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Book SynopsisWritten by experienced authors and teachers with examining experience, this book will support you through the A-level course and offers high-quality support you can trust.- Provides comprehensive coverage of all the key theory for A-level- Knowledge, understanding and skills are developed throuhgout the book and presented in a highly accessible way- Includes practical approaches to developing skills- Includes updated exam-style questions across both years, to ensure you are fully prepared for assessment- A dedicated chapter on the Non-Examined Assessment element of the specification provides clear guidance on how you will be assessed- An exam preparation chapter offers advice on how to revise and help you refine your exam technique- A range of features including Activities, Tips, Quick Questions, Key Terms and Links help broaden your understanding and encourage independent learning.This Student Book is designed to be used alongside AQA M

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Book SynopsisIdentity in the Covid-19 Years explores the how the COVID-19 pandemic has been represented in media, communication and culture, and the role these changes have played in renewing how we understand identity, engage in social belonging and relate ethically to each other and the world. This book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on how we perform our identities, engage in social belonging, and communicate with each other. Understanding the onset of the pandemic as a moment experienced as cultural rupture, Cover provides a framework for understanding how selfhood, belonging, relationships and perceptions of time and space have undergone a disruption that not only is damaging to continuity and stability but also provides positive value through renewal and the re-making of the self and ways of living ethically. Drawing on philosophic, media and cultural studies approaches, this book describes how networks of mutual care and global interdependeTrade ReviewHow do we make sense of the individual and global trauma caused by COVID? Cover frames the pandemic by wrestling sense out of the inchoate panic, offering a major, wholistic cultural analysis of the pandemic and its enduring effects. In addressing the structural and discursive truths that the pandemic has exposed, he is also mindful of the personal devastation that COVID has wrought. COVID changed our social ecology, and we need a reckoning. Start here. * Sally Munt, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Politics, University of Sussex, UK *Drawing on philosophic, media, and cultural studies approaches, this book describes how networks of mutual care and global interdependency have been powerfully drawn out by the experience of the pandemic, yet also disavowed in some settings in favor of a problem individualism and sustained inequalities. * Chris Beasley, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide, Australia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Stories of Rupture and Resilience in a Pandemic 1 Media Discourses of Coronavirus: From Health Advisory to Conspiracy 2 Apocalyptic Fictions as a Roadmap for Crisis 3 Disrupted Identity: The Self in a Time of Radical Cultural Change, Anxiety, and Crisis 4 Disrupted Mobility: Lockdowns, Borders, and Movement 5 Disrupted Exposure: Ethics and the Face of the Other in the Time of Masks 6 Disrupted Touch: Hands, Bodies, and Social Distancing 7 Disrupted Corporealities: Vaccination and Anti-vaxxers 8 Disrupted Futurity: Mourning the Self and the Other Conclusion: COVID Futures: Ethical Care in Interdependency References Index

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

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a theological account of the internet from a Catholic perspective. It engages digital culture by providing a context for media and mediation within the Catholic tradition, specifically focusing on the ecclesiology and sacramentality of the church. Katherine G. Schmidt argues that the Catholic imagination is inherently consonant with the idea of the “virtual,” understood as the creative space between presence and absence, bringing the fields of media studies, internet studies, sociology, history, and theology together in order to give a theological account of the social realities of American Catholicism in light of digital culture. Overall, Schmidt argues that the social possibilities of the internet afford the church great opportunity for building a social context that allows the living out of Eucharistic logic learned in properly liturgical moments.Table of ContentsChapter One: Theological Concerns Chapter Two: Ecclesial Perspectives on Media and CommunicationsChapter Three: Incarnation, Virtuality, and the ChurchChapter Four: Virtuality and SacramentalityChapter Five: The Social Dynamics of Life Online Chapter Six: The Suburbanization of American Catholic LifeChapter Seven: Standards of Communion

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Book SynopsisAn introductory media Arabic book for the elementary and low intermediate levelsWith the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels, students of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media Arabic for Beginners is a unique textbook designed to lead elementary and low intermediate level students of MSA to a solid level of proficiency in the language of Arabic media. Through active engagement with authentic texts selected from a wide variety of news sources and websites, learners are familiarized with vocabulary, idioms, lexical items, and collocations, while grammatical concepts are introduced and explained in context. With sixteen texts accompanied by sixteen audio files and supportive PowerPoint presentations, this content-based approach allows students to develop and enhance their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Vocabulary and grammatical points are presented as PowerPoint slides, making for discrete and manageable learning targets.Media Arabic for Beginners is structured around four themes, each devoted to a dominant news topic: Official Visits and Talks; Elections and Referendums; Attacks and Explosions; and Demonstrations and Protests. Each unit is in turn made up of four lessons, each lesson featuring a text from a particular perspective together with pre-reading activities, reading activities, post-reading activities, and a section with particular focus on grammar. The texts progress from very simple to more complex, as students steadily increase their reading fluency. Each unit ends with a thorough review section with various activities, such as comprehension questions, vocabulary translation, and role play.Trade Review"Media Arabic for Beginners is a unique and timely resource for learners and teachers of Arabic who want to explore the language of Arabic media at the elementary stages of language acquisition. Offering an easy-to-follow format, clear structure, and texts that are relevant, current, and interesting, it engages learners and gives them a real world context for their learning." —Nevenka Korica Sullivan, co-author of Media Arabic"This book successfully integrates different language learning skills, using authentic texts appropriate to the target level. These are accompanied by excellent listening texts, in addition to presentations that focus on key linguistic and structural phenomena in the language of the media, all in an easy and very clear way."—Saaed Alwakeel, Ain Shams University“This is a well-structured, well-thought-out textbook that focuses on media Arabic for beginning learners, and targets all four language skills. The activities are varied and engaging, and focus on vocabulary and grammar, as well as collocations and appropriate usage.”—Nader Morkus, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionUnit 1: Official Visits and TalksUnit 2: ElectionsUnit 3: Military and Terrorist AttacksUnit 4: Demonstrations and Protests

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Book SynopsisOur gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we''re told, it will even make public life - from how we''re governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? By quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are profoundly reshaping society - and risk losing the opacity and imperfection that make us human.Trade ReviewIf you've ever had the niggling feeling, as you spoon down your google, that there's no such thing as a free lunch, Morozov's book will tell you how you might end up paying for it -- Brian EnoA clear voice of reason and critical thinking in the middle of today's neomania -- Nassim Taleb, author of 'The Black Swan'

