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Book SynopsisThis book explores the intersections of education and technology in audiovisual translation, unpacking the evolution of AVT ecosystems and looking ahead to future directions for the role of technology in the translation industry and higher education.The volume begins by outlining a holistic account of audiovisual translation scholarship, which includes work on subtitling and dubbing but which has grown to encompass a wider range of practices in light of new technologies, before looking at the current landscape of translator education, including greater interest in distance education and AVT-centered curriculum design. These foundations set the stage for an examination of technological inroads which have permeated AVT practice, including the rise of cloud-based technologies and their use by major media companies. Bolaños draws parallels between these developments to demonstrate the ways in which new tools can help the ever-evolving needs of both the translation industry and hi

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the how and why of digital reporting, this interactive textbook equips readers with all the skills they need to succeed in today's multimedia reporting landscape.The Journalist's Toolbox is an extension of the JournalistsToolbox.ai website, which provides links to tools, organized by beats and topics, as well as social channels, a newsletter, and more than 95 training videos relevant to journalists. This handbook offers a deep dive into these digital resources, explaining how they can be manipulated to build multimedia stories online and in broadcast. It covers all the basics of data journalism, fact-checking, using social media, editing and ethics, as well as video, photo, and audio production and storytelling. The book considers digital journalism from a global perspective, including examples and interviews with journalists from around the world.Packed full of hands-on exercises and insider tips, The Journalist's Toolbox is an essential compTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsVisual Tour IntroductionChapter 1Reporting, Writing and Editing for the WebChapter 2Searching the Web and Using AI in ResearchChapter 3Fact-Checking and Building TrustChapter 4Social Media and Audience EngagementChapter 5Data JournalismChapter 6Mobile JournalismChapter 7Multimedia: Podcasting | Audio | Photo EditingChapter 8Google Earth | Satellite ImageryChapter 9Artificial Intelligence and the Future of JournalismChapter 10AI | Productivity Tools and ExercisesChapter 11Digital Security | Advanced Exercises Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1991, Sex Crime in the News is a unique examination of the nature of sex crime reporting in the press. Analysing examples from forty years of newspaper coverage, the authors provide a systematic study of this controversial topic. The book reveals the misleading and trivializing nature of sex crime coverage, with serious research reports on rape and discussions on law reform being given short shrift. The authors examine the increasing gap between the reality of sexual abuse and the coverage it receives in the press, and they set their detailed empirical work within a context of broader concerns about the relationship between the media, the individual and the state. Critical though it is of the press, this book will be of special interest to people working in the media, and to legislators involved in debates about the press. It will also be of value to students on course in women's studies, cultural and media studies, and deviancy.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The newspaper studies 3. Seeking out the sex fiend 4. Sex crime in court 5. Sex offenders after conviction 6. Informing the public 7. Changing legal practice 8. Conclusion Notes Name index Subject index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers new, multidisciplinary perspectives on esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sports and leisure industries.Drawing on sociology, philosophy, education, business, economics, and sports science, this book considers the rise of esports, its impact on sports and society more widely, and the direction of travel for esports in the future. Featuring cutting-edge work from researchers in Europe, North America, and Asia, this book explores definitions of esport and virtual sport, and the philosophical basis by which we understand movement and embodiment in the context of digital gaming. It considers the health and well-being needs of esports athletes, across physical, mental, and social dimensions, as well as how nutrition and training relate to performance and injury prevention. This book also considers the economics of the esports industry and how the concept of sportification can be used to describe esports' development, as well as the challenges

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical approaches, this book explores the polysemous nature of dick pics.

