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Book SynopsisHow were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to.Trade Review...Provides carefully documented analysis, in chapters that stand both as self-contained studies and as building blocks in a multifaceted explanation as to how the media and public culture prepared the American public for the untested policy of so-called preventive war. * Global Dialogue *This book shows how the U.S. corporate media enabled the Bush administration's policy and raises serious questions concerning the role of the media in a democracy—and the need for the media to play more critical and democratic roles in debating issues of war and peace and national security. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy * From The Foreword *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Political Legitimacy, Cultural Leadership, and Public Action Chapter 4 2 Banal Militarism and the Culture of War Chapter 5 3 National Security Strategy and the Ideology of Preventive War Chapter 6 4 Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, and Public Relations: Selling America to the World Chapter 7 5 The Problem with Patriotism: Steps Toward the Redemption of American Journalism and Democracy Chapter 8 6 Culture as Persuasion: Metaphor as Weapon Chapter 9 7 The Invisible Ally: Marketing Australia's War in Iraq Chapter 10 8 The Construction of Arabs as Enemies: Post-9/11 Discourse of George W. Bush Chapter 11 9 The Political Rhetoric of Sacrifice and Heroism and U.S. Military Intervention Chapter 12 10 'The Great American Bubble': Fox News Channel, the 'Mirage' of Objectivity and the Isolation of American Public Opinion Chapter 13 11 Pre-emptive Strikes on the Cultural Front: Big Radio, the Dixie Chicks, and Homeland Insecurity Chapter 14 12 The Mass Media, Politics, and Warfare Chapter 15 13 Might Makes Right: News Reportage as Discursive Weapon in the War in Iraq Chapter 16 14 Journalists Embedded in Culture: War Stories as Political Strategy Chapter 17 15 The Power of Public Reporting: The Independent Media Center's Challenge to Corporate Media Chapter 18 Suggested Readings

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Book SynopsisCatch an inside look at the advertising creative process. Discover how teams collaborate at major agencies to create unforgettable campaigns like the Budweiser ''Clydesdale and Dalmatian'' spots, the ''PEDIGREE'' Adoption Drive'' program, or the breakthrough UPS ''Whiteboard'' campaign.Trade ReviewMargo Berman and Robyn Blakeman's book, The Brains Behind Great Ad Campaigns, is a much-needed one. It's not a guide to developing concepts. It's not a book about copywriting or visual communication. It's not a recipe for success. Nor is it a book about strategy, although all these topics are covered. It's more about the underlying process that results in a great advertising campaign idea. What makes this book special and so helpful for a campaign class is that it covers the right topics, in the right amount, in the right sequence and with crystal-clear examples....The Brains Behind Great Ad Campaigns joins a host of other notable advertising books. What it does better than other is help students understand what it takes to develop better ideas and it sets the stage for other advertising creative how-to books. It is well written and well organized. It is an ideal book for an upper-level undergraduate advertising campaign or capstone course. It would also be relevant for upper-level journalism studies in public relations, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC), strategic communication or marketing communications. * Journalism Studies *In this didactic look at advertising, including plenty of fun examples from the American ad landscape, academics Berman and Blakeman compile a textbook-ready step-by-step guide to the advertising process. Taking readers through the nuts and bolts of ad creation, the authors are unafraid to start with the basics. . . . As an explication of advertising mechanics, from brainstorming to copywriting to strategizing and media usage, Berman and Blakeman have put together a thorough . . . primer that will familiarize would-be ad professionals with the discipline’s processes and principles. * Publishers Weekly, Web Exclusive Review December 2009 *This is a remarkably comprehensive account of how advertising ideas, strategies, and campaigns come about. -- Edward de Bono, author of Six Thinking HatsThis book gives you a box seat view of the collaborative process needed to create outstanding campaigns including how-tos from some of the industry's superstars. And you'll see it also takes a village to raise an ad. -- Pippa Seichrist, president, Miami Ad SchoolPacked with quotes from leading creatives, The Brains Behind Great Ad Campaigns is an engaging window on the creative process and the current role of research, strategy, and media specialists in big idea generation. The authors provide the real-world insight students need, and for both novices and those familiar with the ad industry, illustrate how agencies are adapting to today’s media environment. -- Janas Sinclair, University of North CarolinaI think this is a much needed book for an Advertising Campaign Capstone class. It provides tangible, insightful, and relevant advice, while numerous examples bring all the material together. -- Craig Davis, Ohio University'A Perfect Marriage:' An invigorating and outstanding book that marries the business side of advertising with the creative development side. It defines the creative process for advertising students, that should be a must-read for all whether on the management or creative track. Through contemporary examples, many well known, the substantiation and melding of the left and right brain detail the results of such collaborations. The book really brings it all together, true integration. -- Tim Hendrick, San Jose State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Brains behind the Campaign: The Strategy and the Brief 2 Brainstorming: The Marriage of Visual and Verbal to the Strategy 3 Brainstorming: Techniques to Get to the Big Idea 4 How Campaigns Tell the Brand's Story 5 How Copywriters Approach Strategy Verbally 6 How Designers Approach Strategy Visually 7 Where Campaigns and Brands Go off Course 8 On-Strategy Campaigns That Spin Out 9 New Strategies for Old and New Media 10 Nuts and Bolts of Great Presentations