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change.If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it. - Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard A revelatory study...It''s a breath of fresh air. Publishers'' Weekly Starred ReviewIn an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions. Partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points, and this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo, even as global heating accelerates. Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politicsthe words we, alarmist, cost, growth, India and China, innovation, and resilienceDr. Guenther shows how this consensus is established. Fossil-fuel interests weaponize the discourses of science, economics, and activism, co-opting and twisting climate language to help greenwash their plans for ongoing extraction. But all too often climate scientists, economists, and even advocates will unwittingly echo the false and dangerous assumptions of their supposed political opponents. This apparent agreement between foes, filtered through the news media, not only influences our common-sense yet mistaken views about the climate crisis but also enables powerful decisionmakers to justify the corporate and policy actions that threaten us all. Revealing this dynamic, Guenther shows how to transform it. Ultimately, The Language of Climate Politics is an inspiring call to arms, a book that equips readers with powerful new terms that will enable them to fight more effectively for a livable future.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this deeply-researched, fair-minded and highly readable account, Kurlantzick describes how China's attempt to create its own version of Al Jazeera failed on account of the turgid content it produced in an atmosphere of censorship. * Denis Staunton, Irish Times *Joshua Kurlantzick admits that much of China's international effort fails to attract audiences more accustomed to rigorous and convincing output. But, the author warns, China's leaders have proven to be consistently adaptable. In a world in which democracy appears ever more fragile, while media in liberal democracies suffer the effects of a collapsing business model and interfering proprietors, "telling China's story better" might prove to be worryingly more effective in the future. * Isabel Hilton, Times Literary Supplement *Given that Xi has explicitly stated the need to boost China's "discourse power," it is essential that targeted countries improve their understanding of what China is doing and build resilience within their societies, and Beijing's Global Media Offensive lays out a helpful set of recommendations for doing so...Kurlantzick also encourages democracies to double down on calling more attention to what China is up to, especially in struggling democracies. This book provides an excellent starting point for these efforts. * Kelley E. Currie, Journal of Democracy *ambitious ... The author painstakingly draws on scores of noteworthy studies and his own knowledge of Southeast Asia and beyond to construct a driving narrative. * Vivien Marsh *Foreign information campaigns in and against the United States are nothing new, but China's global effort is unprecedented in scale. This detailed assessment brings the threat into focus and suggests important ways to counteract it. * John Bolton, Former US National Security Advisor (2018-2019) and Former US Ambassador to the United Nations (2005-2006) *A highly illuminating narrative and a remarkable articulation of how China builds sharp power around the world and wield influence especially in developing countries. The book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand China's global information campaign. * Yun Sun, Director of China Program, the Stimson Center *In Beijing's Global Media Offensive, Joshua Kurlantzick has produced a lucid and penetrating investigation into the history, theory, and practice of China's global influence efforts. He shows that behind a veil of 'non-interference' in other nations' internal affairs, Beijing engages in a growing range of open and covert efforts to make friends, influence people, and shape foreign nations in ways supportive of its increasing global ambitions. Kurlantzick knows this terrain well, detailing the challenge posed by China's global media and influence efforts, and what the democratic world can do in response. Essential reading for a dawning era of superpower competition. * Sebastian Strangio, Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat and author of In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century *This is a truly important book. Full of thoughtful insights and copious details, Joshua Kurlantzick has produced the missing link in our understanding of one of the most underappreciated geopolitical phenomena of our time: China's use of media and information tools to present itself to the world in a benign light while undermining the United States and other liberal democracies. Kurlantzick leads the way for an important reconsideration of how political motivations, rather than economic concerns, are now the main driver behind China's international engagement. * Joshua Eisenman, Associate Professor of Politics in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame *Kurlantzick has written a very comprehensive, accessible and timely account of China's efforts to expand its global media influence that will be of interest to anyone seeking a better understanding of China's rise to great power status. * Amitav Acharya, International Affairs *A very comprehensive, accessible and timely account of China's efforts to expand its global media influence that will be of interest to anyone seeking a better understanding of China's rise to great power status. * Amitav Acharya, International Affairs *Joshua Kurlantzick's new book is a timely contribution that arrives at a crucial juncture. * Hangwei Li, Asian Affairs 54.2 *In this deeply-researched, fair-minded and highly readable account, Kurlantzick describes how China's attempt to create its own version of Al Jazeera failed on account of the turgid content it produced in an atmosphere of censorship. * Denis Staunton *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Building a Giant - or a Giant Failure? Chapter 2: A Short Modern History of China's Soft- and Sharp-Power Approaches Chapter 3: The First Charm Offensive Sets the Stage for Today Chapter 4: Motivations for China's Modern Influence Campaign Chapter 5: Opportunities Chapter 6: The Soft-Power Tool Kit: Media and Information Coming Through the Front Door Chapter 7: Xinhua and Content-Sharing Deals: A Success Story Chapter 8: The Sharp-Power Tool Kit: Media and Information Slipping Through the Back Door Chapter 9: Controlling the Pipes Chapter 10: Old Fashioned Influence Chapter 11: China's Mixed Effectiveness Chapter 12: A Path Forward: Pushing Back against China's Information and Influence Activities

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Book SynopsisOfficially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity. Unofficially, we are waging a war on fat people. Anti-fat sentiment is pervasive, and fat people suffer a host of harms as a result: workforce discrimination, inferior medical care, relentless teasing, and internalized shame. A significant proportion of the population endures such harms. Yet, that is not typically regarded as a serious problem. Most of us arenât quite sure: Is it really OK to be fat? This book argues that it is.In Why Itâs OK to Be Fat, Rekha Nath convincingly argues that conventional views of fatness in Western societiesâas a pathology to be fixed or as a moral failingâare ill-conceived. Combining careful empirical investigation with rigorous moral argumentation, this book debunks popular narratives about weight, health, and lifestyle choices that underlie the dominant cultural aversion to fatness. It argues that we should view fatness through the lens of social equality, examining the wide-ranging ways that fat individuals fail to be treated as equals. According to Nath, it is high time that we recognize sizeismâthe systematic ways that our society penalizes fat individuals for their sizeâas a serious structural injustice, akin to racism, sexism, and homophobia.For additional online material from the author, related to this book, please see rekhanath.net

