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Book SynopsisCreative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume explores themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, cultural alterity, and social change wrought by the pandemic.The cultural, social, and political concerns that have arisen due to COVID-19 are inextricably intertwined with the ways the pandemic has been discussed, represented, and visualized in global media. The essays included in this volume are concerned with how artists, writers, and advocates uncover the hope, plasticity, and empowerment evident in periods of worldwide loss and strugglefactors which are critical to both overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and fashioning the post-COVID-19 era. Elaborating on concepts of the everyday and the outbreak narrative, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores diverse themes incluTrade Review'Irene Gammel and Jason Wang have put together an intellectual's guide to the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on our everyday lives. From labor struggles to "Netflix and chill," this edited volume explores how the pandemic rearranged everyday life, and it connects those changes to the medical, political, and social struggles that have defined this moment. Reading these essays, I remembered things from the pandemic that I had already forgotten, and I am glad to have this book as a way to keep that time with me.'Daniel Worden, Associate Professor of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA'In this time of crisis, never had there been a better time to spotlight the cultures and practices of everyday life. The contributions to this wonderful book show in compelling and often heart-breaking ways just what it has been like to live with fear, grief and loss in pandemic conditions. But there is also an abundance of hope and meaning making emerging across these essays, captured in ways that invite the reader to enter into the worlds of people enduring these COVID times.'Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia'Creative Resilience and COVID-19 offers a vital record of these times, tracing how, amid the vast scale of a global pandemic, the patterns and details of daily life profoundly change. The collection’s scope stretches across continents and cultural mediums and draws on a rich set of creative responses—from music, theatre, film, photography, diaries, graphic memoirs, and social media, to architecture, city planning, and public life and health. The essays illuminate the overt and subtle shifts the pandemic has brought to individuals and communities, asking central questions about survival, resilience, and recovery. An invaluable, timely volume for the COVID era.' Elizabeth Outka, Professor of English, University of Richmond. USA'A thoughtful and timely book on the unprecedented non-medical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the intersections of media and communication. This book raises important questions on the new veracities of life during the pandemic and helps us to understand present-day realities. The clarity of authors’ writings on various topics dealing with media and communication makes the book accessible to students, academics as well as anyone who would like to make sense of the impact of the pandemic on everyday life.'Valerie Visanich, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Malta, MaltaTable of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1Irene Gammel and Jason WangPART ICrisis space and time1 The deadly air we breathe: how infectious illness built the modern cityMitchell Hammond2 “Why has the outbreak turned so deadly?”: diary from a quarantined cityIrene Gammel and Jason Wang3 Listening through a pandemic: silence, noisemaking, and musicDavid Cecchetto and Cameron MacDonald4 Netflix and chills: on digital distraction during the global lockdownDominic PettmanPART 2Vulnerability and resilience5 Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderlyGeoffrey Scarre6 “He’s thinking about sex, I’m thinking about survival”: women’s sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic Breanne Fahs7 “It’s like not a very Marshallese way of life”: marshallese cultural resilience during COVID-19Ramey Moore, Pearl A. McElfish, and Sheldon Riklon8 Sweden, COVID-19, and invisible immigrants 92Christian ChristensenPART 3Memory, visuality, and creativity 9 Threshold spaces: visualizing COVID-19 and the resilient power of the city Irene Gammel and Natalie Ilsley10 How drawing can help us see one another: from graphic medicine to diary comicsEmmy Waldman11 Going digital in a small city hub: community theater and dog performance events during lockdownKarin Beeler and Stan Beeler12 Becoming Host: zooming in on the pandemic horror filmSimon Turner and Stuart J. MurrayPART 4Adaptation, hope, and social change 13 Playing with the city: leisure, public health, and placemaking during COVID-19 and beyondTroy D. Glover14 Rethinking the spaces of night-time sociability Will Straw15 The end of Kino as we know it? Reflecting on the future of cinemas in Germany and beyondClaudia Kotte16 What COVID-19 has taught academics: historical arguments for the future of in-person teaching Kai BremerCoda by J. 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Book SynopsisThis work assesses the various meanings attached to calls for police reform in the public discourse on social media, providing readers with a greater appreciation of the assumptions, empirical claims, and rhetorical nuances that underpin the current dialogue about police policy. Drawing upon an intersectional theoretical and mixed-methods approach, the authors look at what it means to defund or abolish the police, as well as the definition of community policing.The death of George Floyd in 2020 resulted in national and international protests during which some members of the public began to demand abolishing or defunding the police, ideas previously put forth in academic arenas. However, these public protests were often presented in rhetorical ways that differed from the academic roots of the ideas. This book takes a deep look into what it means to defund or abolish the police, drawing upon academic origins of the concepts while at the same time examining how the public has used Twitter to define and discuss these ideas. The authors identify frameworks built around the concepts, discuss facts and perspectives that have contributed to these ideas, and explain how quantitative methods can be used to illustrate the most prominent frames.This book incorporates both quantitative and qualitative means of research in an examination of Twitter and brings clarity to the conversation surrounding the abolish the police, defund the police, and community policing concepts. It is suitable for undergraduate to graduate-level college courses in criminology, sociology, policing, race in America, communication, social media, and research methods. Table of Contents1 Media Depictions of Law Enforcement2 Abolish the Police on Twitter3 Defund the Police on Twitter4 Public Discourse and the Nature of Community Policing5 Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisNavigating Media's Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence moves through research and questions that are relevant to practicing pediatricians and therapists in their everyday practice. As we navigate post-pandemic life where screen time was unrestricted in most homes, this book has never been more important. Written by a pediatrician and a professor of media effects, this book is a vital resource for practicing mental health clinicians, counselors, psychologists, physicians, and students studying in those areas. Grounded in developmental theory, mass communication theory, current research, and acumen gained from years of clinical and teaching experience, this book gives professionals what they need to understand the colossal effect media is having on their patients. An aid to practitioners, this book is organized by developmental stage and matches specific questions related to media's effects with explicit research-based recommendations and explanations. It is intended Trade Review"Navigating Media’s Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence is impressive in its approach and scope and brings together theory, research, and wisdom from medicine, childhood development, media, and media effects. Professionals working with children and youth will find the book’s unique blend of scientific insight and clinical savvy invaluable as they grapple with the many issues surrounding youths media use." Kaveri Subrahmanyam, PhD, professor of psychology and associate dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences, California State University Los Angeles"Parents ask pediatricians (and others that care for children, adolescents, and young adults) about growth, development, problem behaviors, school, and sometimes just to know if something is normal. The need to ask these questions has intensified with increased use of social media, increased isolation, increased anxiety, depression, and stress. The authors, a communication scholar and a pediatrician, use research and experience to answer questions about media and its impact on children and adolescents. This is a well-written, well-resourced guide to common concerns about the role of medial in our children's lives. It is a great resource for social workers, pediatricians, teachers, and parents." Martin M. Anderson, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAM, professor of clinical pediatrics and adolescent medicine, Mattel Children’s Hospital"This is the book pediatricians and mental health professionals have been waiting for. Kurtin and McCormick translate research findings on the effects of media upon children into practical advice for guiding professionals who are navigating this new frontier." Gail Shak, PhD, Department of Psychiatry affiliate, Mills Peninsula Medical Center"This book offers researched answers to timely questions about how to work with children of the COVID era who have been exposed to ‘screen time’ as a means of entertainment, communication, education, and, for many families, as a means of survival. It has pertinent information for me as both a speech-language pathologist and a parent of young children." Deanna Gilman, MS, CCC-SLPTable of Contents1. Foundations in Development and Theoretical Considerations 2. Foundations in Media Literacy and Understanding Children's Media Environments 3. Current Guidelines on Digital Media Use by the American Academy of Pediatrics 4. Effects of Media on the Developing Infant and Young Child 5. Growing up in a Digital World 6. Internet Safety 7. Video Games 8. Tweens and Teenagers: Development and Media 9. Learning in the Digital Age 10. Media, the Body, and Disordered Eating 11. Media, Gender, and Sexuality 12. Pornography 13. Risky Behaviors like Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to public relations (PR) that employs pedagogical experiential learning models to assist students in developing the skills and competencies required by the PR industry.The book takes the reader on a journey from the theory and origins of PR, through to the structure of the PR profession and the more practical elements of how PR is practiced today. It devotes attention to the common competencies necessary for success as a communications professional, such as communication skills, critical thinking skills and business acumen, while giving due focus to the rapidly evolving new technologies and media that impact how organisations communicate. Featuring example cases from around the world, each chapter includes discussion topics and scenario-based questionnaires to encourage learning and assist students in developing key competencies.This book is ideal for undergraduate PR modules, particularly those with experiential and/or blended learniTrade Review"This is the introduction to public relations textbook I’ve been looking for. A comprehensive exploration of both the wider context as well as the practicalities of the profession, it will easily become the ‘one stop shop’ to introduce my students to the worlds of PR as well as equip them with the practical skills they require to get started in the industry."Giannina Warren, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University, UK"This textbook is a thorough examination of the role of public relations in our world today. It is global in nature and provides many current, relevant examples of public relations strategies and theories. It’s a perfect combination of informative and engaging." Dean Beckman, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA"Aoife O’Donnell offers a comprehensive explanation of the state of the art of the public relations field. This book is perfect for upper-level communication students. The writing is clear, and the content is suitable for today’s blended learning classes. Students who are serious about pursuing a career in public relations will particularly benefit from the special effort this book puts into explaining the PR profession, as well as the experiential approach that goes beyond theoretical explanations." Deborah N. Simorangkir, Swiss German University, Indonesia"This is the introduction to public relations textbook I’ve been looking for. A comprehensive exploration of both the wider context as well as the practicalities of the profession, it will easily become the ‘one stop shop’ to introduce my students to the worlds of PR as well as equip them with the practical skills they require to get started in the industry."Giannina Warren, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University, UK"This textbook is a thorough examination of the role of public relations in our world today. It is global in nature and provides many current, relevant examples of public relations strategies and theories. It’s a perfect combination of informative and engaging." Dean Beckman, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA"Aoife O’Donnell offers a comprehensive explanation of the state of the art of the public relations field. This book is perfect for upper-level communication students. The writing is clear, and the content is suitable for today’s blended learning classes. Students who are serious about pursuing a career in public relations will particularly benefit from the special effort this book puts into explaining the PR profession, as well as the experiential approach that goes beyond theoretical explanations." Deborah N. Simorangkir, Swiss German University, IndonesiaTable of Contents1. The History of Public Relations 2. The Theory of PR 3. Ethics 4. Public Relations and Related Disciplines 5. Corporate Communications 6. Sustainable Public Relations 7. Crisis Communications 8. PR for Business 9. Public Affairs and Political Communications 10. The Roles of PR Practitioners 11. Developing a PR Strategy 12. Content Creation 13. Pitching for Business 14. Media Relations 15. The Post Truth Era