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Book SynopsisEveryone complains about mass media, but only the FCC and Congress are expressly empowered to do something about it, and that''s why America deserves better from its media policymakers. Mass Media Unleashed touches on the key issues stirring the current debate over mass media policy, such as consolidation, the steady dismantling of regulatory standards, the roles mass media must play (but increasingly fail to perform) in today''s helter-skelter world, and the vastly different ways these media are now delivered to and used by busy, on-the-go Americans. Carl Ramey, a long-time Washington communications lawyer, has observed the policymaking process up close and personal for thirty years. Warning that time is running out for taking actions that will make a real difference, Ramey shines a critical light on the massive transformation of government policy that has taken place since 1980 and has lead to vast changes in today''s electronic media: more consolidation, less public service, and everything ruled by the bottom line. Before the game is over, Washington policymakers must step to the plate and hit a home run for Americascrapping the old regulatory system and writing an entirely new policy script that, for the first time, is specifically designed to guarantee a broadcast service that is free, local, and dedicated to serving Americans as citizens, not just as consumers. This provocative read is a must for everyone concerned about mass media''s responsibilities and the policies that shape them.Trade ReviewCarl Ramey's book is an insightful and provocative work that challenges conventional policy assumptions by someone with great understanding of both the theoretical and practical challenges involved in communications policymaking. -- William E. Kennard, chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission under President Bill ClintonBased on his years of experience as a communications lawyer, Carl Ramey argues passionately that today's modern mass media are failing to serve the public good, and he lays much of the blame at the doorstep of deregulatory policies. To his credit, Ramey is not content, as he puts it, merely to diagnose the disease. He offers a bold policy prescription as the cure: Complete the deregulation of commercial broadcasting, and provide more government funding to the public broadcasting system. Even those, like me, who disagree with Ramey's diagnosis and cure, will agree that he has written a thoughtful and provocative book. -- Randolph J. May, president, The Free State FoundationMass Media Unleashed should be 'must reading' for policymakers, scholars, and, indeed, anyone concerned about the impact of government regulation of mass media. Carl Ramey, a thirty-three-year veteran of the Washington policy scene, has written a provocative yet eminently sound indictment of the failure of Washington policymakers to regulate media in a way that is responsive to contemporary concerns. Brilliantly written, Mass Media Unleashed is a scholarly work that is free of jargon and, most importantly, is a timely and thoughtful contribution to the ongoing debate over mass media policy. -- Erwin G. Krasnow, partner, Garvey Schubert Barer Law OfficesRamey provides an excellent history of what has gone wrong with broadcast regulation. . . . Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, faculty, professionals, and general readers. * CHOICE, Vol. 45 No. 6 (February 2008) *Superb book. . . . Based on the long experience of a communications lawyer who knows so well how the present policy has failed, this book is a most commendable effort and a great blueprint for reform. -- . * Federal Communications Law Journal, March 2008 *If you feel media are delivering less public service and that their concerns for the bottom line are delerious to our society, you'll find thoughtful discussion here....The book is a thoughtful, academic, readable essay about the history of media policy. * Radio World, December 2008 *Mass Media Unleashed takes a frank, hard look at the state of the broadcast media today and of the policies that got us here. Given the reputation of the author, the thoroughness of his research, the clarity and persuasiveness of his analysis, and his accessible writing style, this book is certain to pose a challenge to communications policymakers that cannot be ignored. It is a must-read not only for legislators, regulators, attorneys, and serious students of communications policy, but for anyone who cares about the impact of the media on our lives and our society. -- Fred H. Cate, Indiana University School of Law, BloomingtonTable of ContentsChapter 1 PREFACE Chapter 2 1 THE RISE OF AMERICAN MASS MEDIA Chapter 3 2 GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND THE BUSINESS OF BROADCASTING Chapter 4 3 THE RISING TIDE OF DE-REGULATION Chapter 5 4 TODAY'S MEDIA MARKETPLACE Chapter 6 5 MASS MEDIA IN MODERN SOCIETY Chapter 7 6 EVALUATING MASS MEDIA PERFORMANCE IN A DE-REGULATORY ERA Chapter 8 7 THE MAKING OF MASS MEDIA POLICY Chapter 9 8 A MASS MEDIA POLICY FOR THE 21st CENTURY Chapter 10 Afterword

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the fast-developing field of book history. James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.Trade Review"This is an invaluable survey of the origins, theoretical and methodological underpinnings, and major resources and findings of the fast-growing field of book history, across a global range of times and places."—Ann Blair, Harvard University "James Raven's boundary-defying book is delightfully adventuresome in its thinking and dazzling in the scope and command of the sources it adduces. This remarkably accomplished little volume will be part of the conversation for years to come."—Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Director, Rare Book School at the University of Virginia "It's exactly what I need to introduce me to what the discipline embraces, how it began and how it is developing."—Karen McAulay, Times Higher Education Supplement "'Easy writing', wrote the playwright Sheridan, 'is damned hard reading'. For James Raven this must have been damned hard writing indeed, for the result is reading which lightly carries a lifetime of learning and will surely act as an inspiration to others, not least to young scholars who are coming new to the field."—Library & Information HistoryTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of illustrations and tables 1. The Scope of Book History Redefining the book First books first 2. The Early History of Book History Pre-histories of the book Towards bibliography 3. Description, Enumeration and Modelling Retrospective catalogues and bibliometrics New perspectives and projects Circuits and diagrams 4. Who, What and How? Economics Wider horizons Control: Copyright, censorship and circulation Libraries Cautions and precepts 5. Reading Identifying readers Recovering reading practises Consequences Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Internet, Power and Transgression; 2. Radical Online Journalism; 3. Far-Right Media on the Internet: Culture, Discourse and Power; 4. Radical Creativity and Distribution: Sampling, Copyright and P2P; 5. Alternative Radio and the Internet; 6. Fan Culture and the Internet; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAlbana Dwonch was most recently Visiting Scholar at the Ibrahim Abu LughodInternational Studies Institute, Birzeit University, Palestine. She has been activelyengaged in the NGO sector in the Middle East as Youth Development practitioner.She received her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Interdisciplinary studies from theUniversity of Washington, USA.Trade ReviewIt takes deep cultural knowledge to understand how people use technology. Dwonch has immersed herself in Palestinian communities using technology to express themselves politically and to understand their political positions. Most important, her time spent in these communities lets her explain how the role of technology in political culture varies across the generations of Palestinians trapped in a long term struggle for individual identity and collective security. * Philip Howard, Director of Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, UK *Albana Dwonch’s analysis of Palestinian youth makes important contributions on two levels. It unveils the simmering tension between young, nationalist Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel and the established national organizations that are supposed to be representing them. At the same time, Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age sheds important light on a process that has permeated the entire Middle East, and beyond: young people’s use of social media to challenge and transform existing politics. Dwonch expertly mixes novel analysis with telling anecdotes that bring these youthful activists to life. * Joel S. Migdal, Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies, University of Washington, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: New Social Movements in the Internet Age Chapter Three: The Rise and Fall of the Arab Spring Chapter Four: Gaza’s Forgotten Revolution Chapter Five: At a Crossroads in the West Bank - In Search of a Lost Strategy Chapter Six: Between Old Demands and New Protests: Stop The Prawer Movement. A Case Study of Palestinian Youth activism in Israel, 2011-2013 Chapter Seven: Concluding Remarks Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of all kindsâincluding comedy, science fiction, melodrama, and action-adventureâProjecting Politics offers original approaches to determining the political contours of films, and to connecting cinematic language to political messaging. A new chapter covering 2000 to 2013 updates the decade-by-decade look at the Washington-Hollywood nexus, with special areas of focus including the post-9/11 increase in political films, the rise of political war films, and films about the 2008 economic recession. The new edition also considers recent developments such as the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the controversy sparked by the film Zero Dark Thirty, newer Trade Review"This well-researched, clearly-written, and informative view of politics and film will be appreciated by scholars and students alike. The aptly-titled Projecting Politics systematically surveys, decade by decade, the history of overt and covert political messages in American films from the silent era to the present day in refreshingly readable prose. Whether addressing explicit movies about Democrats and Republicans or subtextual sociopolitical issues such as race, gender, sexuality, and social class, the authors successfully merge political science and cinema studies in an engaging synthesis. Using an integrative cultural studies perspective, this volume also uncharacteristically (and significantly) offers a look at both the financial side and the artistic aspects of filmmaking that convey themes and ideological meaning in more subtle ways than obvious plot and dialogue. Thus, this volume could serve as a work of interdisciplinary scholarship, a course textbook, or just a great read. The revised and expanded second edition brings this all up to date, and with special attention to documentaries, cable-TV movies, and genre studies." —Frank P. Tomasulo, Pace University"In a slowly expanding literature on film and politics, the substantially expanded second edition of Projecting Politics features among the very best monographs on the subject. The two new chapters complement the millennial filmography of this ‘problematic’ genre and along with updated chapters on the intersections of politics, race, and gender offer valuable and original insight to the closer relationship between film and politics in the 21st century. Projecting Politics should be included in every reading list of not only film and politics courses but also in media, and political science departments." —Betty Kaklamanidou, Aristotle University, Greece"This text successfully delivers its message through the historical and contemporary analyses of films and the political messages they seek to convey. The newly revised edition provides a fresh and contemporary perspective on this fascinating subject." —Kenneth Christie, Royal Roads UniversityTable of ContentsI. Studying Political Films1. Setting the Scene: A Theory of Film and Politics2. The Making of a Message: Film Production and Techniques and Political Messages3. Causes and Special Effects: The Political Environment of FilmII. Political Films by Decade4. Politics in the Silent Movies5. The 1930s: Political Movies and the Great Depression6. The 1940s: Hollywood Goes to War7. The 1950s: Anti-Communism and Conformity8. The 1960s: From Mainstream to Counterculture9. The 1970s: Cynicism, Paranoia, War and Anticapitalism10. The 1980s: New Patriotism, Old Reds, and a Return to Vietnam in the Age of Reagan11. The 1990s: FX Politics12. The 2000s: 9/11 and BeyondIII. Political Films by Topic13. True Lies? The Rise of Political Documentaries14. Film and the Politics of Race: The Minority Report15. Women, Politics, and Film: All About Eve?16. White House Down? Politics in DisasterAppendixClosing Credits: A Political Filmography

