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Book SynopsisA vivid, intellectual journey through the works of the renowned writerTrade Review'A scholar of unique range, learning, and originality' -- Jacqueline Rose, author of The Last Resistance (Verso, 2007)'Authoritative, knowledgeable, and fascinating ... an essential addition to understanding the nature of Israel and the conflict its establishment has created, not just for Palestinians but also for the Mizrahi or 'Arab Jews'. Poignant and thought-provoking' -- Ghada Karmi, author of Return: A Palestinian Memoir (Verso, 2015)'In this rich and wide-ranging collection, Ella Shohat demonstrates subtlety, imagination, and the potential of engaged writing. Although it probes many aspects of loss and dislocation, this work is sustained, in the end, by a profound sense of hope' -- Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed (Bloomsbury, 2014)'Ella Shohat is a gifted cultural critic who writes about complex issues with great clarity, wisdom, and insight. In this collection of essays she tackles a wide range of Middle Eastern topics from a refreshingly original and radical perspective. She is a wrecking-ball of Zionist orthodoxies' -- Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World'The volume is so rich in content and perspective on the changing patterns of ethnicity and its interaction with historical circumstance that I hardly know where to begin ... A genuine and enduring achievement.' -- Peace News'[A] profoundly important collection ... of enormous importance in understanding not only the tragedy of the post-1947 “population exchange” but the ethnic conflicts tearing apart the Middle East and North Africa today' -- CounterpunchTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Question of the Arab-Jew 1. Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims 2. Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew 3. Breaking the Silence 4. Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race and Multiculturalism 5. The Invention of the Mizrahim 6. Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography Part II: Between Palestine and Israel 7. The Trouble with Hanna (with Richard Porton) 8. In Defence of Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Threat in the Middle East (with Yerach Gover) 9. Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine 10. Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed 11. Exile, Diaspora and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse 12. The Alphabet of Dispossession 13. On Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Interview Conducted by Jadaliyya) 14. In Memory of Edward Said, the Bulletproof Intellectual 15. A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the “Jews of the Orient and Palestinians” Meeting Part III : Cultural Politics of the Middle East 16. Egypt: Cinema and Revolution 17. Gender in Hollywood’s Orient 18. The Media’s War 19. The Carthage Film Festival (with Robert Stam) 20. The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation and Diaspora 21. Reflections on September 11 22. Anti-Americanism: The Middle East (A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi) 23. Postscript to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth 24. On the Margins of Middle Eastern Studies: Situating Said’s Orientalism Part IV: Muslims, Jews and Diasporic Readings 25. Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections 26. 'Coming to America': Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss 27. Diasporic Thinking: Between Babel and Babylon (A Conversation Conducted by Christian Höller) 28. Arab-Jews, Diasporas and Multicultural Feminism (A Conversation Conducted by Evelyn Alsultany) 29. Forget Baghdad: Arabs and Jews – the Iraqi Connection (A Conversation Conducted by Rasha Salti and Layla Al-Zubaidi) 30. Bodies and Borders (An Interview Conducted by Manuela Boatc and Sérgio Costa) 31. Don’t Choke on History: Reflections on Dar al Sulh, Dubai, 2013 (A Joint Conversation with Michael Rakowitz and Regine Basha) Notes Index About the Book and the Author

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Book SynopsisHow sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today's ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called user-generated content. Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of participatory culture, from internet memes to presidential tweets. The authors challenge our notions of what goes viral and how by examining factors such as the nature of audience engagement and the environment of participation, and by contrasting the concepts of stickinessaggregating attention in centralized placeswith spreadabilitydispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks. The former has often been the measure of media success in the online world, but the latter describes the actual ways Trade ReviewContent today, the authors suggest, can travel not only from the top down but also from the inside out. It is a remarkably different terrain than what we have been used to, one they effectively and stridently analyze. * Publishers Weekly *In Spreadable Media, media theorist Henry Jenkins, formerly of MIT and now at USC, and his coauthors, digital strategists Sam Ford and Joshua Green, make a convincing case that fan involvement in the re-creation and circulation of media content is not just an interesting side effect of man-to-many multimedia networks and smartphone video editing apps, but a significant force for empowerment and exploitation in and of itself...If you are in the music, move, television, or game business, this book is a must read. * Strategy and Business *It's about time a group of thinkers put the marketing evangelists of the day out to pasture with a thorough look at what makes content move from consumer to consumer, marketer to consumer and consumer to marketer. Instead of latching on to the notion that you can create viral content, Jenkins, Ford, and Green question the assumptions, test theories and call us all to task. Spreadable Media pushes our thinking. As a result, we'll become smarter marketers. Why wouldn't you read this book? -- Jason Falls,CEO of Social Media Explorer and co-author of No Bullshit Social MediaThe best analysis to date of the radically new nature of digital social media as a communication channel. Its insights, based on a deep knowledge of the technology and culture embedded in the digital networks of communication, will reshape our understanding of cultural change for years to come. -- Manuel Castells,Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern CaliforniaBy critically interrogating the ways in which media artifacts circulate, Spreadable Media challenges the popular notion that digital content magically goes & viral. This book brilliantly describes the dynamics that underpin people's engagement with social media in ways that are both theoretically rich and publicly meaningful. -- danah boyd, Microsoft ResearchFinally, a way of framing modern media creation and consumption that actually reflects reality and allows us to talk about it in a way that makes sense. It's a spreadable world and we are ALL part of it. Useful for anyone who makes media, analyzes it, consumes it, markets it or breathes. -- Jane Espenson,writer-producer of Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon a Time, and HusbandsSomething new is emerging from the collision of traditional entertainment media, Internet-empowered fan cultures, and the norms of sharing that are encouraged and amplified by social media. Spreadable Media is a compelling guide, both entertaining and rigorous, to the new norms, cultures, enterprises, and social phenomena that networked culture is making possible. Read it to understand what your kids are doing, where Hollywood is going, and how online social networks spread cultural productions as a new form of sociality. -- Howard Rheingold,author of Net SmartSolid analysis and detailed examples to make it sticky enough for the intended readerships of media scholars, media professionals, and fans. * International Journal of Communication *Spreadable Media is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how media works today. * Deep Media *A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content. * Kirkus *

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Book SynopsisTerms and phrases such as the global village and the medium is the message are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan''s theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan''s classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as the global village and the medium is the message are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan''s theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan''s work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT''s Media Lab. In effect, media now begs to be redefined. In a new introduction to this edition of Understanding Media, Harper''s editor Lewis Lapham reevaluates McLuhan''s work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this century.

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Book SynopsisImagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you can''t have secrets.Welcome to 2011.Google and Facebook are already feeding you what they think you want to see. Advertisers are following your every click. Your computer monitor is becoming a one-way mirror, reflecting your interests and reinforcing your prejudices.The internet is no longer a free, independent space. It is commercially controlled and ever more personalised. The Filter Bubble reveals how this hidden web is starting to control our lives - and shows what we can do about it.Trade ReviewAn illuminating flash-forward of what might be -- Colin Fraser * Scotland on Sunday *Highlights an important and easily overlooked aspect of the internet's evolution that affects everyone who uses it * The Economist *Pariser is an excellent debunker of internet clichés... [he] comes as close as anyone has to explaining the misgivings that a lot of internet users feel -- Christopher Caldwell * The Financial Times *A book designed to agitate us into awareness, because this may be the only way we can first discover and then burst the bubble... a polemic and warning -- Brian Appleyard * The Sunday Times *Explains how insidious customization of the web is limiting our access to information, and narrowing rather than expanding our horizons * Observer *Well-written, thoroughly researched and informative . . . the possibilities become truly amazing - or, if you prefer, scary * Scotsman *Astonishing * Andrew Marr *Explosive * Chris Anderson *