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Book SynopsisWhy is the moving image so important in our lives? What is the link between the psychology of Jung, Freud and films? How do film and psychology address the problems of modernity? Visible Mind is a book about why film is so important to contemporary life, how film affects us psychologically as individuals, and how it affects us culturally as collective social beings. Since its inception, film has been both responsive to historical cultural conditions and reflective of changes in psychological and emotional needs. Arising at the same moment over a century ago, both film and psychoanalysis helped to frame the fragmented experience of modern life in a way that is still with us today. Visible Mind pays attention to the historical context of film for what it can tell us about our inner lives, past and present.Christopher Hauke discusses a range of themes from the perspective of film and analytical psychology, these include: The FaceTable of ContentsPart I: Watching Movies . Introduction; Modernity, fragmentation and film. The Face and Film; The surface and what’s beneath. Film and The Shadow; Film and its gaps - emptiness as shadow to substance. Cinema, Jung and the American psyche; How Europe got to know the mind of America through the movies. Part II: Making Movies. What makes movies work; Unconscious process and the filmmaker’s craft. Based on real events’; Narratives of fact and fiction in film. Changing Your Story. Narrative, time and meaning in the movies. Part III: Projecting movies . Out of the not-knowing, something forms. Unusual Suspects: movies in the therapist’s room. Anima-Animus; Soul-image and individuation.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume assembles an unparalleled roster of media experts and First Amendment luminaries to chart the future of press freedom in America''s changing media landscape. Current and former deans of top US law schools, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former Supreme Court clerks, and renowned scholars of law and communications offer their collective wisdom on safeguarding journalism amidst unprecedented challenges. Their contributions provide an incisive analysis of emerging threats to press freedom, from technological and economic disruptions to eroding public trust, while proposing innovative legal and policy solutions. The volume tackles cutting-edge issues like artificial intelligence in news production and the evolving definition of ''the press'' in the digital age. Blending rigorous scholarship with practical insights, this essential resource equips journalists, press advocates, policymakers, and engaged citizens with expert knowledge to defend press freedom. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisToy Story and the Inner World of the Child offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation. The author takes the reader on a journey through the complex interweaving of the animation industry with inner world processes, beginning with the early history of film. Karen Cross explores digital meditations through an in-depth analysis of the Pixar Studios and the making of the Toy Story franchise. The book shows how the Toy Story functions as an outlet for exploring fears and anxieties relating to new technologies and industrial processes and the value of taking a psycho-cultural approach to recent controversies surrounding the film industry, particularly its cultural and sexual politics. The book is key reading for film and animation scholars as well as those who are interested in applications of psychoanalysis to popular culture and children''s media. Trade Review"Karen Cross' excellent book provides an essential intervention into the currently underexplored intersection between play and animation. Adding to the body of work on the Toy Story franchise, this is indispensable reading for those interested in animation studies, critical theory, play and children’s culture. Cross takes the innovative approach of combining psychoanalytic thought with critical theory resulting in a fascinating exploration of how play shapes our childhoods and ongoing lives, as represented onscreen." - Dr Caroline Ruddell, Reader in Film and Television, Brunel University London"In a long overdue interrogation of the relationship between the ‘Toy Story’ franchise, and the toys, children and psycho-cultural life it embodies, Cross offers an insightful critique that moves play beyond the pleasure principle into the realms of fear, anxiety, and loss. Simultaneously, Cross re-reads digital culture through a lens privileging unconscious phantasy in animation - and its production contexts - offering a complex and challenging analysis that revises the status of play, gender politics and technological progress. This is Woody and Buzz re-thought, rendered less as nostalgic playthings, and more as figures at the centre of the perpetual negotiations of human endeavour and doubt." - Paul Wells, Professor of Animation and Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University, UK Table of ContentsSeries PrefaceCaroline Bainbridge and Candida YatesAcknowledgementsIntroductionCHAPTER ONEAnimation and the inner worldCHAPTER TWO‘Laser envy’ and the myth of technological omnipotenceCHAPTER THREEFear, guilt and defence against lossCHAPTER FOURAdolescent control and preserving toy storiesCHAPTER FIVEFeminine playscapes: transgression of form and control of spaceCHAPTER SIXVoice and inclusion in newly mobilised statesPostscript

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Book SynopsisThe fully updated fourth edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding and shaping globalization. By breaking down the economic, cultural, and political impact of media, and through a rich set of case studies, Jack Lule describes a divided global village, its destiny shaped by strife.

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Book SynopsisIn 1934, a man was walking by a lake in the Scottish Highlands when he saw a long-necked creature swimming in the water. He grabbed his camera and snapped a photo. When the photo landed on the front page of the Daily Mail, it shattered the belief that paranormal creatures were pure fiction. But amid the monster-hunting craze, complex conspiracies soon emerged. The Loch Ness Monster became more than a mysterious sea creatureit became a phenomenon that caused people to question their assumptions and dig for the truth.Meticulously researched through primary sources and in-depth interviews with key figures, Loch Ness Uncovered is the fascinating true story of the conspiracy that sparked intrigue worldwide. Complete with archival images, an engaging narrative, and a guide to media literacy, here is a nonfiction book that will transport young readers to the thrilling world of monster mania.

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Book SynopsisPart 1: Relational Communication.- Chapter 01: Sculpting Gendered Terms.- Chapter 02 Leadership Stories and Leaving Legacies.- Chapter 03 Exploring Empathy and Compassion via Random Acts of Kindness.- Chapter 04 Memorializing Loss: Materializing Memory Through Everyday Objects.- Chapter 05 Identity Performance and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.- Part 2: Media and Communication.- Chapter 06 Digital Persona(e).- Chapter 07 Culture Jamming in the Intercultural Communication Classroom.- Chapter 08 Skepticism and X/Twitter: Meta-Tweeting as Embodied Communication Pedagogy.- Chapter 09 Immersing the Body in Ancient and Modern Media Practices: Using the Cricut and VR to Explore Culture and History.- Chapter 10 Crafting Digital Narratives: Integrating Feminist HCI Principles and Digital Identities in a Semester-Long Transmedia Storytelling Project.- Part 3: Organizational and Small Group Communication.- Chapter 11 Staging Group Dynamics: Teaching Group Roles, Types of Conflict, and Conflict Management Styles through Dialogic Performance.- Chapter 12 Creating Classroom Culture: Artifacts, Values, and Behaviors.- Chapter 13 “Persuade or Pivot?” A Persuasive Take on Would You Rather?.- Chapter 14 Behavioral Narrative Interviews.- Chapter 15 Creating A New Gender Myth: Social Construction, Gender, and Storytelling.- Part 4: Public Address.- Chapter 16 Workshopping “Freedom of Expression” in Speech: Practicing Public Performance Poetically.- Chapter 17 Designing Activist Street Actions for Social Change.- Chapter 18 A Workshop in Embodied Rhetorical Criticism: Visual Culture, Community and Place/Space.- Chapter 19 The Impromptu Construction Wheel.- Chapter 20 Telling Each Other’s Stories as a Co-Creative Activity.- Part 5: Communication and Cultur.- Chapter 21 Whatchu see? — Exploring Mundane Oppositional Gazes and Counter-Narratives in the Classroom.- Chapter 22 Cultural Recipe Book.- Chapter 23 Embodied Pedagogy Fixed and Fluid Rumor: Words Last.- Chapter 24 Everyday Life Performance (ELP) at a Sprint: Reperforming in the Communication Classroom.- Part 6: Creating Embodied Pedagogy.