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Book SynopsisOnly at Comic-Con examines the relationship between exclusivity and the proliferation of media industry promotion at the San Diego Comic-Con, from the convention’s founding in 1970 to its current status as a destination for hundreds of thousands of pop culture fans and a hub of Hollywood hype and buzz.Trade Review"This is an important book for fan studies and beyond. Not only a brilliant exploration of Comic-Con’s history and place in contemporary culture, it also takes seriously aspects of this experience that have been under-researched. What are the meanings and values of waiting in line? How does Hall H operate? And how have licensees become so central to the event? Assessing fans’ liminal positioning, Erin Hanna acutely theorises 'exclusivity' and its (re)configurations. Start the queue here – this is a must-read for anyone interested in aspirational and affective labor, as well as Hollywood’s attempts to build cultural capital for its blockbusters." -- Matt Hills * author of Fan Cultures and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event *“This exciting, well-researched book situates Comic-Con within the confluence of fandom, industry, and convergence. Erin Hanna expertly reveals how industry efforts to generate publicity for major media brands hinge on the production of exclusivity for a select number of fans.” -- Derek Johnson * author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries *"Imaginary Worlds" podcast with Erin Hanna https://soundcloud.com/emolinsky/once-and-future-comic-con * Imaginary Worlds *"Only at Comic-Con is a valuable contribution to both media industries and fan studies, as Hanna’s work integrates the two disciplines seamlessly in a powerful argument about the limits of exclusivity, capital, and exploitation." * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The San Diego Comic-Con and the Limits of Exclusivity 1 Origin Stories: Comic-Con and the Future of All Media 2 The Liminality of the Line and the Place of Fans at Comic-Con 3 Manufacturing “Hall H Hysteria:” Hollywood and Comic-Con 4 Ret(ail)con: From Dealers’ Room to Exhibit Hall Conclusion: From Franchise Wars to Fry Fans: Comic-Con Anywhere Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. With remarkable candor and compassion, she reflects on how second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed. Trade Review“This is one of the bravest books about the long trajectory of leadership in higher education that I have read in a long time. Tetreault takes us on both a personal and professional journey through her triumphs and tribulations as she balances essentially three worlds every day; that of administrator and leader, academic, and wife and mother." -- Yolanda Moses * co-author of How Real is Race: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology *“Living When Everything Changed is a remarkably candid account of an academic and administrative career filled with both successes and failures. While it offers a sometimes-painful picture of academic conflicts, paralysis, and betrayals, over the course of her career Tetreault and her colleagues grappled with many of the most important issues in higher education over several decades. In this sense it is surely true that Tetreault’s career (including her preparation for her career) took place in “interesting times,” and this volume offers readers a rare glimpse of the complicated mix of motivations, personalities, values and ideologies that animated both challenges to the status quo and resistance to those challenges.” -- Abigail J. Stewart * co-author of An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"The strengths of this memoir lie in the author's honesty about her ambition as well as her insecurities. We follow her interior and outward struggle as she advocates for herself and her career while navigating a minefield of departmental territorialism, faculty egos, institutional hierarchy, cultural norms, and power dynamics, as well as emerging pressures of gender and race diversity in the world of higher education." * EqualwRites *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Chapter One: My Life as a Professor Begins Chapter Two: Going Home and Leaving Home Chapter Three: Nestled in the Bosom of Catholicism Chapter Four: Wandering in the Wilderness Chapter Five: Finding Love and Work Chapter Six: Becoming the Men We Wanted to Marry Chapter Seven: My Lewis and Clark Chapter Concludes Chapter Eight: A Deanery of My Own Chapter Nine: Second Chance to Be a Provost Chapter Ten: Opportunity and Ambition Overshadowed by Ambivalence Chapter Eleven: Shifting My Gaze Forward Chapter Twelve: Among the Most Interesting Provost’s Position in the Country Chapter Thirteen: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far

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Book SynopsisWhile digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman, Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analysing video games and the player experience philosophically.

