five distinctive ways Homo Oeconomicus (1951-1972), A People's Europe (1973-1992), Europe of Transparency (1993-2004), Europe of Agorai (2005-2009) and Europe of Rights (2010-2014).Trade Review“The main strengths of this book are the vast and unique materials analyzed and how the sources are woven together to form a rich account of the history of European citizenship, relating both to successes and failures. Pukallus manages to bring life to her story by highlighting the role played by specific individuals in this history.” (Jonna Johansson, Journal of Common Market Studies JCMS, Vol. 56 (04), May, 2018)Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1: A Civil Europe.- Chapter 2: Homo Oeconomicus (1951-1972).- Chapter 3: A People's Europe (1973-1992).- Chapter 4: Europe of Transparency (1993-2004).- Chapter 5: Europe of Agorai (2005-2009).- Chapter 6: ‘Europe of Rights’ (2010-2014).- Summary European citizenship 1951-2014: An Uninterrupted European Civil Narrative.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook / PrimerHow did you decide what to wear today? Did you base your selection on comfort or style? Did you want to blend in or stand out or was it just the cleanest outfit available? We each make these decisions every day, reflecting how we view ourselves and impacting how others see us. Our choices matter not just to us personally, but also to the magazine editors, brand ambassadors and trend forecasters who make a living by selling to us. Communicating Fashion introduces key concepts from the intersecting worlds of fashion and communication studies to connect how we all use clothing to express ourselves and how media systems support that process. In doing so, Myles Ethan Lascity explores social, cultural and ethical issues through the work of fashion journalism, brand promotions and the growing role of online influencers as well as the impact of film, television and art on self-image and expression.Key topicTrade ReviewExamines significant moments and movements in clothing and fashion and contextualizes them into a coherent narrative grounded in communication theory. Clothing is an essential part of our culture and this text illustrates how fashion isn’t frivolous but rather an important facet of identity. -- Jeanne M. Persuit, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of North Carolina Wilmington, USAMyles Ethan Lascity marries fashion studies and communication in Communicating Fashion. He uses relatable examples, builds on scholarship, and explains in an accessible manner that will be appreciated by students just beginning to study fashion. -- Dr Andrew Reilly, University of Hawai`i, ManoaWith its eminently readable style, Communicating Fashion makes fashion theory accessible by clearly expressing how we constantly send, receive and contextualize messages through our shared experience of dress. Full of excellent examples, visual aids and humorous anecdotes, the text takes a distinctly modern approach and engages the reader while respecting the intellectual underpinnings of the discipline. -- Lorynn Divita, Baylor University, USAThis new landmark text opens readers to the future of how we view fashion, clothing, and the appropriate milieus that communicate with consumers regarding contemporary style. Lascity’s work not only takes on a journey of recent trends but builds on the contextual elements of tomorrow’s fashion and methods of scholarly inquiry. -- Joseph H. Hancock, II, Drexel University, USATable of ContentsPreface 1. Communicating Fashion 2. Clothing as Intra- and Interpersonal Communication 3. Clothing Dynamics in Groups and Cultures 4. Fashion: Systems, Meaning and Time 5. Clothing, News and Tastemaking 6. Clothing on Film and Television 7. Ads, Brands and Retail Considerations 8. Digital Communication, Social Media and Mediatization 9. Fashion, Clothing and/as Art Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisWhat is eye tracking? Why is it important for linguistics? How can I use it in my own research project?Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through one of the most exciting and innovative research methods in the field of linguistics. Divided into three parts, the chapters first offer an historical introduction and a foundational overview to the neurology and physiology of the eye and the common measurements and tools used in eye tracking. They then provide a guide to the applications of eye tracking most pertinent to linguists (reading, the visual-world paradigm, social eye tracking, and classroom applications), followed by a step-by-step process to plan, execute, analyze and report your research project in eye tracking. The book covers topics such as reading, lexical and syntactic processing, mind wandering, second language acquisition, and AAC devices, and includes statistical tools and how to write up results. Each chapter also includes self-study questions and aTrade ReviewThe handbook is a comprehensive compilation of oculography and its linguistics applications, covering reading, social gaze, joint attention, and language learning. The text is well structured including chapter-relevant glossary study aids and offers a succinct synopsis of planning an eye-tracking study. It is an excellent addition to the eye-tracking bookshelf. -- Andrew T. Duchowski, Clemson University, USASalvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering have expertly placed their vast experience and teaching knowledge into this informative book on state-of-the-art eye-tracking methods for answering linguistic and applied linguistic research questions. With both foundation and practical topics covered, including an in-depth look at social eye tracking, this book is sure to open minds and will be a must-read for linguists and applied linguists alike. -- Paula Winke, Michigan State University, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction Part I: The Basics 1. Historical Development 2. Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye 3. The Visual System in the Brain 4. Eye Tracking Basics Part II: Applications 5. Reading 6. The Visual World Paradigm 7. Social Eye Tracking 8. Classroom attention and Lx Teaching 9. Applications in Related Fields Part III: Using Eye-Tracking 10. Planning an Eye Tracking Study 11. Principles of Statistical Analysis Conclusions Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThere are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one's understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time.The Book ReviewThis groundbreaking reader will spark the development of new courses in communication and sexuality. Students and teachers wanting to fully understand the constitutive and performative nature of communication will find few other books that meet their needs better than this one.R. Jeffrey Ringer, St. Cloud UniversitySexualities and Communication in EveTrade Review"There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one′s understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time."—The Book Review -- Vasanth Kannabiran * The Book Review - December 2007 *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Salih 4. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part I] - E. Patrick Johnson 5. The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde Part II: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Interpersonal Contexts 6. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence - William Leap 7. "Having a Girlfriend Without Knowing It": Intimate Friendships Among Adolescent Sexual-Minority Women - Lisa M. Diamond 8. Accounts of Sexual Identity Formation in Heterosexual Students - Michele J. Eliason 9. M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty - Terry Tafoya 10. Migrancy and Homodesire - Myron Beasley 11. Performing "I Do": Wedding, Pornography, and Sex - Elizabeth Bell 12. A Critical Appraisal of Assimiliationist and Radical Ideologies Underlying Same-Sex Marriage in LGBT Communities in the United States - Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia Part III: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Public Discourses 13. Performing the Rhetoric of Science: Dr. Laura′s Portrayal of Homosexuality - Paul Turpin 14. Disciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity - John M. Sloop 15. "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well": Memory and Queer Culture in Will and Grace - Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed 16. Living in the Middle: Performances Bi-Men - John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel 17. "Holly Kowalski": Sex Across the Curriculum - Jennifer Tuder 18. Queering the (Sacred) Body Politic: Considering the Performative Cultural Politics of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Cathy B. Glenn Part IV: Transforming Sexualities and Communication: Visions and Praxis 19. The Spirituality of Sex and the Sexuality of Spirit: BDSM Erotic Play as Soulwork and Social Critique - Robert G. Westerfelhaus 20. Menopause and Desire, or 452 Positions on Love - Mercilee M. Jenkins 21. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part II] - E. Patrick Johnson 22. Activism and Identity Through the Word: A Mixed-Race Woman Claims Her Space - Wendy M. Thompson 23. Making Alliances - Gloria E. Anzaldua About the Editors