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called World Cinema' and, eventually, Global Cinema.'Kenneth W. Harrow explores how, from the time video and then digital technologies were introduced in the 1990s, and then again, when streaming platforms assumed major roles in producing and distributing film between the 2010s and 2020s, African cinema underwent enormous changes. He highlights how the introduction of the continent's first successful commercial cinema, Nollywood, shifted the focus from engagé films, with social or political messages, to entertainment movies, but also auteur cinema. Harrow explores how this transformation liberated African filmmakers and resulted in an incredible, enduring flow of creative, inventive, and thoughtful filmmaking. This book presents a number of those critical films that mark that trajectory, projecting a new sense of African film spaces and Trade ReviewAn account of the shifting temporalities, spatialities, and formalities of African cinema by one of the finest scholars of African cultural productions. Kenneth W. Harrow rigorously redefines the contours of world cinema with a brilliant turn to the worldmaking projects of African films, running the gamut from video production to digital film. The resulting book is smartly historicist, formally innovative, and theoretically intelligent. Harrow has produced a field-shaping book. - Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English, Yale UniversityHarrow’s book – original, eccentric, provocative – establishes African cinema from the long 1990s to the present as a singular, powerful alternative to world cinema. Translating from quantum mechanics to critical theory, Harrow brilliantly reframes key issues raised by postcolonial theory, deconstruction, and apparatus theory. - Carmelo Garritano, Associate Professor of International Affairs and Africana Studies, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: African Cinema in a Global Age Part One: The Long 1990s 1. What the 1980s Brought 2. Kenneth Nnuebe, Living in Bondage (1992) and the Onset of Nollywood 3. Claire, Denis, Chocolat (1988), Auteurism and African Cinema Part Two: The Problematics of Modernity in African Cinema at the Millenium 4. Modernity in the Work of Tunde Kelani: Ti Oluwa Ni Ile (1993) and Thunderbolt: Magun (2001) 5. Modernity, Dominique Loreau, and Les Noms n’habitent nulle part (1994) 6. Two Films of Sotigui Kouyate, a Modern Griot: A. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Sotigui Kouyaté (1995); Rachid Bouchareb, Little Senegal (2000) 7. Framing Modernity, Abroad: Anyaene, Ije (2010) and Andrew Dosunmu, Mother of George, 2013 Part Three: African Cinema in an Age of Globalism Prologue: Time and the End: Cheah’s Normativity and Teleological Time 8. Alain Gomis, Tey (2012): Being Toward Death 9. Two Films about Women Witches: Rugano Nyoni, I Am Not a Witch (2017); Maia Lekow, Christopher King, The Letter (2019) 10. The Resistance of the Old Woman: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019) Conclusion: An Opera of This World (2017), Manthia Diawara: The Encounter with the Other Face-to-Face

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Book SynopsisNow fully revised and updated for its seventh edition, Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry.The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process: commissioning authors, product development, design and production, marketing, and sales. Angus Phillips and Giles Clark offer authoritative and up-to-date coverage of all sectors of the industry from commercial fiction to educational publishing and academic journals. They reveal how publishers continue to adapt to a fast-changing and highly interconnected world, in which printed books have proved resilient alongside ebooks and the growth in audio. The topics explored include AI, social media in marketing, sustainable book production, open access for research, and diversity, equity and inclusion. International case studies from industry experts give perspectives on, for example, comic books, childrenâs picture books, women in Indian publishing and t

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.By offering an account of three milestones in the development of the frontier mythology in its intersection with presidential imagery, the book shows how the image of Donald Trump fits into the line of cowboy presidents, together with Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It also offers insights into the reasons for making Russian president Vladimir Putin a part of Trump's story and a routinely mentioned figure in American presidential politics.Applying the means of philosophical anthropology to this topical issue at the intersection of politics and the media, this volume will appeal to those working and studying in the areas of media studies, political anthropology, American studies, and myth studies. Table of ContentsPreface "The toughest guy in the office" The tough guy theme in politics Masculine politics and the origin of the tough Theodore Roosevelt: the becoming of the frontier and the arrival of the hero Performative frontier: staging the myth The enduring contradiction of myth The land and the man The man and the towners The girl: gendered opposition Ronald Reagan: extension of the frontier and inversion of the hero Myth gains primacy The exhauster of myth Donald Trump: recovered meanings of the frontier and resurgence of the hero Back to the beginning New scapes: cowboy goes metropolitan Myth continued Vladimir Putin: "stolen" meanings of the frontier and a supplementing hero Here comes the villain "Is he one of us?" Concluding thoughts