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Book SynopsisOffers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Tanya Horeck examines a range of audiovisual true crime texts, and considers the extent to which the genre has come to epitomize participatory media culture.

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesA profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra's 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar speculations Trade ReviewJust when the world seems to be collapsing, Queer Times, Black Futures guides us towards an anti-fragile future that exists here and now. The key? Embracing and holding in tension: Afro-futurist freedom dreams, the queer temporalities that animate Black Swans, and the radical refusal and opacity of Herman Melville's Bartleby and Eduoard Glissant's philosophy. If we haven't realized the possibilities that lie waiting in the present, its because the frame of black experience has not yet registered. Moving seamlessly from James Snead to Sun Ra, from Gilbert Simondon to Beth Coleman, Audre Lorde to Gilles Deleuze, Keeling helps us imagine the (im)possible. Stop reading this blurb and start reading this book. Now. -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Updating to Remain the SameFor its contributions to queer constructions of temporality and futurity, in particular in the context of Black media and existence, the text is valuable for queer of color theorists. Professors and students of media, cultural, and/or communication studies would also find the text useful as it provides analyses of various Black and queer media—transnational films, avantgarde music, and digital technologies. * QED *Not satisfied to leave readers in the abyss of endless critique, Keeling is concerned with alternative futures and the ethical imagination of 'the time after the future.' Queer Times, Black Futures is masterful--deeply engaging, wide ranging, carefully researched, and creative in its use of allegory to demonstrate the potential and effect of opacity for black futures and possibilities. -- Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor, UC Santa Cruz...an incredible, (im)possible work that is invested in worlds to come with the necessary caveat that its readers divest from a critical project that is measured in immediate returns. -- Courtney R. Baker * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *

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Book SynopsisUntil they were banned in 2009, the radio debates called Ugandan People's Parliaments gave common folk a forum to air their views. But how do people talk about politics in an authoritarian regime? The forms and parameters of such speech turn out to be more complex than a simple confrontation between an oppressive state and a liberal civil society.Trade Review“This is an exciting, path-finding study of the ambiguous rules under which Ugandans explore, from above and below, the politically permissible in their ‘no-party’ state. Social discipline constrains freedom of speech as much as state surveillance. The choreography of publicly compliant criticism, superbly observed, advertises a polite political class in the making, not vulgar dissent.” -- John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge“I learned a tremendous amount from Talkative Polity about politics, speech, radio, and the constitution of political subjectivity in Uganda. Brisset-Foucault’s book offers a rich analysis of contemporary Uganda and an excellent example of how as scholars we can craft depictions that honour the complexities of the lives of those we study and from whom we learn.” * Politique Africaine *“Talkative Polity’s depiction of political practice is intricate, thoughtful, and complex. Brisset-Foucault goes deep into the messy verbal jousts and opinionated debates of the ‘people’s parliaments,’ ultimately reclaiming political discourse as something that is done by Ugandans, for Ugandans, and about Uganda.” -- L. Carol Summers, author of Colonial Lessons: Africans’ Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1935

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Book SynopsisProviding an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the first time, challenging media theory's Eurocentric formation and perspective and redefining its location and practice.Trade Review“Marc Steinberg and Alexander Zahlten cleverly edited this collection of essays, and it will likely become an important reference for critical re-examination of media studies in Japan and for reconsidering this field in the West, which means a reconstruction of the field of media studies.” -- Shin Mizukoshi * Designing Media Ecology *“A groundbreaking collection. . . . The diverse range of rigorous and engaging essays make the collection as a whole essential reading for an extensive range of audiences in media studies, Japan studies, and humanities-based area studies more broadly.” -- Franz Prichard * Pacific Affairs *“This groundbreaking collection is a welcome contribution to recent writing that focuses on Japan not only as an object of study but as a location of theory. Media Theory in Japan is a valuable start to necessary cultural commutation, a kind of atlas of thinking on media in Japan that only makes me wish for more pages.” -- Michael Raine * Critical Inquiry *"The question of how to recognize the complexity of new media at the scale which it intervenes in our collective consciousness and everyday life is one that Media Theory in Japan leaves its readers to grapple with on their own. . . . What this provocative set of essays ultimately points toward is a future media studies, both in and of Japan, where theory and method effectively collaborate in the construction of its evolving tower of babel." -- Hoyt Long * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface / Akira Mizuta Lippit xi Introduction / Marc Steinberg and Alexander Zahlten 1 Part I. Communication Technologies 1. From Film to Television: Early Theories of Television in Japan / Aaron Gerow 33 2. Architecture as Atmospheric Media: Tange Lab and Cybernetics / Yuriko Furuhata 52 3. The Media Theory and Media Strategy of Azuma Hiroki, 1997-2003 / Takeshi Kadobayashi 80 4. The InterCommunication Project: Theorizing Media in Japan's Last Decades / Marilyn Ivy 101 Part II. Practical Theory 5. McLuhan as Prescription Drug: Actionable Theory and Advertising Industries / Marc Steinberg 131 6. The Culture Industries and Media Theory in Japan / Miryam Sas 151 7. Girlscape: The Marketing of Mediatic Ambience in Japan / Tomiko Yoda 173 8. 1980s "Nyū Aca": (Non)Media Theory as Romantic Performance / Alexander Zahlten 200 9. Critical Media Imagination: Nancy Seki's TV Criticism and the Media Space of the 1980s and 1990s / Ryoki Misono 221 10. At the Source (Code): Obscenity and Modularity in Rokudenashiko's Media Activism / Anne McKnight 250 Part III. Mediation and Media Theory 11. An Assault on "Meaning": On Nakai Masakazu's Concept of "Mediation" / Akihiro Kitada 285 12. Much Ado about "Nothing": The Kyōto School as "Media Philosophy" / Fabian Schäfer 305 13. Kobayashi Hideo and the Question of Media / Keisuke Kitano 328 14. Media, Mediation, and Crisis: A History—and the Case for Media Studies as (Postcultural) Anthropology / Tom Looser 347 Afterword. The Disjunctive Kernel of Japanese Media Theory / Mark N. B. Hansen 368 Bibliography 389 Contributors 413 Index 417

