Media studies Books

Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that our daily relations, like our most recognized institutions, are based on a symbolic foundation put in place by rituals. Rituals are present at every level of society and are an expression of the sacredness of society, as much as they are an expression of the cultures and eras that communicate through them.Table of Contents1. A Plurality of Anthropology, a Permanence of Symbolic Mediations. 2. The Ritual, a “Total Scientific Object”. 3. Rituals and the Media. 4. The Ritual Institution of Society.

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Book SynopsisSponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States. Volume 13 provides an unparalleled compilation of research on Brazilian media and communication studies guided by the expert hands of prominent scholars from both Brazil and the United States. Over twenty chapters explore five key themes: the new face of news and journalism, social movements and protest, television, cinema, publicity and marketing, and media theory. Selections encompass research on emergent phenomena, as well as studies with a historical or longitudinal dimension, that reflect the Brazilian case as laboratory for exploring the evolving media environment of one of the world’s most fascinating societies.Trade ReviewContributors in communication, journalism, media studies, and similar fields from across the Americas explore the evolving media environment of Brazil from perspectives of television, cinema, and media; the Brazilian media industry; news and journalism; social movements and protest; and theory: Brazilian perspectives. Among their topics are the cangaço in Brazilian cinema, regional media groups in Brazil: forms of organizations in geographic scales, media epiphanies: selfies and silences in São Paulo street protests, countercultural happenings: the performance of revolt in Brazil's Tropicalia movement, and the hyperconnected contemporary society. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsSECTION I: BRAZILIAN TELEVISION, CINEMA, AND MEDIA The cangaço in Brazilian cinema; Marcelo Dídimo Souza Vieira News media and historiography in Brazilian cinema; Cory A. Hahn The rise of "the working poor" within the Brazilian mediascape: The mythology of social inequality's disappearance; Ana Carolina Escosteguy and Lúcia Loner Coutinho SECTION II: THE BRAZILIAN MEDIA INDUSTRY The introduction of digital TV in Brazil: Lessons from the British and French experience; Claudio Nazareno Regional media groups in Brazil: geographic scale and organizations; Sonia Aguiar Advertising in the context of radio programming: From ad formats toward ad meta formats; Clóvis Reis SECTION III: NEWS AND JOURNALISM IN BRAZIL Mapping journalistic startups in Brazil: An exploratory study; Beatriz Becker and Igor Waltz The name of the other: Media, heterotopias and border country interactions; Ada Cristina Machado da Silveira, Isabel Padilha Guimarães and Clarissa Schwartz Brazilian news agencies: Between media conglomerates and the state; Pedro Aguiar A study of Brazilian intellectual-journalists: Changes to journalism (1950-1990); Fábio Henrique Pereira SECTION IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PROTEST IN BRAZIL Protests in Brazil: Mobile networks and devices as tools of protest; Breno Maciel Souza Reis, Liana Gross Furini, and Sandra Mara Garcia Henriques Media epiphanies: Selvies and silences in São Paulo urban protests

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and your views on religious extremists. But as all our lives become increasingly entwined with our online presence, British Islam has evolved into a multidimensional cultural identity that goes well beyond the confines of the mosque. Entering a world of memes and influencers, Muslim dating apps, and alt-right Islamophobes, Hussein Kesvani reveals how a new generation of young Muslims who have grown up with the internet are using social media to determine their religious identity on their own terms--something that could change the course of ‘British Islam’ forever.Trade Review'A detailed and often witty journey through the online areas where Muslims congregate . . . Kesvani delivers a tableau of British Muslims wrestling with subjects ranging from clean eating and marriage to LGBT and gender rights.' * The Observer *'The book's scope is impressive.''Follow Me, Akhi provides an important first case study into the struggles of British Islamic identity, exploring how a new generation of young Muslims are using the internet to determine identity on their own terms.''A fascinating and compelling look at the impact of the internet on the lives of British Muslims. Kesvani is a funny, passionate and wise narrator, and his book is a brilliant meditation on how our online selves shape our mores and identities.' -- Nikesh Shukla, editor of 'The Good Immigrant''A superbly engaging book, unparalleled in its urgency and insight. Not only has Kesvani taken a forensic look at the online lives of British Muslims, but he has also crafted a terminology with which to speak about a culturally significant moment in British history.' -- Guy Gunaratne, author of 'In Our Mad and Furious City''Kesvani's personal quest is relentlessly curious as well as compassionate. This book gives us an unparalleled insight into the digital lives of young Muslims in Britain today.' -- Shelina Janmohamed, author of 'Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World''Deeply researched, surprising and considerate. It portrays the online world of British Muslims as diverse, rich and fraught – but above all else innovative, exciting and criminally under-reported.' -- New Statesman

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Book SynopsisFast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutionised the way ideas, messages and images are disseminated, and the speed with which they travel. First satellite TV, then laptops and the Internet, and now mobile phones and social media have transformed the way we communicate, collapsing time and distance. Rebels who hope to overthrow states or to build transnational, ideological communities, have adopted these dynamic technologies. But they have also learned the key lesson: in a visual world, the power of the image has supplanted that of the written word. Neville Bolt investigates how today's revolutionaries have rejuvenated the nineteenth century 'propaganda of the deed' so that terrorism no longer simply goads states into overreacting, thereby losing legitimacy. The deed has become a tool to highlight the underlying grievances of communities. Pictures of 9/11, 7/1 and Abu Ghraib are today's weapon of choice. The Violent Image explores what happens in the 'moment of shock'; how emotive pictures attach to messages, causing populations to rise up in anger. From the Fenians to the Taliban to the Arab Spring we learn how insurgents have adapted the way they use violence to tell stories and effect social change. In the 'war of ideas', the new revolutionaries aim to set in motion surges of support that spread virally through global networks at such speed that states can no longer defend their own strategic narratives. Have we now reached the point where insurgents and populations are driving images and ideas so fast, that a new era of revolutionary politics is already upon us?Trade Review'The Violent Image is an important book. It gives a powerful, thoughtful and insightful account into one of the defining features of our time; how the media and the image have become the central battleground for all insurgent campaigns.' * Gavin Hewitt, BBC *'Neville Bolt provides not only a compelling historical overview of terrorist and insurgent propaganda over the past century, but also a convincing analysis of present-day revolutions and the way that insurgents and terrorists interact with diasporas in a globalized digital world. The Violent Image is a must-read for all serious students of insurgency and revolution.' * David Kilcullen, author of The Accidental Guerilla and Counterinsurgency *'The Violent Image is an insightful and eminently readable examination of how terrorists and insurgents exploit new channels of communication to compete in the battle of perceptions with states. Neville Bolt argues that terrorists use violent images and carefully designed narratives to force their message into the public domain. Indeed, their skilful use of both digital technologies and traditional media outlets not only attracts attention to their cause but also helps to recruit and mobilise their followers. This meticulously researched and compelling book will be indispensable to scholars and practitioners who are interested in how terrorists use the Internet and social media.' * Marc Genest Professor of Public Diplomacy and Co-Director of the Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups at the U.S. Naval War College *'Elegantly written and a pleasure to read, it invites the reader on a fairly wild ride, from the Fenians to the Taliban, from print media to social media and back. Bolt's work makes a big argument in a small package, densely researched yet readable. Most important, he says something new in a field that desperately needs it.' * David J. Betz, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London *'This is a highly original work which places communication and imagery at the heart of modern conflicts. I know of no other similar work which traces the integration of imagery and its production within the strategic framework of insurgency; no other book has mapped so completely the way images contribute to narratives, their essentiality to the insurgent's cause and how well insurgents have come to understand and exploit this'. * Professor Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Communications, Queen Mary London *'A lucid, deep, and highly informative analysis of the evolution of political violence. Highly recommended.' * Choice *

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Book SynopsisKardashian Kulture uses the royal family of celebrity culture to scrutinize wider understandings of 21st century life. Examining the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, Ellis Cashmore shows how fundamental changes to the way we live have been prompted by celebrities. Examining today's celebrity-obsessed culture through the lives of a host of household names, including the Kardashians themselves, this book shows how celebrities have impacted on the wider culture from the birth of consumerism, the civil rights movements of the 1960s, and the growth of narcissism in the 1970s, to the rise of the paparazzi, reality television and the impact of social media, which has removed the barrier between celebrities and fans and led to the erosion of personal privacy. Celebrities are creations rather than people and ultimately, Cashmore argues, Kardashian Kulture is a product of our own making. Whether you regard celebrities as a witless bunch of overpaid show-offs or the conveyors of the zeitgeist is a matter of judgement and taste, the impact of the Kardashians and their kind is undeniable.Trade ReviewThe author examines how celebrities have changed life and culture in the 21st century in the areas of gender, sex, race, consumption, fame, self, and privacy, particularly using the Kardashians as an example, as well as Madonna, Paris Hilton, and other celebrities, and pop culture trends like reality television, the rise of the paparazzi, and the impact of social media. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsTimeline 1. Miraculous Engagement 2. Emasculated Womanhood 3. Mindless Sex 4. Appropriate Blackness 5. Influential Presence 6. Selfless Selves 7. Public Privacy 8. Leveraged Fame