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a considered voice on the advertising chaos that colours our rapidly changing media environment in a world of fake news, fast facts and seriously depleted attention stamina. Rather than simply herald disruption, Karen Nelson-Field starts an intelligent conversation on what it will take for businesses to win in an attention economy, the advertising myths we need to leave behind and the scientific evidence we can use to navigate a complex advertising and media ecosystem. This book makes sense of viewability standards, coverage and clutter; it talks about the real quality behind a qCPM and takes a deep dive into the relationship between attention and sales. It explains the stark reality of human attention processing in advertising. Readers will learn how to maximise a viewer’s divided attention by leveraging specific media attributes and using attention-grabbing creative triggers. Nelson-Field asks you to pay attention to a disrupted advertising future without panic, but rather with a keen eye on the things that brand owners can learn to control.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – The First Episode.- Chapter 2 – Big Little Learnings.- Chapter 3 – Attention Science Becomes a Science.- Chapter 4 – The Reinvention of Invention.- Chapter 5 – A Guide to Now and Next.- Chapter 6 – From Realisation to Action: the Diary of a CPO.- Chapter 7 – The Investors.- Chapter 8 – Attention to Ethics.- Chapter 9 – Back to the Future Gazing.

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Book SynopsisIn this fifth edition, Brian Carroll explores writing and editing for digital media with essential information about voice, style, media formats, ideation, story planning, and storytelling.Carroll explains and demonstrates how to effectively write for digital spaces and combines hands-on, practical exercises with new material on podcasting, multi-modal storytelling, misinformation and disinformation, and writing specifically for social media. Each chapter features lessons and exercises through which students can build a solid understanding of the ways that digital communication provides opportunities for dynamic storytelling and multi-directional communication. Broadened in scope, this new edition also speaks to writers, editors, public relations practitioners, social media managers, marketers, as well as to students aspiring to these roles. Updated with contemporary examples and new pedagogy throughout, this is the ideal handbook for students seeking careers in digital media, particularly in content development and digital storytelling.It is an essential text for students of media, communication, public relations, marketing, and journalism who are looking to develop their writing and editing skills for these ever-evolving fields and professions.This book also has an accompanying eResource that provides additional weekly activities, exercises, and assignments that give students more opportunity to put theory into practice.Table of Contents1. Writing for Digital Media: Laying the Foundation 2. Editing for Digital Media: Storytelling Strategies 3. Writing for Digital Media II: Tools & Techniques 4. Editing for Digital Media II: Creating the User Experience 5. Digital Storytelling: Generating Ideas & Publishing the Story 6. Doing Journalism 7. Responsible Advocacy: Public Relations and Social Media Management 8. Multimodal Storytelling: The Medium is the Message 9. Misinformation & Disinformation: Credibility in a "Post-truth" Age 10. Knowing the Law: Intellectual Property, Libel & Privacy

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Book SynopsisFrom King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a comprehensive chronological survey of Black horror from the 1890s to present day.In this second edition, Robin R. Means Coleman expands upon the history of notable characterizations of Blackness in horror cinema, with new chapters spanning the 1960s, 2000s, and 2010s to the present, and examines key levels of Black participation on screen and behind the camera. The book addresses a full range of Black horror films, including mainstream Hollywood fare, art-house films, Blaxploitation films, and U.S. hip-hop culture-inspired Nollywood films. This new edition also explores the resurgence of the Black horror genre in the last decade, examining the success of Jordan Peeleâs films Get Out (2017) and Us (2019), smaller independent films such as The House Invictus (2018), anTrade Review"Demons, ghosts, slavery, magic. These are just a few provocative subjects covered in Horror Noire. Means Coleman reveals that what scares some people the most is Black people imagining themselves as heroes, antiheroes, villains, and monsters. Attending to the ways Black people’s imagination is activated—that is the value and power of Horror Noire. "John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California-Riverside, USATable of Contents1. The Birth of the Black Boogeyman: Pre-1930s 2. Jungle Fever—A Horror Romance: 1930s 3. Horrifying Goons and Minstrel Coons: 1940s 4. Black Invisibility, White Science: 1950s 5. A Night with Ben: 1960s 6. Scream, Whitey, Scream—Retribution, Enduring Women, and Carnality: 1970s 7. We Always Die First—Invisibility, Racial Red-Lining, and Self-Sacrifice: 1980s 8. Black is Back! Retribution and the Urban Terrain: 1990s 9. Growing Painz: 2000s 10. Representation, Recognition, and Renaissance: 2010s to present 11. Conclusion: Black Horror Today and Tomorrow

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a new, story-based approach to cinematic coverage and storytelling in film and video. It breaks from the conventional idea that shots are the fundamental unit of filmmaking, instead exploring the specifics of determining coverage. Keyframes in patterns are introduced, delivering scripted material in a context-rich presentation that supports the storytelling. All the analysis, interpretation, and creative decision making is done first, with shots derived as the very last step. Scripted material is divided into six categories with associated patterns. Like cinematic building blocks, these can freely stack up and interconnect, supporting creativity and avoiding rigid formulas. This approach enables filmmakers to tap into the film language that audiences already understand and put it to practical use, helping the audience to feel the storytelling deeply. Dozens of film examples are provided throughout, plus conceptual and camera diagrams to contextualize the mTrade Review'A refreshing revision of the filmmaker’s visualization process that describes the essential creative choices for directors and cinematographers alike when determining coverage and cinematic storytelling.'Charlie Egleston, Filmmaker and Professor of Film Production, Fanshawe College'Cinematic Storytelling is an exceptional book on directing and cinematography for it provides the tools on how to tell cinematic stories visually, in ways that will reach an audience. A close study of this text and consistent practice of these principles will shift any amateur or student filmmaker into the professional realm. We may know how to "read" a movie, but directors and cinematographers need the tools to understand how to do it.'Kurt Lancaster, Professor and Program Lead, Creative Media and Film, Northern Arizona University. Author of Basic Cinematography and DSLR Cinema.Table of ContentsChapter 1: What is cinematic storytelling?, Chapter 2: Foundations in the script, Chapter 3: Coverage defines attention, Chapter 4: Cinematic thinking, Chapter 5: Patterns for Character Actions, Chapter 6: Patterns for Character Looks, Chapter 7: Patterns for Dialogue – structure, Chapter 8: Patterns for Dialogue – examples, Chapter 9: Patterns for Settings, Chapter 10: Patterns for Objects, Chapter 11: Patterns for Evocative Imagery, Chapter 12: Patterns and movement, Chapter 13: Scene shaping and interconnections, Chapter 14: Developing the coverage plan, Reference Materials