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Book SynopsisExplores aspects of LGBT activist history.It covers educational activism,youthwork activism and the history of the LGBT Centre in Manchester.Trade ReviewThe struggle for LGBT equality is a long and continuing one. If you read one book about LGBT activists and activism read this one...accessible, passionate and empowering. -- Claire Mooney

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive philosophical account of digital technology. It provides a detailed explanation of how the internet and digital technology are transforming culture, politics, aesthetics, and human relationships. It argues that digital technology is different from all prior technologies: the first 'natural technology.'Trade Review'There have been plenty of books written about the digital age, but Antón Barba-Kay gives us something genuinely new. With a clinical yet passionate intelligence, he explains how the fusion of technology and being has forever changed who we are and how we live. A Web of Our Own Making is fierce, uncompromising, and essential.' Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage'In compelling, elegant prose, Antón Barba-Kay lucidly diagnoses the full extent of our current technocultural crisis. His analysis is unflinching, and does not settle for any facile reassurances. But do not call his approach nostalgic, or, even worse, 'Luddit'. For Barba-Kay is not seeking to go back to anything, but rather is helping to advance the very urgent project of finding a way forward that preserves the irreducibly human within a complex and unprecedented technological landscape. This book is timely and necessary indeed.' Justin E. H. Smith, professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris, author of The Internet Is Not What You Think It IsTable of Contents1. Left to our own devices; 2. Led by our own lights; 3. The sound of our own voice; 4. Realities of our own contrivance; 5. From my inbox.

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a critical and theoretical approach to the semiotics of motion pictures as they are applied to a broader range of constructions than traditional commercial narrative productions. This interdisciplinary approach begins with the problems posed by motion perception to develop a model of cinematic interpretation that includes both narrative and non-narrative types of productions. Contrasting traditional theatrical projection and varieties of new media, this book integrates analyses of title sequences, music videos, and visual effects with discussions on classic and avant-garde films. It further explores the intersection between formative audio-visual cues identified by viewers and how viewers' desires direct engagement with the motion picture to present a framework for understanding cinematic articulation. This new theoretical model incorporates much of what was neglected and gives greater prominence to formerly critical marginal productions by showing tTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The ‘Cinematic Sign’ 2. Refractive Judgment 3. Interpreting Cinematics 4. Synchronization 5. The Presentation 6. Diagnostic 7. Symbolic 8. Afterword: Cinema and Motion Graphics

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Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of this popular textbook considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production.The book brings together 55 readings â the majority newly commissioned for this edition â by scholars representing a variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Together, these readings provide a multifaceted and intersectional look at how race, gender, and class relate to the creation and use of media texts, as well as the media texts themselves. Designed to be flexible for use in the classroom, the book begins with a detailed introduction to key concepts and presents a contextualizing introduction to each of the three main sections. Each reading contains multiple 'Itâs Your Turn' activities to foster student engagement and which can serve as the basis for assignments. The book also offers a list of resources â books, articles, films, and websites â that are of value to students and instructors.This volume is an essential introduction to interdisciplinary studies of race, gender, and class across both digital and legacy media.Table of Contents1. Laying a Foundation for Studying Race, Gender, Class, and the Media Part 1: Audiences 2. Media Effects 3. Audience Studies Part 2: Content 4. Journalism and Advertising 5. Film and Television 6. Music and Digital Media Part 3: Production 7. Media Industries and Producing Media Content 8. Epilogue and Resources

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Book SynopsisEsports Insights outlines the fundamental characteristics, features, and structures of the rapidly growing esports industry and acts as the perfect primer for readers without any prior knowledge of esports.Featuring international case studies in every chapter, this book showcases the contemporary nature of esports through illustrative, industry examples. By offering a concise and easy to understand introduction, it discusses the key components, stakeholders, and features of this commercially driven sector, which by its very nature is dynamic and highly complex. Exploring current regulatory and governance structures within esports, it unpacks the industry's essential features by outlining the various genres, formats and stakeholders who are instrumental to the functioning of the esports industry. Adopting a critical but balanced analysis, the book discusses the social benefits of esports, outlining its potential as a tool for social inclusion and sport development, whilTable of Contents1. Esports Fundamentals, 2. Esports Governance and Regulation, 3. Esports as a Mechanism for Social Change, 4. Esports, Health and Wellbeing, 5. Esports Evolution

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes one of the largest media conglomerates worldwide, the Bertelsmann Corporation. Analyzing its history, its corporate divisions and international business relations, the book focuses on the dominant role of Bertelsmann in international media and media services in Europe, the U.S., Latin America, and China. Addressing a broad readership interested in issues of media ownership, journalism and policy work, this book shows how issues of media ownership and corporate power are closely connected to issues of beyond media, namely politics, consulting, services and financial transactions. The book also draws parallels to other major media conglomerates and their attempts to influence communication infrastructures and policies on national and international levels, helping readers to understand the broader structural relations and power mechanisms at play in the global media market. The book will be of interest primarily to scholars in the fields of global medTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. History and Family Ownership 2. Bertelsmann Divisions and Corporate Strategies 3. The Global Media Giant 4. The Bertelsmann Foundation: ‘Making Politics’ Concluding Remarks: A Transnational Information und Service Giant