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Book Synopsis"Can science be funny?" takes a close look at an element of modern science communication that is as innovative as it is promising for the future: comedy!Readers are guided through vividly presented academic theory as well as exciting hands-on and best practice examples from renowned practitioners and cabaret artists:- What do sheep's cheese and car tires have in common?- Can laughter break down walls?- How does "Die Anstalt" work?- How does magic create knowledge?- Is there humor in museums?- When a Dalmatian comes to the cash register- Three steps to humor- Serving suggestion for the Holy Spirit- dictatorship of stupidity- And much more!But it's not all just funny. Comedy can also take away some of the biting sharpness of criticism, making it digestible, even palatable, for the addressees."Can Science Be Funny?" navigates between criticism and cabaret, tackling comedy in various guises from different perspectives.22 contributions show how the results of science, research and technology can be brought to the general public in new ways. In particular, they also demonstrate how humour can be used as a critical and questioning force - valuable for all types of communication and helpful so that they come across more shrewdly in the future.The translation was done with the help of the artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The text has subsequently been revised further by the original editors in order to refine the work stylistically. Trade Review“Can Science be Witty? is one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in many a moon. Its clichéd lack of academic self-awareness, lamentable English and spindly humour mean that the book inadvertently provides a positive answer to the question of its title. Oscar Wilde must be turning in his grave.” (The Bay Magazine, theswanseabay.co.uk, May, 2023)Table of ContentsForeword.- 1 Getting started.- 2 Science slam about sheep's cheese and car tyres.- 3 Laughter tears down walls.- 4 "Die Anstalt" as an example of criticism, satire and humour in science communication.- 5 A love song.- 6 The paradigm disease: An almost incurable scientific epidemic.7 Scientists, magicians and charlatans - How magic creates knowledge.8 Searching for humour in the Deutsches Museum - An exploration.9 From Big Bang to Big Van.10 If a dalmatian comes to the cash desk.11 Derblecken bei acatech - A humorous joke at acatech. 11 Derblecken bei acatech.- 12 Wit and lightness in science - the international perspective.- 13 "You don't understand science anyway!"- 14 Distance, please!- 15 Serving suggestion for the Holy Spirit.- 16 Dictatorship of stupidity.- 17Anecdotes from my physics lessons.- 18 Humour in knowledge transfer - Academic basics with workshop report.- 19 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: An early pioneer of funny science.- 20 Can the Anthropocene be funny? A science comic.- 21 Science cabaret: a script.- 22 Done. Now what?!

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Book SynopsisCrikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls – from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk – and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs. What’s gone wrong with our media? The answer: its owners. From William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk, from the British press barons to colonial upstarts Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch, media proprietors have manipulated the news to accumulate wealth and influence as they meddled with democracy. Eric Beecher knows the news business from bottom to top. He has been a journalist, editor and media proprietor (of Text Media and Crikey), with the rare distinction of having both worked for and been sued (unsuccessfully) by the Murdochs. This book reveals the distorted role of the media moguls of the past two centuries: their techniques, strategies, behind-closed-doors machinations, a

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Book SynopsisPhotographs are an integral part of our daily lives - from snapshots and tabloid newspapers to art photography in galleries and exhibitions. Edwards combines a sense of the historical development of photography with an insightful analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultural context.Table of Contents1. Forgetting Photography ; 2. Documents ; 3. Pictures ; 4. What is a photograph? ; 5. The apparatus and its image ; 6. Fantasy and remembrance ; Afterword: Digital photography ; Further reading

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Book SynopsisForeword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MINDAn invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with anger.The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little fanfare. Together, they triggered a cascading set of dramatic changes to how media, politics, and society itself operates-inadvertently creating an Outrage Machine we cannot ignore.Author, designer, and media researcher Tobias Rose-Stockwell shares the defining shifts caused by these technologies, and how they have ignited a society-wide crisis of trust. Drawing from cutting-edge research and vivid personal anecdotes, Rose-Stockwell illustrates how social media has bound us to an unprecedented system of public performance, training us to react rather than reflect, and attack rather than debate.OUTRAGE MACHINE reveals the triggers and tactics used to exploit our anger, unpacking how these tools hack our deep tribal instincts and psychological vulnerabilities, and how they have become opportunistic platforms for authoritarians and a threat to democratic norms everywhere.But this book is not just about the problem. In a story spanning continents and generations, Rose-Stockwell explores how every new media technology disrupts our ability to make sense of the world, from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to television. OUTRAGE MACHINE situates social media within a historical cycle of confusion, violence, and emerging tolerance. Using clear language and powerful illustrations, this book reveals the magnitude of the challenges we face, while offering realistic solutions and a promising pathway out.Trade ReviewTobias is a master of intuition and metaphor. This is a vivid and unforgettable book -- Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at New York University and bestselling author of THE RIGHTEOUS MINDWith insight and sensitivity, Tobias offers a deep examination of how digital technologies are shaping our perceptions, relationships, and even our sense of personal identity. This book offers a vital perspective that's needed for us to build a more humane future -- Tristan Harris, cofounder of Center for Humane Technology, cohost of Your Undivided Attention podcast, as seen in the Netflix documentary The Social DilemmaA riveting exploration of the double-edged sword of our time: social media. This book provides a road map of how we got here, what's really at stake, and how we can find our way out. An absolutely urgent read -- Ryder Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of THE BULLET JOURNAL METHODBased on solid research, this is a disturbing examination of the destructive impact of social media * Kirkus *

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Book Synopsis''A welcome counterpoint to the technopanic that screen time is causing a mental health crisis'' Bruce Hood''A rare mix of trustworthy science, practical advice, and human stories ... I''m going to recommend it to all the parents I know, and keep it handy for reference next time I see a scary headline about how technology is ruining our lives'' Timandra Harkness''Punctures some of the most pernicious myths about our smartphone and screen-dominated lives, while offering good advice about how to improve the time we spend with screens ... a must-read'' New ScientistMost of us spend a significant part of the day in front of a screen. Our work and social lives play out through our computers, tablets and phones: on email, social media, video conference calls and gaming servers. But what is all this screen time doing to our health, our sleep, and our relationships?Professor Pete Etchells studies the way we use screens, and how the

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Book SynopsisBreaking the News asks timely questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a grisly seventeenth-century murder, COVID-19 public information campaigns, the NSA leak by Edward Snowden and the news media's treatment of celebrities.