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been a surge in animated projects that have pushed boundaries, broken taboos, prompted discussions and wowed festival and online audiences alike through compelling storytelling and unmatched artistry.Join Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine and the Intimate Animation podcast as they take you on a tour of the landscape of contemporary animated films that deal with themes of love, intimacy, relationships, anatomy and sexuality â and the incredible artists behind them. Through research and firsthand interviews with trailblazers such as Signe Baumane, Andreas Hykade, Ruth Lingford, Michaela Pavlatova, Bill Plympton and Joanna Quinn, as well as newer voices including Sawako Kabuki, Renata GÄsiorowska, Will Anderson, Sara Gunnarsdottir, Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Levi Stoops, Lori Malepart-Traversy, Anna Ginsburg, Veljko PopoviÄ, Renee Zhan and more, Intimate Animation looks deeply at the role animation has played in presenting elaborate and complex concepts relating to love and sexuality.Exploring the role animation has played in sex education, self-discovery, the body, lust and love, as well as how the medium can be used to visually represent emotions, feelings and concepts not easily described in words nor depicted through live-action filmmaking, Intimate Animation is the ideal book for professional animators, filmmakers, enthusiasts, researchers, academic and students of animation and film studies interested in the themes of love and sexuality.

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Book SynopsisThe Music Producer's Guide to Social Media Content offers essential insights into the role of audio in content creation for social media platforms. It provides advice on succeeding in the music industry through the successful adoption of social media practices, and creating high quality content as a vehicle of career growth.Introducing both industry standard tools, including DAWs, plug-ins and hardware, and an array of advanced techniques â such as consideration of immersive and spatial audio as well as live streaming systems â the book equips readers to create audio for uploaded and streamed media. With a focus on maximising quality, the book explores destinations and distribution with contemporary case studies, whilst focusing on principles that can be transferred to new technologies as they are released. Throughout, readers gain an understanding of the technology behind media creation, methods of using social media platforms to expand career opportunities, and the p

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Book SynopsisPerhaps, male-mindedness seems to have adapted to changing-contemporary circumstances to become more covert and conspiratorial. Sexist suggestionsâthrough objectification and substantiated subordinationâfor instance, may have been explicit in Indian media a decade earlier. But in the contemporary times of online social media and vociferous feminism, such openness of unfairness against women in the media will, more often than not, be met with strife and unpalatable backlash - fearing which blatant prejudice is prudently steered clear of. It is, hence, understandable that patriarchy, to sustain itself as a culture, has adapted to become more benevolent in an increasingly hostile environment. To identify such sly and stealthy sexism embedded in media content, one may need a reconfigured grasp of contemporary feminist issues and an altered nuance for isolation and identification of discriminatory depictions. This book exposes redefined and hidden sexism that predominates the popular visual culture of India - particularly investigating mass and new media representations that are a prime part of and have a domineering effect on the ensemble of popular visual culture - and characterises contemporary feminist movements. It binds a collection of contemporary Indian case studies of sexism and feminism encompassing communication media such as print, cinema, television, Web series and social media. There is a lack of book titles that study media sexism in the present times, and the proposed book aims to explore an unexplored area that is of social and scholarly importance. This book highlights the duality of media platforms: while media is a critical tool associated with fourth-wave feminism, they still remain to be a deterrent to the development of women engendering inherent and age-old patriarchal notions. This book will be an eye-opener to the general readers about benevolent sexism and train them to identify sexism hidden in seemingly pro-women media representations.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book of its kind to examine Schibsted, one of the largest traditional media and newspaper companies in the Nordic region, which is today considered a regional and international digital media pioneer.The book examines the rise and role of Schibsted - an early mover and proactive media company in terms of technology adoption, digitization, and online expansion - in its home region, along with its major international ventures. The book focuses on its position in the Nordic digital media landscape, one of the worldâs most digitally mature media markets and most digitally networked region, which is today influenced by fierce competition from expanding global internet giants and platform infrastructure. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including original interviews with senior Schibsted executives, which allow unprecedented insight into the company, the book also details its digital expansion internationally, and particularly its pioneering role as originator of the worldâs largest online classified advertising company.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of global media and communication studies, particularly those specializing in international communication and media industries in a global context.

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Book SynopsisWritten for the non-specialist media producer, this book offers a practical and engaging guide to basic digital media production using modern equipment and software.As media production tools and software become more pervasive and traditional media jobs scarcer, today's media professionals are now expected to be content creators across multiple forms of media, often working with little more equipment than a smartphone. In this accessible manual, Griffey explains how well-crafted media can help sell products, bolster subscriptions, and influence public opinionand how to go about crafting it in a landscape of high-speed social media consumption. Topics covered include the basics of photography, film, video, and audio production, as well as animation and building websites. Readers will learn not just how to shoot or record content, but also how to edit, compress, and share it, considering the most appropriate file types, equipment, software, and platforms to use for each scenario