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive account of the audiovisual translation (AVT) of humour, bringing together insights from translation studies and humour studies to outline the key theories underpinning this growing area of study and their applications to case studies from television and film. The volume outlines the ways in which the myriad linguistic manifestations and functions of humour make it difficult for scholars to provide a unified definition for it, an issue made more complex in the transfer of humour to audiovisual works and their translations as well as their ongoing changes in technology. Dore brings together relevant theories from both translation studies and humour studies toward advancing research in both disciplines. Each chapter explores a key dimension of humour as it unfolds in AVT, offering brief theoretical discussions of wordplay, culture-specific references, and captioning in AVT as applied to case studies from Modern Family. A dedicated chapter to audio descriptTable of ContentsTable of ContentsHumour in Audiovisual Translation: Theories and Applications Table of ContentsList of AcronymsFiguresTablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Scope of This Book and its StructurePART I - TheoriesChapter 1 – Humour and Humour Translation1.1 Introduction1.2 Defining Humour and its Markers1.3 Theories of Humour1.4 Script-based Theories1.4.1 SSTH and GTVH1.4.2 The Application of the GTVH and Some Criticism1.5 Conversational Humour1.5.1 Function(s) of Humour in Conversation1.6 Humour in Comedy1.7 On Humour (Un)Translatability1.8 Summing upBibliographyFilms, TV Series and Theatre Plays CitedNotesChapter 2 – Audiovisual Translation and Humour2.1 Introduction2.2 AVT - Reasons and Rationale2.3 Some Theoretical Considerations Regarding AVT2.4 Modes of Audiovisual Translation2.4.1 Revoicing2.4.1.1 Dubbing2.4.2 Captioning2.4.2.1 Subtitling and Fansubbing2.5 AVT in Italy2.6 The AVT of Humour2.6.1 Priorities and Strategies in the AVT of Humour2.7 Summing upBibliographyFilms, TV Series and Theatre Plays CitedNotesPART II – ApplicationsChapter 3 – Humorous Puns in Translation3.1 Introduction3.2 Defining (Humorous) Puns3.2.1 Puns Based on Fixed Expressions and Idioms3.2.2 Puns Based on Verbal and Non-Verbal Text3.3 Punning and Translation3.3.1 A Taxonomy for the AVT of Humorous Puns3.4 Data and Methodology3.4.1 Modern Family3.4.2 Methodology3.5 Data Analysis3.5.1 Punning in Dubbing3.5.2 Punning in Captioning3.5.3 FEI-Based Puns in Dubbing3.5.4 FEI-Based Puns in Captioning3.5.5 Puns Based on Verbal and Non-Verbal Text in Dubbing and Captioning3.6 Findings and ConclusionsBibliographyFilms, TV Series and Theatre Plays CitedNotesChapter 4 – Humorous Culture-Specific References4.1 Introduction4.2 Defining Culture-Specific References (CSRs)4.3 Types and Sources of CSRs4.4 Function(s) of Humorous CSRs4.5 Translating (Humorous) CSRs4.6. Data Analysis4.6.1 Dubbing Humorous CSRs4.6.2 Captioning Humorous CSRs4.7 Findings and ConclusionsBibliographyFilms, TV Series and Theatre Plays CitedChapter 5 – Multilingual Humour in AVT5.1 Introduction5.2 Multilingualism in AVT5.3 Translating Multilingual Humour5.4 Data Analysis5.4.1 Dubbing Multilingual Humour5.4.2 Captioning Multilingual Humour5.5 Findings and ConclusionsBibliographyFilms, TV Series and Theatre Plays CitedNotesChapter 6 – The Audio Description of Humour6.1 Introduction6.2 Audio Description6.3 Hum

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, selfies, with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraitureboth its social function as a technology-driven form of visual communication, as well as its thematic, intellectual, historical, and aesthetic intersections with the history of art and visual culture.This book will be of interest to scholars of photography, art history, and media studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological QuandaryDerek Conrad Murray1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of SocietyGrant Bollmer2. Self-Portraiture and Self PerformanceKatherine Guinness3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art Ace Lehner4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual CultureDerek Conrad Murray5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital PhotographyKyle Parry6. Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and NowSoraya Murray7. The Selfie in Consumer CultureJonathan Schroeder8. Selfie Narcissism, Consumerism and the Pathologizing of WomenDerek Conrad Murray

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Book SynopsisSubcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case studies and an additional chapter on the digital lives of subculturists as well as reflections on the relationships between subcultures and globalisation and the resurgence of the far-right. Blending theory and practice, this text examines a varied range of subcultures including hip hop, graffiti writing, heavy metal, punk, gamers, burlesque, parkour, riot grrrl, straight edge, roller derby, steampunk, b-boying/b-girling, body modification, and skateboarding. Subcultures: The Basics answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject, including: What is a subculture? What are the significant theories of subculture? How do subcultures emerge, who participates and why? How do subcultural identities interact with other aspects of self, such as social class, race, gender, and sexuTable of Contents1. What is a Subculture? 2. How do Subcultures Emerge and Why do People Participate? 3. How do Subcultures Resist ‘Mainstream’ Society … and are They Successful? 4. Who Participates in Subcultures and How do Subcultural Identities Interact with Other Aspects of Self? 5. Who are the ‘Authentic’ Subculturists and Who are the ‘Poseurs’? 6. How Does Society React to Subcultures? 7. Where do Subculturists Hang Out, From the Local to the Global? 8. How Have Digital Technologies Influenced Subcultures? 9. What Happens to Subculturists as They ‘Grow Up’?

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Book SynopsisThis volume traces the unique trajectory of The Outsiders, from beloved book to beloved movie. Based on S.E. Hintonâs landmark novel, Coppolaâs film adaptation tells the story of the Greasers, a gang of working-class boys yearning for security, love, and acceptance in a world ruled by their rival gang, the rich Socs. The Outsiders: Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold explores the cultural impact of Hintonâs book, the process by which Coppola made the film, the filmâs melodramatic components, the marketing of the movie to a young female audience, and the nostalgia industry that has emerged around it in recent decades, thereby illuminating how The Outsiders stands apart from other teen films of the 1980s. In its depiction of the emotional rather than sexual lives of young men on film and its recognition of the desires of teen girls as an audience, The Outsiders distinguishes itself from the standard teen fare of the era. With seriousness and sincerit

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Book SynopsisIn this second edition, award-winning educator Sue Ellen Christian offers students an accessible and informed guide to how they can consume and create media intentionally and critically. The textbook applies media literacy principles and critical thinking to the key issues facing young adults today, from analyzing and creating media messages to verifying information and understanding online privacy. Through discussion prompts, writing exercises, key terms, and links, readers are provided with a framework from which to critically consume and create media in their everyday lives. This new edition includes updates covering privacy aspects of AI, VR and the metaverse, and a new chapter on digital audiences, gaming, and the creative and often unpaid labor of social media and influencers. Chapters examine news literacy, online activism, digital inequality, social media and identity, and global media corporations, giving readers a nuanced understanding of the key concepts at the corTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why media literacy and why you 1. Using: How your time with media can be more intentional 2. Spending: How the big, big business of media affects you and where you can profit 3. Thinking: How to protect your daily allotment of attention 4. Informing: How news media seek truth and shape reality 5. Verifying: How to find a fact and know when you’ve found one 6. Selling: How audiences are bought and sold and your role in the transaction 7. Analyzing: How media messages deliver meaning through content and creativity 8. Connecting: How media communicates culture and how cultures respond 9. Creating: How to create messages with purpose, expression and ethics 10. Protecting: How technology invades your privacy and how to protect it 11. Choosing: How to curate your media use to positively shape your sense of self 12. Participating: How technology supports and challenges civic engagement and democracy