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective. Applying a theoretical frame that is richly informed by the Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of persona, individuation, and archetypes, works including Fleabag (2016-2019), Ladybird (2017), and The Queen's Gambit (2020) as well as Disney productions such as Brave (2012), Moana (2016), and Frozen (2013), are contextualized and discussed alongside their non-screen precedents and contemporaries, including myths, fairy tales, and works of literature, to closely examine new patterns of the female journey. This book identifies how young female characters rebel against the female persona of previous eras through the trickster, the shadow, and other archetypes, comparing the contemporary female protagonist with her predecessorsTrade Review‘In this fascinating book, Helena Bassil-Morozow challenges and revises Jungian concepts in order to offer fresh insights into the evolution of the female persona. Drawing on a rich range of material, from folk tales through to fictions, contemporary films and tv programmes, she argues that the cultural templates for women are rapidly changing in response to their need to break free of the mask of femininity. Deftly analysing representations of defiant heroines, "liminal" mothers and female tricksters, she concludes that women are carving out new paths towards individuation and a fairer society.’ Avril Horner, emeritus professor of English Literature, Kingston University‘This is an important book for studies of gender in twenty-first century television and film, and also for those wanting to see Jungian theory grow up. Bassil-Morozow transforms Jungian notions of the persona and individuation to reveal the gender bias in traditional uses. For as The New Heroines in Film and Television demonstrates, the female persona is ubiquitous in filmed narratives, the feminine used to give meaning to male-oriented stories, or, in other words, the anima. Moreover, individuation in the Jungian sense occurs too often in its stunted masculinist form of the hero’s journey. While critiquing these conservative aspects of mainstream media, Bassil-Morozow brilliantly weaves together post-Jungian and post-Freudian ideas to show the emergence of resistant and transgressive female-centered stories. If you care about gender or film or TV, this book is a must.’Susan Rowland, author of Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002)‘A fiercely original account of the female protagonist in contemporary film and TV narratives. Bassil-Morozow continues the explorations of female individuation that have attracted a wide and enthusiastic readership. She traces the changes in the way recent heroines function as agents, rather than as passive characters. This is a timely book as female leads are emerging in roles which, previously, would have been unavailable to them. The book is a significant blend of Jungian and psychoanalytic film criticism.’Andrew Samuels, author of A New Therapy for Politics? and former professor of analytical psychology, University of Essex Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Female Persona; 2: The Female Journey; 3: The Red Woman and the Blue Woman: The Boundaries of the Mask; 4: Bildungsroman: Rejection of the Mask; 5: The Mother; 6: The Female Trickster; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR presence to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing virtually real experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insights, the book shows that virtually real experiences are responsible for several unaddressed ethical issues in VR research and design. Experimental philosophers, moral psychologists, and institutional review boards must become sensitive to the ethical issues involved between designing realistic virtual dilemmas, for good data collection, and avoiding virtually real trauma. Ethicists and game designers must do more to ensure that their simulations don't inculcate harmful character traits. VirtTable of Contents1. Exploring Strange New Worlds2. Imagination and the Limits of Empathy3. When Being There is Not Enough4. Virtual Experience, Real Harm5. Why It's Unethical to Use VR and AR as "Empathy" Machines6. Putting It All Together: A Code of Ethics for VR/AR7. AR and the Future of Selves

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Book Synopsis2020 was a period of groundbreaking social and political upheaval, in combination with a colossal epidemiological crisisâand it urgently redefined the working conditions of photojournalists. The historic 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the devastating Covid-19 pandemic presented unique challenges for photojournalism, forcing photographers into a terrain defined by new ethical, technological, and safety (emotional and physical) concerns, as well as innovative attacks on press freedom. Through a series of interviewsâwith top photographers who covered 2020âs biggest crises, as well as key photo editors who grappled with these unprecedented obstacles inside the newsroomâThrough the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter unpacks the industryâs most critical debates as it sheds light on the experiences and thought processes of the visual journalists themselves. Importantly, this book encourages readers to consider the efforts behind the camera lens: the challenges anTrade ReviewThis powerful book focuses on the crises of 2020—but its implications go well beyond that one year. Through the Lens asks us to rethink the ways we view the world through images and to understand that unconscious sociopolitical patterns can be influenced by visuals. This important book is essential reading for anyone interested in how history and culture are shaped by the camera. SHEILA PREE BRIGHT, award-winning photog-rapher and author of #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests Through the Lens is a nuanced and sophisticated exploration of the role of photography in the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter, two historic moments that have raised fundamental questions about photojournalism ethics, identity, and the impact of technological shifts on the field and norms of visual documentation. Dr. Walsh weaves compelling interviews with erudite analysis to contextualize the powerful photos that tell the stories of these transformational events. DR. COURTNEY RADSCH, former Advocacy Director with the Committee to Protect Journalists Through the Lens provides a rare look into the world of photojournalism, giving extraordinary insight into the experiences of those who photographed 2020’s major upheavals. It also forces us to think about the social, political, and historical dynamics of our time and the vital role that photos can play in contemporary conversations. Put simply, it is a masterful overview of the role of photography today. BARBARA DAVIDSON, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer "There have been profound critics and philosophers about photography in the past, and recently the voice I find most interesting is that of Lauren Walsh… Walsh has a particular talent of bringing voices of photographers together in conversation, to help us understand not aperture or the rule of thirds, but significantly more important things like dignity and context and purpose. Her new book, Through The Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, is a book of morals and beliefs and values that form the core of who we are, our work and why we do it." –Frames Magazine"We may be living in an image-saturated world, but the practice of photojournalism including the decisions that photo editors make and the experiences of photographers in the field rarely receive attention. Lauren Walsh’s new book, Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, aims to change that, delivering unique insights into the personal and professional challenges photojournalists faced in covering these two seismic global events." –Head On Interactional Magazine "[W]hat happens when the stories being covered force photojournalists into new areas with new ethical and physical safety concerns combined with outright attacks on the press themselves? Dr. Lauren Walsh… looks at both the ethical and safety minded challenges that photojournalists have faced covering both the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement in her new book Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter." – Blind Magazine"Richly illustrated with evocative photos, this book reminds us that photojournalism doesn’t simply mirror the world; it has the power to change it." -- YAHOO NEWS"For a field still dominated by white men, 'Through the Lens' brings a refreshing diversity of voices to a set of questions around privacy and consent, the role of captions, graphic imagery and censorship."Colin Dickey, LOS ANGELES TIMES"Visual journalism holds the power to attest, to interrogate, to educate. In the current conflicts around the world, journalists and photographers relay stories to their audiences, yet few may stop to consider how these images and news features are created and what roles they can play in future. In her new book THROUGH THE LENS: THE PANDEMIC AND BLACK LIVES MATTER, Lauren Walsh conducts interviews with leading photographers and photo editors in visual journalism during 2020’s biggest crises, and discussed the challenges they faced in this time, as well as how photojournalism continues to evolve in the present." -- Photomonitor"In her excellent new book, Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, NYU professor Lauren Walsh attempts to understand the historic year through the vantage point of the photojournalists that were on the frontlines capturing a multitude of unprecedented events. Walsh records the emotional toll that came with "covering death, destruction, and endemic racism." --VICE WORLD NEWSTable of Contents1. Introduction A note on the interviews Interviews with US-based photojournalists 2. Nina Berman 3. Patience Zalanga 4. Spencer Platt Interviews with photojournalists outside the US 5. Rodrigo Abd 6. Aly Song Interviews with Directors of Photography 7. Danese Kenon 8. MaryAnne Golon Afterword Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDramatic shifts in our communication landscape have made it crucial for language teaching to go beyond print literacy and encompass the digital literacies which are increasingly central to learners'' personal, social, educational and professional lives. By situating these digital literacies within a clear theoretical framework, this book provides educators and students alike with not just the background for a deeper understanding of these key 21st-century skills, but also the rationale for integrating these skills into classroom practice. This is the first methodology book to address not just why but also how to teach digital literacies in the English language classroom. This book provides: A theoretical framework through which to categorise and prioritise digital literacies Practical classroom activities to help learners and teachers develop digital literacies in tandem with key language skills A thorough analysis of the pedagogicTable of ContentsContents Preface xi Acknowledgements xiv I: From research to implications 1 Diverse literacies for a superdiverse era 2 The Framework of Digital Literacies 3.0 5 Box I.1 What hardware, software & connectivity do we need? 6 First focus: Communicating 11 Print literacy 12 Texting (& reconstructive) literacy 13 Box I.2 What happened to our digital natives? 14 Hypertext literacy 16 Multimodal literacy 16 Box I.3 Do social media belong in our classrooms? 18 Immersive (and gaming/XR) literacy 20 Spatial literacy 21 Mobile literacy 22 Box I.4 Does the digital divide still matter? 22 Code (& technological/AI) literacy 25 Second focus: Informing 27 Tagging (and hashtag) literacy 27 Search literacy 29 Box I.5 Can we trust Wikipedia? 30 Filtering literacy 31 Information (and data) literacy 32 Box I.6 How should we deal with fake news? 32 Third focus: Collaborating 36 Personal (and security) literacy 36 Box I.7 How can we protect our students (and ourselves) online? 37 Network literacy 39 Box I.8 Why do our students need personal learning networks? 39 Participatory literacy 41 Box I.9 How much should we worry about censorship and surveillance? 42 Intercultural literacy 45 Ethical literacy 47 Fourth focus: (Re)designing 48 Attentional literacy 49 Box I.10 Does multitasking work? 50 Critical (and critical mobile/material/philosophical/academic) literacy 51 Box I.11 What do digital technologies mean for people and the planet? 53 Remix literacy 55 Box I.12 How do we deal with copyright and plagiarism? 57 Looking ahead 58 Further reading 59 II: From implications to application 60 Box II.1 Will digital technologies improve our students’ learning? 60 Box II.2 What if we have to teach language classes fully online? 62 The TPACK framework for integrating technology use 64 Box II.3 Who’s afraid of teaching with edtech? 65 The SAMR model for improving technology use 67 The T3 framework for extending technology use 68 Design justice 70 The Digital Activities Grid 72 The Digital Tools Grid 84 The Digital Risks Grid 84 45 Activities 92 Activity 1. Technology past & present 93 Activity 2. Becoming digitally literate 97 Activity 3. Writing the news 100 Activity 4. Extreme weather 103 Activity 5. Cryptic messages 110 Activity 6. Sports linking 114 Activity 7. Building links 119 Activity 8. Food boards 121 Activity 9. Copycat 124 Activity 10. Envisioning the facts 128 Activity 11. Sales techniques 131 Activity 12. Showcasing hobbies 135 Activity 13. Selling English 138 Activity 14. Avatars 141 Activity 15. Peeling back history 145 Activity 16. Spaced out 149 Activity 17. A picture a day 152 Activity 18. Mobile rules 155 Activity 19. This is us 159 Activity 20. Living on the edge 163 Activity 21. My digital assistant 166 Activity 22. Travel clouds 170 Activity 23. Hashtag activism 173 Activity 24. Search race 176 Activity 25. Search me 182 Activity 26. News in my networks 187 Activity 27. Digital social circles 191 Activity 28. Tree octopus 195 Activity 29. Fun facts 200 Activity 30. Faking it 203 Activity 31. Tracking personal wellness 208 Activity 32. Footprints in the wires 213 Activity 33. Setting the scene 215 Activity 34. Going viral 219 Activity 35. A class PLN 223 Activity 36. Our city guide 226 Activity 37. Pictorial vocab bank 230 Activity 38. Questioning stereotypes 233 Activity 39. Sign me up 237 Activity 40. Turn off, tune out 242 Activity 41. Ever mindful 245 Activity 42. An ethical phone? 250 Activity 43. Our digital planet 253 Activity 44. Keep calm and carry on learning English 258 Activity 45. Said no student ever 262 Future learning 265 III: From application to implementation 266 Incorporating activities into the syllabus 266 The coursebook-driven approach 269 The topic-driven approach 271 The digital literacies-driven approach 271 Choosing activities for different levels and contexts 272 Students’ linguistic competence 273 Students’ technological competence 274 Teachers’ technological competence 275 Overall complexity 276 Contexts 276 Teaching in technology-limited environments 279 Assessing digital work 280 A digital assessment matrix 281 Assessing through e-portfolios 282 IV: From implementation to research 285 Conducting and sharing action research and design-based research 285 Building and maintaining personal learning networks 287 Choosing platforms for personal learning networks 289 Twitter 289 Facebook 290 Other social media 290 Blogs 290 Working across platforms 291 Further reading 292 References 293 Activity keys 316