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Book SynopsisOver the first two decades of the 21st century, celebrity has undergone significant changes as mass media have shifted from a restricted broadcast model to a digital free-for-all. Existing celebrities have been forced to adapt their style of presentation to suit a more interactive environment where fans expect continuous access, while the emergent social media have generated new forms of celebrity that reflect the unique affordances of YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. In this book, David Giles argues that these developments are best understood by rethinking traditional concepts of media and audience in order to explain how a platform like YouTube has evolved its own media culture that affords a different type of celebrity to those associated with cinema, radio and television. Above all else, the 21st century celebrity is valued more for their (apparent) authenticity than for their glamour or talents, and Giles examines how that authenticity is a carefully crafted performance. Drawing extensively on the burgeoning celebrity studies literature, he explores the impact of digital culture on earlier concepts like parasocial relationships and celetoids as well as critiquing more recent ideas such as microcelebrity.Trade ReviewThe author argues that celebrity during the digital age is shifting towards a system of representation that is more fluid and decentered, allowing for different kinds of celebrity to emerge, which have different relationships to audiences. He discusses how new kinds of celebrity are connected to emerging forms of media; how they are linked to different kinds of audiences and the significance of the relationship with these audiences; key cultural events of the first two decades of the 21st century and their implications for the study of celebrity, including reality TV, "webcam girls," and California tech entrepreneurs; the obligatory use of social media by celebrities, particularly Twitter; new forms of celebrity, including YouTube celebrities, Instagram and social media "influencers," and meme celebrities; and the future of celebrity, with discussion of the Snapchat celebrity, the field of persona studies, and how social media has facilitated new forms of populism that have allowed celebrities from nonpolitical fields to emerge as contenders for political office, including Donald Trump. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsPart One: Celebrity in Theory and Research 1. Celebrity Studies and the Changing Media Landscape 2. Towards a Theory of Media and Affordance 3. Celebrities and Their Audience(s) Part Two: The Twenty-First Century and the Digital Imperative 4. The 2000s: Reality TV and 'Micro-Celebrity' - Webcam Girls and Bloggers 5. Twitter as 'Fundamental': The Obligatory Use of Social Media by Celebrities Part Three: New Forms of Celebrity 6. YouTubers 7. The Popularity and Appeal of YouTubers: 'Authenticity' and 'Ordinariness' 8. Instagram and the Rise of the Social Media 'Influencer' (with Lucy Edwards) 9. "What Else Does He Do?" Meme Celebrities Part Four: The Future of Celebrity 10. Snapchat, Persona Studies and Twenty-First Century Political Celebrity Postscript: Conclusions and Reflections

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Book Synopsis'A fascinating call to arms full of insight' IndependentAfter four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad newsIt is rare in history that so many nations in the developed world are in crisis at the same time. There has been a disintegration of trust in political leaders and in the media that holds them to account. For all the progress humankind has made, for all the inventions and new technologies, our society is being undermined by inequality. To fix it, we must begin by seeking out the truth about our world.In The State of Us, Jon Snow traces how the life of the nation has changed across his five-decade career, from getting thrown out of university for protesting apartheid to interviewing every prime minister since Margaret Thatcher.In doing so, he shows how the greatest problems at home and abroad so often come down to inequality and an unwillingness to confront it. But that is not our fate. Despite the challenges, Snow has witnessed profound social progress. In this passionate rallying cry, he argues that at its best, journalism reflects not just who we are now, but who we can be.We've had enough of division; the future is for us.Trade ReviewA call to arms from one of the great television journalists of his generation -- Robert McCrumNow he can finally tell us what he really thinks about everything... His book represents a break in a half-century of silence; and it is trenchant in surprising ways. -- Zoe Williams * Guardian *The State of Us looks at how Britain has changed in Snow's lifetime... His argument is supported by shocking statistics... Snow builds a strong case. * The Tablet *A fascinating call to arms full of insight * Independent *A rallying cry for change... In The State of Us, Snow untethers himself from the ropes of broadcasting impartiality and finally lets fly his opinions on everything from government spending to Boris Johnson to the Iraq War started by Tony Blair... It's serious stuff, yet there is also a deftness to Snow's writing. * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThis special volume of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity. Scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies come together to examine axioms of power at play across different forms of cultural production. Contributing to these fields, the volume highlights the value of interdisciplinary work and international perspectives to enrich our understandings of agency and identity vis-a-vis key case studies of media consumption and production. International contributions shed new light on the complex ways in which media reinforce and reflect power in different societal and national arenas. The result is a rich interdisciplinary and multi-method exploration of how power is conceptualized and realized through a variety of hegemonic and discursive practices. The authors’ analysis of critical case studies makes important progress towards closing theoretical gaps concerning the study of the complex relationships between media and gender, race, ethnicity, and national identity. In so doing, the volume contributes phenomenological and epistemic knowledge of media and power across disciplines and societal contexts.Trade ReviewThis volume compiles seven essays by media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and communication researchers from India, Norway, and the US, who examine media and power in different forms of cultural production. They discuss discourse and representations of activism in news media as significant forms of power; hegemonic media cultural logics that limit agency for people of color, using the example of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates; how media consumption mediates parent-child relationships in Chinese immigrant families; the adoption of Facebook in developing countries; the relationship between media, identity, religion, and power in the context of middle-class Catholic women in India; audience interpretations of Sofia Vergara's portrayal of Gloria Pritchett in Modern Family in terms of stereotypes; and how identity markers are manifested when Norwegian immigrant youth play video games. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Media as Power Formations in Digital Cultures; Apryl Williams, Ruth Tsuria, Laura Robinson, and Aneka Khilnani SECTION I: MEDIA, POWER, AND AGENCY Chapter 1. Power and Representation: Activist Standing in Broadcast News, 1970-2012; Deana Rohlinger, Rebecca A. Redmond, Haley Gentile, Tara Stamm, and Alexandra Olsen Chapter 2. Learning from a "Teachable Moment": The Henry Louis Gates Arrest as Media Spectacle and Theorizing Colorblind Racism; Jason A. Smith Chapter 3. Economically Challenged but Academically Focused: The Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Families' Acculturation, Parental Involvement, and Parental Mediation; Melissa M. Yang Chapter 4. The Globalization of Facebook: Facebook's Penetration in Developed and Developing Countries; Naziat Choudhury SECTION II: MEDIA, POWER, AND IDENTITY Chapter 5. Hybridizing National Identity: Reflections on the Media Consumption of Middle-Class Catholic Women in Urban India; Marissa Joanna Doshi Chapter 6. Reading a Complex Latina Stereotype: An Analysis of Modern Family's Gloria Pritchett, Intersectionality, and Audiences; Adolfo R. Mora Chapter 7. Manifestations and Contestations of Hegemony in Video Gaming by Immigrant Youth in Norway; Carol Azungi Dralega and Hilde G. Corneliussen