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Book SynopsisAs its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou KeÃta, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from the business practices of profesTable of Contents1. Negatives and Positives ; 2. Inventing Negatives ; 3. Photographic Drawings ; 4. More of the Same ; 5. Control Methods ; 6. Created Worlds ; 7. Hiding in Plain Sight ; 8. The Cult of the Negative ; 9. Electricity Made Visible ; 10. Authorship and Ownership ; 11. Refashioning a Past ; 12. Return of the Repressed ; 13. Proper Names ; 14. Does Size Matter? ; 15. Ordering Things ; 16. Poses and Settings ; 17. Hidden Mothers ; 18. Collecting Things ; 19. Still Life ; 20. Repetition and Difference ; 21. Negative/Positive.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook explains how music contributes to the advertising that the public encounters on a daily basis. Chapters examine how the soundtracks of promotional messages originate, how we might interpret the meanings behind the music, and how commercial messages influence us through music.Table of ContentsPreface About the Contributors Introduction: Music and advertising: Production, text, and reception James Deaville, Siu-Lan Tan, and Ron Rodman PART I. PRODUCTION Edited by: James Deaville Production: Music and the creation of the advertising text James Deaville Music and Advertising Before 1900 1 Advertising the English glee to women, 1750-1800 Bethany Blake 2. Advertising Millie-Christine, or the making of the Two-Headed Nightingale Remi Chiu and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak Selection and Marketing of Music 3. Fitting tunes: Selecting music for television commercials Peter Kupfer 4. Blank music: Marketing virtual instruments James Buhler 5. Contextual marketing: Analyzing networks of musical context in the Digital Age Willem Strank Music for Advertising and Labor 6. Organized labor and commercial advertising: Music unions and J. Walter Thompson Jessica Getman 7. Jazz works: Music, advertising, and labor in Toronto, 1955-1980 Mark Laver Branding through Music 8. Designing identities: Sound and music in automotive and appliance branding Kenneth McLeod 9. Music supervision and branding in an era of "convergent advertising" Tim J. Anderson Advertising Corporate Style through Music 10. The conquest of Kool: Jazz, tobacco, and the rise of market segmentation Dale Chapman 11. Loathsome Deutschtum? Wagner and advertising as propaganda in American industrial films of the 1930s and 1940s Julie Hubbert 12. About a b(r)and: Geffen Records, Universal, and the (posthumous) packaging of Nirvana Laurel Westrup Advertising Audiovisual Entertainment 13. Music and the formal structures of contemporary action film trailers Catrin Watts 14. Creating big-screen audiences through small-screen appeals: Film marketing on television through music and sound James Deaville 15. "Have You Played Atari Today?" Music and audience in an early video game advertising campaign William Gibbons Selling on Radio 16. "All those homes beyond the microphone": Advertising, domesticity, and early country music variety programs in the 1930s David VanderHamm 17. Music and institutional advertising: Consolidated Edison and Echoes of New York Rika Asai PART II. TEXT Edited by: Ron Rodman Text: Analytic and historical perspectives on music and advertising Ron Rodman Approaches to Analyzing Music and Advertising 18. Taking the gift out and putting it back in: From cultural goods to commodities. Timothy D. Taylor 19. Sounds of Coca-Cola-On "cola-nization" of sound and music Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær 20. The persistence of memory: Structural functions of music in commercial jingles Ron Rodman Musical Genres and Advertising 21. Popular music, advertising, and "selling out" Bethany Klein 22. "Search and destroy": Punk in advertising and selling a subculture Jay Beck 23. Selling "David Bowie": Commercial appearances and the developing Bowie star image Katherine Reed 24. Medievalism goes commercial: The epic as register in contemporary media David Clem 25. "Pushin' it": Sounding difference through humor in Geico's 2014 Salt-N-Pepa spot Joanna Love Music and Advertising Genres 26. "Once you hear this, act fast": Music in Civil Defense television advertisements, 1950-1970 Reba Wissner 27. "Everything is not awesome": Playful adaptation and the aurality of ecoconscious media in Greenpeace's "Save the Arctic" campaign Kate Galloway 28. Exploiting the frontier: Advertising and the Western soundtrack Mariana Whitmer Music and Political Ads 29. Music and sound design as propaganda in Hell-Bent for Election Lisa Scoggin 30. As heard on: The changing musical language of Presidential campaign ads Justin Patch 31. From the subliminal to the ridiculing: How U.S. campaign ads use music to evoke four basic and two compound emotions Paul Christiansen PART III. RECEPTION Edited by: Siu-Lan Tan Reception: Empirical approaches to the study of music and advertising Siu-Lan Tan Frameworks: Models, Mechanisms, and Methods 32 Toward a utilitarian theory of consumer response to advertising music Lincoln G. Craton 33 Hearing, remembering, and branding: Setting strategic directions for sonic branding research Vijaykumar Krishnan and James J. Kellaris 34 Methods for testing the emotional effects of music in advertising and brand communication Daniel Müllensiefen Cognitive and Affective Responses to Music and Advertising 35 Commercial sound: A review of the effects of popular music in radio and television advertising David Allan 36 Music with the message in mind: Cognitive responses to background music in advertising Cynthia Fraser 37 Musical congruity in advertising: Established and emerging research themes Steve Oakes and Morteza Abolhasani 38 Audiovisual advertising: Effects of music on psychological transportation and narrative persuasion Madelijn Strick 39 Music as advertisement: Capturing and sustaining attention in the attention economy era Hubert Léveillé Gauvin Music and Sound in (Multi)Sensory Marketing 40 Sensory marketing in advertising and service environments Bertil Hultén 41 Sound in the context of (multi)sensory marketing Klemens Knoeferle and Charles Spence APPENDIX The ad creation process: From production to reception Lawrence Harte Subject/Author Index

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Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes look at the struggles between visual journalists and officials over what the public sees--and therefore much of what the public knows--of the criminal justice system. In the contexts of crime, social justice, and the law, nothing in visual media is as it seems. In today''s mediated social world, visual communication has shifted to a democratic sphere that has significantly changed the way we understand and use images as evidence. In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock examines the way criminal justice in the US is presented in visual media by focusing on the grounded practices of visual journalists in relationship with law enforcement. Drawing upon extended interviews, participant observation, contemporary court cases, and critical discourse analysis, Bock provides a detailed examination of the way digitization is altering the relationships between media, consumers, and the criminal justice system. From tabloid coverage of the last public hanging in the US to Karen-shaming videos, from mug shots to perp walks, she focuses on the practical struggles between journalists, police, and court officials to control the way images influence their resulting narratives. Revealing the way powerful interests shape what the public sees, Seeing Justice offers a model for understanding how images are used in news narrative.Trade ReviewImpressive in scope. Thoughtful in approach. Critical in significance. Bock gives us a treasure that expertly illuminates how visual media have historically been used to depict (in)justice and, importantly, provides a roadmap to guide their ethical use into the future. * T.J. Thomson, Queensland University of Technology and author of To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions, and Identities Behind News Images *Through her insight and wisdom gathered through years of work as a professional and a scholar, Mary Angela Bock has produced a much needed book about the role of all stakeholders—'law enforcement, citizens, and journalists'—in shaping visual narratives about the criminal justice system and the people who are voluntarily or involuntarily part of it. This timely book covers a full range of issues, from 'embodied gatekeeping' through misrepresentation and re-contextualization in media. Far too often, the result of these imaging and viewing practices is seeing unjustly. * Julianne H. Newton, Professor of Visual Communication, University of Oregon *Bock provides a sophisticated account of how the press, the state, and its citizens use and produce visual narratives of justice. Moving between theory and practice with eloquence and ease, she makes a compelling case for why mediated citizenship depends on the recognition of visibility and voice. * Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado Boulder and author of Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession *A remarkable achievement! Informative, insightful and engaging. Seeing Justice is a compelling book that will engage and delight the reader. It exposes the way images about justice are created, contextualized and distributed, and how different social actors struggle for control of those processes. Bock's wry wit is a welcome bonus, too often missing in books of this character." * Shahira S. Fahmy, Professor, School of Journalism, University of Arizona, USA and Visiting Professor, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One: Playing with Fire Chapter Two: Images of Discipline Chapter Three: Walks of Shame Chapter Four: Spectacular Trials Chapter Five: What Picture Would They Use? Chapter Six: What's So Special About Video? Chapter Seven: Filming Police Chapter Eight: Police and Image Maintenance Chapter Nine: Everyday Racism and Rudeness Chapter Ten: Playing (Safely) With Fire Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisVisionary Film has remained the standard text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the major filmmakers since Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made their dreamlike film Meshes of the Afternoon in 1943. Sitney also identifies the emergence and flowering of a new genre, which he calls Menippean Satire. This edition also includes a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos which had been dropped from the second edition.Trade ReviewPraise for previous editions of Visionary Film: Without question it is the first such book on the avant-garde film--the first one that probes this field in such depth, with such perspective and vision, with such insight and intelligence. * Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice *Table of Contents1: Meshes of the Afternoon 2: Ritual and Nature 3: The Potted Psalm 4: The Magus 5: From Trance to Myth 6: The Lyrical Film 7: Major Mythopoeia 8: Absolute Animation 9: The Graphic Cinema: European Perspectives 10: Apocalypses and Picaresques 11: Recovered Innocence 12: Structural Film 13: The Seventies 14: The End of the 20th Century Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century''s most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. Also included are over 140 special inset features on the film-makers and personalities - Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman - who have had an enduring impact in popTrade Reviewa richly rewarding, impressively wide-ranging trawl through the medium's first 100 years * Time Out *an essential guide for all serious cinema enthusiasts * Flicks *If any new book deserves the gloss of informed and sacred text, it is The Oxford History of World Cinema ... a sound and thorough job in creating something that at least tries to be genuinely definitive. * Independent *a model of clear editorial organization in which the essays of more than 80 contributors are marshalled into an illuminating mosaic. * The Economist *