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Book SynopsisBringing together a range of renowned scholars in the field, this book examines eighteen key issues within contemporary media studies. Written in an accessible student-friendly style, Media Studies - Key Issues and Debates is an authoritative landmark text for undergraduate students.Each individual chapter begins with a concise definition of the concept(s) under investigation. This is followed by a 5,000 word discussion on the current state of play within research on the specific area. Chapters contain case-studies and illustrative materials from Europe, North America, Australasia and beyond. Each chapter concludes with annotated notes, which guide the student-reader in terms of future study.With a preface by Denis McQuail, contributors includeJanet McCabe, John Corner, David Croteau, William Hoynes, Natalie Fenton, Jenny Kitzinger, Jeroen de Kloet, Liesbet van Zoonen, Sonia Livingstone and Greg Philo.Trade Review"The topics covered show a fine awareness of the media′s roles in advanced consumer societies, and the book offers student excellent tools with which to critically analyze those roles." -- Stephen Crofts * Media International Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction Bridging The Mythical Divide - Natalie Fenton Political Economy and Cultural Studies Approaches to the Analysis of Media The Media Industry - Croteau & Hoynes Structure, Strategy and Debates Mass Media & New Media Techologies - Michael J Breen Unravelling the Web of Discourse Analysis - Philippa Smith & Allan Bell News Content Studies, Media Group methods and Discourse Analysis - Greg Philo A Comparison of Approaches Framing & Frame Analysis - Jenny Kitzinger Mass Media Re-Presentations of the Social World - Amanda Hoynes Ethnicity and Race Media Representations of Social Structure - Joke Hermes Gender Media, Power and Political Culture - John Corner Proximity and Scope as News Values - Pamela J. Shoemaker Text and Textual Analysis - Peter Hughes Analysing Fictional Television Genres - Kim Akass & Janet McCabe From Family Television To Bedroom Culture - Sonia Livingstone Young People′s Media at Home Fan Culture - Jeroen de Kloet & Lisbet van Zoonen Performing Difference Community Media & The Public Sphere - Kevin Howley Media and Diaspora - Karim H. Karim