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Book SynopsisSponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume celebrates the section's thirtieth anniversary. Lead editor Barry Wellman joins forces with former and current CITAMS chairs Wenhong Chen, Shelia Cotten, and Laura Robinson, as well as Casey Brienza, founder of the Media Sociology Preconference, to look back at the history of the section, review some of its most important themes, and set the agenda for future discussion. Alongside its sister volume, The "M" in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology, this valuable book shows the impact CITAMS has had, and continues to have, on academic and public discourse. Featuring leading scholars in the fields of sociology of communication, information technologies and media, it reveals how the section had transcended disciplinary boundaries, and demonstrates how it holds the skills to address some of the biggest challenges of our digital age. It is essential reading for all those interested in both the story of CITAMS to date, and the role it will play in the future.Trade ReviewTo mark the 30th anniversary of the American Sociological Association's Communication, Information Technology and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section, members of the community trace the development of the field and project its future. This is one of two volumes containing the results, and focuses on networks, hacking, and media. Among the topics are section membership and participation in the American Sociological Review publication process, how information technology transforms the methods of sociological research: past and present, romantic dissolution and Facebook life: a typology of coping strategies for breakups, and black-hat hackers' crisis information processing in the Darknet: a case study of cyber underground market shutdowns. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsForeword; Wenhong Chen Introduction; Barry Wellman, Laura Robinson, Casey Brienza, Wenhong Chen, Shelia R. Cotten & Aneka Khilnani PART 1: FIELD ANALYSIS: CITAMS PAST CHAIRS Chapter 1. CITAMS at Thirty: Learning from the Past, Plotting a Course for the Future; Deana Rohlinger & Jennifer Earl Chapter 2. Section Membership and Participation in the American Sociological Review Publication Process; James C. Witte, Roberta Spalter-Roth & Yukiko Furuya Chapter 3. How Information Technology Transforms the Methods of Sociological Research; Edward Brent PART 2: FIELD ANALYSIS: RELATIONSHIPS AND NETWORKS Chapter 4. In Sync, but Apart: Temporal Symmetry, Social Synchronicity, and Digital Connectedness; Mary Chayko Chapter 5. Romantic Dissolution and Facebook Life: A Typology of Coping Strategies for Breakups; Anabel Quan-Haase, Andrew Nevin & Veronika Lukacs Chapter 6. Long Ties as Equalizers; Yotam Shmargad Chapter 7. Black-Hat Hackers' Crisis Information Processing in the Darknet: A Case Study of Cyber Underground Market Shutdowns; K. Hazel Kwon & Jana Shakarian Chapter 8. I click, Therefore I am: Predicting Clicktivist-like Actions on Candidates' Facebook Posts During the 2016 U.S. Primary Election; Marc Esteve Del Valle, Alicia Wanless-Berk, Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai

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Book SynopsisSponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume is the second of a two-part series that celebrates the section’s 30th anniversary. Casey Brienza leads the second of the two volumes - The M in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology - with former CITAMS chairs Laura Robinson, Barry Wellman, Shelia R. Cotten, and Wenhong Chen. Volume 18 continues the discussion begun in Volume 17: Networks, Hacking, and Media--CITAMS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow. Both volumes highlight some of the best of the vibrant, interdisciplinary scholarship in communication, information technologies and media sociology. Volume 18 develops the field of media sociology vis-à-vis the roles and impacts of the digital and traditional media via rich international case studies that include a broad swath of contexts and cultures. The volume’s authors probe the relationships between inequalities and media, as well as offering a scintillating array of scholarship on cultural production and consumption. Assembled together, the work in this volume showcases the value of interdisciplinary scholarship in the sociological study of media, communication, and information technologies. In keeping with the celebration of the thirty-year anniversary, both volumes open with a foreword by past chair Wenhong Chen and close with an afterword by past chair Shelia Cotten.Table of ContentsForeword; Wenhong Chen Introduction. "The M in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology"; Aneka Khilnani, Barry Wellman, Laura Robinson, Casey Brienza, Wenhong Chen, and Shelia R. Cotton Section 1: Inequalities and Media 1. Closing the Digital Divide: Justification for Government Intervention; Lloyd Levine 2. Public Knowledge and Digital Divide: The Role and Impact of China's Media; Mingli Mei, Ru Zhao, and Miaochen Zhu 3. Racism and the Ill as the Other in I am Legend Remakes; Jeremiah Morelock 4. A Niagara of Intemperance and Vice: Newspaper Reports on Immigrant New York 1800-1900; Saran Ghatak and Niall Moran Section 2: Cultural Production and Consumption 5. Everyone's a Critic?: Openness as a Means to Closure in Cultural Journalism; Phillipa K. Chong 6. The Attractions of "Recoil" TV: The Story-World of Game of Thrones; Carmen Spanó 7. From the Raja to the Desi Romance: A Sociological Discourse on Family, Class and Gender in Bollywood; Tanni Chaudhuri 8. Liberalism Without the Press: 18th Century Minas Geraes and the Roots of Brazilian Development; Heloisa Pait 9. Affective (Im)Mediations and the Communication Process; Ana Ramos Afterword: Reflections on My Path to CITASA/CITAMS and the Future of Our Section; Shelia R. Cotten

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Book SynopsisWhy do citizens vote against their own best interest? Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore how and why xenophobia and sexism are the grammar of contemporary popular culture and politics. The Brexit result and the Trump victory cannot be studied in a laboratory; the silent majority will not sit in a petri dish, waiting to be researched. The theories and methodologies developed into this book not only explain these two mega and meta events, they create space for ideas that challenge and dissent, and make the case for the role and value of universities in a time when evidence, expertise and facts often dissolve into opinion, emotion and fake news. Donald Trump does not matter. Trump Studies does matter - and this is a siren call to all intellectuals to intervene and transform the currency of theory in empiricist times.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tough Knowledge and Difficult Knowing in Ignorant Times Chapter 1. Shadowing the Silent Majorities Chapter 2. The Banality of Capitalism (and feminism) Chapter 3. Return of the Repressed Amidst the Double Refusal Chapter 4. Tweeting in the Interregnum Chapter 5. Pens and Tower Blocks Chapter 6. The Banality of Racism (and capitalism) Chapter 7 Intellectuals in the Interregnum Conclusion: Underthink it

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Book SynopsisThe acceleration of massive global climate change creates a nexus for the examination of power, political rhetoric, science communication, and sustainable development. This book provides an international view of twenty first century environmental communication, from journalism to artistic expression, to critically explore mediated expressions of climate change. Seeking to understand how government policies, environmental news reports, corporate messages, and social influences communicate the complexities of climate change to the public, this book examines the roles that journalism, entertainment, and strategic messaging play in mediating meanings of science, health, economy, and sustainable solutions. It considers the critical importance of the study of climate change communication, which is inherently interdisciplinary, as well as globally and locally impactful. With topics ranging from communicating resilience through environmental journalism and linguistics, the storytelling of climate change explanations in the news, the role of visual communication in capturing and addressing climate change, and the communication of the health impacts of climate change, this book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students and scholars in environmental sciences, international relations and politics, media, journalism and mass communication.Trade ReviewContributors in communication, digital media, journalism, psychology, and public communication examine political rhetoric and science communication related to global climate change and sustainable development. They examine discourses and methods for explaining climate change to the public, looking at environmental communication in various genres and media, including journalism, art, and visual communication. Case studies from the US, Canada, and Africa shed light on aspects such as eco-cartoons, reporting climate change as a local story, and presenting climate change as a health issue on social media. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Critical Challenges in Communicating Climate Change; Juliet G. Pinto, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., and Paola Prado Chapter 1. "Why is it here, of all places?": Debris cleanup, black space, and narratives of marginalized geographies in post-Irma Miami-Dade; Moses Shumow Chapter 2. Comparing theoretical explanations for the empirical effects of presenting climate change as a health issue on social media; Jessica Myrick Chapter 3. Goodbye, Miami? Reporting Climate Change as a Local Story; Susan Jacobson, Juliet Pinto, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., and Allan Wilson Chapter 4. Who Matters in Climate Change Discourse in Alberta; Shelley Boulianne and Stephanie Belland Chapter 5. Broaching agenda for climate change in Africa: A perspective on media engagement with climatic issues in Ghana; Modestus Fosu, Timothy Quashigah, and Paulina Kuranchie Chapter 6. Raising Awareness on Environmental Protection Issues through Cartooning: A Semiotic Analysis of Eco-Cartoons Published in the Nigerian Media; Floribert Patrick C. Endong Chapter 7. Communicating about Climate Change through Art and Science; Ronald E. Rice, Stacy Rebich Hespanha, and Huiru (Jennifer) Zhu