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Book SynopsisLucy Brown has made television programmes around the world for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Nickelodeon and Disney. She has TV credits on BAFTA and RTS award winning children's programmes and the acclaimed flagship architecture series, Grand Designs. Lucy is Head of Film and Television and a Principal Lecturer at the University of Greenwich. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and winner of a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in International Engagement. Lyndsay Duthie is an Executive Producer with television credits for ITV, BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and SKY. Her career has included ten years originating and producing hit programmes at ITV, as well as running her own company, Ice Blue Media. Lyndsay is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Principal Lecturer and Course Director for the University of Hertfordshire's Film & TV Programme, and winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Graduate Success.Table of ContentsPART ONE – Standby! CHAPTER 1 - S.T.U.D.I.O Toolkit CHAPTER 2 - The Big Idea CHAPTER 3 – Getting Commissioned CHAPTER 4 – The Studio Environment CHAPTER 5 – Production Management PART TWO – Action! CHAPTER 6 - Talent Shows CHAPTER 7 – Studio Dramas: Soaps and Sitcoms CHAPTER 8 – Game and Quiz Shows CHAPTER 9 – News CHAPTER 10 – Food Shows CHAPTER 11 – Children’s TV CHAPTER 12 - Talk Shows and Magazine Formats CHAPTER 13 – Reality TV CHAPTER 14 – It’s a Wrap! Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisWhat can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, ‘do’? Creativity and resistance in a hostile world draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world, this volume seeks to understand how creative acts have agitated for social change. The book suggests that creative actions themselves, and acting together creatively, can at the same time offer vital sources of hope.Drawing on a series of case studies, this volume focuses on the past and emergent grassroots arts work that has responded to racisms, the legacies of colonialism or the depredations of capitalist employment across several contexts and locations, including England, Northern Ireland and India. The book makes a timely intervention, foregrounding the value of creativity for those who are commonly marginalised from centres of power, including from the mainstream cultural industries. The authors also critically reflect on the possibilities and limitations of collaborative research within and beyond the academy.Table of ContentsForeword: A history of struggle for now - Benjamin Zephaniah Foreword: On radical transformation – Bidisha Introduction: Creativity and resistance in a hostile world – Sarita Malik, Churnjeet Mahn, Michael Pierse and Ben Rogaly1 Radical openness in a hostile world – Churnjeet Mahn, Sarita Malik, Michael Pierse and Ben Rogaly 2 ‘Lived Theory’: the complexities of radical openness in collaborative research - Daisy Hasan-Bounds, Sarita Malik and Jasber Singh3 Creative anti-racisms: screen and digital labour as resistancePhotini Vrikki, Sarita Malik and Aditi Jaganathan 4 Workers: creative resistance to racial capitalism within and beyond the workplace - Agnieszka Coutinho, Jay Gearing and Ben Rogaly5 Creatively connecting civil rights: co-creation, theatre and collaboration for social transformation in Belfast – Michael Pierse, Martin Lynch and Fionntán Hargey6 Re-curating a literary utopia: creative resistance in Preet Nagar - Churnjeet Mahn, Anne Murphy, Raghavendra Rao KV, Poonam Singh, Ratika Singh and Samia Singh Conclusion - Michael Pierse, Churnjeet Mahn, Sarita Malik and Ben RogalyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation. It maps the full scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities while also assessing the impact of new technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organizations, and strategies. Combining a critical assessment of media systems with a thematic approach, it can serve as a resource for scholars or as a textbook, as well as a source of good practices for steering media policy, international communication, and the media landscape across Europe.Table of ContentsWhy Study Media Policy and Regulation? Hannu Neiminen Is Content Still King? Trends and Challenges in the Production and Distribution of Television Content in Europe Tim Raats, Jeanette Steamers and Karen Donders Media Economics and Transformation in a Digital Europe Tom Evens Media Governance: More than a Buzzword Werner A. Meier Subsidies: Fuel for Media Josef Trappel Public Service Media in Western Europe Today: Ten Countries Compared Hilde van den Bulck, Leen d'Haenens and Tim Raats The Europeanization of the European Media: The Incremental Cultivation of the EU Media Policy Stylianos Papathanassopoulos The Council of Europe: Ensuring the Freedom and Independence of Europe's Media Tarlach McGonagle Europe's Internet Policies: The Challenge of Maintaining an Open Internet Christian Möller and Tarlach McGonagle Media and Democracy: A Couple Walking Hand in Hand? Josef Trappel and Hannu Nieminen Media Diversity and Pluriformity: Hybrid 'Regimes' across Europe Leen d'Haenens, Elke Ichau, Hanne Vadenberghe and Pascal Verhoest Testing the Boundaries: Evolving Norms and Troubling Trends for Journalism Auské Balčytiene, Karin Raeymackers and Elena Vartanova

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist ideologies that have tainted photography since its inception in 1839. Decolonising the Camera trains Mark Sealy’s sharp critical eye on the racial politics at work within photography, in the context of heated discussions around race and representation, the legacies of colonialism, and the importance of decolonising the university. Sealy analyses a series of images within and against the violent political reality of Western imperialism, and aims to extract new meanings and develop new ways of seeing that bring the Other into focus. The book demonstrates that if we do not recognise the historical and political conjunctures of racial politics at work within photography, and their effects on those that have been culturally erased, made invisible or less than human by such images, then we remain hemmed within established orthodoxies of colonial thought concerning the racialised body, the subaltern and the politics of human recognition. With detailed analyses of photographs – included in an insert – by Alice Seeley Harris, Joy Gregory, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and others, and spanning more than 100 years of photographic history, Decolonising the Camera contains vital visual and written material for readers interested in photography, race, human rights and the effects of colonial violence.Table of Contents1. The Congo Atrocities, A Lecture to Accompany a Series of Sixty Photographic Slides for the Optical Lantern 2. Race, Denial and Imaging Atrocity 3. Violence of the Image 4. Decolonial Frames 5. Wayne Miller – 'Black Metropolis' 6. Rights and Recognition Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHateful thoughts and words can lead to harmful actions like the March 2019 terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In free, open and democratic societies, governments cannot justifiably regulate what citizens think, feel, believe or value, but do have a duty to protect citizens from harmful communication that incites discrimination, active hostility and violence.Written by a public policy advisor for fellow practitioners in politics and public life, this book discusses significant practical and moral challenges regarding internet governance and freedom of speech, particularly when responding to content that is legal but harmful. Policy makers and professionals working for governmental institutions need to strike a fair balance between protecting from harm and preserving the right to freedom of expression. And because merely passing laws does not solve complex social problems, governments need to invest, not just regulate. Governments, big tech and the private sector, civil society, individual citizens and the fourth estate all have roles to play, and counter-speech is everyone’s responsibility.This book tackles hard questions about internet governance, hate speech, cancel culture and the loss of civility, and illustrates principled pragmatism applied to perplexing policy problems. Furthermore, it presents counter-speech strategies as alternatives and complements to censorship and criminalisation.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: After Christchurch.- Part I. Regulating Harmful Digital Communication.- Chapter 2. Challenges in Regulating Online Content.- Chapter 3. The Business Models of Big Tech.- Chapter 4. Deplatforming and Democratic Legitimacy.- Part II. Hate, Harm and the Limits of Censorship.- Chapter 5. Regulating “Hate Speech”.- Chapter 6. Free Speech and its Limits.- Chapter 7. Hate, Harm and the Liberal State.- Chapter 8. Striking a Fair Balance When Regulating Free Speech.- Chapter 9. Counter-speech is Everyone’s Responsibility.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Cleaning Up After the Party