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us laughing in the cinema. It traces the beginning of comic motion pictures and the pioneer work of Paul, Gaumont, Hepworth, Pathe and Zecca. Then comes the picture palace craze and the success of the early Italian and French comedies and trick films. The work of Al Christie and Mack Sennett in America, and the rise of American films, is fully described, as knockabout gives way to slapstick, and salaries and box-office receipts soar.Now come Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and all the other bright figures of the Roaring Twenties, with favourites like Buster Keaton and Will Rogers to the fore. The development of sound and its effect on the comedians is explained, and the story comes up to date through the thirties and forties to 1954.Some of the hundreds of names to whom tribute is paid include Mabel Normand, Larry Semon, Roscoe Arbuckle, Monty Banks, MaxTrade ReviewReviews for the original 1954 edition:"Loaded with facts, names, titles, biographies and anecdotes, but trotting along easily enough to make reading comfortable, I can’t think of any other book devoted to the cheerful screen which bundles together not only the internationally famous English-speaking comics, but also the great army of good comedians, the multitude of players and the multitude of films too." Dilys Powell wrote in The Sunday Times"Highly informative and interesting and, for the middle-aged, almost unbearably nostalgic," said the New Statesman"A little monument to painstaking research made readable by unswerving love," wrote Paul Dehn"A valuable and fascinating book," said Maryvonne Butcher in The TabletTable of ContentsPreface by Norman Wisdom. Foreword. 1. The First Comedies 2. The Hepworth Story 3. The Fun Continues 4. Early Film Studios 5. The Rise of the American Film 6. The Keystone Touch 7. Chaplin – The Perfect Clown 8. Harold Lloyd 9. The Roaring Twenties 10. The End of Visual Comedy 11. All Talking! 12. The Thirties 13. The British Quota Boom 14. Crosby and Company 15. Walt Disney 16. The Eccentrics 17. The Forties 18. The Summing Up 19. Flashback. Acknowledgements. Index of Names.

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Book SynopsisNetworked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks. Offering a range of case studies, from highly technical solutions to inclusive community projects, this book provides inspiration to musicians to try NMP whatever their level of technical expertise.Drawing upon recent research to examine the background and history of the practice as well as specific practical approaches, technical and musical considerations are included for readers, as are ideas around accessibility and creativity. Accessibility is considered in the context of the opportunities that NMP gives to musicians working remotely, as well as some of the barriers to participation in NMP and how these can be overcome. Synchronous and asynchronous approaches to NMP are explored in detail, examining the technical and musical affordances and challenges of working remotely for musicians.Networked Music Performance will appeal to Trade Review"Today’s musician works online, yet we haven’t even begun to plumb the depths of creative collaboration over the Internet. Iorwerth's book illuminates why Networked Music Performance is an emerging force: culture and technology become more sophisticated when driven by both social necessity and obviously rich rewards of new musical and cultural opportunities."Rebekah Wilson"The thorough technical treatment in Miriam Iorwerth's book Networked Music Performance lays a groundwork for describing the present moment where it seems that whatever can go online will go online. It is not only about networks of the kind our devices are attached to but also the social aspects of music and music teaching, the human networks that emerged when going online was the only way to go. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, tools and practices for connected musical collaboration increased dramatically and this book takes stock of the moment, comprehensively."Chris Chafe, Director, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Music over the internet 3. Synchronous networked music performance 4. Asynchronous networked music performance 5. Online music teaching and community music 6. Accessibility in networked music performance

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Book SynopsisTechnology innovations have changed how social work educators teach and students learn. This book is designed to assist social work academics and educators in enhancing their students'' critical thinking, reflective capacity and skills in clinical and research settings through the integration of social work content podcasting.It delves into the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of podcasting within social work education and offers a framework for those looking to integrate podcasts into their pedagogical strategies. The book positions the co-creation of podcasts as a way forward in storytelling lived experience, enriching the lifelong educational journey for educators and students.Written by Mim Fox and Jonathan B. Singersocial work educators, practitioners, and hosts of the award-winning Social Work Stories Podcast and The Social Work Podcast, respectivelythis book is an indispensable resource. It is packed with practical tips, insightful a