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book combines economic studies of innovation systems with studies of mediatisation, media convergence, trans- and cross-media and with other approaches within media and culture studies. It elaborates on a new concept, cross-innovation, referring to co-innovation and convergence processes taking place between different sectors of digital service economies. The proposition is that digitisation and mediatisation processes are conditioning new inter-sector dialogues and the emergence of new cross-innovation systems at the borderlines of formerly distinct industries. The case study industries presented are, on the one hand, audiovisual media (film, television, videogames, etc.) and health care, education or tourism, on the other hand. The book builds on 2 years of empirical work across Nordic and Baltic countries, putting a special emphasis on the opportunities and challenges for small countries as they build the cross-innovation systems in the era of media globalisation and platformisation of services. The empirical research of 144 interviews with stakeholders (policy makers, entrepreneurs, managers, professionals) from all four sectors and of secondary data and documentary analysis. The findings tell of complex stories how global platformisation of tourism undermines the emergence of related cross-innovation systems in small countries; how fragmentation of local education and health care markets does not enable the scalability of innovations, but protects local innovation systems for being overtaken by global platform giants. The book has stories of successful facilitation of cross-innovation as well as failures to do so.Trade ReviewA fascinating account of how cross-boundary innovation operates through dialogue, translation and learning, giving rise to opportunities, but also new risks. Professor Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKResearchers of all four sectors explore how audiovisual media are co-innovating with education, health care, and tourism. Among their topics small size matters: audiovisual media industries around the Baltic Sea, education on screens: histories of co-innovation and convergence between audiovisual media and education sectors, health and the audiovisual sector: a meso-analysis of how systemic coordination of sectoral cooperating leads to convergence, micro-trajectories: small firm strategies at boundaries between audiovisual and health care sectors, and audiovisual industries and tourism: forms of convergence. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsSECTION I - Introductions Chapter 1. The Study, its Design and its Social Pre-Conditions; Indrek Ibrus Chapter 2. From Innovation Systems to Cross-Innovations; Indrek Ibrus Chapter 3. Small Size Matters: Audiovisual Media Industries Around the Baltic Sea; Indrek Ibrus and Ulrike Rohn SECTION II - Education Meets Audiovisual Media Chapter 4. Education on Screens: Histories of Co-Innovation and Convergence Between Audiovisual Media and Education Sectors; Mikhail Fiadotau, Martin Sillaots, and Indrek Ibrus Chapter 5. Meso Analysis: Modes of Cross-Innovation Between Education and Audiovisual Sector; Mervi Rajahonka Chapter 6. Micro Trajectories: Small Firm Struggles at Boundaries Between Audiovisual and Education Sectors; Mikhail Fiadotau and Mervi Rajahonka Chapter 7. Conclusions: Cross-Innovations Between Audiovisual and Education Sectors; Indrek Ibrus and Mervi Rajahonka SECTION III - Health Care Meets Audiovisual Media Chapter 8. Audiovisual Industries and Healthcare: Overview of Forms of Co-Innovation and Convergence; Madis Järvekülg Chapter 9. Health and Audiovisual Sector: A Meso Analysis of How Systemic Coordination of Sectoral Cooperation Leads to Convergence; Külliki Tafel-Viia Chapter 10. Micro Trajectories: Small Firm Strategies at Boundaries Between Audiovisual and Health Care Sectors; Mikhail Fiadotau, Külliki Tafel-Viia, and Alessandro Nanì Chapter 11. Conclusions: Cross-Innovations Between Audiovisual and Health Sectors; Indrek Ibrus and Külliki Tafel-Viia SECTION IV - Tourism Meets Audiovisual Media Chapter 12. Audiovisual Industries and Tourism: Forms of Convergence; Gunnar Liestøl, Christian S. Ritter, and Indrek Ibrus Chapter 13. Meso Analysis of Cross-Innovation Between Tourism and Audio-Visual Media: The Case of the Public Sector's Driving Role; Silja Lassur, and Külliki Tafel-Viia Chapter 14. Micro Trajectories Between the Audiovisual and Tourism Sectors: Small Firms Working with The Public Sector; Mikhail Fiadotau and Silja Lassur Chapter 15. Conclusions: Cross-Innovations Between Audiovisual and Tourism Sectors; Indrek Ibrus and Silja Lassur SECTION V - Conclusions Chapter 16. Cross-Innovation, Is It a Thing?; Indrek Ibrus and Alessandro Nanì

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Science communication is a rapidly expanding area, and a key component of many final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Authored by a highly regarded chemist and science communicator, this textbook pulls together all aspects of science communication. Complete Science Communication focusses on four major aspects of science communication: writing for non-technical audiences and science journalism; writing for technical audiences and peer-reviewed journal writing; public speaking of science; and public relations. It first showcases how writing in a journalistic style is done and provides a guide for colloquially communicating science. Then, the art of writing scientific papers is conjoined to this idea to make technical manuscripts more digestible, readable, and, hence, citable. These ideas are next taken into the spoken word so that the scientist can engage in telling their science like that natural human art of campfire stories. Finally, all of these communication concepts are wrapped together in a discussion of public relations, providing the scientist with an appreciation for the marketing directors and news disseminators with whom they will work. Written in an accessible way, this textbook will provide science students with an appreciative understanding of communication, marketing, journalism, and public relations. They can incorporate these aspects into their own practices as scientists, allowing them to liaise with practitioners in the communication field.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Over the past 20 years, the concept of creative industries has become a widely recognised policy paradigm adopted in numerous countries, agencies and educational institutions around the world. A Research Agenda for Creative Industries probes the key issues that will help to advance research into creative industries as a productive and innovative intervention in public policy. Issues addressed include how much should a research agenda for creative industries be policy-oriented? How workable is the so-called triple bottom line rationale for creative industries? What innovative theories, research approaches and methods are called for in advancing a creative industries agenda? With contributions from leading scholars, policy and industry specialists, this interdisciplinary Research Agenda will be a vital resource for students and academics working in the fields of communication, culture, film and media, geography, business and policy studies, and Internet and social media studies.Trade Review'A Research Agenda for Creative Industries is a worthwhile read for everyone interested in both developing background knowledge on, and exploring the potential future research directions of, creative industries research and policy. The work enriches an understanding of the outline of research agendas that have shaped countries, regions and cities. I would recommend this book not only to academic scholars and industry leaders in the creative and cultural industries fields, but also to political leaders who can innovate the business and cultural world by evaluating and collaborating with a range of unique and diverse sectors that have intrinsic, innovative characteristics.' --Stefania Romano, Cultural TrendsStuart Cunningham and Terry Flew have brought together an impressive and diverse group of contributors from the academic, industry, and policymaking sectors to illuminate research directions for a field of inquiry that is characterized by inherent tensions between economic and cultural perspectives; between the needs and interests of scholars and those of the industry and policymaking sectors; and between the variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that characterize the wide range of disciplines that contribute to creative industries research. This is a complex and difficult field for researchers to navigate. Fortunately, this volume clearly lays out a number of valuable paths forward.' --Philip M. Napoli, Duke University, US'Cunningham and Flew have assembled an A-list team of international scholars, industry leaders and policy makers to crystalize a future research agenda for creative industries. It addresses difficult issues in marking the distinction between economic and cultural value, and illuminates complex questions of intellectual property in an increasingly digital and globalized environment. It considers platforms and cities, on the one hand, and the different social and intellectual challenges in UK, Europe, Pacific Rim, and China, on the other. What will be the impact of Web3 and blockchain; how can industrial policy be rethought to sensibly encompass the creative economy; what data do we need to understand the continually morphing object that is the creative industries? This is an essential contribution to the field that not only provides answers but defines the new questions that we have to ask.' --Jonathan Potter, Rutgers University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: A forward agenda for creative industries research Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew 1. The Creative Economy – where did it come from and where is it going? John Newbigin 2. The creative industries and industrial policy: The UK case Hasan Bakhshi 3. Complexity thinking as a coordinating theoretical framework for creative industries research Roberta Comunian 4. Creative industries: Between cultural economics and cultural studies Terry Flew 5. Creative industries research requires a new approach to data analysis John Davies 6. Web3 and the creative industries: How blockchains are reshaping business models Jason Potts and Ellie Rennie 7. Creative industries and higher education: What curriculum, what evidence, what impact? Ruth Bridgstock 8. Subsidies, copyright and incentives: A European perspective on the film industry Paul Stepan 9. Creative industries around the world Stuart Cunningham and Adam Swift 10. Creative industries in China: The digital turn Terry Flew, Xiang Ren and Yi Wang Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Presenting cutting-edge thoughts on media economics, its history and development, and looking forward to its future, this timely book investigates the changing face of the field. With contributions from some of the most prominent media economics scholars in the world, this provocative and visionary Research Agenda covers theory development, consumer and audience demand, information and cultural goods, and technological dimensions. Chapters explore globalization, industry organization, social and ethical aspects of media firms, new media viability and the historical eras of media economics. Presenting a range of streams of inquiry and topics needing more study and development, this Research Agenda looks at new and innovative ways to stimulate thought around key research questions and designs. PhD students and scholars of media studies and media economics will benefit from the expansion of basic concepts, theories and methods found in this key book. It will also be critical reading for media professionals looking to understand more about the impact and importance of contemporary media relations. Contributors include: A.B. Albarran, Á. Arrese, M. Barrett, A.J. Coffey, C.A. Hollifield, W.-y. Hsu, C. Kolo, Y.-l. Liu, M. Medina, B.I. Mierzejewska, M.E. Gutiérrez-Rentería, U. Rohn, A. Sánchez-Tabernero, C. Shao, X. ZhangTrade Review'A Research Agenda for Media Economics edited by international scholar and veteran researcher Alan Albarran brings together a top-notch group of well-established and emerging scholars to look at the current state of media economics research. From theoretical traditions in media economics research to the spending patterns of the individual consumer this book presents a whole host of new ideas in advancing the future of the discipline. If there is a one important tie-in to the many authors who contributed to this work, it has to do with idea of audience, from a business, technological and global perspective.' --Richard A. Gershon, Western Michigan University, US'An excellent resource with insights from leading scholars in our field, this book provides structure for graduate teaching in media economics that cannot be found elsewhere. Tackling topics such as the history of the field, theoretical developments, global perspectives, ethical considerations, along with suggestions for research, this volume elicits excitement for furthering knowledge in the critically important area of media economics research. An absolute must read for professionals, as well as budding or seasoned scholars seeking answers to what's next in changing media landscapes.' --Angela M. Powers, Iowa State University, US'As we are accustomed to, Alan Albarran has organized yet another excellent book that effectively marks the research agenda for media economics. This book brings together important works by researchers in the field of economics and media management from various continents, which offers a more global view of the market dynamics and media research, focusing on its economic and educational dimension. This volume is an indispensable support medium for all students and researchers who are interested in the subject of media studies, especially in their economic approach. Without a doubt, my students will also start a new school year with a new and important teaching aid to better understand the research agenda for media economics.' --Paulo Faustino, President, International Media Management Academic Association and Co-director, Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies (JOCIS)Table of ContentsContents Preface 1 Media economics research: a history of the field 1 Alan B. Albarran 2 Advancing media economics research through theory 13 Marianne Barrett and Chun Shao 3 Research traditions in media economics 30 Amy Jo Coffey 4 Global digital networks and global media systems: an economic perspective 44 Xiaoqun Zhang 5 Consumer demand and audience behavior 59 Angel Arrese, Mercedes Medina and Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero 6 Economics of information and cultural goods 77 Bozena I. Mierzejewska and Castulus Kolo 7 Technological dimensions and media economics 103 Yu-li Liu and Wen-yi Hsu 8 News media viability 121 C. Ann Hollifield 9 Industry organization, media management and media economics 144 Ulrike Rohn 10 Social and ethical aspects of media economics research 159 María Elena Gutiérrez-Rentería 11 Challenges and opportunities in media economics research 173 Alan B. Albarran Index 185