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has played in the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline during these years; reprinting influential 1970s pioneering essays tracing the ensuing debates and challenges to key theories that shaped this field in the next two decades. Kaplan details the Euro-American contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged and traces the changing influences of French, German, and American intellectual movements on feminist film research. As well as a wide-ranging introduction which sets the selection of essays in context, readers will find examples of social-role, psychoanalytic, structuralist, post-structuralist, gay and lesbian, postmodern and postcolonial feminist film criticism, prefaced by introductory notTable of ContentsPHASE ONE: PIONEERS AND CLASSICS: THE MODERNIST MODE ; PHASE TWO: CRITIQUES OF PHASE ONE THEORIES: NEW METHODS ; PHASE THREE: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND POSTMODERNISM IN FEMINIST THEORY ; PHASE FOUR: SPECTATORSHIP, ETHNICITY, AND MELODRAMA

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Book SynopsisHow do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nationtelevision serials. These melodramatic programslike soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterpartshave been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in this Middle Eastern nation. Representing a decade's worth of research, Dramas of Nationhood makes a case for the importance of studying television to answer larger questions about culture, power, and modern self-fashionings. Abu-Lughod explores the elements of developmentalist ideology and the visions of national progress that once dominated Egyptian televisionnow experiencing a crisis. She discusses the broadcasts in rich detail, from the generic emotional qualities of TV serials and the depictions of authentic national culture, to the debates inflamed by their deliberate strategies for combating religious extremism.

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Book SynopsisThis analysis of the 1992 US presidential campaign looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information.

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Book SynopsisWhy do crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues affecting thousands of people? Filled with revealing interviews with both journalists and city officials, Making Local News is the first comprehensive look at how the economic motives of media owners, professional motives of journalists, and the strategies of media-wise politicians shape the news we see and hear, thereby influencing urban policy. Making Local News by Phyllis Kaniss ...is significant...If we can continue to get smarter about that which journalism leaves out or distorts in its coverage of politics, we may eventually get smarter about politics itself.--Mitchell Stephens, The Philadelphia Inquirer View A convincing analysis of the factors and forces which color how and why local issues do, or do not, become newsworthy. --Michael H. Ebner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History This work serves as a reminder of the importance of a medium that is often overlooked until economic realities thrTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1: The Historical Development 2: Commercial Pressures on Local News 3: Professional Values in the Local Journalist 4: Local Television News 5: Alternative Voices in the Local Media 6: Local Government Officials as News Sources 7: Philadelphia's New Convention Center: A Case Study Conclusion and a Look to the Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon fieldwork conducted over 30 years, the author to this text examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to Sri Lankanize commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially creating new culture.

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Book SynopsisHow the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the natural speech model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the natural speech of the Donahue talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose works are discussed are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Steve McCaffery. But the strongest presence in Perloff's book is John Cage, a poet better known as a composer, a philosopher, a printmaker, and one who understood, almost half a century ago, that from now on no word, musical note, painted surface, or theoretical statement could ever again escape contamination from the media landscape in which we live. It is under his sign that Radical Artifice was composed.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1: Avant-Garde or Endgame? 2: The Changing Face of Common Intercourse: Talk Poetry, Talk Show, and the Scene of Writing 3: Against Transparency: From the Radiant Cluster to the Word as Such 4: Signs Are Taken for Wonders: The Billboard Field as Poetic Space 5: The Return of the (Numerical) Repressed: From Free Verse to Procedural Play 6: How It Means: Making Poetic Sense in Media Society 7: cage: chance: change Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. Trade Review"Hagelin and Silverman adeptly analyze a set of highly regarded, well-watched, and much talked about television series, setting a high standard of originality, soundness, and rigor throughout. It is difficult to write about television as clearly, effectively and efficiently as they do here."-- "Diane Negra, University College Dublin" "If you love television's bad women more than you should, you'll love The New Female Antihero, which opens up this topic in exciting and original ways. Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman rethink this edgy character through race as well as gender, upping the stakes on why television's transgressive women are important. By including the hit comedies Broad City and Girls alongside series about killers and assassins, Hagelin and Silverman reveal the larger implications of these unruly women as threats to traditional femininity. You'll never watch TV's difficult women in quite the same way again."-- "Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University"Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction: The New Female Antihero—The What, the Why, the How Part 1: Ambition TV 1. The Limits of the Female Antihero in Game of Thrones 2. The Impossibility of the Marriage Plot in The Americans 3. Scandal and the Failure of Postracial Fantasy 4. Homeland and the Rejection of the Domestic Plot Part 2: Shame TV 5. Feminist Anti-Aspirationalism in Girls 6. Liberation and Whiteness in Broad City 7. The Difference That Race Makes in Insecure 8. Working-Class Identity and Matriarchal Community in SMILF Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is the first major ethnographic study of the way in which the mobilization of a public is now carried out in India primarily through the new digitally powered mass media. From populist politics, court judgments, sensational crime and corruption to police brutality, Cody examines with brilliant clarity and theoretical sophistication the coming together of publics as well as counterpublics in Tamil Nadu.” * Partha Chatterjee, professor emeritus, Columbia University *“In this fascinating study, Cody shows how popular sovereignty is shaped within the media-saturated environment of Tamil Nadu politics, making sovereign power vulnerable to popular politics generated by the fact of the ‘news event’ and its circulation. His unraveling of the boundaries between online and offline communicative acts, the virtual and the actual, or the old media and new media, is accomplished with great sensitivity and attention to the empirical, which provides the grounds for the conceptual to emerge. A splendid achievement.” * Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Event of News Chapter One Populist Publics Chapter Two Defamation Machine Chapter Three Law at Large Chapter Four Celebrity Outlaws Chapter Five Short Circuits Epilogue: Environmental Engineering Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMurray Dick is based at the Centre for Investigative Journalism at City University, London, UK and combines roles as an information officer, consultant in online research, visiting lecturer and freelance journalist.Trade Review"A comprehensive reference source that is ideal for journalism students and experienced journalists who wish to develop their digital skills." - ReferTable of Contents1. Search in Theory 2. Search in Practice 3. The Invisible Web 4. Social Media Theory 5. Social Networks and Newsgathering 6. Multimedia 7. Bringing it all Together: Developing an Online Beat 8. Verifying Online Sources.