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Book SynopsisOffering a radical new toolbox for digital storytellers, this key text contains everything today's media practitioners need to know about conceptualising, editing and producing stories for online platforms and audiences. This book teaches readers practical skills for increasing their reach online, strengthening their personal brand and improving follower counts across the social web, including main platforms such as Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. Encouraging a DIY approach, the authors guide readers through various platforms and reveal which are best suited to their users and how to customise stories for different channels. Topics covered include storytelling with smartphones (iOS and Android), storyboarding, framing, sequencing, shooting and editing high-quality content, and evaluating the success of content and campaigns. Contributions from five industry experts expand on privacy, community building and collaboration. The book concludes Table of ContentsContents1. How can I make use of storytelling?1.1. Facts tell, stories sell1.2. What is social storytelling?1.2.1. Listen to your followers1.2.2. Find the right tone1.2.3. Make your stories travel across relevant channels1.2.4. Begin a long-term relationship with your community with social stories1.3. Why is storytelling so impactful?1.3.1. Stories wire visuals to our brains1.3.2. Explain complex matters in simple stories1.3.3. From hero to guide – guide users through your stories1.4. How self storytelling works on your profiles – get inspired by best practice examples1.4.1. Personal profile stories1.4.2. Community profile stories1.4.3. Brand profile stories1.4.4. Journalists profile stories2. A radically new toolbox for social storytellers2.1. Story anatomy in place of the ‘hero’s journey’2.1.1. Farewell to the ‘hero’s journey’2.1.2. Guides2.1.3. Story anatomists2.1.4. Nanoparticles2.2. Find story beats 2.3. Show faces and voices2.4. Develop micro-stories2.5. Use multimedia layers2.6. Make use of cross-platform methods2.7. Collaborate with influencers3. Professional storytelling with your smartphone in a mobile-first world3.1. Content-focused communication3.2. Integrated content strategy3.3 Storytelling apps and templates for all3.4 Ensure professional quality3.5 Precise preparation and project management pay off3.6 Visual, mobile, social2.6.1 Smartphones, the all-rounders3.6.2 Digital literacy3.7 Design your narrative strategy3.7.1 Engage with your users3.7.2 Visualise your language3.7.3 Experiment with user-oriented technology3.8 What is quality content? 3.8.1 Short, relevant, profound, purposeful, rapid3.8.2 Multimedia content 3.8.3 Interactive content 3.8.4 Immersive elements3.8.5 Live is Life3.9 The small multimedia ABC for social storytellers with their smartphones3.9.1 External smartphone equipment 3.9.2 Shooting and framing3.9.3 Photos3.9.4 Videos 3.9.5 Shooting 3.9.6 Post-production3.9.7 Audio and music3.9.8 Texts3.9.9 3D objects3.9.10 360-degree spaces3.10 Produce mobile stories in five steps3.10.1 Storyboard3.10.2 Framing 3.10.3 Recording and shooting3.10.4 Writing3.10.5 Sequencing and editing4. Understand and implement mobile story genres4.1. Smartphones change everything4.2. Micro-storytelling4.2.1. Hashtags4.2.2. Memes4.2.3. Feeds4.2.4. Stories4.2.5. Why stories and toks are replacing the newsfeed4.3. In-built storytelling tools and platform specifics4.3.1. Social+ companies4.3.2. Digital shop windows vs. social storytelling4.3.3. Twitter4.3.4. TikTok4.3.5. Snapchat4.3.6. Instagram4.3.7. Facebook4.4. Explainer videos4.5. Social audio4.6. Live social TV5. Find the best strategy5.1. Integrated, convergent storytelling5.2. How do I find good stories?5.2.1. Search, find, verify5.2.2. Story DNA5.2.3. Platform-agnostic planning5.3. How do I prepare best?5.3.1. Facts, people, stories5.3.2. Platform-specific planning and producing5.4. An excellent concept is a must5.4.1. Planning 5.4.2. Integrate and customise your micro-stories multiple times5.4.3. Build a slow, long-form interactive story 5.4.4. Give data a face and tell data stories with data relevant for your followers and community6. Evaluate your campaigns: Never without monitoring6.1. Why do I use digital monitoring?6.1.1. FMD ("Filmmakers Germany") campaigns as best practice examples6.1.2. “Uganda Series 2018. Big five – in the wild?"6.1.3. Japan 2019/2020 – Bucket list6.2. What are relevant key performance indicators?6.2.1. Evaluate the whole customer journey6.2.2. Think sustainable instead click baits and likes6.2.3. "All-in-one"-campaigns = content x reach x event, for instance, the "Usedom Sunspot Awards"6.2.4. How do I evaluate in social media storytelling and content marketing? "The disruptive tragedy"6.2.5. Generate leads and evaluate conversions6.3. What makes your campaign a success?6.3.1. No content without call-to-action6.3.2. Plan and initiate user-generated content 6.3.3. Keep in touch with your community!7. Everything remains different: What’s next for storytellers?7.1. Prepare for tech and storytelling trends of the near and medium future7.2. What should you keep an eye on? Our expert tips7.2.1 Deana Mrkaja: Tell immersive stories 7.2.2 Sascha Gottschalk: Work with user-generated content 7.2.3 Tim Hendrik Walter: Learning together in social stories 7.2.4 Maximilian Wolf: With edutainment and livestreams you are on the right track7.2.5 Adil Sbai: Find creative solutions for copycatsAuthors and experts in this bookIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Power of Networks describes a typology of network-based research practices in the historical disciplines, ranging from the use of quantitative network analysis in cultural, economic, social or political history or religious studies, to novel approaches in the Digital Humanities. Network data visualisations and calculations have proven to be useful tools for the analysis of mostly textual sources containing relational information, offering new perspectives on complex historical phenomena. Including case studies from antiquity to contemporary history, the book provides a clear demonstration of the opportunities historical network research (HNR) provides for historical studies. The examples presented within the pages of this volume are arranged in a way to highlight three central typological pillars of HNR: (re-)construction and analysis of historical networks; computational extraction of network data and infrastructures for data collection and exploration.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: (Re-)construction of historical networks and their analysis Networking the Res Publica. Social Network Analysis and the Republican Rome Community detection and structural balance: network analytical modelling of political structures and actions in the Middle Ages The Value of Network Analysis in Historical Sociology: Economic and Social Relations in Medieval in Medieval Lübeck 4. Flemish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Seville. Approaches, Comparisons, and Methodical Considerations5. Kinship Networks in Northwestern German Rural Society (18th/19th Centuries)6. Mobility and Movements in Intellectual History: a Social Network Approach3. Computational extraction of network data from large corpora Utilizing Historical Network Analysis on Meta-data to Model East German Foreign Intelligence Cycle in the Baltic Sea Region 1975-1989 Social and semantic network analysis in the study of religions 4. Infrastructures for data collection and exploration Deep Networks as Associative Interfaces to Historical Research Networks as Gateways. Gleanings from Applications for the Exploration of Historical Data 5. OutlookHistorical Network Research, Digital History, and Digital Humanities

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, finding novel ways for unsettling conversations, unlearning and learning and challenging power structures with marginalised groups and contexts through art and design? The main themes of the book are art and design methods, epistemologies and practices that provide critical, interdisciplinary, pluriversal and decolonial considerations. The book challenges the domination of the white logic of art and design and shifts away from the Anglo-European one-world system towards the pluriverse. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, arts-based research, and Table of ContentsPreface- Andrea W. Mignolo and Walter D. Mignolo Foreword: The European Commission policy for promoting arts to tackle societal challenges and increase cohesion and inclusion- Christina Sarvani and Jarkko Siren Introduction: Artistic cartographies and design explorations towards the pluriverse - Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos and Melanie Sarantou Section I: Pluriversal A/r/tographies Record of a multispecies creative exploration in the austral forests - Mariluz Soto Hormazábal and Mauricio Tolosa Dialogues for plurality—art-based exchange for strengthening youth’s role as agents of change - Katri Konttinen, Enni Mikkonen & Mikko Ylisuvanto Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research - Marija Griniuk, Daria Akimenko, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen and Melanie Sarantou A critical retrospective on whiteness in Possible Worlds video artwork - Mari Mäkiranta and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä New genre Arctic art in the city of Rovaniemi: Promotion of de-Arctification and pluralism - Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen Expanding design narratives through handmade embroidery production: A dialogue with a community of women in Passira, Pernambuco, Brazil - Ana Julia Melo Almeida and Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos Afrikana—burying colonial bones to harvest seeds and bouquets of plurality - Michelle Olga van Wyk Section II: Design explorations towards the pluriverse Excluding by design - Peter West Knowledge plurality for greater university-community permeability: Experiences in art and design from fieldwork - Caoimhe Isha Beaulé, Élisabeth Kaine, Étienne Levac, Anne Marchand and Jean-François Vachon Other worlds are possible: Advanced computational and design thinking in South Auckland - Ricardo Sosa Pluriverse perspectives in designing for a cultural heritage context in the digital age - Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen, Mari Suoheimo and Maija Mäkikalli Centring relationships more than humans and things: Translating design through the culture of the Far East - Namkyu Chun Professionalised designing in between plural makings - Zhipeng Duan Enacting plurality in designing social innovation: Developing a culturally grounded twenty-first-century leadership programme for a Cambodian context - Joyce Yee, Sovan Srun and Laura Smitheman Section III The pluriverse of activism, diversity and accessibility A history of design education in Brazil: A decolonial perspective - Júlio César Tamer Okabayashi and Maria Cecília Loschiavo Dos Santos Unveiling the layered structures of Youth Work - Ana Nuutinen and Enni Mikkonen Making IMPACT: Visibility status in participatory projects - Teresa Torres De Eça and ngela Saldanha Flag: A shared horizon - Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi and Melanie Sarantou Ghost bike agency and urban culture through art activism - Eduardo Rumenig, Julio Talhari, Maria Cecilia L. Dos Santos and Luiz E.P.B.T. Dantas Mediating social interaction through a chatbot to leverage the diversity of a community: Tensions, paradoxes, and opportunities - Amalia De Götzen, Peter Kun, Luca Simeone, and Nicola Morelli

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this volume examines the roles strategic communications play in creating social media messaging campaigns designed to engage in digital activism. As social activism and engagement continue to rise, individuals have an opportunity to use their agency as creators and consumers to explore issues of identity, diversity, justice, and action through digital activism. This edited volume situates activism and social justice historically and draws parallels to the work of activists in today's social movements such as modern-day feminism, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Missing Murdered Indigenous Women, and We Are All Khaled Said. Each chapter adds an additional filter of nuance, building a complete account of mounting issues through social media movements and at the same time scaffolding the complicated nature of digital collective action.The book will be a useful supplement to courses in public relations, journalism, sTrade Review“This is a vibrant collection that includes contributions from a range of engaged scholarly perspectives and expertise. Together is provides readers with an instructive, interrelated conversation on digital activism. Most significantly the collection highlights a long history of activism, with featured spotlights on crucial but often overlooked figures and helps readers to see how digital activism fits into this larger trajectory. Overall, the collection works to ground and inspire those of us committed to social change and maps out a blueprint for sustainable actions for a better future.”Shana MacDonald, University of Waterloo, Canada.“As we approach the fourth decade of the twenty-first century, it is becoming increasingly clear that scholarship must critically reflect on how we arrived at a contemporary moment where social movements and social media intersect. This volume does just that by bringing together scholarly perspectives that critically examine activism in the digital age. It is a timely resource that centers the collective actions of communities leveraging social media to make significant contributions in society worldwide.”Tara L. Conley, Kent State University, USATable of ContentsPart 1: Repression 1. Historical Roots and Modern Movements: A Framework for Activism 2. A Refusal to Accept: Oppression Around the World 3. Controlling, Constraining, or Preventing Protest: Social Movement Interference in the Digital Age Part 2: Resistance 4. Building Momentum: Creating Change 5. Early Digital Social Movements: Events, Protests, Moments 6. Advocacy & Action: Persuasive Strategies for Digital Activism & Influence Part 3: Rebellion 7. Amplified Effort: Networked Social Change, Use, Participation, Algorithms 8. Any Time, Any Cause, Anywhere: Hyperlocal Protests Secure Global Support & The Case of #EndSars 9. Leaderless Rebellions: An Analysis of Digital Feminist Anti-Violence Activism Part 4: Reform 10. Grounded in Community: Sustainability And Collective Actions 11. Does online activism impact offline impact? A cultural examination of slacktivism, ‘popcorn activism,’ power, and fragility 12. Reclaiming Wholeness: The Future & Hope of Digital & Social Activism