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Book SynopsisDemocracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for reactionary ends. The resurgence of racism, populism and the far right is not the result of popular demands, it is the logical conclusion of manipulation by the elite of the working class to push reactionary ideas. These narratives portray racism as a popular demand, rather than as something encouraged and perpetuated by elites, exonerating those with the means to influence and control public discourse through the media in particular. This has legitimised the far right, strengthened its hand and compounded inequalities.These actions divert us away from real concerns and radical alternatives to the current system. Through a careful and thorough deconstruction of the hegemonic discourse currently preventing us from thinking beyond the liberal vs populist dichotomy, this book develops a better understanding of the systemic forces underpinning our current model and its exploitative and discriminatory basis. The book shows us that the far right would not have been able to achieve such success, either electorally or ideologically, were it not for the help of elite actors like the media, politicians and academics. While the far right is a real threat and should not be left off the hook, the authors argue that we need to shift the responsibility of the situation towards those who too often claim to be objective bystanders despite their powerful standpoint and clear capacity to influence the agenda, public discourse, and narratives, particularly when they platform and legitimise racist and far right ideas and actors.Trade ReviewPraise for After Charlie Hebdo:A unique transnational take on the weaponization of liberal values after the Paris attacks. After Charlie Hebdo takes Islamophobia apart and equips us for the fight back. -- Liz Fekete, Director, Institute of Race RelationsPraise for After Charlie Hebdo:A bold, challenging and forthright collection that raises fundamental questions around issues of race and identity. -- Michael Cronin, Trinity College DublinPraise for After Charlie Hebdo:The attack on Charlie Hebdo has been a transformative event, one that presents particular challenges for freedom of speech. This insightful collection helps us to reflect on how we can develop an alternative narrative on violence, racism, and freedom of expression. -- Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale SuperiorePraise for After Charlie Hebdo:"These essays offer stimulating perspectives on the violent paradoxes of French liberalism. For English speakers, they give valuable context to the political dynamics behind the Charlie episode." -- Nick Riemer, University of SydneyPraise for After Charlie Hebdo:"An engaging contribution to our understanding of the 2015 attacks, examining the media framing of the event and the conflict of values it created in public debate." -- Romain Badouard, University of Cergy-PontoisePraise for The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia:Aurélien Mondon has written a brilliant and original book. It involves a comparative history of the French and Australian right in the longue durée and shows how the post-war extreme right parties - the Front National in France and One Nation in Australia - absorbed the inner-spirit of both nations' very different right-wing traditions and were then able to transform the rhetoric and the tone of politics, especially on questions connected to ethnicity and race, under Sarkozy in France and Howard in Australia. This work will change the way scholars view the significance of the resurgence of the populist right in Europe and beyond. -- Robert Manne, La Trobe University, AustraliaPraise for The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia:In spite of their different histories and political cultures, France and Australia have been prime examples of a broader trend: the 'mainstreaming' of far right discourses and previously taboo issues associated with them. Mondon's fascinating but also sobering book shows why the far right's electoral performance is a misleading indicator of its political influence; behind it lies a more complex dynamic of ideological normalisation, which may easily serve the far right in the longer term. -- Aristotle Kallis, Lancaster University, UKPraise for The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia:This book provides an original and informed study of the nature and narratives of the extreme right in two developed countries where questions of identity, immigration and the negotiation of change figure prominently in public debate. It makes a valuable contribution to comparative political analysis and will appeal to readers interested in how key populist extremist parties impact on contemporary politics and society. -- Paul Hainsworth, University of Ulster, UKFires a rescue flare warning that the threat to civil society, human rights, and democracy itself must not be ignored-before it is too late. -- Chip BerletA clever, timely interrogation of what racism truly means, and why it persists in modern liberal democracies. Everyone needs to read this. -- Angela SainiReactionary Democracy makes an important contribution to critical thought by mapping the complex ways in which racism has acquired renewed force in the contemporary conjuncture. Drawing expertly on developments in the US, UK and France, the entangled logics of liberal and illiberal racisms are carefully illuminated making transparent the complicity of liberalism with its so-called populist alternative. With liberalism's commitment to democracy compromised, Mondon and Winter boldly call for the construction of an emancipatory, transformative politics committed to ending all structures of oppression and thereby actualizing the promise of democracy for all. -- Satnam VirdeeMondon and Winter offer a razor sharp analysis of the relationship between racism and liberalism to rethink the resurgence of far right, populist politics. Ultimately, this is a hopeful book that demands more from democracy and from ourselves--only by resisting racism and other hierarchical exclusions can we hope to build egalitarian futures. -- Professor Akwugo Emejulu Department of Sociology University of WarwickA powerful account of how liberal media and political elites have colluded with far-right forces, fatally undermining the emancipatory potential of democratic systems of government. -- Imogen TylerAn impressively lucid and hard-hitting primer on some of the gravest dangers of the Western present. With unsparing clarity and nuance, Mondon and Winter delineate how vitiated and retrograde the practice of democracy is today, how it remains in thrall to elite manipulation, and how both racism and white supremacy are central to this project of control and consent. This book makes for uncomfortable reading--which is why it is so urgent and necessary. We can't afford not to hear what it has to say. -- Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent EmpireIt is hard to think of a more necessary and welcome intervention than Reactionary Democracy. The mantle of 'the market place of ideas' has emboldened racism and undermined democracy. The agents of this movement have their allies, and with this book democrats and anti-racists have theirs. A powerful and compelling contribution. -- Professor Nasar Meer, FAcSS; FRSE, University of EdinburghRadical Democracy offers a sustained critical reading of the recent platforming of the populist racist right. Aurelion Mondon and Aaron Winter trace the ways in which this focus on extreme expressions draws attention away from systemic racism and the inequalities capitalism licenses and reproduces. The result is a timely analysis of the the processes and narratives enabling the reproduction of systemic racism. -- David Theo GoldbergReactionary Democracy is an important and incisive contribution to the burgeoning literature on the rise of the far-right in the U.S., France, and the U.K. Challenging the popular narrative that these movements are an inevitability, Mondon and Winter show that the Right's new found power was hardly the will of the people. The right's mainstreaming relied upon a complicit media (unable to adapt to bad-faith and racist provocateurs) and politicians willing to adopt the right's rhetoric. If you want to know how we got into this mess, and are committed to a progressive path out of it, Reactionary Democracy helps to a critical roadmap. -- Victor RayIn elaborating their argument about the mainstreaming of racism, Mondon and Winter register shifts and divergences across different national contexts, providing a thoughtful response to excitable narratives about the global rise of 'populism'. Theirs is also a ferocious, mobilising critique, properly partisan while unsparing of progressive mythologies. They point us towards what's needed to defeat the far-right, not just by engaging with its contemporary complexity and affinities, but by demonstrating incisively how it benefits from wider social and political contradictions -- Gavan TitleyReactionary Democracy is a powerful analysis of how the 'respectable' centre ground is far from innocent in the rise of the far right. Mondon and Winter show how racist ideas have been promoted not just through far right activism but also through everyday language on immigration and identity in mainstream politics and media. Drawing on examples from the US, France and the UK, they argue that elite voices are responsible for normalising anti-immigrant views and facilitating conditions exploited by a resurgent right. The book provides a much-needed health warning against the notion that liberal democracy is a natural ally against racism. By insisting that we should stop 'hyping' the far right and start challenging it, the book eloquently promotes a full-throttle anti-racism when we need it most. -- Des FreedmanReactionary Democracy is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work drawing upon the enduring debate about the causes of systemic racism. Introducing readers to the entanglement of racism and liberal democracy, this co-authored book seeks to shed new light on how these forms of power interact and the possibilities emerging in the wake of this. -- Rahel Süß * LSE Review of Books *Mondon and Winter put forward an ideological analysis that helps explain how the far-right could claim to be championing the grievances of workers while at the same time defending the interests of the wealthy. -- Paolo Gerbaudo * Jacobin *Timely. -- Beatriz Buarque * International Affairs *