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Book SynopsisTo date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities. The present study fills this gap by developing a unified theoretical foundation that can be used to capture empirical construction processes. Moreover, it contributes to the domain of group communication research. It creates a basic theoretical riverbed that provides a conceptual foundation for the conception of inter- and intra-group communication, which does not take its starting point from 'objective' categories, but from de facto socialization processes. In addition, the architecture of an innovative social theory is presented using the example of the construction of group identity, which satisfies the demands of epistemological interests in communication studies and possibly also in other disciplines.Table of ContentsCommunication and observation.- Group and identity.- Environments of identity construction.- Construction processes.

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Book SynopsisA book depicting the intimate complicity between attention and identity. . . You are what you pay attention to.Simone Weil famously stated: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. But what, in fact, counts as attention? Especially in our discombobulated age?Seeking Attention contributes to the burgeoning discussion around attention studies, in a novel format - one that seeks to be as accessible as it is thought-provoking. The book presents a series of short portraits of different archetypal figures - the detective, the fan, the shrink, the parent, the lover, and others - with a focus on the specific ways in which they pay attention (to themselves, to others, to the world, and so forth). Using this frame allows the reader to reconsider the ways in which they themselves have likely been taking their own attention for granted. The figures featured in the book share certain traits, but also exhibit their own idiosyncratic relationship to the situations and contexts in which they find themselves. In this sense, the book is a somewhat mischievous phenomenology. Each type represents a different relationship to attention, and thus reframes its many failures, compromises, blind-spots, and discontents. (As well as its occasional triumphs.)By paying attention to attention, this book offers a rogue's gallery of customary ways in which we not only navigate the world, but help co-create it. These thirty portraits aim to inspire readers from diverse backgrounds to think more carefully, and in a more textured way, about precisely why it is so difficult these days for us to pay attention in a sustained way. As such, the book offers some models - traditional and emerging - for practicing multi-sensual ways of being truly present: ones that potentially embody the collective will to work effectively against all the insidious avatars of the Industrial-Distraction Complex.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The music industry has changed dramatically in the past two decades. Bruenger . . . has written another very useful book for those seeking a framework for understanding those changes. . . . The underlying theme of the book is that music is not just about making and spending money but also about experiences that can change people's lives." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Inception: Creation, Production, Reception 2. Production: Art, Science, Enterprise 3. Reception: Listeners, Fans, Consumers 4. Commodification: Product, Process, Culture 5. Monetization: Publishing, Performing, Recording 6. Location: Scenes, Venues, Labels 7. Diffusion: Here, There, Everywhere 8. Disruption: Pattern, Deviation, Adaptation 9. Connection: Artists, Audiences, Networks 10. Incorporation: Production, Monetization, Affiliation 11. Aggregation: Consumption, Production, Prediction 12. Simulation: Creation, Production, Consumption Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. IndustrialTrade Review"A welcome addition to the growing literature on the digital economy and change." * Choice *"Stimulating." * Paradigm Explorer *

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Book SynopsisWhen having coffee with your family, you are offered energized water. On Twitter you discuss with vaccination opponents. The WhatsApp kitagroup discusses zodiac signs, the pharmacy sells you globules, the neighbor proselytizes for her guru, and the news is once again about demonstrations by right-wing extremists.Everywhere you encounter conspiracy myths, superstition, esotericism, pseudoscience and Co. and you want to respond to them - while remaining as factual as possible, clarify your position, provide facts, but also not unnecessarily provoke or overload. In addition, you do not want to hurt your counterpart, but to encourage him to rethink. But how do you do that?If you are asking yourself this question, read "Fact and Prejudice". Understand why we are driven by emotions and most information bounces off us. Read experiences and tips from interviews with professional (science) communicators. Then follow different people through their own rethinking processes: What convinces an alternative medicine practitioner to leave non-evidence-based medicine behind? What was the deciding factor for a former vaccination opponent to have her children vaccinated after all? What helps members of appropriative organizations to get out? What moves a celebrated medium to break away from esotericism?This book is for anyone who worries about or doesn't know how to communicate with people who have irrational worldviews - whether it's with family, friends, anonymously on the Internet, or at work. The authors give concrete tips on discussions and situations and also help to decide when it is important to engage and when it is better to withdraw.Table of ContentsPart I: Basics.- Introduction.- Why do they believe that? And why do we perhaps believe something equally nonsensical?- Re-thinking processes.- Basic strategies.- With whom does one discuss and for what?- Part II: Typical discussion situations.- On the Internet many things work quite differently.- Discussions in the family.- Children and young people.- Corporate environment and further education.- Health and social system. Part III: Practical tips.- Phrases you hear over and over again.- Practical tips.