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Book SynopsisMirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet. The book considers education in both formal and informal settings, and looks critically at the accepted dichotomy between education and popular culture. It argues that popular culture is capable of educating and that education shares many characteristics with popular culture, and tries to overcome these dichotomous relationships while also trying to clarify the reciprocal effects between the two. The book calls disciplinary and media boundaries into question in an effort to widen the possibility of enlarging the vocabulary and the verbs of all that stays unnamed by what isTrade Review«Few books capture as clearly the critical place and influence of popular culture on education. Silberman-Keller, Bekerman, Giroux, and Burbules have launched a collaboration that helps educators understand the learning process outside the confines of classroom pedagogy but provides the conditions of possibility for improving schools. Its expert contributors travel through social experiences that no educator can take for granted any longer as extra-curricular. If schooling is education of the whole person then this book takes us one step closer to that transformation.» (Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley)«Few books capture as clearly the critical place and influence of popular culture on education. Silberman-Keller, Bekerman, Giroux, and Burbules have launched a collaboration that helps educators understand the learning process outside the confines of classroom pedagogy but provides the conditions of possibility for improving schools. Its expert contributors travel through social experiences that no educator can take for granted any longer as extra-curricular. If schooling is education of the whole person then this book takes us one step closer to that transformation.» (Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley)Table of ContentsContents: Diana Silberman-Keller/Zvi Bekerman/Henry A. Giroux/Nicholas C. Burbules: Introduction – Mary M. Dalton: The Hollywood View: Protecting the Status Quo in Schools Onscreen – Gordon Alley-Young: «Try to See this Movie as an Educational Movie About Life Will You»: A Critical Cultural Study of Race and Education in Popular Film – Henry A. Giroux: Militarization, Public Pedagogy, and the Biopolitics of Popular Culture – Zvi Bekerman: Reappraising Critical Perspectives in Popular Culture and Education – Diana Silberman-Keller: Education and Popular Culture: Chiasmatic Reflections in Almodóvar’s Bad Education and Tarantino’s Kill Bill – Gonzalo Frasca: Make a Point and Score Ten Thousands: Learning from Serious Games – Kurt Squire: Critical Education in an Interactive Age – Rebecca Ward Black: Convergence and Divergence, Informal Learning in Online Fanfiction Communities and Formal Writing Pedagogy – Mary Stone Hanley: Close to the Edge: The Poetry of Hip-Hop – Virginia S. Funes: Advertising and Consumerism: A Space for Pedagogical Practice – David Wong/Danah Henriksen: If Ideas were Fashion – Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas: Popular Culture and the Teaching of History: A Critical Reflection.