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Book SynopsisAs we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka.Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.Trade ReviewA provocative and compelling exploration of our digital world as it crashes towards ecological disaster. Counter-intuitive, insightful, and imaginative, Capital is Dead is a timely reminder that there are things worse than capitalism - and we may just be living through them -- Nick Snricek, co-author of Inventing the Future * [in praise of Capital is Dead] *a playbook for the Anthropocene, a set of moves and strategies extracted from an unexpected canon of texts formed by a mash-up of the Soviet avant-garde and the Californian high-tech imaginary. * Radical Philosophy [in praise of Molecular Red] *A very imaginative, historically smart, politically generative thesis . that I think we urgently need. -- Donna Haraway, author of A Cyborg Manifesto * [in praise of Molecular Red] *A wonderful book . informative and moving . a great recovery of an instructive life and literary effort. The book makes the case for a kind of political vision and action we need to recognize and enact. A true pleasure to read. -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy * [in praise of Molecular Red] *Wark is a fine aphorist ... Playful, angry, depressed, celebratory, this is a book for anyone not convinced that there is no alternative to the way we live now. -- Observer * [In Praise of The Beach Beneath the Streets] *

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Book SynopsisA Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish.

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Book SynopsisFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think.Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we're getting out of it, and what we're getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history-to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?Trade ReviewOne of our most astute political analysts * China Miéville, author of October *A bracing tour through the social and political context and impact of Twitter and Facebook, exploring Gamergate to Isis to Trump's Twitter presidency. He recounts horrifying miseries - suicides on YouTube, rapes on Periscope, streamed shootings on Facebook - created by people radicalised, or tormented by online peers, craving celebrity - all pushed to extremes by algorithms and monetised by tech companies. -- Emma Jacobs * Financial Times *The book is a thrilling demonstration of what such resistance can look like, by one of the most clear-sighted and unyielding critics writing today. We should all read it. -- William Davies * Guardian *Richard Seymour has a brilliant mind and a compelling style. Everything he writes is worth reading -- Gary Younge, author of Another Day in the Death of AmericaWhat Susan Sontag did for photography, what Christopher Lasch did for the culture of narcissism, Richard Seymour has done for social media. I read it with a sense of recognition, and alarm. -- Adam Shatz, contributing editor at the London Review of BooksA sophisticated critique of the age of social media. * Kirkus Reviews *Rather than wondering ponderously if this is 'cancel culture' or whatever, we might ask ourselves: Why were all these people tweeting? ... This is not a book with an accompanying TED Talk, a ten-step program, or One Weird Trick to Fix Everything. Seymour's pose here is that of a working analyst, not a confident diagnostician. He draws connections, he sketches notes toward a further diagnosis. -- Max Read * Bookforum *The Twittering Machine understands our world as it is: shaped for better or worse by sophisticated, online, social technologies that developed in the context of a long human history of other technologies. -- Damon Beres * OneZero *Seymour is wide-ranging in his analysis of the destructive effects of the "social industry" on personal and political life...By the end, if you weren't already, you will be on the verge of deleting your Twitter account. And yet Seymour himself is still on there, professionally compelled as a freelance writer to plug into the machine . -- Matthew Sperling * Guardian *A very brilliant deconstruction of social media and our death drive to engage with it. . .What's so useful about the book is that it dispenses with the platitudes we tend to hear about social media, and takes a psychoanalytical approach to social media that feels fresh and freshly horrifying. * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book Synopsis Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain since the early 1980s including the emergence of the graphic novel in 2000. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics.Trade Review “If anyone is planning a course on contemporary Spanish comics, please look no further. This title is the ideal companion for any class on this topic. On the other hand, one of the virtues of graphic narratives is the amount of information they can transmit about the culture, history, and politics of any location, making them a suitable vehicle for the examination of any context. Anne Magnussen’s edited volume is a flawless example of this aspect…Overall, Magnussen’s volume does a superb job bringing together a select group of scholars to discuss and examine the contemporary Spanish comics scene… Anyone reading this book will understand well why Spanish comics are thriving. Their effervescence and vibrancy denote an area of the national cultural industry that shows no signs of faltering or hesitancy,” • Comic Art BlogTable of Contents Introduction: Spanish Comics. Historical and Cultural Perspectives Anne Magnussen Chapter 1. Dissenting Voices? Controlling Children’s Comics under Franco Rhiannon McGlade Chapter 2. Satirical Panels against Censorship. A Battle That Raged during the Spanish Transistion Gerardo Vilches Chapter 3. Tintin in the Movida Madrileña. Gender and Sexuality in the Punk Comic Book Zine Scene Louie Dean Valencia-García Chapter 4. From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth. Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography David Miranda-Barreiro Chapter 5. The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics. Remembering the Civil War and Francoism Juan Carlos Pérez García Chapter 6. ‘For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors’. Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels Iain A. MacInnes Chapter 7. An interview with Paco Roca Esther Claudio Chapter 8. ‘They Tried To Bury Us; They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds’: Intergenerational Memory and La Casa Sarah D. Harris Chapter 9. Paco Roca’s Graphic Novel La Casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy Benjamin Fraser Chapter 10. Therapeutic Journeys in Contemporary Graphic Novels Agatha Mohring Chapter 11. Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age. Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Saló Javier Muñoz-Basols and Marina Massaguer Comes Chapter 12. Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965–1975 Antonio Lázaro-Reboll