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Book SynopsisMedia and Society: An Introduction, offers an interdisciplinary approach to media as means of social connection in everyday life and beyond.Integrating theory and concrete analysis in case studies, exercises, and illustrative examples from around the world, Media and Society: An Introduction delivers a go-to reference work for learning about one of the essential social infrastructures of the twenty-first century. Standing on the shoulders of classic communication models, and covering legacies of research about media institutions, texts, and media users, the chapters include both how-to sections on methods addressing current digital media forms and reflective segments that place TikTok, ChatGPT, and the emerging Internet of Things in the longer history of human communication.As a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on key conceptual, analytical, and normative issues facing students of media and communication today, this book is a practically applicable r

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal.Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by digital media, the author situates the games vis-à-vis a number of current debates, including the posthuman and the ethics of gameplay. The book delivers an object lesson on the value of narrative (and) complexity in digital play and in the interpretive practices it gives rise to.Cross-fertilizing narrative theory, game studies, and nonhuman-oriented philosophy, this book will appeal to students and scholars of game studies, media studies, narratology, and video game ethnography.

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Book SynopsisOffering a critical insight into the production, gatekeeping, and consumption of news in contemporary American society, American Otherness in Journalism lays bare embedded cultural beliefs, via mainstream news media, to ask: who gets to be represented as American, and why?In this book Angie Chuang argues that, ever since the early 20th century, when the idea of âœThe (Racial) Melting Potâ became popularized, the dominant-culture conceptualization of American identity is such that some residents have always been perceived as more American than others. Combining close textual analysis of high-profile case studies with media theories of false balance, stereotypical selection, default Whiteness, and the protest paradigm, Chuang demonstrates how news media practices have created a cultural context that excludes some Americans from fully belonging to American identity. The nine news media case studies in American Otherness in Journalism span the first two decades of this century, bracketed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic. These narratives include news coverage of the undocumented, mostly-Latine, youth pursuing residency through the DREAM Act/DACA, the Barack Obama âœbirtherâ debate, the Charlottesville âœUnite the Rightâ rally, the Atlanta spa shootings, and Breonna Taylorâs killing prior to the 2020 summer of protest. Showing how longstanding multicultural ideals about Americanness and racial equity were exposed, dismantled, and re-examined in the news during this period, this critical study provides a new analytical vocabulary with which to understand vital and difficult issues of Self and Other in our time.An essential read for students, practitioners, and scholars of race reporting in the U.S. context, this book will be of interest to anyone studying or researching issues of diversity in the media.

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Book SynopsisNow in its sixth edition, this leading Media and Entertainment Law textbook continues to combine comprehensive coverage with rigorous analysis of a key area of the law.The sixth edition has been comprehensively updated, reflecting in particular the enormous changes brought about by artificial intelligence, and how it is influencing not only intellectual property law (e.g. music copyright), but also common law development in the UK, EU and USA. Topics covered include the regulation of online harms, and new legislation in the form of The Online Safety Act 2023 and The Media Act 2024. This edition also looks across European borders to US legislation in areas such as copyright, internet regulation, defamation and contempt. Case law features noteworthy examples such as âVardy v Rooney â the Wagatha Christie Trialâ (2021), and other topics covered include tweeting jurors and contempt, and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussexâs legal actions against the tabloid press on phone hacking and invasion of privacy.With a variety of pedagogical features to encourage critical thinking, this unique textbook is essential reading for media and entertainment law courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and an insightful resource for students and reflective practitioners of journalism, public relations and media studies.

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Book SynopsisTaking a critical historical approach, this book examines the convergence of journalism and advertising industries that has led to the blurring of commercial and editorial functions within news organizations.This book considers the rise of brand journalism as it is broadly conceived across multiple genres and media forms, from brand-produced interactive documentaries such as Googleâs âœBeyond the Mapâ to sponsored multimedia features, videos, and podcasts made by news- and non-governmental organizations. Focusing on cases in North America and Europe, Dowling traces the origins of brand journalism and addresses key debates and disruptions brought about by the widespread adoption of the reportorial role by non-profits and corporations. These include journalistic concerns around threats to independence and impartiality and the commodification of reportorial integrity, as well as the reverse perspective in terms of the advertising industryâs adjustment to consumer ad avoidance. This project aims to situate these media products, industrially and culturally, in the context of competition for market share in the digital publishing industry. Ultimately, the study determines how the popularity of branded news content depends on the adaptability of corporate brands in spaces not typically associated with advertising and, in some cases, not yet discovered by competitors.News, Inc. is recommended reading for advanced students and researchers in fields including Digital Journalism, Public Relations, and Marketing Communications.