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches to the field, explaining why media messages matter, how media businesses prosper and why media is integral to defining contemporary life.The text is divided into three parts â Media texts and meanings; Producing media; and Media and social contexts â exploring the ways in which various media forms make meaning; are produced and regulated; and how society, culture and history are defined by such forms. Encouraging students to actively engage in media research and analysis, each chapter seeks to guide readers through key questions and ideas in order to empower them to develop their own scholarship, expertise and investigations of the media worlds in which we live. Fully updated to reflect the contemporary media environment, the third edition includes new case studies covering topics such as Brexit, podcasts, Love Island, Captain Marvel, Black Lives MatTrade ReviewIn our deeply mediatised societies, Media Studies has never been more vital or more complex. The authors provide us with an updated, detailed, and decolonised, road-map to lead us through the fast-paced terrain of media change whilst also giving us the tools to respond with finely tuned critical analyses. Read this text to really get a grip of Media Studies as an evolving and exciting field of inquiry and practice.Helen Wood, Lancaster University, UKThis is a great textbook. The breadth and range of chapters is incredibly impressive, proceeding accessibly and logically through the debates, with helpful and interesting contextual and biographical information about the key thinkers which bring their lives into relief for students. The book continues to serve as an extremely valuable teaching resource.Lisa Taylor, Leeds Beckett University, UKThis new, expanded, and enhanced edition of Media Studies is designed to give its readers the conceptual tools and encouragement to create their own vibrant practice of media analysis. Through its focus on the complex ways in which media makes meaning, its detailed attention to theoretical approaches to media studies, and its exploration of a wonderfully wide range of themes and topics, it is a volume from which instructors will learn as much as their students. Highly recommended. Imre Szeman, University of Waterloo, CanadaMedia Studies is a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on media studies for Anglophone readers. With intriguing examples and cases as well as clear explanations of key terms and theories, the authors expertly guide readers through getting involved in media text, production, consumption, and media in context. The best virtue of this book is how it makes the study of media ‘come alive’ by encouraging readers to try out research strategies for themselves, e.g., thinking aloud, posing questions, conducting your own analyses and even developing your own theories.Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South KoreaWith a fine critical eye, this new edition of Media Studies by Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Schem Rogerson Bader, Shana MacDonald and Tim Wall produces the sharpest analysis, and clearest explanations of this growing field of study. Their book will inspire and enable many researchers and practitioners to determine a more subtle understanding of how our interactions with media forms and industries are shaping the world. This new edition is as rich and dynamic as the media the authors invoke. Toija Cinque, Deakin University, AustraliaMedia Studies is aimed at inspiring students to become curious about something that is ubiquitous in their life. Building on a rich set of case studies, the authors show the breadth and depth of what we can call the field of media studies. By drawing on examples that may be considered at the periphery of the field as well as canonical work, itguides students to find their own scholarly path rather than suggesting there is only one right way of doing media studies.Tamara Witschge, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the NetherlandsNow in its third edition and thoroughly updated, Media Studies covers a far-reaching range of theoretical foundations and key debates. The chapter summaries, thought-provoking activities, further reading suggestions, historic and contemporary case studies, comprehensive glossary and accessible writing style make this an invaluable text for students and lecturers alike.Michael Bailey, University of Essex, UK'In our deeply mediatised societies, Media Studies has never been more vital or more complex. The authors provide us with an updated, detailed, and decolonised, road-map to lead us through the fast-paced terrain of media change whilst also giving us the tools to respond with finely tuned critical analyses. Read this text to really get a grip of Media Studies as an evolving and exciting field of inquiry and practice.'Helen Wood, Lancaster University, UK'This is a great textbook. The breadth and range of chapters is incredibly impressive, proceeding accessibly and logically through the debates, with helpful and interesting contextual and biographical information about the key thinkers which bring their lives into relief for students. The book continues to serve as an extremely valuable teaching resource.'Lisa Taylor, Leeds Beckett University, UK'This new, expanded, and enhanced edition of Media Studies is designed to give its readers the conceptual tools and encouragement to create their own vibrant practice of media analysis. Through its focus on the complex ways in which media makes meaning, its detailed attention to theoretical approaches to media studies, and its exploration of a wonderfully wide range of themes and topics, it is a volume from which instructors will learn as much as their students. Highly recommended.' Imre Szeman, University of Waterloo, Canada'Media Studies is a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on media studies for Anglophone readers. With intriguing examples and cases as well as clear explanations of key terms and theories, the authors expertly guide readers through getting involved in media text, production, consumption, and media in context. The best virtue of this book is how it makes the study of media ‘come alive’ by encouraging readers to try out research strategies for themselves, e.g., thinking aloud, posing questions, conducting your own analyses and even developing your own theories.'Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea'With a fine critical eye, this new edition of Media Studies by Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Schem Rogerson Bader, Shana MacDonald and Tim Wall produces the sharpest analysis, and clearest explanations of this growing field of study. Their book will inspire and enable many researchers and practitioners to determine a more subtle understanding of how our interactions with media forms and industries are shaping the world. This new edition is as rich and dynamic as the media the authors invoke.' Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia'Media Studies is aimed at inspiring students to become curious about something that is ubiquitous in their life. Building on a rich set of case studies, the authors show the breadth and depth of what we can call the field of media studies. By drawing on examples that may be considered at the periphery of the field as well as canonical work, itguides students to find their own scholarly path rather than suggesting there is only one right way of doing media studies.'Tamara Witschge, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands'Now in its third edition and thoroughly updated, Media Studies covers a far-reaching range of theoretical foundations and key debates. The chapter summaries, thought-provoking activities, further reading suggestions, historic and contemporary case studies, comprehensive glossary and accessible writing style make this an invaluable text for students and lecturers alike.'Michael Bailey, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Part One: Media texts and meanings ; Chapter 1 How do media make meaning? ; Chapter 2 Organising meaning in media texts: genre and narrative ; Chapter 3 Media representations ; Chapter 4 Reality media ; Part Two: Producing media ; Chapter 5 The business of media ; Chapter 6 Media regulation and policy ; Chapter 7 Media audiences ; Part Three: Media and social contexts ; Chapter 8 Media power ; Chapter 9 Mass society and media ; Chapter 10 Postmodernism and post-truth ; Chapter 11 The consumer society and advertising ; Chapter 12 Media histories ; Conclusion: Doing your media studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A book that provides valuable context for the latest assaults on democracy. . . . A clear and informative history." * Kirkus Reviews *"A compelling and sober-minded assessment of our situation, and I commend it to you for your consideration." -- L. M. Sacasas * The Convivial Society *"In The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion, Gershberg and Illing suggest that democracy isn’t really about the rules and institutions that usually leap to mind... Fundamentally, they say, democracy is a culture of free and open communication. And that openness makes it vulnerable to subversion from within." * The Boston Globe *"We are living through an information revolution, but we have not adequately understood how this tsunami reshapes democratic politics. Sean Illing and Zac Gershberg do just that in this very interesting and intriguing book." -- Fareed Zakaria, CNN"The Paradox of Democracy is as provocative as it is unpredictable. It carefully and engagingly expands our understanding of how democracy works—and struggles—in a society where free expression is foundational and where media is undergoing revolutionary and rapid change. It will change how you think." -- Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post"The book gives a sweeping overview of the ways that political leaders can utilize communication and rhetoric in order to gain office or power. Overall, it provides an excellent summary of the ways that communication and democracy can coexist or undermine each other." -- Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University"As free speech advocates strain to reconcile the unparalleled access to information and the expression of ideas made possible by the internet with their undeniable potential for political, psychological, and even physical harm, Gershberg and Illing have come to say that these advocates are pushing a Sisyphean boulder up a mountainside... Though the authors insist that democracy is the best system there is, they clearly doubt, in Benjamin Franklin's words, 'we can keep it.' ... Recommended." * Choice *"The authors’ efforts to help us understand the role that media can play in the potential fate of democracy and democracies are useful and remind us of the dangers present in this fraught political moment." * ProjectMUSE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Bias and the Disruption Chapter 2: Mere Rhetoric: From Free Speech to Bread and Circuses Chapter 3: The News-Print Revolution Chapter 4: The Rise of the Public(s): From a Fuller World to Morse’s Macrocosm Chapter 5: This Is Fascism Chapter 6: Playing Checkers: An Uneasy Triumph for Liberal Democracy Chapter 7: The Death of Liberal Democracy: Have We Got Fake(d) News for You Chapter 8: Democracy, If We Can Keep It Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall''s most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance.Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall''s later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci''s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular cTrade Review"Anyone whose work is informed, 'in the last instance,' by Cultural Studies will find much that is helpfully familiar in it as well as new connections, new applications, new ways of '[penetrating] the disorderly surface of things to another level of understanding,' as Hall says, invoking Marx, in the epilogue. This seems especially urgent as the ascendancy of the far Right coincides with the wholesale neoliberalization of the humanities, as Hall predicted in his 'Theoretical Legacies' lecture. It is obviously not a question of 'going back' to Hall for a truer or more 'authentic' form of Cultural Studies than that in practice today. But there is much in his legacy that illuminates the dynamics of the present, and much to put into dialogue with contemporary scholarship and practice. Morley's collection reminds us how important it is for genuine intellectual work to articulate competing and contradictory paradigms together, to work, as Hall did, from the points of contestation and conflict rather than seek solace in abstractions. This, finally, is the 'essential' in the essays assembled here." -- Liane Tanguay * American Book Review *“Along with the other volumes that Duke University Press has published, these two books of collected essays are to be welcomed. They allow us to see a fertile mind in action, engaged in and with the real world. It is a model well worth emulating.” -- Michael W. Apple * Educational Policy *"I have also narrated the effort it took for me to access his work to illustrate the importance of the Selected Writings now being released by Duke University Press. It is an event of profound historical significance that a new generation will be able to begin its political and theoretical education with systematic access to Hall’s writing. . . . The two-volume Essential Essays shows the broad scope of his work." -- Asad Haider * The Point *"It was one of Hall’s unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Hall * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsA Note on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix General Introduction 1 Part I. Prologue: Class, Race, and Ethnicity 1. Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity [1986] 21 Part II. Deconstructing Identities: The Politics of Anti-Essentialism 2. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991] 63 3. What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture? [1995] 83 4. The Multicultural Question [1998] 95 Part III. The Postcolonial and the Diasporic 5. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992] 141 6. The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996] 185 7. Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999] 206 Part IV. Interviews and Reflections 8. Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott [1997] 235 9. At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les Back [2008] 263 Part V. Epilogue: Caribbean and Other Perspectives 10. Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007] 303 Index 325 Place of First Publication 341