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Book SynopsisFinalist for theAEJMC Tankard Book Award Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world's dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen's biography is a globe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the most important institution in American--and eventually international--journalism in the mid-twentieth century. Allen critically assesses the many new approaches and causes that Cooper championed: introducing celebrity news and colorful features to a service previously known for stodgy reliability, pushing through disruptive technological innovations like the instantaneous transmission of news photos, and leading a crusade to bring American-style press freedom--inseparable from private ownership, in Cooper's view--to every country. His insistence on truthfulness and impartiality presents a sharp contrast to much of today's fractured journTrade Review"Highlighting historical facts and perspectives, showcasing a who's who in the news industry, Mr. Associated Press easily serves as required reading for journalism students. Bridging gaps of knowledge from one decade to the next, it offers insights into how an upstart news route expanded to cover the world, and why journalism -- rightly or wrongly -- has become nearly synonymous with 'the media'." --Project Censored“Allen uses the figure of Kent Cooper to narrate a compelling and important story of American news from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. An incredibly valuable book for scholars of communications, media, journalism, history, and American foreign relations.”--Heidi Tworek, author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945Table of ContentsAcknowledgments “Fitting himself for the newspaper profession” Apprenticeship and Ascent Celebrity News and Competition: Transforming the Domestic News Service The Opposition International Ambitions The Japanese Gambit New Media Politics, External and Otherwise The Shadow of War The Government Suit The Crusade The Voice of America Mr. Associated Press Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shadow of the New Deal is an ideal introduction for scholars new to the study of radio. . . . The book has an obvious appeal to media historians; indeed, it will no doubt become the standard reference work on this phase in radio history, though it offers fruitful information for scholars of other areas as well." --H-Net Reviews“Equipped with a wealth of archival research and a fresh perspective, Shepperd reshapes the history of public broadcasting convincingly and with great respect for the practitioners, researchers, and reformers responsible for its development and influence.”--Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry"Well researched and documented." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Advocacy: Media Reform, from Activism to Advocacy: Before and After the Communications Act of 1934 Chapter 2. Funding: The Philanthropic Mandate for Collaboration between Educational and Commercial Broadcasters Chapter 3. Distribution and Facilities: America’s Public Media Industry: From the Rocky Mountain Radio Council to the National Bicycle Network Chapter 4. Research and Development: The Emergence of Communication: Reception Research as a Strategic Tool of Media Reform Chapter 5: Policy: Public Media Policy, 1934-1967--Lessons from Reform History Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.Trade Review"Energetically written. . . . Crucial topics for understanding what is actually going on behind the scenes of your local nightly news."--Sante Fe New Mexican"Shines a needed light on the threats that local broadcasters are currently facing. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a path forward."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly"The book is well researched. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a new path forward."--American Journalism"It is the detail in Ali's analysis that is impressive. There is much value in it as just a history of media policy-making at the beginning of the 21st century, as Ali looks at key moments in regulatory processes in each of the territories he covers."--Journalism"This book offers a very interesting contribution to reconsider the approach to local media." --CBQ Critical Reviews"Media's woeful lack of localism is matched by lack of definition about what the term really means. Ali's brilliant dissection of localism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada provides a foundation for developing strategies to restore our vanished local media."--Michael Copps, former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission"This landmark book offers a fascinating and invaluable analysis for anyone seeking a critical understanding of 'the local' in our digital age. With elegance and clarity, Ali draws from comparative case studies and key historical contexts to show why democracy still requires media localism--and why an unfettered market can't support it. This is a must-read for policymakers, journalists, and concerned citizens everywhere."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"Bold and innovative. A scholarly interrogation of significant moves to think through the meaning of community and how various policymakers, politicians, activists, and indeed entrepreneurs have sought to mobilize these concerns."--Des Freedman, author of The Contradictions of Media Power

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth exploration of a neglected video game platform of the 1990s and a reflection on the way we construct the cultural history of video games.In The Media Snatcher, Carl Therrien offers an in-depth exploration of NEC's PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, a little-studied video game platform released in the late 1980s. The PC Engine was designed to bring technological expandability to the world of game consoles; The Media Snatcher's subtitle evokes some of the expansions and the numerous rebranded versions of the system released by NEC, including the first CD-ROM add-on in video game history. The platform makers hoped that expandability would allow its console to remain at the cutting edge and even catch up with such perceptually rich media as cinema and anime. More than a simple shape-shifter, the PC Engine became a media snatcher.Therrien examines the multidirectional interactions of video game technologies, commercial structures, and cultural dynamics. He consider

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized booklets would spawn an entire industry practically overnight. In Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games, commonly known as RPGs, blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the 2010s. Going far beyond D&D, this heavily illustrated tome covers more than three hundred different RPGs that have been published in the last five decades.Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground features (among other things) bunnies, ghostbusters, soap operas, criminal bears, space monsters, political intrigue, vampires, romance, and, of course, some dungeons and dragons. In a decade-by-decade breakdown, Horvath chronicles how RPGs have evolved in the time between their inception and the present day, offering a deep and gratifying glimpse into a hobby that has changed the way we think about games and play.

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized booklets would spawn an entire industry practically overnight. In Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games, commonly known as RPGs, blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the 2010s. Going far beyond D&D, this heavily illustrated tome covers more than three hundred different RPGs that have been published in the last five decades.Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground features (among other things) bunnies, ghostbusters, soap operas, criminal bears, space monsters, political intrigue, vampires, romance, and, of course, some dungeons and dragons. In a decade-by-decade breakdown, Horvath chronicles how RPGs have evolved in the time between their inception and the present day, offering a deep and gratifying glimpse into a hobby that has changed the way we think about games and play.The deluxe edition will include a foil-stamped cover and slipcase with a cloth binding, a ribbon, gilded edges, and an 8.5x11-inch card stock poster of the regular edition.

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Book SynopsisThe results of a focus group research project, sponsored by the Commission of Presidential Debates and conducted during the 1992 presidential and vice presidential debates, are reported.Table of ContentsAbout the Series by Robert F. Denton Foreword by Frank Fahrenkopf, Jr. and Paul G. Kirk, Jr. Acknowledgments Researching Presidential Debates A Rationale for a Focus Group Study by Diana B. Carlin Design & Implementation of the Focus Group Study by Mitchell S. McKinney The Focus Group as a Research Tool by Beverley Davenport Sypher Structuring the Debates Debating the Debates by Elizabeth R. Lamoureux, Heather S. Entrekin, and Mitchell S. McKinney The Impact of Formats on Voter Reactions by John Meyer and Diana B. Carlin Let the People Speak: The Emergence of Public Space in the Richmond Presidential Debate by Stephen P. Depoe and Cady Short-Thompson "Children in a Sandbox:" Reaction to the Vice Presidential Debate by Jack Kay and Timothy A. Borchers Flirting with Perot: Voter Ambivalence about the Third Candidate by Mari Boor Tonn The Impact of Debates Debates as a Voter Education Tool by Michael A. Mayer and Diana B. Carlin The Presidential Debate as a Source of Citizen Disagressment by Mark S. Kuhn Debates versus Other Communication Sources: The Pattern of Information and Influence by Michael Pfau and William P. Eveland, Jr. The Gender Gap? Male and Female Reactions to the 1992 Presidential Debates by Sally J. Perkins and Gerri L. Smith The Student Voter by Julie Apker and Cary R.W. Voss Conclusions Implications for Future Debates by Diana B. Carlin Appendixes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A richly-layered overview of the journalistic landscape in Malaysia and Indonesia." -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *"Steele’s study is well situated within the literature on Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. It provides an important corrective not only to simplistic assumptions that Islam cannot allow for free expression, balance, or critique but also to superficial understandings of how religious values shape people’s public activities." * Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia *"Steele’s book presents a landmark work, setting the stage for more nuanced engagements with contemporary Muslim practices of journalism in a world of contested religious ideals, social values, and political projects." * Journal of Islamic Studies *"Janet Steele’s book really is an eye-opener for anybody interested in comparative perspectives on journalism ethics. She skillfully deconstructs any possible assumption that ethical reflections in modern media organization is a privilege of the West." * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *"Janet Steele’s new book on Islam and journalism in Southeast Asia is a refreshing tour de force of qualitative research, grounded in years of in-depth interviews and participant observation at five influential print publications. . . . this is an extremely important book that sets new standards for qualitative research on the internal workings of newsrooms, and the world views that prevail there." * Journal of Press Politics *