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form apt at representing real world conflicts, and this edited volume highlights the intrinsic connection between games and conflict through a set of theoretical and empirical studies. It interrogates the nature and use of conflicts as a fundamental aspect of game design, and how a wide variety of conflicts can be represented in digital and analogue games.The book asks what we can learn from conflicts in games, how our understanding of conflicts change when we turn them into playful objects, and what types of conflicts are still not represented in games. It queries the way games make us think about armed conflict, and how games can help us understand such conflicts in new ways.Offering a deeper understanding of how games can serve political, pedagogical, or persuasive purposes, this volume will interest scholars and students Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Acknowledgements; The Inevitable Relation Between Games and Conflict: An Introduction; Part I: Game Systems, Transformation, and Learning; 1. Red in Bits and Bytes: Evolutionary Conflicts in Biological God Games; 2. On Bikers at War: Transformations of Non-Fictional and Fictional Conflicts from Hamlet to Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem; 3. From Zero-Sum Business Games to Coopetitive Simulation; 4. The Limits of ‘Serious’ Play: Frame Disputes Around Educational Games; Part II: Representing War and Armed Conflicts; 5. On Wargames and War: Modelling Carl von Clausewitz’s Theory of War; 6. Wargames as Reenactment: An Ecological Framework for the Development of Military Games for Education; 7. The Grasping Eye: Wargames and the Ideal-Typical Field Commander’s Inner Vision; Part III: Critical Perspectives on Conflicts in Games; 8. War Never Changes? Creating an American Victimology in Fallout 4; 9. Are the Bullets Going Over our Head? Designed Ambivalence in the Representation of Armed Conflict in Games; 10. Where are the White Perpetrators in all the Colonial Board Games? A Case Study on Afrikan Tähti; Part IV: Alternative Ways of Representing Conflicts in Games; 11. Narrative and Mechanical Integration: Playing with Interpersonal Conflicts in Life is Strange; 12. The Most Intimate Conflict of all: Marriage as Conflict in Digital Games; 13. All Smoke, No Fire: The Post-Mortem of Conflicts in the ‘Walking Simulator’ Genre; Index

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Book SynopsisVideogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles.What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How do paratextual materials reflect design intention with regards to what the player can and cannot do in a videogame? How does game design shape the possibility space for player action? Through these questions and selected case studies that include AAA and independent games alike, the book presents a unique approach to studying agency that combines game design, game studies, and game developer discourse. By doing so, the book examines what discourses around player action, as well as a game's design can reveal about the nature of agency and videogame aesthetics.This book will aTrade ReviewVideogames and Agency offers an important contribution to debates around a central concept in Game Studies, providing a new framework to think through the relationship between production context, design and player agency. Using paratextual and textual analysis, Dr Bettina Bódi works adeptly across three engaging case studies to broaden our understanding of how games and their designers afford and constrain player action. This is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand more about one of the key questions in games research.Dr Nick Webber, Associate Professor in Media, Birmingham City University, UKBettina Bódi’s Videogames and Agency is a unique and indispensable book for scholars, students, and game designers. By considering agency as an affordance of videogames that is firmly rooted in their developers’ design ethos, Bódi ties together theoretical perspectives and industry practices of agency. Thoroughly researched, yet immensely readable, the book gives a much needed introduction to a central issue in the study of video games.Hans-Joachim Backe, Associate Professor, Center for Digital Play, ITU Copenhagen, DenmarkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Understanding Agency; Agency in Game Studies; Agency in Game Design; Toward a Conceptualisation of Agency; 2. A Multidimensional Heuristic Framework for Analysing Player Agency; Agency Afforded in Space: The Spatial-Explorative Dimension; Agency Afforded in Time: The Temporal-Ergodic Dimension; Agency Over the Avatar and its Surroundings: The Configurative-Constructive Dimension; Agency and Narrativity: The Narrative-Dramatic Dimension; 3. An “Active Cinematic Experience”: Naughty Dog’s Uncharted Series; Naughty Dog and the Uncharted Franchise; Developing Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End; Agency and a “Cinematic Feel”; 4. “A Compelling Story with Choices That Matter”: BioWare’s Mass Effect Series; BioWare and the Mass Effect Franchise; Developing Mass Effect: Andromeda; Narrativity, Eventfulness, and Agency; 5. “The World is Your Play-Doh”: System Era Softworks and Astroneer; Independent Games: Definitions and TrendsDeveloping Astroneer; Agency and Playfulness; Conclusion; Index

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Algorithms: Technology, Culture, Politics develops a relational, situated approach to algorithms. It takes a middle ground between theories that give the algorithm a singular and stable meaning in using it as a central analytic category for contemporary society and theories that dissolve the term into the details of empirical studies.The book discusses algorithms in relation to hardware and material conditions, code, data, and subjects such as users, programmers, but also data doubles. The individual chapters bridge critical discussions on bias, exclusion, or responsibility with the necessary detail on the contemporary state of information technology. The examples include state-of-the-art applications of machine learning, such as self-driving cars, and large language models such as GPT.The book will be of interest for everyone engaging critically with algorithms, particularly in the social sciences, media studies, STS, political theory, or philosophy. With its b

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Book SynopsisSpecifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms.It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it.With contributions from an international team of scholars, representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies, the book covers: Characters Television Videogames Fan media and technTable of Contents1. Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: Serious Approaches to Playful Trends Part 1: Characters 2. Kumamon: Japan’s Surprisingly Cheeky Mascot 3. ’Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat?!?’: Tracking Japanese Cute Culture at Home and Abroad Part 2: Television 4. The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs 5. Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Working Woman in Japanese Television Dramas 6. The World Too Much with Us in Japanese Travel Television Part 3: Videogames 7. Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII: Embodied Experience and Social Critique 8. Policing Youth: Boy Detectives in Japanese Visual Novel Games 9. The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Postapocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle Part 4: Fan Media and Technology 10. Managing Manga Studies in the Convergent Classroom 11. Thumb Generation Literature: The Rise and Fall of Japanese Cellphone Novels 12. Purikura: Expressive Energy in Female Self-Photography 13. Cosplay Everywhere: Costume Diplomacy at the World Cosplay Summit 14. Hatsune Miku: Virtual Idol, Media Platform, and Crowd-Sourced Celebrity Part 5: Music 15. Electrifying the Japanese Teenager Across Generations: The Role of the Electric Guitar in Japan’s Popular Culture 16. The "Pop Pacific": Japanese American Sojourners and the Development of Japanese Popular Music 17. AKB Business: Idols and Affective Economies in Contemporary Japan 18. In Search of Japanoise: Globalizing Underground Music 19. Korean Pop Music in Japan: Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea in the Popular Culture Realm Part 6: Popular Cinema 20. The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan 21. The Rise of Japanese Horror Films: Yotsuya Ghost Story (Yotsuya Kaidan), Demonic Men, and Victimized Women 22. V-Cinema: How Home Video Revitalized Japanese Film and Mystified Film Historians Part 7: Anime 23. Apocalyptic Animation: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard 24. Toy Stories: Robots and Magical Girls in Anime Marketing 25. The World According to Ghibli, or How a Small Japanese Animation Studio Became a Global Phenomenon 26. Condensing the Media Mix: The Tatami Galaxy’s Multiple Possible Worlds Part 8: Manga 27. A Jew and a Nazi Walk into an Izakaya: Tezuka Osamu’s Holocaust Manga 28. Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture 29. The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending, Boys’ Love and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ōoku for Yoshinaga Fumi 30. Cyborg Empiricism: The Ghost Is Not in the Shell Part 9: Spectacles and Competitions 31. Hanabi: The Cultural Significance of Fireworks in Japan 32. Kamishibai: The Fantasy Space of the Urban Street Corner 33. Making A Game of Their Own: Baseball as Japan’s National Sport 34. Pop Go the Games: Japanese Popular Culture and Politics at the Olympics Part 10: Sites 35. Shibuya: Reflective Identity in Transforming Urban Space 36. Akihabara: Promoting and Policing ‘Otaku’ in ‘Cool Japan’ 37. Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as Debris of the Economic Miracle Part 11: Fashion 38. Cute Fashion: The Social Strategies and Aesthetics of Kawaii 39. Made in Japan: A New Generation Fashion Designers Part 12: Contemporary Art 40. Superflat Life 41. Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent 42. The Art of Upcycling in the Set Inland Sea

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the art and craft of documentary filmmaking with a focus on ethics and impact from development through distribution. Author Shannon Walsh explores point-of-view storytelling, writing for nonfiction, and the art of social change documentary.Offering an overview of the documentary filmmaking process  from idea to pitch to a final film and impact campaign this book provides nonfiction filmmakers with the methods required to find a voice, style, and cinematic approach to documentary filmmaking. Key areas covered include definition of styles and genres of documentary film; project development and proposal writing; basic elements of documentary storytelling such as interview techniques, vérité filming, use of archives, stills, and point of view; the process of preparing and delivering a project pitch; pre-production; and finding the necessary elements to tell a story cinematically. With a specific focus on ethics and character-driven storytelliTable of Contents1. Documentary Production: Fear, Failure & Intuition 2. Finding Stories & Ideas 3. Research, Access & Point of View 4. Ethics: Representationm Subjectivity and the Colonized Image 5. Challenigng Forms: Ecstatic Truth & Elusive Fiction 6. Intimacies: Autobiography, Family Histories and Personal Story-telling 7. Script & Treatment Writing For Documentary 8. Developing Strategies for Impact 9. Shooting & Editing in Development 10. Preparing the Pitch: Structure and Components of a Good Pitch 11. Directing with the Moment: Aliveness, Adaptation and Awareness 12. Preparing for Production: Considerations As You Start Shooting 13. Ethics in Production: Dealing with Film Participants and Crews 14. Talking to Strangers: Establishing Relationships & Doing Interviews 15. Building Community Through Filming Community 16. Post-Production Editing, Organizing Material and Re-writing 17. Sparking Impact: Creating Strategies for Change 18. Marketing & Distribution in the Digital Age Further Reading & Resources