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Book SynopsisJung and Star Wars is a comprehensive deep dive, analyzing the Star Wars phenomenon from the perspective of analytical psychology as a living mythology in our time.Drawing from Jungian perspectives, as well as the influence of both Joseph Campbell and James Hillman, this book examines the rich characters and history of the saga using concepts developed in the field of analytical psychology. It explores Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012 and the concept of canon, as well as examining the Force and a number of iconic characters, including Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia Organa, and more. By coming to understand the psychological ground of its mythic aspects, we learn to see Star Wars as a grand narrative of the human condition.With Star Wars being ubiquitous in mainstream pop culture, this book will be of interest to both Jungian analysts and scholars, as well as academics in the fields of film studies and popular culture, offering a fresh and lesser-known perspective on depth psychology.

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Book SynopsisAs more Africans get online, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed for their transformative potential. Yet, the fascination for the possibilities of promoting more inclusive forms of development in the information age have obfuscated the reality of the complex negotiations among political and economic actors who are seeking to use technology in their competition for power. Building on over ten years of research in Ethiopia, Iginio Gagliardone investigates the relationship between politics, development, and technological adoption in Africa's second most populous country and its largest recipient of development aid. The emphasis the book places on the 'technopolitics' of ICTs, and on their ability to embody and enact political goals, offers a strong and empirically grounded counter-argument to prevalent approaches to the study of technology and development that can be applied to other cases in Africa and beyond.Trade Review'For anyone interested in the complexities and contradictions of ICT for development in Africa, this book offers a fresh approach to the topic. I recommend this book to researchers engaged in national or comparative research as it offers a strong empirical model for how to conduct this kind of research without losing sight of the larger implications.' Melissa Tully, Information Technologies and International DevelopmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Technopolitics, communication technologies and development; 3. Avoiding politics: international and local discourses on ICTs; 4. A quest for hegemony: the use of ICTs in support of the Ethiopian national project; 5. Ethiopia's developmental and sovereign technopolitical regimes; 6. Resisting alternative technopolitical regimes; 7. ICT for development, human rights and the changing geopolitical order; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisSome of the world''s most lethal terrorist organizations have become media-centric enterprises, while also hijacking a major world religion, holding large swathes of physical territory, and governing their own virtual states. In this concise and penetrating book, Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organizations such as Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram operate and reflects on how terrorism may continue to evolve. Seib argues that twenty-first-century terrorism is enabled by new media and depends on social networks as connective tissue, while interacting simultaneously with religion and socio-economic and political grievances. As Terrorism Evolves prescribes new measures for counterterrorism efforts, underscores the importanceTrade Review'As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance is an ambitious overview of the definitions of terrorism, its chief causes and historical roots, key terrorist groups' goals, methods, media practices, and outcomes, and the recent and future government response options available for handling such threats. Undergraduate or graduate instructors focusing on terrorism will find this book an accessible read that provides important context for the controversies that terrorism raises in twenty-first century.' Carol Winkler, Georgia State University'This is a concise and well-written book from a veteran scholar of journalism and strategic communication, covering the relation of terrorism to daily life, religion, organization, media, and the future. It is a must-read for teachers, students, or anyone else trying to come to grips with what Professor Seib correctly calls a 'new era of terrorism'.' Steven R. Corman, Director, Center for Strategic Communication, Arizona State University'USC journalism professor Philip Seib has done a great service for those who follow media-driven events connected with terrorism. … This book could be a must-read for some international media classes as well undergraduates and graduate students in schools of diplomacy and should be in the possession of all news organizations that cover modern-day terrorism.' Arab Media & SocietyTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The nature of the beast; 2. In God's name; 3. Organizing terrorism; 4. Media weaponry; 5. What lies ahead?; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking.Trade Review"Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage does an admirable job of placing Dracula in conversation with the literary Gothic, supernatural Gothic, and melodramatic drama on offer at Irving's Lyceum Royal Theatre. It also situates the novel in relation to the function of science, literature, and the theatre in "legitimixing brutality" towards women as a means of rehabilitating them." - Victorian Periodicals Review, 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Scene 1. Stoker, Melodrama and the Gothic 2. Irving's Tempters and Stoker's Vanishing Ladies: Supernatural Production, Mesmeric Influence and Magical Illusion 3. Ellen Terry and the 'Bloofer Lady': Femininity and Fallenness 4. Gothic Weddings and Performing Vampires: Geneviève Ward and The Lady of the Shroud 5. The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIntroduction 1. City Websites as a Multimodal Genre 2. E-Governance on the Web: Linguistic Strategies 3. Branding Heritage, Digital Genres, Transmedia Storytelling 4. Expos and the Rhetoric of SustainabilityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. City Websites as a Multimodal Genre 2. E-Governance on the Web: Linguistic Strategies 3. Branding Heritage, Digital Genres, Transmedia Storytelling 4. Expos and the Rhetoric of Sustainability