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Book SynopsisA foremost digital expert looks at the most powerful political tool ever created-the internet of things. Will it be like the internet of surveillance and censorship we have now, or will it be something better?Trade Review“Forget networking your toaster to your refrigerator—in Pax Technica, Howard brilliantly outlines the coming consequences of the Internet of Things, including altered norms of international governance. This is the most important work yet written on the subject, and the first to extend the logic of networked infrastructure to the global political stage.”—Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody -- Clay Shirkey“Connected devices raise a variety of social, economic, and political concerns. In this timely book, Howard analyzes how sensors, geolocation devices, and wearable technologies will broaden and threaten people’s lives. It is a superb analysis of what he calls ‘pax technica’.”—Darrell West, Brookings Institution -- Darrell West“Pax Technica is a groundbreaking assessment of the next great stage of the digital revolution, the one that makes all previous stages look like child's play. The ‘internet of things’ is upon us, and Howard provides an eye-opening account of its immense promise and perils.”—Robert W. McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy -- Robert W. McChesney“We can’t say we haven’t been warned—or encouraged. Phil Howard makes a big argument about the fundamental shift in power that will occur once the Internet of Things takes hold and connected devices become central to our lives. He also provides a wise blueprint for making these changes work for the common good. Take heed.”—Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science, and Technology research at the Pew Research Center -- Lee Rainie"Pax Technica is an essential guidebook for the often unsettling implications of Big Data and the Internet of Things. Howard crafts a persuasive plea for active civic engagement to help chart us towards a more equitable digital future."—Ron Deibert, author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet -- Ron Deibert“To understand the true significance of the Internet of Things, I only need to turn to Philip Howard’s new masterpiece: Bold, comprehensive, full of intriguing insights and eminently readable!”—Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of Big Data -- Viktor Mayer-Schonberger“Ambitious and provocative, Pax Technica addresses the implications of digital media, big data, and related phenomena for democracy and public life. Pundits, policymakers, and those curious about the changing landscape of media, politics, and global affairs should take note.”—Seth Lewis, University of Minnesota -- Seth Lewis“Pax Technica is a brilliant work of responsible optimism about how big data, AI and the Internet of Things may improve the world. Philip Howard acknowledges the potential downsides of our data-drenched society, but makes a compelling case for why we may live better, and govern ourselves sensibly, in the era of Pax Technica. The book makes a substantial contribution to the debate over how we coexist with technology—and is as a thoughtful antidote to the digital doomsayers.”—Kenneth Cukier, co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think -- Kenneth Cuker“In Pax Technica, Phillip Howard envisions a world in which the ubiquity of Internet connectivity and the proliferation of Internet-aware devices fundamentally change the ways governments and other power structures interact with people. Whether this new order comes to full fruition, Howard's roadmap of the potential opportunities and consequences is extremely useful as we move into unchartered technical and political waters.”—Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of Law and Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University -- Jonathan Zittrain“Building on his previous research about digital technology and democratization, Philip Howard takes a sweeping and ambitious look at how government, political structures and international relations will be transformed by technological change. Optimistic that a Pax Technica will bring global stability, Howard calls for more transparency, standards for data sharing and reminds us of the need for an internet that is truly global. Thought provoking, opinionated, and upbeat, Howard's book is an interesting addition to the debate about the effects that new technology should and could have on our society.”—Anya Schiffrin, author of Global Muckraking -- Anya Schiffrin“Understanding geopolitics in the Internet age is no longer possible without an understanding of how power is wielded across global networks of digital devices. Phil Howard maps out the opportunities and challenges of this brave new world.”—Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked -- Rebecca MacKinnon“Pax Technica is a bold and prophetic book. Even if you disagree with Philip Howard's conclusions, you will want to engage with his arguments. He sees our world in a genuinely new way.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department, 2009-2011 -- Anne-Marie Slaughter“Weaving rich stories into an analytic framework, Howard's crisply written book outlines a technologically-optimistic vision of the emerging public-private global order he dubs Pax Technica. Whether one accepts or rejects his arguments, the book is an important contribution to our struggle to understand the world that is coming upon us.”—Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom -- Yochai Benkler“A riveting and highly readable portrait of how the explosive growth of the ‘internet of things’ will pervasively reshape political and social life—and why democratic publics must be prepared. Essential for anyone who wants to understand the world that is emerging in the coming hyper version of the digital age.”—Larry Diamond, author of The Spirit of Democracy -- Larry Diamond

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Communications: The Critical Function 2. The Changing Media World 3. The "New" Newsroom 4. Disaster Coverage Past and Present 5. Principles of a Successful Communications Strategy 6. Application of Communications Principles to all Four Phases of Emergency Management 7. Disaster Communications Audiences 8. How to Adapt to the Changing Media Environment 9. Case Studies 10. Climate Change 11. Communicating During a Public Health Crisis 12. Building an Effective Disaster Communications Capability in a Changing Media World

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Book SynopsisThe prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. Ethnonational Identities breaks significant new ground by exploring the complex dimensions of ethnonational identity claims, their political mobilisation, and a wide variety of comparative contexts in which they are found.Table of ContentsEthnicity, Nation and 'Race': Connections and Disjunctures; S.Fenton & S.May Recognition and National Justice for Québec: A Canadian Conundrum; C.H.Williams Late Arrivals at the Nationalist Games: Romani Mobilisation in the Czech Lands and Slovakia; W.Guy Indigenous Rights and the Politics of Self-Determination: The Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand; S.May Identity Politics and Nationalisms in Colonial India; J.Zavos An Area of Darkness, Still? The Political Evolution of Ethnic Identities in Jammu and Kashmir 1947-2001; V.Hewitt Nationalism in South Asia and its Transnational Impact of the Indian Diaspora in Britain; R.Barot Identitiy in an Ethnically Bifurcated State: Trinidad and Tobago; R.R.Premdas Ethnicity, Malay Nationalism and the Question of Bangsa Malaysia; K.Mariappan Terms of Inclusion: Citizenship and the Shaping of Ethnonational Identities; J.Squires

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Book SynopsisAlthough a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come.Table of ContentsList of Plates Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Future: The Dawn of Science Fiction Criticism; H.Harrison History in SF: What (Hasn't Yet) Happened in History; K.MacLeod The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay's New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age; R.Dingley Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised; R.D.Haynes Losing the Sense and Space: Forster's The Machine Stops and Jameson's Third Machine Age; B.Battaglia Boys, Battleships, Books: The Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898-1919; B.Brasington American Dreams and Edwardian Aspirations: Technological Innovation and Temporal Uncertainty in Narratives of Expectation; C.E.Gannon Filing the Future: Reporting on World War Three; D.Seed The Map of the Apocalypse: Nuclear War and the Space of Dystopia in American Science Fiction; B.Baker A New World Made to Order: Making Sense of the Future in a Global Era; A.Spark Sign, Symbol, Power: The New Martian Novel; R.Crossley Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: The Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction; T.Shippey Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity; D.Broderick Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of how to study film, this updated third edition provides concise and provocative summaries for approaching the language of film analysis, ways of thinking about film history, and approaches and methods for studying cinema, from national cinemas to genre to stardom and beyond.The new edition tracks the changes in film production and exhibition by situating the study of film within contemporary digital media cultures and structures, such as social media and streaming platforms. Without forsaking its emphasis on the study of film, the third edition updates its examples and provides fresh insight into todayâs image culture.Film Studies: The Basics provides beginning students in film studies, as well as lifelong film buffs, with the tools to pursue film analysis, film history, and further inquiries into the medium.Table of Contents1 Introduction to Film Studies 2 The Language of Film 3 The History of Film 4 The Production and Exhibition of Film 5 The Reception of Film 6 The Future of Film