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Book SynopsisReading Martin Heidegger''s five conversational texts together for the first time, Heidegger''s Conversations elaborates not only what Heidegger thought but how he did so by attending to the philosophical possibilities of the genre of these under-studied texts written between 1944 and 1954. Though he wrote little on the topic of teaching and learning explicitly, Katherine Davies shows Heidegger performed an implicit poetic pedagogy in his conversations that remains to be recognized. Heidegger launched an experimental attempt to enact a learning of non-representational, non-metaphysical thinking by cultivating a distinctly collaborative sensitivity to the call of the poetic. Davies illustrates how each conversation emphasizes a particular pedagogical element?non-oppositionality, making mistakes, thinking in community, poetic interpretation, and the dangers of such pedagogy?which together constitute the developmental arc of these texts. Whether Heidegger is revising or reinforcing his own earlier pedagogical practices, Davies argues that attending to the dramatic staging of the conversations offers a distinct vantage point from which to contend with Heidegger''s philosophy and politics in the post-war period.

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Book SynopsisDitch the scripts and tricks for a smarter approachKirk Kinnell is a hostage negotiator and counter-terrorism expert with decades of experience. Jim Houghton has conducted complex M&A deals worth hundreds of millions. Despite their dramatically different backgrounds, they share the philosophy that negotiation is not a zero-sum game and that trust, integrity and fairness are essential to achieving a successful outcome.This book combines their vast knowledge to show you how to prepare for and conduct negotiations in almost any environment. What holds true for ending a siege or keeping a hostage alive could be the key to getting your toddler off to bed or agreeing a pay rise with your boss. Their invaluable advice will help you be resourceful and calm amid the stress and volatility of real-world negotiations.In business, this equates to winning repeat business and making more profit. In our personal lives, it means family harmony and better communitie

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Book SynopsisWritten by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

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Book SynopsisAn Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breastfeeding, breast is best paradigm, highlighting how such politically charged rhetoric restrains women's ability to make the choices that are best for them and their families. Loreen Olson and Jenni M. Simon combat the idea that is so often espoused by medical professionals, researchers, and society at large: to be a good parent, one must provide breast milk to the infant in order for the baby to grow into a healthy, productive citizen. By exposing the biases present, Olson and Simon advocate for the need to make discursive space for all parents and all feeding choices. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, gender and women's studies, and feminism will find this book particularly useful.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Discourse, Ideology, and Breastfeeding: The Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation and the Construction of Hegemonic Mothering Chapter 2: Building the Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation: A Genealogy of Hegemonic Motherhood Chapter 3: Creating the Gaze: The Birth of the Medi-Institutionalization of Breastfeeding Chapter 4: Disciplining the Maternal Body: Discourses for Expecting Moms Chapter 5: Disciplining the Marginalized Maternal Body: Discourses of Race, Class, and Privilege Chapter 6: Talking Back: The Discourses of Lived Experience Chapter 7: Talking Back and Taking Back: Discourses of Resistance and Change