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the roles, procedures, and logistics of the film and digital video production process. The book covers development and pre-production to post-production, marketing and distribution, and draws insights from a diverse range of industry professionals. New content on distribution, set safety, colour grading, and legal matters.Table of ContentsPART I. Development and Pre-Production 1. Media Development 2. The Producers 3. Script Breakdown and Scheduling 4. The Budget 5. The Production Team and Staff 6. The Production Office PART II. Production 7. The Director’s Team and 2nd Unit 8. Casting, Actors, Extras, and Stunt People 9. The Art Department 10. The Camera Department 11. Grip and Electric 12. The Sound Department 13. Visual Effects and Special Effects 14. The Wardrobe Department 15. Makeup and Hair 16. Locations 17. The Transportation Department PART III. Post-Production and Beyond 18. Post-Production 19. Music 20. Safety on Set 21. Legal Issues 22. Marketing and Distribution

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Book SynopsisMany writers dream of having their work published by a respected publishing house, but don't always understand publishing contract terms what they mean for the contracting parties and how they inform book-publishing practice. In turn, publishers struggle to satisfy authors' creative expectations against the industry's commercial demands. This book challenges our perceptions of these authorpublisher power imbalances by recasting the publishing contract as a cultural artefact capable of adapting to the industry's changing landscape. Based on a three-year study of publishing negotiations, Katherine Day reveals how relational contract theory provides possibilities for future negotiations in what she describes as a post negotiation space'.Drawing on the disciplines of cultural studies, law, publishing studies and cultural sociology, this book reveals a unique perspective from publishing professionals and authors within the post negotiation space, presenting the editor as a fundamTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. A Contextual Discovery of Publishing Agreements 3. Viewing the Artefact: an overview of publishing boilerplates 4. Assessing the Field: what the survey says 5. The Contract in Motion: an in-depth exploration 6. The Post Negotiation Space

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the therapeutic potential and efficacy of audiovisual languages, deepening the integration of film studies into neuropsychiatry and strategic psychotherapy.Within a theoretical framework including documentary studies, self-representational and amateur theories, and strategic psychotherapy, the book describes the key notions and methodologies for using audiovisual language in clinical therapy practice and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) interventions. The book, a review and update of the Italian Cinema terapeutico: Linguaggi audiovisivi e percorsi clinici, showcases the healing potential of creative participatory processes and self-representations that occur thanks to the relocation and amateurization of the contemporary cinematic experience. The authors propose an experimental therapeutic protocol, Video-Pharmakon, which aims to serve as a new integrated method for taking care of children and adolescents with ASD and their families. The protocolTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Self-Representational Grounds for Therapeutic Dispositive Chapter 2. The Therapeutic Set: Methodological Integrations Chapter 3. Audiovisual Therapeutic Approaches: Taxonomy and Classification Chapter 4 Art-Based Therapy in the Digital Age: A New Form of Participation Chapter 5. Strategic Psychotherapy and Audiovisual Language Chapter 6. Therapeutic Autism Narratives: An Integrated Approach Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema was an exceptionally diverse and vibrant film scene. It highlights how, although the V-Cinema industry declined from around 1995, the explosion in quantity and variety of such movies established and cemented many specific genres of Japanese film. Importantly the book argues that film scholars who have long looked down on video as a substandard medium without scholarly interest have been wrong to do so, and that V-Cinema challenges accepted notions of cultural value, providing insight into the formation of cinematic canons and inviting us to rethink what is meant by Japanese cinema.Table of Contents1. Scholars, Canons, and Videotape: Unboxing Japanese Cinema2. Parallel Canons: Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the World, 1951-20003. Video Revolutions: Models of Video Distribution in the U.S.A. and Japan4. V-Cinema: A Domestic Model in Transnational Context5. Accidental Auteurs: The Director in V-Cinema6. Slaughterhouse V

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Book SynopsisThis book uses film/video-based therapy to help build resilience in facing personal, communal, national, and global trauma triggers. Offering a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma, this volume advocates positive social change using therapeutic techniques in filmmaking as well as film/video-based therapy, in conjunction with expressive art therapies such as drama, dance, music, painting, drawing, and more. Chapter authors address issues in one's home, community, country, and the world using integrative medicine and advocacy using film/video-based therapy and digital storytelling. The book highlights psychological trauma and how one can cope with the overwhelming triggers in today's world. It represents an articulate and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which traumatic human experience impacts, and is modified by, film and video media.  Representing a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma through the lens of a camera, the authors document imporTable of ContentsForeword by Albert "Skip" RizzoPart I: Introduction1. Film/Video-Based TherapyTM and Virtual RealityJoshua L. CohenPart II: Trauma in the Home, City, State/Province2. “No Longer Under Water”: The Role of Metaphors in Trauma Re-StoryingValentina Stoycheva3. The Application of Neurocinematics within Trauma Therapies and Integrative PracticesBronwyn Robertson4. Creating Videogames for PsychotherapyChristopher R. Harz5. My Journey through Breast CancerPenelope P. OrrPart III: Trauma in the United States6. Process Language and Its Impact: Making a Digital Cancer Narrative with Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients and SurvivorsLila Pereira, Kimberly Marynowski and Katie Dicola7. Creating Impact through Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy using Videos and Films: The Efficacy of Purposeful PerformanceBrooke Campbell8. The Wolfpack: Film as Therapy for the SoulJoanna N. Dovalis9. Video Storytelling: The Influence of Video and How It Can HealNancy Mramor KajuthPart IV: Trauma in the World10. Chuppah (The Wedding Canopy): The Holocaust and TraumaSascha Schneider11. Video Movie Therapy (VMT) PsychotherapyGaetano Giordano12. Directing with the “Gaze”: Video Art Therapy as Viewed from Gestalt Therapy, Psychoanalysis, and HolismRodríguez Pérez, R. N.13. Game Girls: Documentary Filmmaking and Drama Therapy Create the Potential Space for Self-Expression and HealingMyriam D. Savage and Alina Skrzeszewska14. Producing a Documentary as a Therapeutic Process for Victims of Childhood Sexual AbuseYarden Kerem

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a deep dive into writing for todayâs audiences, against the backdrop of a constantly evolving TV ecosystem.The aim of this 2nd edition is to go beyond an analysis of what makes exceptionally compelling episodic TV series work. It is a master course in the creation of entertainment that does more than meet the standards of modern audiences â it challenges their expectations.The book will help readers discover how to satisfy the satiated viewer, by analyzing the new hybrid genres, trends, and how to make smart initial decisions for a strong, sustainable story. It will also cover the development of iconic characters that foster empathy and entice viewers to bond with characters and generate the sensation that their problems are mutual.Finally, the book will also take a deep dive into creating a lasting, meaningful career in the TV marketplace, by overcoming trips, traps and tropes, the pros and cons of IP, the use of pitch documents, pitch decks, an