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Book SynopsisSome 22 years after its creation, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is still held in high critical regard as one of the finest examples of the video game medium. The same is true of the game’s music, whose superlative reception continues to be evident, whether in the context of the game or in orchestral concerts and recordings of the game’s music. Given music’s well-established significance for the video game form, it is no coincidence that music is placed at the forefront of this most lauded and loved of games. In Ocarina of Time, music connects and unifies all aspects of the game, from the narrative conceit to the interactive mechanics, from the characters to the virtual worlds, and even into the activity of legions of fans and gamers, who play, replay and reconfigure the music in an enduring cultural site that has Ocarina of Time at its centre. As video game music studies begins to mature into a coherent field, it is now possible to take the theoretical apparatus and critical approaches that have been developed in antecedent scholarship and put these into practice in the context of an extended concrete game example. The most extensive investigation into the music of a single game yet undertaken, this book serves three important primary purposes: first, it provides a historical-critical account of the music of an important video game text; second, it uses this investigation to explore wider issues in music and media studies (including interactivity, fan cultures, and music and technology); and third, it serves as a model for future in-depth studies of video game music.Trade Review'Summers does an excellent job of describing the soundscape of a video game within the confines of print, employing a variety of visual representations to support his prose arguments. [...] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: A Game Music Companion offers many things to many people: it is an in-depth analysis of a beloved game, a primer on ludomusicological terminology and concepts, a model analysis, a demonstration of the different things video game music can do, and an explication of how it does them. Summers’s attention to detail, wide-ranging knowledge, and affection and respect for the subject matter are evident throughout, resulting in a superb book.' -- Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey, Journal of Sound and Music in GamesTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The music of Ocarina of Time in context Nintendo’s game franchises The Legend of Zelda Kondo’s approach to music in The Legend of Zelda Music on the Nintendo 64 Music in Ocarina of Time Chapter 3. The ocarina and Link’s musical performances The ocarina Why an ocarina? Playing Link’s ocarina Beyond the four notes Learning the ocarina songs The songs Plot-advancing and assistance melodies Warp songs The Scarecrow’s song and other performances The Fabulous Five froggish tenors The Skull Kids Musical performance in Ocarina of Time The function of musical performance in games Chapter 4. Location cues Part I. Hyrule Field A familiar tune Introduction Day tags Reflective tags Battle tags Music, the player and geography Part II. Location cues featuring ocarina songs Epona’s song and Lon Lon Ranch – Associations of ranch life The Temple of Time and the Song of Time – Cathedral soundscape Windmill and the Song of Storms – Strange circularity Saria’s song and the Lost Woods – Jolly repetition and misdirection Part III. Dungeon cues Inside the Deku Tree – Organic timbres Dodongo’s Cavern – Audio textures of metal and stone Inside Jabu-Jabu’s belly – Fishy rumblings Forest Temple – Sounds of the forest Fire Temple – Voices heard and unheard Ice Cavern – Crystalline chimes Water Temple – A dungeon on the Danube? Shadow Temple and the bottom of the well – Voices and drums from the depths Spirit Temple Ganon’s Castle Part IV. Towns Kokiri Forest – Optimism and ornamentation Castle Town market – Evoking European traditions Kakariko Village – A wistful safe haven Goron City – Sounding the materials of the mountain Zora’s domain Gerudo Valley – Hispanic traditions in the desert Part V. Recurring types of location Shops – Hyrule’s consumer soundtrack Sideshow minigames – The fairground connection Houses – A musical starting point Potion shops, ghost shops and lakeside laboratory – Little shops of horrors? Fairy Fountain/start menu – Angelic harps Music for locations Chapter 5. Character themes and cutscenes Part I. Character themes Zelda’s theme – Lilting lullaby Ganondorf’s theme – Alarming chords and brooding sequences Sheik – Atypical warrior’s theme Kaepora Gaebora (the great wise owl) – Authority and levity Great Deku Tree – Ancient uncertainty Koume and Kotake A noticeable omission Part II. Other cutscenes Opening – An unexpected start Flying – Musical sequences for beating wings Legends, spirits and goddesses Rewards and milestones End credits – Finale ultimo Ocarina of Time 3D Music for cutscenes Chapter 6. Ludic cues Part I. Combat music Musical features of combat cues Implementation in the game Boss victory cue Part II. Cues for treasure and challenges Acquisition cues Music for puzzles Music for losing – Game over Minigames – Frivolous fun Special sequences Aestheticizing the Ludic Chapter 7: Interfaces and sound effects Earcons for interfaces Menus and dialogue Targeting system Musical sound for interfaces and information Musicality and magic Sound and motion Enemy sound effects Conclusions Chapter 8. Ocarina afterlives Later games Parallel world – Majora’s mask Selective franchise continuity Decontextualizing sound A multi-valent musical medium

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Book SynopsisThe book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in British film and theatre history are used to illustrate the principle that adaptations can't be divorced from the historical and cultural moment in which they are produced and to look at issues around theatrical naturalism and cinematic realism. Written in a refreshingly accessible style, it offers an original analysis with emphasis on performance and event. It opens up new avenues of exploration to include non-literary issues such as the treatment of space and place, mise en scène, acting styles and star personas. The recent growth of digital theatre is examined to foreground the 'events' of theatre and cinema, with phenomena such as NT Live analysed for the different ways that 'liveness' is adapted. Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen explores how cultural values can be articulated in the act of translating between mediums. The book takes as its subject the interaction between film and theatre and argues that, rather than emphasising differences between the two mediums, the emphasis should be placed on elements that they share, in particular the emphasis on performance and the participation in an event. It uses a number of case studies to show how this relationship is affected by changes in technology – the coming of film sound, the invention of live-casting – and in the nature of the event being offered to particular audiences. These examples, ranging from the well-known to the obscure, are all treated with relevant and knowledgeable analysis and a strong and appropriate sense of context. The book offers a welcome overview of previous work in this area and demonstrates the importance of basing analysis on historical context, as well as giving new insights into some familiar examples. Discussion ranges from Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock to Robert Lepage and Ivo van Hove. There are detailed analyses of Alfie, Gone Too Far and Festen as well as authoritative analyses of NT Live performances and British New Wave cinema. The book will be of primary interest to academics, researchers, teachers and students working in adaptation studies, film studies and theatre studies. Written in an accessible style it will appeal to teachers and students on A-level, undergraduate and postgraduate film, theatre, media and cultural studies courses. The chapter on digital theatres will add to the growing body of literature in this area and appeal to students and academics working on digital cultures and new media. Live screenings of theatre events are becoming more widely available and increasingly popular, including some of the productions discussed. There is potential interest for a general audience interested in British films, theatre and actors.Trade Review'Building productively on previous scholarship while also taking adaptation studies in fruitful new directions, Adapting Performance between Stage and Screen offers an accessible and incisive consideration of its topic. Lowe confidently navigates the many permutations of the relationship between cinema and theatre and meticulously explores how this has played out in the particularly intertwined British variation on the theme. Very worthwhile reading for anyone interested in British film, British theatre and their deep interconnectivity, this is a performance that definitely deserves its own round of applause.' -- Melanie Williams, Journal of British Cinema and Television'As an introduction to this new approach, Lowe leaves us with a number of potential avenues for future exploration and academic research. Although there are a few suggestions listed in the book, such as a re-examination of the films of Basil Dean, further analysis of the theatre-to-cinema live broadcast and the investigation of stage productions of British film, this method will provide the inspiration for further academic analysis in both theatre and film studies. Lowe’s accessible writing style makes this not only an informative but also a pleasurable read for everyone with an interest in performances on either stage or screen.' -- Georgia Brown, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and TelevisionThe author offers very good readings and analysis of a wide range of texts from well-known classics to more obscure works, spanning the popular, the populist and the avant-garde. It is thrilling to read a book that can discuss Steven Spielberg or Alfred Hitchcock in one place and Robert Lepage or Ivo van Hove in another ... It is an exciting volume that plugs an important gap in current cross-media scholarship. -- Richard Hand, Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia and Editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & PerformanceThis book offers an original analysis which emphasizes performance and event (rather than literary texts) as the basis for analyzing different examples of adaptation. In terms of case studies, it offers interesting and worthwhile insights into some quite familiar material but also takes on relatively new examples of the exchange between theatre and film in its discussion of live-casting and the recent dominance of staged films in British theatre … an excellent account of an important topic. -- Christine Geraghty, Professor of Film and Television, University of Glasgow,Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Practices Chapter 1: Stage to Screen Adaptation and Performance/Production: Space, Design, Acting, Sound Chapter 2: Screen to Stage Adaptation: Theatre as Medium/Hyper-Medium Chapter 3: Stage to Screen Adaptation and the Performance Event: Live Broadcast as Adaptation Part Two: Histories Chapter 4: The Introduction of Sound and ‘Canned’ Theatre Chapter 5: The British New Wave on Stage and Screen Chapter 6: Staging ‘British Cinema’ Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides journalists and the public with a broad overview of all the ways modern communication technologies and information approaches make it difficult for people to effectively find and interpret information, and what they can do about it.