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Book SynopsisThis Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa's theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different methodologies and approachestestimonio, performative writing, and interpretive, rhetorical, and critical methodologiesthe contributors provide original research on contexts including healing and pain, woundedness, identity, Chicana and black feminisms, and experiences in academia.Trade ReviewSuch beautiful, powerful, moving words! I love the multiplicity of Anzaldúan theories, methods, perspectives, and praxes found within this book. Risking the personal, editors and contributors bring forward new insights to support and sustain us during these trying times. They demonstrate the versatility of Anzaldúan theories and perspectives, opening new directions in communication studies and other fields. La Gloria lives on, building bridges changing lives, and assisting us as we work to transform the world. -- AnaLouise Keating, Professor and Director of the Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies Doctoral Program, Texas Woman's UniversityEditors Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Robert Gutierrez-Perez have crafted an innovative and necessary intervention in the field of Communication Studies that insists on the epistemological possibilities of those who live in the physical and psychological borderlands. Speaking through a mestizaje of genres and modes of storytelling, and passionately grounded in the theories of Chicana feminist scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the pieces in this collection show readers that it is through speaking and writing the viscera-- the flesh--that possibilities for healing and transformation emerge. A necessary book for scholars in Communication Studies, Chicanx Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and more. -- Larissa Mercado-Lopez, California State University, FresnoThis important collection of essays brings much needed perspectives to the communication discipline through art, praxis, and theory of Anzaldúan ideas and philosophies. The artistry, writings, and illustrations in this book feature important Anzaldúan concepts like borderlands, nepantla, testimonios, conocimiento, ambiguities, intersectionalities, and critical pedagogies. -- Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at AustinWith remarkable breadth, stunning vulnerability, and incisive analyses, this collection animates the continued force and malleability of Gloria Anzaldúa’s writings. The commitment to praxis and art, activism and intellect across the book is a testament both to Anzaldúa and the authors, as it is also an exemplar for the contemporary practice of coalitional and transformative scholarship. -- Lisa A. Flores, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsPart I: Healing the Wounds: (Re)imagining Borderlands TheoryChapter 1: “Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzaldúan Perspective,”Nivea CastañedaChapter 2: “Testimonio as a Queer Puente for Healing,” Manuel Alejandro Pérez“Make America Great Again,”Robert Gutierrez-PerezChapter 3: “Fronteras Toxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness,”Carlos Tarin“Dolores,”Masha Sukovic Part II: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Health Communication, Disability Studies, Pain, and HealingChapter 4: “Facing Tlahtlacolli (Microaggressions) with Nepantla and Conocimiento: A Xicana Epistemological Approach,”Sarah Amira de la GarzaChapter 5: “A Letter to My Hija: Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Your Bisabuela’s Withering Body, and the Life-Affirming Possibilities of Woundedness,”Luis Manuel AndradeChapter 6: “I take something from both worlds”: An Anzaldúan Analysis of Mexican-American Women’s Conceptualizations of Ethnic Identity,”Leandra Hinojosa HernándezPart III: Theorizing Nepantla: Creative Ethnographies on the Path of ConocimientoChapter 7: “Communicating Nepantla: An Anzaldúan Theory of Identity,”Sarah De Los Santos UptonChapter 8: “Between Worlds: A Personal Journey of Self-reflection While on the Path of Conocimiento,”Edmundo M. AguilarChapter 9: “Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa Globally Through A Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges,”Diana I. BowenPart IV: Critical/Cultural Rhetorics of Ambiguity and HybridityChapter 10: “Sweetening the Pot: Culinary Adventures in Hybridity,”Stephanie L. Gomez“La Dueña de la Casa,”Masha SukovicChapter 11: “A Tolerance for Ambiguity or the American Dream: Using Anzaldúa to Disrupt and Reclaim Latina Lives from Multicultural Feminism,”Sara Baugh-Harris and Bernadette Marie CalafellPart V: Women of Color and Radical Coalition Building“Whispers in the Dark: A Collection of Poems,”Shantel MartinezChapter 12: “Black Women and Girls Trending: A New(er) Autohistoria-Teoría,”Tara L. Conley Chapter 13: “Rasquache Cyborgs and Borderlands Aesthetics in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer,”Alexandrina AgloroChapter 14: “Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, & Topographies of Anger,”Rachel Alicia Griffin Part VI: Anzaldúan Approaches to Critical (Communication) Pedagogy“I Get It from My Mother,”Robert Gutierrez-PerezChapter 15: “Building Community, Decolonizing Spirituality, and Women of Color Feminism: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa in and out of the Classroom for Healing and Empowerment,”Xamuel BañalesChapter 16: “Carrying Gloria on My Back: A Pedagogic and Research Journal,”Luis Gabriel Sanchez RoseChapter 17: “A Crack to Speak Out From: Performing Coalitional Politics Through Dialogue, Listening, and Reflexivity,”Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Bedilia Ramirez Chapter 18: “Becoming a Bridge in/through Critical Communication Scholarship:Meditations on the Affective Afterlife of Cultural Normativities,”Gust A. Yep