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services.Table of Contents1. What Do We Mean by ‘Child Online Safety’.- 2. Public Concern and the Policy “Solution”.- 3. Young People and Digital Lives.- 4. Gaming: Violent Content = Violent Children?.- 5. Sexting: “The Teen Epidemic”.- 6. How Big is the Gulf?.- 7. Where next?

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Book SynopsisFrom tracking down information to symbolising human experiences, this book is your guide for telling more effective, empathetic and evidence-based data stories.Trade ReviewThe Data Storytelling Workbook is accessibly written and filled with helpful advice, excellent examples and useful activities. It is a welcome resource for everyone trying to engage – and engage with – data in responsible ways. -Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society, University of Sheffield - - - The Data Storytelling Workbook is A breath of fresh air! The book combines cutting-edge theory, visual ethics, and pragmatic design advice in an entertaining and accessible format. Educators, journalists, mediamakers, advocates and data scientists should have this on hand for guidance in navigating the complex (and urgent) questions surrounding how we use numbers responsibly to move people to action. Catherine D'Ignazio, Director of the Data + Feminism Lab, MIT - - - Anna and Aria have constructedA delightfully contemporary text that translates a complex topic into a truly accessible one. They elegantly weaves together robust theories with nuanced pragmatism, practical tactics and compelling case studies. This is a compelling, wide-ranging workbook that will equip academics, students, and professionals alike with the confidence to fully embrace this in-demand capability. - Andy Kirk, Visualising Data Ltd_______This remarkable book inspires as it teaches us how to tell better stories with data. It’s a book We’ll be turning to it again and again to learn from the range of international projects represented, to get ideas and practical tips we can incorporate and to share with colleagues and students. It’s a book we’ve been missing and we’re so glad it’s here. - Data Justice Lab, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction1. A Narrative Approach to Data Storytelling2. Navigating Data's Unequal Terrain3. Visual Data Storytelling4. Data Storytelling with Maps5. Future-Proof PrinciplesIndex