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Book SynopsisGain the skills you need to succeed in the television industry and master the production process, from shooting and producing, to editing and distribution. This new and updated 17th edition of Television Production offers a thorough and practical guide to professional TV production techniques. Learn how to anticipate and quickly overcome commonly encountered problems in television production as author Jim Owens details each role and process, including the secrets of top-grade camerawork, persuasive lighting techniques, and effective sound treatment, as well as the subtle processes of scenic design, directing, and the art of video editing. Updated throughout, containing a range of new figures and diagrams, the 17th edition of this classic text includes: A discussion of the changing definition of television and how new technology alters viewing habits; Interviews with professionals in the industry about the challenges they face during the production process and the advice they would give to those trying to break into the production and television industries; A review of production practices and techniques for VR; A description of the latest cameras and equipment, including LED lighting and remote production; Guidance and techniques for low-budget, DIY-style productions; A comprehensive resource page for instructors, containing slides and testing materials to aid in the learning process can be found at www.routledge.com/cw/owens. Table of Contents1. An Overview of Television Production2. The People Who Make it Happen3. The Television Production Facility4. The Production Process5. The Script and Production Plan6. What the Camera Can Do7. Using the Camera8. The Persuasive Camera9. Creating an Effective Image10. Television Graphics11. Lighting for Television12. Backgrounds and Sets13. Makeup and Costumes14. Audio for Television15. Recording the Story16. Editing the Production17. Production Practices18. The Studio Production19. Directing Talent20. Production Style21. Remote Production22. Distributing Your ProductionGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are less discussedKorean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients regardless of their different national, cultural, and geographical backgrounds.Drawing on narrative theory and cultural studies, the book makes a compelling argument about how to analyze the production and consumption of Korean media within and beyond its national boundary with critical eyes. The author shows how transmedial narrative studies (narrative studies across media) offers analytical and theoretical lenses through which one can interpret new and emerging media forms and contents. Furthermore, she explores how these forms and contents can be better understood when they are contextualized within specific time and place using the cultural, social, and political concepts and precepts of the region. ThTrade Review“Hyesu Park presents innovative and distinctive approaches in understanding less-privileged areas in the transnationality of the Korean Wave. By uniquely positioning herself as literary scholar, she aptly analyzes three different forms of popular culture, literature, webtoon, and mukbang within the genealogy of Korean literature. Her unique and rich research provides new insights on the convergence of narrative, media, and Korea, which is rare, but makes the book valuable and enjoyable.” — Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada“The export of Korean culture around the world is one of the most salient transmedial influences in the 21st century. In this path-breaking work, Dr. Park examines digital and cultural forces that have shaped and filtered the rise of the Korean Wave. Through a novel application of narrative theory, she examines webtoons, graphic narratives, fiction and mukbang videos to display how global audiences have come to feel, imagine, think and identify with Korean popular culture. By using semiotic and technical approaches, Dr. Park demonstrates how the digital circulation and remix culture of Korean media has produced inclusive storyworlds for a global audience. Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbangprovides a perceptive account of the network effect of a dramatic new addition to Asian cultural studies.” — Maya Dodd, Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at FLAME University, India“Hyesu Park presents innovative and distinctive approaches in understanding less-privileged areas in the transnationality of the Korean Wave. By uniquely positioning herself as literary scholar, she aptly analyzes three different forms of popular culture, literature, webtoon, and mukbang within the genealogy of Korean literature. Her unique and rich research provides new insights on the convergence of narrative, media, and Korea, which is rare, but makes the book valuable and enjoyable.” — Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada“The export of Korean culture around the world is one of the most salient transmedial influences in the 21st century. In this path-breaking work, Dr. Park examines digital and cultural forces that have shaped and filtered the rise of the Korean Wave. Through a novel application of narrative theory, she examines webtoons, graphic narratives, fiction and mukbang videos to display how global audiences have come to feel, imagine, think and identify with Korean popular culture. By using semiotic and technical approaches, Dr. Park demonstrates how the digital circulation and remix culture of Korean media has produced inclusive storyworlds for a global audience. Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang provides a perceptive account of the network effect of a dramatic new addition to Asian cultural studies.” — Maya Dodd, Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at FLAME University, IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Korean Literature Wave: Transcultural and Transnational Reading of The Vegetarian and Bad Friend 2. Korean Webtoon Wave: Narratological, Technological, and Medial Innovations of Korean Digital Comics 3. Korean Mukbang Wave: Making Sense of Eating and Broadcasting and Its Techno-Mediated Narrative Environment