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Book SynopsisResisting some of the negative connotations that repetition can attract, this book illustrates how it has been used as a catalyst for creative expression across a range of television genres.Divided into two parts, the first three chapters contextualise repetition within related media and critical debates, before locating it as an important facet of television that is worth exploring in detail. The final three chapters discuss specific television shows that incorporate repetition creatively within their narrative structure and aesthetic composition, ranging from The Royle Family and Doctor Who to I May Destroy You and This is Going to Hurt. In each case, James Walters argues that repetition emerges as crucial to the expression of key themes and ideas, thus becoming a structural and compositional element itself.Exploring the ways in which repetition has featured in the work of figures such as Umberto Eco, Raymond Bellour and Bruce Kawi

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

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Book SynopsisThis updated fourth edition presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary guide to social media communication. Examining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube, the book analyzes social media''s use in journalism, public relations, advertising and marketing.Lipschultz focuses on key concepts, best practices, data analyses, law and ethics  all promoting the critical thinking that is needed to use new, evolving and maturing networking tools effectively within social and mobile media spaces. Featuring historical markers and contemporary case studies, essays from some of the industry's leading social media innovators and a comprehensive glossary, this practical, multipurpose textbook gives readers the resources they will need to both evaluate and utilize current and future forms of social media communication. Updates to the fourth edition include expanded discussion of disinformation, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), natural langTable of Contents1. Introduction to Social Media Concepts 2. CMC, Diffusion and Social Theories 3. Social Media in Journalism 4. Social Media in Public Relations 5. Social Media in Advertising and Marketing 6. Social Media Metrics and Analytics 7. New and Mobile Media Technologies, Innovation and Investment 8. Big Data and Privacy 9. Law and Regulation 10. Social Media Ethics 11. Best Practices in Social Media 12. Future of Social Media and Information Literacy

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

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the independent media movements by Inmediahk and Coolloud â long-established, autonomous media organizations that have agitated for the development of media freedom and human rights in Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2004 and 1997, respectively. Based on direct interviews with the founders and core members of Inmediahk and Coolloud, the author investigates the origins, growth, and achievements of Inmediahk and Coolloud's media social movements as well as the current challenges the two independent media outlets encounter with regard to funding, increasing socio-political pressure, and the complicated media environments in Hong Kong and Taiwan using the method of qualitative content interpretation. Moreover, the practicality of social media and independent media in contemporary social movements, including the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong, is reviewed according to text analysis. Considering the prospect of media activism from a non-wester

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

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

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Book SynopsisThe Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture: Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions asks what it means to understand music as part of an audiovisual whole, rather than separate components of music and film. Bringing together revised and updated essays on music in a variety of media â including film, television, and video games â this book explores the importance of partially perceived and registered auditory and visual elements and cultural context in creating unique audiovisual experiences. Critiquing traditional models of the film score, The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture enables readers across music, film, and cultural studies to approach and think about audiovisual culture in new ways.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Conceiving Music’s Relationship to Image2. "The ‘Ghostly Effect’ Revisited": Film Music as Naked Effect3. Musical Sound Design4. The Classical Film Score: Persistence and Revival5. Working with and Against Genre Tradition: De-Westernizing the Western6. Cult: (Long Live) the New Silents7. Resurfacing Film Heritage through Music8. The Primal Psychology of Film Music9. Music and Atmosphere: Music as ‘Set’10. Musicals, Commerce and Race: White Labels and Black Imports11. Film’s Relations with the Music Industry12. Music as an Extra Imaginative Dimension13. Game Mechanisms/Mechanics: The Indifference of Musical Destiny

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Book SynopsisWhat is misinformation? Why does it matter? How does it spread on the internet, especially on social media platforms? What can we do to counteract the worst of its effects? Can we counteract its effects now that it is ubiquitous? These are the questions we answer in this book. We are living in an information age (specifically an algorithmic age) which prioritizes information quantity over quality. Social media has brought billions of people from across the world together online and the impact of diverse platforms, such as Facebook, WeChat, Reddit, LinkedIn, Signal, WhatsApp, Gab, Instagram, Telegram, and Snapchat, has been transformational.The internet was created, with the best of intentions, as an online space where written content could be created, consumed and diffused without any real intermediary. This empowering aspect of the web is still, mostly, a force for good. People, on the whole, are better informed and online discussion is more inclusive because barriers to participation are reduced. As activity online has grown, however, an expanding catalogue of research reveals a darker side to social media, and the internet generally. Namely, misinformationâs ability to negatively influence our behaviour both online and offline.The solution we provide to this growing dilemma is informed by Ludwig Wittgensteinâs Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which examines the relationship between language and reality from a philosophical perspective, and complements Claude Shannonâs Information Quantity Theory, which addresses the quantification, storage and communication of digital information from a mathematical perspective. The book ends by setting out a model designed by us: a Wittgensteinian approach to information quality. It defines content published online by clarifying the propositions and claims made within it. Our modelâs online information quality check allows users to effectively analyse the quality of trending online content. This approach to misinformation analysis and prevention has been designed to be both easy to use and pragmatic. It upholds freedom of speech online while using the harm principle to categorise problematic content.Table of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Background, 3. A Philosophical Approach, 4. Interventions, 5. Analysing the Problem, 6. The Global Online Information Quality Check Model, 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisMilestones in Digital Journalism sets out ten defining moments that changed the way we understand, produce, finance and engage with the news today.Designed for weekly use on digital journalism courses, these ten milestones provide a conceptual roadmap to understanding the subject while drawing on case study examples which help students home in on key markers in its history. Each milestone is selected for its impact on the nature of journalism practice, the content of journalism, the structure of the journalism industry and/or public engagement in the news. Milestones are defined as the key markers in the development of digital journalism worldwide since the 1970s. The featured markers are diverse and global, ranging from the first virtual reality (VR) screening of Nonny de la PeÃaâs Hunger in Los Angeles at Sundance Film Festival, to citizen reporting of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Written by experts in each of the areas chosen, this book offers an inclusive and de-centred overview of the field and an ideal springboard for further study.Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political and artistic development of foundational subject areas.This book is key reading for students learning about the history of digital journalism worldwide.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix, transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf movies, and social gangs of Disneyland. How physical, virtual, and imagined locations create a sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is undergoing a revolution in technology, travel modes, and tourism behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape, with provocative questions and investigations of social groups, fan culture, new technology, and the wider changing trends in screen tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and scholars in fTable of Contents List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction Screen Tourism: Marketing the Moods and Myths of Magic Places Windshield Tourism Goes Viral: On YouTube Scenic Drive Videos of U.S. National Parks "Forever Bali": Surf Tourism and Morning of the Earth (1972) Locating Fellini: Affect, Cinecittà, and the Cinematic Pilgrimage Walking in Cary Grant’s Footsteps: The Looking for Archie Walking Tour Vancouver Unmoored: Hollywood North as a Site of Spectres Always The Desert – Creating Affective Landscapes in Breaking Bad Nordic Noir and Miserable Landscape Tourism Serial Killer Cinema and Dark Tourism: The Affective Contours of Genre and Place Down the Rabbit Hole: Disneyland Gangs, Affective Spaces, and Covid-19 Immersive Worlds and Sites of Participatory Culture: The Evolution of Screen Tourism and Theme Parks Hobbiton 2.0, 20 years On: Authenticity and Immersive Themed Space Swords, Sandals, and Selfies: Videogame-Induced Tourism Index