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Book SynopsisExploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage on emerging key topics, including symbolic power, communicative turbulence, conversational inequality, stereotypes, racism, Nationality and Ethnicity talk and the impact and role of technology in intercultural communication. Including global examples from a range of genres, this book is an indispensable resource for students taking language and intercultural communication modules within applied linguistics, TESOL, education or communication studies courses.Trade Review'This book provides a lucid introduction to the field of intercultural communication which has grown steadily over the past decade. As in the earlier edition, key domains (e.g. classroom, workplace, business, family) are covered with engaging real world case studies and practical exercises. The second edition provides additional and interesting new material and new perspectives, such as the concept of "turbulence" in intercultural communication, as well as updated references, accurately reflecting recent advances in the field.'Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'This revised, expanded and updated edition of Zhu Hua’s popular textbook has become even more attractive in its detailed coverage of key practical and theoretical issues in intercultural communication studies. Varied topics, lively style and useful activities will appeal to students around the world.'Adam Jaworski, The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsPermissionsTranscription ConventionsSeries editors’ introductionNotes on using this bookPart IIntercultural communication in everyday life1 Language Classrooms1.1 Culture and language learning and teaching (Does learning a language mean learning a culture?)1.2 Culture of learning (How many times do I need to practise?)1.3 Multicultural classrooms (Why is she so quiet in the classroom?)1.4 Chapter summary2 The workplace2.1 Meetings (Has anything been decided in the meeting?)2.2 Small talk (Haven’t seen you for ages!)2.3 Humour (I didn’t get that!)2.4 Chapter Summary3 Business3.1 Advertising (Buy it, sell it, love it)3.2 International business negotiation (Why do they talk a lot about nothing really?)3.3 More language and communication matters (Dear Respected Mr Lin, How are you?)3.4 Chapter summary4 Family and Migration4.1 Migrant families (I’m British on paper, but am I English?)4.2 Intercultural couples (Can love speak without words?)4.3 Language choice and learning at home (Good boy! Well done habeebi (my darling))4.4 Chapter summary5 Study abroad and tourism5.1 Study abroad (Does ‘real’ experience help with my language and intercultural learning?)5.2 Tourism (Can I take a picture with you?)5.3 Chapter summaryPart IIDeveloping intercultural communicative competence6 What are culture-specific ways of communication and why?6.1 High versus low context: relationship and networks6.2 High involvement: solidarity and connectedness6.3 Directness or indirectness: face, politeness and rapport6.4 Turn-taking: universals vs. cultural variations6.5 Space: the silent language6.6 Chapter summary7 What causes turbulence in intercultural communication7.1 Communicative turbulence7.2 Symbolic power7.3 Pragmatic mismatch7.4 Clash of styles7.5 Mismatch in schemas and cultural stereotypes7.6 Mismatch in contextualisation and framing7.7 Chapter summary8 What contributes to successful communication?8.1 Accommodating towards your audience8.2 Negotiation as the way of engagement8.3 Interpreting and mediating interaction8.4 Understanding professional and institutional discourse8.5 Chapter summary9 How to develop intercultural communicative competence9.1 ICC in foreign language teaching and learning9.2 A multidisciplinary overview of ICC9.3 Intercultural learning through education and training9.4 Intercultural learning from a language socialisation perspective9.5 Chapter summaryPart IIIUnderstanding intercultural communication critically10 The relation between language, culture and thought: the classical question10.1 The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: language controls or influences thought10.2 Colour terms: language influences, but does not determine perception10.3 ‘The geography of thought’: culture influences thought independent of language10.4 Cultural key words: vocabulary as index of a culture10.5 The language of thought: language as a window into human nature; and thought exists independently of language10.6 The bilingual mind: thinking and speaking in two languages10.7 Thinking back: relevance to intercultural communication11 Theories of culture: a fundamental question11.1 Compositional approach: culture as a collection of things shared by people.11.2 Interpretive approach: culture as semiotic11.3 Action approach: culture as a process11.4 Critical approach: culture as power and ideological struggle11.5 Overview: complexity of culture11.6 Thinking back: from what culture is to what intercultural communication is12 Language, identity and interculturality: a paradigm-shifting question12.1 ‘Where are you from?’12.2 Identity: multiplicity and types12.3 Cultural identity12.4 Interculturality: from being to doing cultural identities 12.5 Thinking back and looking forwardTask commentariesGlossary of key termsReferencesIndex of subjectsIndex of languages, cultures and geographical areas

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Book SynopsisFilm has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film's complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related, and even symbiotic: the traumas we perpetuate in an ecosystem through pollution and unsustainable resource management inevitably return to harm us. Contributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who are traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represent people or social processes which traumatize the environment or its species, and stories that depict the aftermath of ecological catastTable of ContentsIntroduction: Eco-Trauma Cinema Anil Narine 1. Evolution, Extinction and the Eco-trauma Film: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) and A Zed & Two Naughts (1986) Barbara Creed 2. Trauma, Truth, and the Environmental Documentary Charles Musser 3. Great Southern Wounds: The Trauma of Australian Cinema Mark Steven 4. Into the Wilde?: Art, Technologically-Mediated Kinship, and the Lethal Indifference of Nature in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Alf Seegert 5. The Dangers of Bio-security: The Host (2006) and the Geopolitics of Outbreak Hsuan L. Hsu 6. Biting Back: America, Nature and Feminism in Teeth Roland Finger 7. The Spirits of Globalization: Masochistic Ecologies in Fabrice du Welz’s Vinyan Georgiana Banita 8. Love in the Times of Ecocide: Environmental Trauma and Comic Relief in Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E Alexa Weik von Mossner 9. Eavesdropping in The Cove: Interspecies Ethics, Public and Private Space, and Trauma under Water Janet Walker 10. Cooling the Geopolitical to Warm the Ecological: How Human-Induced Warming Phenomena Transformed Modern Horror Christopher Justice 11. Toxic Media: On the Ecological Impact of Cinema Sean Cubitt