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the third edition includes new sections on social media analysis, digital research methods and comparative research, as well as updated case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.Undergraduate and postgraduate media and communication students will find Researching Communications an invaluable resource at all stages of their course.Trade ReviewThis welcome new edition is updated and expanded, providing scholars with the what, why and how of communication research. Practical, accessible and truly invaluable. * Janet Wasko, Professor and Emeritus Knight Chair in Communication Research, University of Oregon, USA *Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgements 1. Approaching research 2. Dealing with documentation 3. Selecting and sampling 4. Asking questions 5. Handling numbers 6. Counting contents 7. Analysing texts 8. Unpacking news 9. Viewing the image 10. Interpreting images 11. Being an observer 12. Attending to talk 13. Taking talk apart 14. Making comparisons 15. Using computers 16. Beyond methodology: the what, how and why of researching communications Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen we are told so regularly that we live in a ‘post truth’ age and are surrounded by ‘fake news’, it can be tempting to think of politics as primarily mediated. Discussion and analysis of public affairs is preoccupied with the power and reach of platforms or the passion and rage of social media exchanges. As important as these issues may be, a focus on the communicative risks downgrading the political. Media, Democracy and Social Change puts politics back into political communications. It shows how within a digital media ecology, the wider context of neoliberal capitalism remains essential for understanding what political communications is, and can hope to be. Tackling broad themes of structural inequality, technological change, political realignment and social transformation, the book explores political communications as it relates to debates around the state, infrastructures, elites, populism, political parties, activism, the legacies of colonialism, and more. It is both an expert introduction to the field of political communications, and a critical intervention to help re-imagine what a democratic politics might mean in a digital age. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and activists. Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany all work at the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, where they teach together on the MA in Political Communications. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Putting Politics Back Into Political Communications Chapter 2. Infrastructures of Political Communications Chapter 3. The State of Political Communications Chapter 4. Elites, Experts, Power and Democracy Chapter 5. Democracy without Political Parties? Chapter 6. The Violence of an Illiberal Liberalism Chapter 7. Political Communications, Civil Society and the Commons Chapter 8. Intellectuals and the Re-imagining of Political Communications

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

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Book SynopsisWe are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to. There is no room to mistrust. Exploring relations between trust and mistrust in the context of data, AI and technology at large, this book defines a process of ‘trustification’ used by governments, corporations, researchers and the media to legitimize exploitation and increase inequalities. Aimed at social scientists, computer scientists and public policy, the book aptly reveals how trust is operationalized and converted into a metric in order to extract legitimacy from populations and support the furthering of technology to manage society.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Trust Issues 2. Trustification: Extracting Legitimacy 3. State: Measuring Authority 4. Corporate: Managing Risk 5. Research: Setting Terms 6. Media: Telling Stories 7. Case Study: COVID-19 Tracing Apps 8. Case Study: Tech for Good 9. Case Study: Trusting Faces 10. Conclusion: False Trade-Offs

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Book SynopsisHow can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios. The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake 1. (En)forcing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Racialization of Digital Disengagement and Digital Solutionism - Miyake 2. Digital Engagements and Work-life Balance in Creative Labour - Sezgin 3. '#RoeVsWadeOverturned: Any Idea How Fast Your #PeriodtrackingApp Can Lead to Jail?': Digital Disengagement and the Repeal of Roe vs Wade - Martin 4. #SnailMailRevolution: The Networked Aesthetics of Pandemic Letter-Writing Campaigns - Butkowski 5. Data Minimalism and Digital Disengagement in COVID-19 Hacktivism - Richterich 6. Digital Solutionism Meets Pandemic Imaginaries - Kuntsman 7. State Violence. Digital Harms and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Imagining Refusal, Resistance and Community Self-Defence - Gangaharan, Williams, Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake 8. Epilogue: Digital Disengagement - Questions of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Digitalities - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them. Addressing themes like internet decolonisation, the book makes a timely assessment of the impact of evolving connections between technology, information, society and markets.

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume tackles the challenges of privacy in the digital sphere, addressing fundamental societal and structural issues from three perspectives: people, practices and politics. Experts from diverse fields provide a valuable contribution to key debates about privacy and data protection, surveillance capitalism and big tech companies.

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Book SynopsisLooking for an approachable introduction to media studies? This lively text will tell you everything you need to know using a practical industry-text-audience trio to frame your understanding.

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