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Book SynopsisThe metaverse seems to be on everybody's lips and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why it is important. This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by law and media and communications studies. Going beyond the optimism emanating from technology companies and venture capitalists, the authors critically evaluate the antecedents and the building blocks of the metaverse, the design and regulatory challenges that need to be solved, and commercial opportunities that are yet to be fully realised. While the metaverse is poised to open new possibilities and perspectives, it will also be a dangerous place one ripe with threats ranging from disinformation to intellectual property theft to sexual harassment. Hence, the book offers a useful guide to the legal and political governance issues ahead while also contextualising them within the broader domain of governance and regulation of digital technologies.Table of Contents1 Introduction Bibliography 2 Why Now?: From Mediatisation to Virtualisation 2.1 Mediatisation and the Immersed Individual 2.2 Platformisation, Datafication, and the Technology–Experience Nexus Bibliography 3 Understanding the Metaverse: Beyond the Hype 3.1 Building the Metaverse: Key Opportunities and Challenges 3.2 Experiencing the Metaverse: Enhancements and Limitations Bibliography 4 Doing Things: From Work to Sex 4.1 The Economic Side of the Metaverse4.2 Acting and Feeling in the Metaverse Bibliography 5 Law, Life, and Governance 5.1 Conceptualising Life 5.2 Conceptualising Governance Bibliography 6 Security, Regulation, and Other Challenges 6.1 Old Wine in New Bottles 6.2 New Wine in Old Bottles Bibliography7 Concluding Thoughts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering one of the most comprehensive assessments of alternative media to date, Beyond Mainstream Media examines the rise of alternative media over the last decade, analysing their changing content and editorial strategies, and exploring why many people go beyond the mainstream media for news and information. Considering the differences in agenda between alternative and mainstream media coverage, Cushion sheds light on why right-wing alternative media have become a more prominent part of national media systems than left-wing sites in the Western World. In doing so, he argues that alternative left-wing media should place less emphasis on attacking professional journalism and focus more on converging into the world of mainstream news to promote their politics. This book draws on over 3,500 articles and 17,000 social media posts produced by alternative media, extensive interviews with editors and contributors, and a survey of over 2,700 media users. It develops a compaTrade Review‘Cushion's Beyond Mainstream Media is rigorously researched and masterfully written. Given its international scope and provocative critique, the book promises to become a key text within political communication and journalism studies. I urge my colleagues to read and engage with it.’Professor Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania ‘Cushion’s work is invaluable to understanding how the evolution of alternative news is intrinsically tied to mainstream politics and professional journalism. This book suggests the future of news could look brighter with more commingling of alternative and mainstream approaches.’ Professor Jennifer Rauch, Linfield University, author of Resisting the News: Engaged Audiences, Alternative Media and Popular Critique of Journalism'A fascinating and much needed empirical analysis of the production, content and user engagement of ‘alternative political media’ in the UK that helps us to understand why people trust mainstream media (and politics) less and how alternative news media have evolved in relation to them. Dispelling myths of alternative media and their users as either amateur journalists or political activists Cushion reveals distinctive content with increasingly professionalised processes used by critical news consumers with diverse media diets. Crucial reading for those seeking to understand ‘alternative’ media and politics.' Professor Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths, University of London.'By delving into the mainstreaming of alternative online political media, this book offers a nuanced understanding of their impact on contemporary politics and journalism. Cushion's rigorous empirical research, including content analysis, interviews, and surveys, provides a solid foundation for his arguments. This work challenges the traditional categorization of alternative media and sheds light on the diverse perspectives and ideologies that these platforms now encompass. It is a thought-provoking and thoughtfully executed study that will undoubtedly shape future scholarly discussions in the field'. Frank Esser, University of Zurich SwitzerlandTable of ContentsIntroduction The rise of new left-wing and right-wing alternative mediaStudying alternative media and their wider influenceThe scope of the bookChapter by chapter outlineChapter OneResearching the boundaries of alternative and mainstream mediaConceptualising alternative media: towards a more inclusive understanding?Researching alternative media: Towards an international agendaContent: developing left-right comparative and longitudinal analysis of online and social media outputProduction: from single case studies of activism to comparative analysis of alternative mediaAudiences: identifying alternative media users and understanding their relationship to mainstream mediaConclusion: towards a holistic understanding of alternative mediaChapter Two The evolution and influence of alternative media in national media and political systemsInterpreting the characteristics of new alternative online political mediaUnderstanding the editorial character of UK alternative mediaContinuities and changes in alternative media (2020-2021)Understanding alternative media: reflecting and responding to changes in national media and political systemsChapter ThreeHow alternative online political media use social mediaThe use of social media in alternative and mainstream mediaUK comparative study of Twitter use in right-wing and left-wing sites (2015-2018)How the changing political environment reshapes social media content (2020-2021)Editorial differences, but a mainstreaming of social media use in alternative mediaChapter Four Attacking mainstream media: the role media systems play in shaping how professional journalism is critiqued The portrayal of mainstream media in alternative media: a cross-national perspectiveThe (changing) editorial focus on mainstream media and professional journalismSix ways alternative media de-legitimize mainstream mediaWhy media systems shape alternative media criticism of professional journalismChapter FiveThe professionalisation of alternative political media productionInterpreting the hybridity of alternative media productionProduction processes of alternative mediaOrganizational structuresOrganizational practicesEditorial functionsProfessionalization Beyond activism: The professionalization of alternative media Chapter SixThe influence of mainstream media on alternative media production Interpreting the continuum between mainstream and alternative mediaThe relationship between alternative media and mainstream media production Political journalismEditorial coverage and agendaMedia correctivesThe importance of social mediaDeveloping professional production practices to challenge mainstream media powerChapter Seven Who uses alternative media and why?Identifying and characterising alternative media users To what extent have people heard or accessed alternative media sites?Where and why do people use alternative media?What issues and topics matter to alternative media users?Interpreting the complexity and fluidity of alternative media usersChapter EightThe attitudes of alternative media users towards mainstream mediaThe relationship between mainstream and alternative mediaThe political orientation of alternative media users and their engagement with mainstream mediaAlternative media users’ attitudes to mainstream journalism and journalistsAlternative media users’ attitudes towards BBC News and the BBC generallyBeyond echo chambers and filter bubbles: towards a sceptical media savvy userChapter NineAlternative media and the future of journalismDe-Westernising alternative media studies: understanding differences in cross-national media and political environmentsDe-centring alternative media studies: Why the US’s media and political system is exceptional compared to other Western nationsThe relationship between alternative media use and disaffection with mainstream mediaThe rise of right-wing alternative media and their opposition to mainstream mediaThe future of journalism? The role of alternative left-wing media and their ideological influenceIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three diverse themes of the con artist film: edification, self-awareness, and liberation through con games; the femme fatale as con artist; and romantic love as a plot point. Analyzing movies such as Matchstick Men (2003), House of Games (1987), Body Heat (1981), The Last Seduction (1994), Birthday Girl (2001), and The Game (1997), the book also explores their psychological investigation of the con artist figure, the con artistâs mark, and how the dynamic between these roles implicates us as the audience. It also addresses the con artist film genreâs close association with neo-noir, especially through the femme fatale figure, investigating and updating the rich tradition of noir film. Demonstrating the range and flexibility of this understudied genre, this book will be of inteTable of ContentsIntroduction1, Con Artist’s Comeuppance and Cure: Matchstick Men2. Revenge and Self-Knowledge: House of Games3. The Femme Fatale as Con Artist: Body Heat4. Improvising on the Run: The Last Seduction 5. Con Game as Prelude to Love: Birthday Girl6. The Game of Brotherly Love Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia Highsmith, Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare, classic filmmakers like Hitchcock and contemporary television shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing and Succession.This light is filtered through intricate clinical work whereby Maizels seeks to illustrate and expound on the strength and indefatigability of the Life Instinct. He makes a case for it as the relentless driver of integration and binding in the ever-growing, expansive psyche. He considers both Freud's original equation of the Life Instinct with Eros and a widening interconnecting love of mankind, and Melanie Klein's with gratitude and creative reparation. This book is a multi-layered presentation of the clinical and theoretical work of Neil Maizels as it has evolved and convolved over several deTable of Contents1. Inoculative identification in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train 2.Self-envy, the womb and the nature of goodness – a reappraisal of the death instinct 3. The destructive confounding of intra-uterine and post-uterine feeding as a factor against emotional growth 4. What could be better than nuclear warfare?: An essay on the quest for eirenarchic survival 5. Dreams Grown False: The ‘"cannibalization"’ of alpha function 6. The role of Disidentification in the growth of personality and during the analytic termination phase 7. Working through, or beyond the depressive position? Achievements and defences of a Spiritual position 8. ""I'm Miss Red!"" Reworking a premature weaning in a lonely young girl 9. Loneliness and its amelioration through transformations of the Internal Father 10. Two Vices and a film review i Sometimes a cigar ... on smokers and non-smokers ii The significance of Swearing as a proto-language iii Life and Death of a Planet in Melancholia – a film about depressive cynicism 11 The wrecking and re-pairing of the internal couple: in clinical work and in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Winter's Tale 12 Trees of knowledge in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders 13 Distraction – as both an important manic defense, and yet also as a creative unconscious consolation when facing immense depressive or disintegrative states 14 Narcissus Rejects: Unbearable Beauty and the urge to destroy it, in The Comfort of Strangers 15 Inconclusive Conclusion: The resilient persistence of the life-death instinct through variations in its relationships with the drive to death

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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 MiddTrade Review"This is an important book that fills a gap in the literature about the role of communication in facilitating diasporas’ political participation in their countries of origin, host societies, and global politics. The book provides insightful analysis of the way diaspora communities use media to build transnational connections, based on fresh data collected among diaspora groups in Europe and the USA. The well-rounded analysis in each chapter heightens the book’s relevance and contribution."Noha Mellor, Professor of Media, University of Sharjah, UAE"This book is a must-read for those interested in the relationship between the Middle East, diaspora communities, and media post-2011. Its insightful analysis, drawn from media content analysis and interviews, fills a critical gap in our understanding of these complex relationships. The thought-provoking case studies shed light on media's impact on shaping and strengthening connections between communities, particularly diaspora communities based in Western countries. The comprehensive insights into the utilization of digital media for political action and collective mobilization make this book a valuable and necessary contribution to the discourse on the Middle East and its diaspora communities."Tourya Guaaybess, European University Centre, Université de Lorraine, CREMTable of Contents1. Mobilizing and Mediatizing Middle Eastern Diaspora 2. Diasporic Political Communication among Arabs in Europe: From Online Campaigning to Friendship Networks 3. The Power of the Media in Mobilizing Diaspora Support for Syrian Armenians: The Case of Kessab 4. Beirut from 'October Revolution' of 2019 to the 4th August Explosion in 2020: Transnational Solidarity, Social Media and Affective Communities 5. The Webinar as Tool for Diasporic Political Communication to Counter Mis/disinformation About Syria 6. Arab Social Media News in Sweden: Site of Information or Site of Struggle? 7. Digital Diaspora: The Case of Farkhunda and Afghan Women's Resistance 8. Whom do the Diaspora Members Interact with when there are Elections in the 'Homeland?' 9. Making an Impact: The Role of Media Activism among Bahrainis in London and Denmark 10. Reporting on Syrian Conflict from Exile: Examining Advocacy Strategies in Diaspora Journalists' Online News