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Book SynopsisPostcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each essay tTrade Review"This volume of essays brilliantly creates the groundwork for a truly international discussion. Film and its centrality to the ongoing colonial and postcolonial debates in and between countries across the globe is its focus. The many scholarly and accessible essays here will open readers’ eyes to the truly global reach of film, and to the urgency of creating equitable postcolonial cultures." – Lyn McCredden, Deakin University, Australia"This collection of essays engages with traditional discourses in postcolonial studies in the light of recent developments pertaining to globalization, a post-9/11 security planet, Islamic terrorism, infra-nationalisms, and intense nomadism of populations. It is long awaited." – Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Film Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Part I: New Readings of Twentieth Century Anti-Colonial Resistance Narratives 1. Yesterday’s Mujahiddin: Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) Nicholas Harrison 2. The Sound of Broken Memory: Assia Djebar’s The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1977) Sarah E. Mosher 3. Approximate Others: Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977) Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield 4. Life as an Ocean: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster (1993) Stephen Spence Part II: Millennial Tropes of NeoEmpire 5. Shifting Sands, Imaginary Space, and National Identity: Cédric Klapisch’s Peut-être (1999) Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 6. No Chains on Feet or Mind: Jean-Claude Flamand Barny’s Nèg Maron (2005) Meredith Robinson 7. A Cinema of Conviviality: Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne (2006) Corinn Columpar 8. Déjà vu All Over Again: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007) Cynthia Sugars Part III: New Imaginations of Neo-Postcolonialism 9. Identity and The Politics of Space: Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (2007) Vuslat Demirkoparan 10. Space and Cultural Memory: Te-Shen Wei’s Cape No.7 (2008) Yu-wen Fu 11. The Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 12. The Marginal Interventionist Cinema of Budhan Theatre: Dakxin Bajrange Chhara’s The Lost Water (2008/2010) Henry Schwarz 13. Afterword: History, Empire, Resistance Ella Shohat and Robert Stam

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Book SynopsisPublishing Law is an authoritative and engaging guide to a wide range of legal issues affecting publishing today. Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson present readers with clear and accessible guidance to the complex legal areas specific to the ever evolving world of contemporary publishing, including copyright, moral rights, contracts and licensing, privacy, confidentiality, defamation, infringement and trademarks, with analysis of legal issues relating to sales, advertising, marketing, distribution and competition.This new fifth edition presents updated coverage of the key principles of copyright , as well as new copyright exceptions, licensing and open access. There is also further in-depth coverage of the legal issues around the sale of digital content. Key features of the fifth edition include: updated coverage of EU and UK copyright, including a new chapter on copyright exceptions following the significant changes iTrade ReviewAdrienne Muir, Loughborough University: It is recommended as a core text to buy… Overall, I think the book would be even more useful if it reflected changes in the publishing world… This is currently my favoured book. Other recommendations tend to be on specific topics. The students appreciate having one accessible overview of the issues… I am not aware of a UK focused title that meets the needs outlined. Anna Faherty, Kingston University: I think Publishing Law is an accessible, real-world guide to the key legal issues in publishing. I owned a copy when I was a commissioning editor and now encourage all our students to invest in a copy (not just for the course, but also as a handy reference when then are working in the industry). I’m not aware of another title that has the concise and accessible (yet authoritative) appeal of this book. Beverley Tarquini, Oxford Brookes University: Digital rights – more examples and case studies – in fact a whole new chapter would be good....I am unaware of any direct competition as this book is specifically geared to publishing. Table of ContentsPart I: The law, and original works; 1. Publishing and the law; 2. Copyright I – Key Principles; 3. Copyright II – Copyright Exceptions, Licensing and Open Access; 4. Other rights of authors and publishers; Part II: Commissioning: publishing contracts; 5. Author contracts; 6. Other contracts; Part III: Delivery, editing and obligations on publication; 7. Delivery, editing and obligations on publication; Part IV: Publish and be damned; 8. Defamation and other risks; 9. Confidentiality and privacy; 10. Copyright infringement; 11. Trade marks and passing off; Part V: Sales and supply; 12. Sale of goods, digital content and consumer protection; 13. Advertising and marketing; 14. Distribution and export

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