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalismâs global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the narrative journalistic form/genre over time.The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalismdemonstrates the genreâs rich genealogy and global impact through a comprehensive study of its many traditions, including the crÃnica, the ocherk, reportage, the New Journalism, the New New Journalism, Jornalismo literÃrio, periodismo narrativo, bao gao wen xue, creative nonfiction, Literarischer Journalismus, As-SaHafa al Adabiyya, and literary nonfiction. Contributions from a diverse range of established and emerging scholars explore key issues such as the current role of literary journalism in countries radically affected by the print media crisis and the potential future of literary journalism, both as a ce

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Book SynopsisAs an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied intertextual dialogism between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the former to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose's catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts, this book contends that literary texts are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides an intertextual avenue to delineate the textuality of history and the historicity of textsTrade Review"Iranian film has become a major force in world cinema, and its sophisticated interactions with American literature have received far too little scholarly attention until now. Morteza Yazdanjoo opens up important new territory in his wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, providing fresh insights into discourses of gender, religion, identity, appropriation, narrativity, and politics as they pertain to cinema, literature, and other key areas of contemporary global culture. Scholars in many fields will welcome his work.– David Sterritt, editor in chief, Quarterly Review of Film and Video" Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Adaptation Studies, Cultural Materialism, and Cultural Studies: An Intertextual Dialogue3.Narrative Trajectories of National Identity in Iranian Cinema: A Historical Long Shot 4.Performing the Poetics of the Iranian Dream on the Silver Screen: Dariush Mehrjui’s Appropriation of Saul Bellow’s Herzog and J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey5. Watching Tennessee Williams in Iran: The Sanctity of Family Reconstituted6. Birth of a Salesman: Revisiting Willy Loman in Tehran7. ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing. In their reflections on walking cities in lockdown, the artists and writers contributing to this book share a number of complementary themes. Key to this is the question of how we walk in post-pandemic cities and how such walking might motivate or be motivated by transgressive, atomised or collective thoughts, affects, relations and experiences. Here we see how navigating cities in lockdown requires us to re-territorialise, improvise, create and de- or re-politize. There is, for example, a clear distinction between the severe lockdown measures that were introduced in Cape Town and the liberal appeal to good citizenship that northern hemisphere cities such as Stockholm chose to rely on. These measures impact on the way we e

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Book SynopsisThis edited book explores the development and reconfiguration of Middle Eastern diasporic communities in the West in the context of increased political turmoil, civil war, new authoritarianism, and severe constraints on media in the Middle East.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating political and intercultural communication, the contributors investigate the rationale for diasporic politics, as well as the role of the transnational media in shaping diasporic political mobilization. This analysis of the media, situated within specific case studies, encompassing Afghani, Armenian, Bahraini, Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Tunisian, and Turkish diasporic communities, reveals the variegated ways it influences diasporic politics and facilitates political action, as well as its influence on democratic actors residing in the Middle East. These new insights into Middle Eastern diasporas, political communication, and political mobilization are based on developments in the Middle East since 2011, and ultimately highlight how diaspora groups in the West relate to the situation in the Middle East, particularly in their countries of origin.The book is important reading for students and researchers working in political/intercultural communication and diasporic politics, as well as those with a general interest in the Middle East.

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Book SynopsisAn emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK. In Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema, Leung Wing-Fai argues that this explosive context has created rich and diverse forms of storytelling and an accented cinematic language. By offering close readings of key contemporary films and positioning them in a wider slate of releases by British East and Southeast Asian filmmakers alongside Anglophone film histories in the Global North, this book sheds light on a developing field and engenders new ways of understanding British cinema and society. The author explores changing representational politics in contemporary cinema and argues for the cinematic visibility of a hitherto silenced community. Drawing on theoretical frames from sociological, film and cultural studies to critically engage with the textualTrade Review‘Engaged scholarship at its best – at once three deeply sensitive and extensive explorations of British East and Southeast Asian films and a powerful intervention that inscribes British ESEA culture as a structure of feeling to push back against the racist violence that followed the Covid-19 pandemic.’ Professor Chris Berry, King’s College London ‘Through an insightful analysis of three films –She, a Chinese; The Receptionist and Lilting– Leung Wing-Fai makes an important case for British East and Southeast Asian cinema as a significant emerging film and cultural movement. She deftly demonstrates how through an accented cinema that makes visible a range of migratory perspectives from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Cambodia, filmmakers are powerfully carving out an alternative and contrapuntal creative space.’Dr Diana Yeh, City, University of London Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: British East and Southeast Asian Cinema as a Cultural MovementChapter 1: Time, Space and the Chinese Migrant in Guo Xiaolu's WorksChapter 2: Representations of Gendered Labour, Sex Work and Affect Chapter 3: Lilting: On the Accented Politics of a Queer NarrativeConclusionIndex

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