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Book SynopsisThe rise of Asia has changed the world, now shaped by greater global connectivity, geopolitics and shifting spheres of influence. Tapping into research and decades of experience in the world's fastest-moving markets, this book makes a compelling case for a new and future-ready approach to communications planning and implementation, which the Asian Century demands. Facing a new operating environment, policymakers and business leaders have to act quickly. This book outlines the necessary adjustments to long-established practices and value propositions in both corporate and government communications and provides a step-by-step plan for strategy development, laid out in a two-pronged approach designed to appeal to a multicultural audience. It is an essential read for global practitioners and students in international relations and mass communications.Trade Review"In just the past quarter-century, Asians have resurrected centuries-old commercial corridors that lay dormant due to colonialism and the Cold War, building the largest economic zone on the planet. Businesses worldwide are therefore focused on selling to Asia, but first need to better understand how to communicate with Asia and how Asians themselves interact with each other. This remarkably useful and timely book that captures Asia's rapidly evolving nexus of innovation and influence will guide them on how to do just that."Dr. Parag Khanna, author of The Future Is Asian"Oliver Stelling is an internationally recognized expert on managing reputations within Asia. This breakthrough book is a must-read for policymakers and business leaders dealing with the rapidly changing Asian marketplace. Grounded in research, CommunicAsian lays out a clear methodology for planning and implementing future-ready communications strategies. Stelling’s depth of experience provides practical guidance for any leader faced with the challenge of succeeding in a more connected world."Scott Meyer, Professor, Strategic Communications, University of Minnesota, Former Chairman, Weber ShandwickTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Decoding the Asian Century: How the Bet on Modernization Paid Off 2. Communication vs. Communications: All That Makes Us Human 3. Purpose and Shared Values: Communications’ Best Engagement Model 4. Whatever We Imagine: From Aspiration to Inspiration 5. Looking for Polaris: How to Tackle the Global Disinformation Crisis 6. Public Diplomacy: Leveraging the Strong Side of Soft Power 7. Human Capital: Winning with New Talent Strategies 8. AI and Big Data: Enrolling Technocracy in Communications 9. Shenzhen Speed and Dubai Spirit: Engineering the Asianization of Communications 10. ACCESS and BEAT: Two Ways to Develop Future-Proof Strategies 11. Epilogue

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Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience through Media and Information Literacy examines the way media and information literacy (MIL) can address disinformation in conjunction with fact-checkers and developers, to benefit from the expertise of these fields in fighting disinformation.The book highlights the underlying stakes that are involved in the fight against disinformation, from producing smart tools to generalizing their use beyond the journalistic profession. It considers the MIL theories and methodologies at work in the digital era, especially from the perspective of digital visual literacy. Offering a comparative study of four European national experiences (France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), the authors also make public policy recommendations to improve the fight against disinformation.This book is of great importance to students, scholars, and educators working on media and information literacy, digital media, journalism, mass communication, misin

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Book SynopsisThe fifth title in the Docalogue series, this book examines Ahmir Questlove Thompson's 2021 documentary, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).The award-winning film draws on archival footage and interviews to examine the legacy of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a showcase of Black music staged weekly throughout the summer of 1969. The film interrogates this event as a piece of forgotten history and prompts critical reflection on why this history was lost while also raising important questions related to archival preservation and cultural memory. Combining five different perspectives, this book acts both as an intensive scholarly treatment and as a pedagogical guide for how to analyze, theorize, and contextualize a documentary. Together, the essays in this book touch upon key topics related to the study of popular music, musical performance, and audiences; the discovery and reuse of archives and archival documents; and Black studies and AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Constituting a Congregation in/through Summer of Soul Jaimie Baron 1. Summer of Soul: The Angel of History Comes to Harlem Catherine Russell 2. The Black Archival Impulse Lauren McLeod Cramer 3. Beyond Black Woodstock: Summer of Soul as Historical Recovery Landon Palmer 4. A Secret History of the Secret History of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival: Summer of Soul, the Staple Singers, and the Rockumentary Genre Anthony Kinik 5. “Music in the Air:” Spirituality and Revival in Summer of Soul Michele Prettyman

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Book SynopsisCase Study Research in the Digital Age is an in-depth exploration of the case study method as applied to social media, algorithms, digital networks, artificial intelligence, and online life. By applying and adapting case study theory to digital phenomena, Case Study Research in the Digital Age argues for a fundamental change to the unit of analysis in case study research: the entity. It uses this change as a jumping off point for an overview of case study work as applied to a variety of digital phenomena, including online discussions, social media communities, and artificial intelligence. Written in an accessible way, this book presents a rigorous theoretical discussion of the very definitions of a case study while providing guidance on case study definitions, research design, data collection, analysis, ethics, and case reporting. Case Study Research in the Digital Age can be used by a wide array of scholars, from novice t

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Book SynopsisThis book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism, and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification.Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies, the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Minecraft, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity, summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds, the elusive nature of freedom and control, and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptivebut through design choices, players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference betTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. It’s All Under Control3. King of the Sandbox 4. Bigger on the Inside 5. You Can Stay Here 6. When Here Becomes There 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to address contemporary experiences of anguish, desire, suffering and alienation.Examining the uncanny in Freud and Lacan, the book explores its emergence through psychoanalysis and aesthetics, as well as its meta-psychological implications. Chapters in this book explore the history and connection between the uncanny and monstrosity in both philosophy and psychoanalysis, following on from the construction of Freud's 'The Uncanny' in 1919, and focusing on these concepts through different perspectives, such as Marxism.Offering new insights and arguments on these fascinating concepts, this book will be of interest to philosophers, psychoanalysts and psychologists, as well as appealing to professionals and students in the worlds of arts, film and history.

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Book SynopsisExamining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, Rock around the Clock (1956), this book explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock ânâ roll music and culture.Providing new avenues of approaching the film, the book looks at how Rock around the Clock has attracted significant scholarly attention, despite its origins as a low-budget production made by master exploitation filmmaker Sam Katzman. It challenges accounts that see the filmâs young people as juvenile delinquents, using instead the label âcultural rebelsâ as a signifier of youthâs ability to resurrect a moribund music industry and rejuvenate a stale youth culture. This book also questions the nature of the label âexploitationâ as applied to the film by examining Columbia Picturesâ role as a resource provider for Katzmanâs film, comparing Rock around the Clock to contemporaneous films with a youth focus that were produced in different industrial contexts and investigating its relationship to adaptation by asking whether the film is an example of a âpostliteraryâ adaptation.Rich on archival research and industrial and textual analysis, Rock around the Clock will interest both film studies and youth cultures scholars.

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Book SynopsisAchieving Global Open Access explores some of the key conditions that are necessary to deliver global Open Access (OA) that is effective and equitable.Often assumed to be a self-evident good, OA has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices. It has been seen as imposing exploitative business and publishing models and as exacerbating exclusionary research evaluation cultures and practices. Pinfield engages with these issues, recognising that the global OA debate is now not just about publishing business models and academic reward structures, but also about what constitutes valid and valuable knowledge, how we know, and who gets to say. The book argues that, for OA to deliver its potential, it first needs to be associated with epistemic openness', a wider and more inclusive understanding of what constitutes valid and valuable knowledge. It also needs to be accompanied by participatory openness', enabling contribu

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Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible style, this textbook introduces undergraduate students to the theoretical and practical aspects of debate and outlines the fundamental skills of analysis and advocacy.Debate teaches students how to solve the problems that we face in everyday and public situations. This book allows readers to face such problems head on by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to analyze a situation, propose solutions, and present debates and arguments in a persuasive manner. Organized into two parts, the book begins by laying the theoretical foundations and offering a step-by-step guide to debate. Students are shown how to compare pros and cons, test evidence and reasoning, and defend and develop their own positions. Each chapter in part two explores key sample constructive, rebuttal, and summary debate speeches and includes exercises and assignments to allow students to actively engage with the material and experience debate in the classroom.Providing students with the tools to become responsible members of a democratic society, Learning to Debate: An Introduction to Analysis and Advocacy is an ideal textbook for undergraduate Argumentation and Debate and Speech Communication courses.Material for instructors, including PowerPoint slides and an instructorâs manual, is available at https://routledge.com/9781032671390.

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Book SynopsisBeat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally been excluded from close analysis by film scholars. Beat Film, Beat Writers also explores the ways Beat authors such as Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Wiliam S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Joanne Kyger, and others became deeply involved with the film communities of New York and California. The book discusses their roles as both actors and participants in the making of these films and demonstrates how many of the same themes that characterized Beat literature surface in cinema. The anxiety over the possibilities of nuclear war, the search for deeper modes of spirituality in the study of Buddhism as well as occ

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This book enables readers to confidently discuss and understand disability as part of the broader societal conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion.The influence of mass media can raise awareness, educate, reduce stigma, facilitate advocacy related to disability and activate attitude and behavior change. Recognizing that disability is a complex, multi-dimensional topic, this book presents case studies, original research, and practical applications related to society and cultural events about disability to highlight prominent issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. While previous work examined disability through activism or historical lenses, this book explores contemporary industry practices and how current conversations are driving trends in the field. Divided into three parts related to Journalism and News Reporting, Strategic Communication, and Health Communication, the book provides readers with the knowledge and skills to create conversation that gives space to disability and facilitates advancement in inclusion.Filling a void in disability literature, this book will be of interest to scholars as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Health Communication, Journalism, Strategic Communication, Media Studies, Disability Studies, Public Health, and Medical Sociology.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last 2,000 years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages. Writers and other artists have turned to it to explore unexpectedly diverse concerns, from classical philosophy, through Christian values, to challenges involving individual psychology and societal well-being.Dawsonâs study of the mythic imagination traces how these concerns unfold in poems, plays, novels, films, paintings, operas, ballets, and sculptures. It charts a history of responses to the experience of loss and longing and the need to grow in self-awareness. And it illustrates how responses to this myth anticipate many of the claims associated with analytical psychology.This book will be of interest to analysts, scholars, and students working with Jungâs ideas, and to all those interested in adaptations of myth an

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Book SynopsisPeering into the unconscious through cinema can give audiences an uncanny feeling about what lives in the beyond, something alien to consciousness. This book creates psychological interpretations of films that lend themselves to the depths, and investigates the personal and cultural appeal of cinema as a powerful art form.The selected films examined in this book circle around the process of individuation, focussing on different aspects of intellectual and emotional life from a Jungian lens. The first group of movies centres on three films, following plotlines that extend beyond the norms of routine drama, delving into alien territory. The second group presents three more films that, by comparison with the first, can be seen as typical dramas that focus on motifs of relationships. In the final chapter, the authors reflect on their own individuation journeys and life experiences that have informed the productive nature of their work together.This book will be of interest

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