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Book SynopsisThis updated third edition of Studio Television Production and Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of studio and control room production.Accessible and focused, readers of this updated third edition will learn about essential studio and control room terminology and the common technology package. This book is your back-to-the-basics guide to common technologyincluding principles of directing, assistant directing, technical directing, playback, audio ops, basic studio lighting, an introduction to set design, camera ops, floor directing, story types (VO, VO/SOT, PKG), basic engineering, and more.Whether an established professional or a student, this book provides readers with the technical expertise to successfully coordinate live or recorded multicamera production.In this new edition, author Andrew Hicks Utterback offers an expanded glossary and new material on visualization walls, alternative camera mounts, basic engineering, and news naTrade Review"Updated with the latest digital technologies, terms, and workflows, Studio Television Production and Directing provides clear explanations and images of professional television studio environments. From camera and audio to producing and directing, Utterback prepares students for working in the industry by showing what to expect, and what is expected of them, in the studio and control room." – Dr. Michael Grabowski, Manhattan CollegeTable of ContentsDedicationsAcknowledgements Overview of Equipment and Positions: The Studio and the Control Room Audio Technical Directing Lighting and Sets Studio Cameras & Floor Directing Newsroom Computer Systems, Prompter, Graphics, Playback, Remotes, Engineering Rundowns, Scripts, Video Clip Information Assistant Directing and Directing Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic, considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it.This volume addresses the various historical, philosophical, political and cultural parameters of censorship and freedom of expression as well as current debates involving technology, journalism and media regulation. Geographically, temporally and culturally diverse accounts of censorship and freedom of expression are discussed through a broad range of perspectives and case studies. This Companion covers core principles and concerns in addition to more specialist and controversial debates, including those surrounding hate speech, holocaust denial, pornography and so-called cancel culture. The collection pays particular attention to the role of the media in both facilitating and suppresTable of ContentsIntroduction: Freedom of Expression in Turbulent Times John Steel and Julian PetleyPart One: Concepts and HistoriesChapter 1: Freedom of Expression as a Pre-Enlightenment ConceptJordi PujolChapter 2: Freedom of Expression, the Enlightenment and the Liberal TraditionGeoff KempChapter 3: Histories of In/toleranceRussell BlackfordChapter 4: Literary influence and legal precedent: Censorship in the Court of the Chancery, 1710-1823Paul WhickmanChapter 5: The Quest for Truth and KnowledgeKristoffer Ahlström-VijChapter 6: Autonomy and Freedom of ExpressionEric BarendtChapter 7: Bentham and Security against misruleJesse Owen Hearns-BranamanChapter 8: Freedom of Expression in the 20th CenturySue Curry-Jansen,Chapter 9: Philosophies of Censorship and ControlEric BarendtPart Two: Global PerspectivesChapter 10: Freedom of Expression in Latin America in Times of Populism: Between Western Normative Expectations and the Complexities on the GroundEzequiel Korin and Jairo Lugo-OcandoChapter 11: Protecting the pandemic press: Exploring press freedom in Africa during the Covid-19 pandemicBruce Mutsvairo and Kristin Skare OrgeretChapter 12: Media Freedom in the Arab RegionNoha MellorChapter 13: Censorship and Freedom of Expression in ChinaChris Fei Shen and Weiying ShiChapter 14: Oscillating between ‘speech freedom’ and ‘national interests’ - the contested boundaries of online Freedom of Expression in ChinaYuan Zeng, and Tongzhou RanChapter 15: Freedom of Expression and Democracy in Japan in the 2010sRyusaku YamadaChapter 16: Freedom of Expression and the legacy of colonialism: a view from FranceImen NeffatiChapter 17: Faith and Toleration in Neoliberal Times: Australia as a Case StudyAdam PossamaiPart Three: Key ControversiesChapter 18: The Harm in Hate Speech and in Holocaust DenialRaphael Cohen-AlmagorChapter 19: Feminism and pornographyFionna Attwood and Julian PetleyChapter 20: Political Correctness: The Right’s Favourite BugabooValerie Scatamburlo-D’AnnibaleChapter 21: Free Speech, Cancel Culture and the ‘war on woke’John SteelChapter 22: Academic Freedom and Constrained ExpressionThomas DochertyChapter 23: Breaking News – Media Freedom in CrisisSimon DawesChapter 24: P2P speech regulation – Gossip, Reputation, and Norm Policing on Social MediaJulie SeamanChapter 25: Vitriol and voice: Battlegrounds to control employee expression on social media in workClaire TaylorChapter 26: Emma Briant, “Hack Attacks: How Cyber Intimidation and Conspiracy Theories Drive the Spiral of ‘Secrecy Hacking’”Chapter 27: Violence, impunity and their impact on press freedomLada Trifonova PricePart Four: Institutions, Technologies and FrameworksChapter 28: The Regulation of the Online WorldJulian PetleyChapter 29: Freedom of Expression and Human Rights: interrogating the focus at Strasbourg on political expression under Article 10 ECHRHelen FenwickChapter 30: The ECHR Perspective on Whistleblowing as Speech: A case study of ‘national security’ whistleblowingDimitrios KagiarosChapter 31: National Security and the Extension of State PowerPaul LashmarChapter 32: Marketing Communications and Media: Commercial Speech, Censorship and ControlJonathan HardyChapter 33: Regulating the Press in the UKTom O’MalleyChapter 34: Freedom of the Press in Britain: From Radical to Reactionary... to Reinvigoration?Aaron AckerleyChapter 35: “Should I stay (on Twitter) or should I go?” Three causes of journalistic self-censorship on TwitterChrysi DagoulaChapter 36: All the news that’s fit to report? News values and the ‘free press’Tony HarcupIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from the first two books up to date and tackles the new challenges of today. Professional game writer and designer Lee Sheldon combines his experience and expertise in this updated edition. New examples, new game types, and new challenges throughout the text highlight the fundamentals of character writing and storytelling.But this book is not just a box of techniques for writers of video games. It is an exploration of the roots of character development and storytelling that readers can trace from Homer to Chaucer to Cervantes to Dickens and even Mozart. Many contemporary writers also contribute insights from books, plays, television, films, and, yes, games.Sheldon and his contributors emphasize the importance of creative instinct and listening to the inner voice that guides successful game writers and designers. Join him on Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Part I Background. Chapter 1 Equations. Chapter 2 The Story Remains the Same. Part II Creating Characters. Chapter 3 Respecting Characters. Chapter 4 Character Roles. Chapter 5 Character Traits. Chapter 6 Character Encounters. Part III Telling the Story. Chapter 7 Once Upon a Time. Chapter 8 Respecting Story. Chapter 9 Bringing the Story to Life. Chapter 10 Games: Charting New Territory. Chapter 11 Story Anatomy. Chapter 12 Editing. Chapter 13 The Roots of a New Storytelling. Chapter 14 Modular Storytelling. Part IV Games People Play Today. Chapter 15 Game Types. Chapter 16 Game Genres. Chapter 17 Storytelling in Virtual Worlds. Chapter 18 Storytelling in Small Games. Chapter 19 Storytelling in Applied Games. Part V Reflections. Chapter 20 Postlude: Endgame. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed guide to creating complex female characters for film and television. Written for screen storytellers of any level, this book will help screenwriters and filmmakers recognize complicated portrayals of women on screen and evaluate the complexity of their own characters.Author Anna Weinstein provides a thorough analysis of key female characters in film and television, illustrating how some of our greatest screenwriters have developed smart, nuanced, and intriguing characters that successfully portray the female experience. The book features in-depth discussions of women's representation both on screen and behind the scenes, including interviews with acclaimed women screenwriters and directors from around the globe. These conversations detail their perspectives on the relevance of women's screen stories, the writing and development processes of these stories, and the challenges in getting female characters to the screen. With practical suggestions, exercisTrade Review“This book has been needed for such a long time – what a pleasure now that it exists to find it’s so much better than we had any right to expect. Warm, wise, and generous, Weinstein is the screenwriting teacher we all wish we had.” –William Rabkin, author of Writing the Pilot Table of Contents1. She Is on Screen: Women’s Representation in Film & Television 2. She Comes of Age: Young Women 3. She Falls in Love: Smitten Women 4. She Climbs the Ladder: Working Women 5. She Cares for the Family: Nurturing Women 6. She Doesn’t Play by the Rules: "Mad" Women 7. She Sparks Change: Trailblazing Women 8. She Is Seen: Developing "Reel" Women

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual reality and social media, the book: provides a detailed review of major topics including ritual, identity, community, authority, and embodiment; includes a series of engaging case studies to illustrate and elucidate the thematic explorations; considers the theoretical, ethical, and theological issues raised. This unique volume draws together the work of experts from key disciplinary perspectives and is the go-to volume for students and scholars wanting to develop a deeper understanding of the subject area. Thoroughly updated throughout with new case studies and in-depth analysis of recent scholarship and developments, this new edition provides a cTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"Digital Religion is a watershed publication that documents and defines the field, one that will quickly establish itself as an essential teaching text and reference volume. It deftly balances more theoretical overviews with specific case studies rich in needed context and detail. Through its inclusion of work on Buddhist, Hindu, and other non-Western traditions, the book succeeds in the essential goal of providing genuinely global coverage of digital religion." Charles Ess, University of Oslo, Norway"Digital religion is evolving quickly from its creation. This network of scholars analyze in depth how people are finding their spiritual selves and community online." Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction to the Study of Digital Religion PART 1: Themes in the Study of Religion and New Media 2. Religion 3. Ritual 4. Identity 5. Community 6. Authority 7. Embodiment PART 2: Thematic Case Studies 8. Religion: Finding Your True-Self: YouTubing the South Korean Temple Stay A Little Birdie Told Me Something About Religion: Religion on Twitter 9. Rituals: A Case Study in Digital Religion: That Dragon, Cancer Prayer App Rituals: How Islamic Participants Engage with Technological and Religious Affordances in Muslim Pro 10. Identity: #EmptyThePews: Ex-evangelicals identity on Twitter "The Niqab is a Beautiful Extension of My Face": Niqab Adoption as Meta-Conversion in YouTube Lifestreaming Videos 11. Community: Dual Production for Dual Publics: Chabad’s Inward and Outward Online Presence Stillness on the Hillside: Worship Online with British Quakers 12. Authority: The Passive-Aggressive Haredi Campaign against the Smartphone Maintaining and Establishing Authority on Facebook: A Case Study on Catholic Priests 13. Embodiment: Gamified Embodiment Experiences in Indian Video Games The Digital Afterlife PART 3: Reflections on Studying Religion and Digital Media 14. Theoretical Frameworks for Approaching Religion and Digital Media 15. Ethical Issues in the Study of Religion and New Media 16. Theology and the New Media

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