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Book SynopsisDrawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences.International scholars survey the key disciplinary foundations of climate change communication including: climate science, audience studies, sociology, and the efficacy of diverse communication forms ranging from science communication, political communication and visual communication to film, theatre and the novel. Featuring key ideas critical to the contemporary climate discussion, such as climate denial, psychology, the use of images, journalism, campaigns, health, justice and climate change fiction, this timely Research Handbook intervenes in the global debate to offer a pathway for researchers and communicators to stimulate new methods of conceptualising and communicating climate mitigation.Presenting an in-depth exploration of climate change messaging in relation to interpretive communities, this book is crucial reading for scholars and students of media and communications, climate science and environmental studies. Its key practical insights will also benefit practitioners of climate communication and science.Trade Review'This book takes a fiercely needed leap forward to systematically improve climate change communication. We're well acquainted with intersectional challenges associated with 21st century climate change, but work remains to improve how we talk about climate change. Interdisciplinary contributions here guide productive discussions as pathways to improved engagement and action.' -- Max Boykoff, University of Colorado, Boulder, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change 1 David C Holmes THEME I COMMUNICATING CLIMATE SCIENCE 2 Introduction to communicating climate science 22 Simon Torok and Ailie JE Gallant 3 Confidence and certainty in climate science 24 Ailie JE Gallant and Sophie C Lewis 4 Communicating climate change science with different audiences 33 Simon Torok, Karen Pearce and Susan Joy Hassol THEME II CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIAL 5 Introduction to climate science denial 47 John Cook 6 Sources and amplifiers of climate change denial 49 Riley E Dunlap and Robert J Brulle 7 Deconstructing climate science denial 62 John Cook 8 Responding to climate science denial 79 Emily Vraga and Sander van der Linden THEME III THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION 9 Introduction to the psychology of climate change communication 93 Kelly S Fielding 10 The role of psychological variables in developing effective climate change message frames 95 Anna Klas and Edward JR Clarke 11 The role of social norms in communicating about climate change 106 Kelly S Fielding and Winnifred R Louis 12 Communication to change climate-related behaviour 116 Christian A Klöckner THEME IV VISUALIZING CLIMATE CHANGE 13 Introduction to visualizing climate change 127 Mike S Schäfer 14 Stakeholders’ visual representations of climate change 131 Antal Wozniak 15 News media images of climate change: reviewing the research 143 Mike S Schäfer 16 Climate change visuals: a review of their effects on cognition, emotion and behaviour 153 Julia Metag THEME V CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING 17 Introduction to climate reporting 162 Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius 18 Climate reporting: challenges and opportunities 164 Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius 19 Reporting extreme weather events 183 James Painter and Susan Joy Hassol 20 Reporting from vulnerable countries in the Global South 196 Goretti L Nassanga and Mofizur Rhaman THEME VI CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS 21 Introduction to climate change communication campaigns 212 Lucy M Richardson 22 Climate change audience segmentation: an international review 214 Benjamin H Detenber and Sonny Rosenthal 23 Designing theory-based interventions to change behaviour effectively 230 Sebastian Bamberg and Maxie Schulte 24 Practitioner engagement with communication and behavioural science research 242 Lucy M Richardson THEME VII HEALTH COMMUNICATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE 25 Introduction to health communication of climate change 257 Anneliese Depoux 26 Communicating the public health implications of climate change 259 Melinda R Weathers, Marceleen M Mosher and Edward Maibach 27 A few points that communication on climate change could learn from the COVID-19 crisis 272 Anneliese Depoux and François Gemenne 28 Communicating the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation to households and policy makers 279 Alina Herrmann, Dorothee Amelung, Helen Fischer and Rainer Sauerborn THEME VIII CLIMATE JUSTICE COMMUNICATION 29 Introduction to climate justice communication 291 Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg 30 The importance of the matters, geographies, and mediations of justice 293 Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg 31 The unearthed and contagious logics of pluralist climate justice in the Russian Arctic 305 Dmitry Yagodin THEME IX CLIMATE CHANGE FICTION 32 Introduction to climate change fiction 317 Roman Bartosch 33 Beyond communication: climate change fiction 320 Axel Goodbody 34 Popularizing climate change: cli-fi film and narrative impact 330 Alexa Weik von Mossner 35 (In)attention to global drama: climate change plays 340 Julia Hoydis 36 Reading and teaching fictions of climate 349 Roman Bartosch Index 353

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Book SynopsisBringing together a series of new perspectives and reflections on creative economies, this insightful Modern Guide expands and challenges current knowledge in the field. Interdisciplinary in scope, it features a broad range of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars, which provide innovative, critical research into a wide range of disciplines, including arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural sociology, economics, entrepreneurship, management and business studies, geography, humanities, and media studies.Designed to push the boundaries of understanding on the topic, this Modern Guide initially addresses definitional and methodological challenges, before offering new perspectives on the theory and practice of creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and exploring the role of networks and the importance of place and mobility. The book concludes by re-imagining creative economies, raising issues of inequality and justice, care and solidarity, and opportunities for value recognition, while providing new visions of inclusivity, cultural capability, and future development.A timely reflection on the importance of creative economies, this Modern Guide will be a critical read for students, scholars and policymakers working to support and develop future inclusive and sustainable creative economies.Trade Review‘For the past two decades, governments, academics, and industry groups have celebrated, measured, and advocated for the creative economy and its accelerated growth. Largely thought of as the production and consumption of creative goods across multiple sectors and geographies, the creative economy is actually much more – it is the sum total of our expressive lives – how we create and share human expression – which is both critical and complex and subject to policy, market forces, networks, professional practice, and community-based values. A Modern Guide to Creative Economies is essential reading for considering and reflecting on how we build healthy, equitable, and sustainable conditions for the creation, celebration, and exchange of human expression. The book, and its collection of brilliant essays, offers fresh insight that will inspire scholars, students, and leaders in arts and culture to ask new and different questions and ultimately to imagine possibilities for not just growing our creative economies, but also for sustaining the humans who are critical for creative expression to thrive.’ -- Steven Tepper, University of Arizona, US‘In an age of knowledge and creativity, we can all need a guide to provide a better understanding of how our times work and the challenges we face. This book does the job. It pushes the boundaries of current knowledge to make us better understand creative economies. It also expands the meaning of creativity in the context of cultural development, care, and social justice.’ -- Charlotta Mellander, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden‘Read, reference and engage with this book. You will be treated to a grand tour d’horizon of the contemporary European project in cultural and creative industries. Broadly multidisciplinary and multimethodological, it is positive critique that essays ways and means to work for more inclusive and sustainable futures in understanding creative economies.’ -- Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Creative Economies 1 Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonen and Nick Wilson PART I CREATIVE ECONOMIES: CHALLENGING DEFINITIONS AND EXPLORING NEW METHODS 2 Modular solutions and creative coding: the success of the creative and cultural industries in Australia 21 Scott Brook 3 On GIS and the creative economy: opportunities and challenges 36 Manfredi de Bernard, Roberta Comunian and Federica Viganò 4 Using social network analysis to understand the creative and cultural industries 55 Jon Swords 5 Measuring creative and cultural industries: the statistics job from taxonomies to composite indices 77 Alessandro Crociata and Chiara Burlina PART II CREATIVE ECONOMIES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RE-THINKING INCLUSIVITY AND BUSINESS MODELS 6 Experiences of belonging to the creative economy: narratives from northern micro-entrepreneurs 92 Lenita Nieminen and Arja Lemmetyinen 7 Cultural entrepreneurship: ethnicity and migrant communities 109 Annette Naudin 8 Creative entrepreneurship in 2022 and beyond: some implications for higher education 125 Ruth Bridgstock PART III CREATIVE ECONOMIES: FOCUS ON NETWORKS, PLACE AND MOBILITIES 9 This must be the place: creative workers’ evaluations of cities as enabling contexts for work 147 Lorenzo Mizzau, Fabrizio Montanari, Damiano Razzoli and Stefano Rodighiero 10 Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and social mediation of professional networks in craft higher education 164 Lauren England 11 Emerging spatial relations of artists and art scenes through the lens of art schools in Manchester and Leipzig 181 Silvie Jacobi 12 Exploring contemporary visual arts careers in Italy: education, mobility and project work 194 Jessica Tanghetti PART IV CREATIVE ECONOMIES RE-IMAGINED 13 Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams and the banal imagination 216 Mark Banks 14 Growth of what? New narratives for the creative economy, beyond GDP 228 Jonathan Gross 15 Inclusive solidarity: emerging forms of resistance within the UK creative economy 249 Tamsyn Dent 16 What is the creative economy – really? 269 Nick Wilson Index 286

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