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Ángel David Nieves Book Award, given by the American Studies Association The internet origins of the American transgender movement The Two Revolutions explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. Through extensive archival research and media archeology, Avery Dame-Griff reconstructs the manifold digital networks of transgender activists, cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender nonconformity who incited the second revolution of the title: the ascendance of "transgender" as an umbrella identity in the mid-1990s. Dame-Griff argues that digital communications sparked significant momentum within what would become the transgender movement, but also further cemented existing power structures. Covering both a historical period that is largely neglected within the history of computing, and the poorly understood role of technology in queer and trans social movements, The Two Revolutions offers a new understanding of both revolutionsthe internet's early development and the structures of communication that would take us to today's tipping point of trans visibility politics. Through a history of how trans people online exploited different digital infrastructures in the early days of the internet to build a community, The Two Revolutions tells a crucial part of trans history itself.Trade ReviewThe book I’ve been waiting for! Through nuanced archival research, Avery Dame-Griff reveals how the internet helped create what is now known as the transgender community. In this book, we see how cross-dressers and transsexuals (and later trans youth) used shifting digital tools, from bulletin boards to social media tags, to share information, create and contest new identity terms, and find connection. The Two Revolutions promises to revolutionize trans and internet studies. -- Laura Horak, director of the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton UniversityA critically necessary history. Avery Dame-Griff shows that the development of the internet and the history of transgender life and identity are inextricably bound up in one another. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, The Two Revolutions is a transformative work. -- Jacob Gaboury, author of Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer GraphicsA delightfully readable academic work that tells a story of trans online life since the earliest days of the dial-up modem ... it's as much a straightforward history as it is an experiment in using digital materials to tell recent history. -- Jamie Lauren Keiles * The Baffler *The Two Revolutions is both an academic history of the trans Internet and a political call for contemporary users to demand more of our digital media platforms. Dame-Griff does a fantastic job weaving together these projects. -- Lauren Herold * Autostraddle *A detailed, fascinating, and deeply researched look at trans culture online. -- s.e. smith * YES! Magazine *

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. A First Look at Interpersonal Communication. 2. Interpersonal Communication and Social Media. 3. Communication and Identity: Creating and Presenting the Self. 4. Perception: What You See Is What You Get. 5. Emotions: Feeling, Thinking, and Communicating. 6. Language: Words and Worlds of Relating 7. Nonverbal Communication: Messages Beyond Words. 8. Listening: More Than Meets the Ear. 9. Communication and Relational Dynamics. 10. Communication in Close Relationships. 11. Improving Communication Climates. 12. Managing Interpersonal Conflicts.

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Book SynopsisA 2021 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR' THE INDEPENDENTA mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hearts.' Charly CoxFunny and honest.' Pandora SykesOffers readers of all stripes and ages a great overview of relationships in the digital era'. Matt HaigHave you ever been ghosted?Found yourself stalking your partner's ex for days on Instagram?Spent hours swiping right (or left) to no avail?Yep, us too.Finding love today is overwhelming. Thanks to apps, social media, and even reality TV, the way we date is constantly changing. But how is it possible that, despite having so much technology designed to aid connection, it feels harder to meet someone now than ever before?In Millennial Love, journalist Olivia Petter expertly investigates this question, providing a reassuring and relatable exploration of modern dating.Trade Review’An insightful, honest guide to the vagaries of modern love.’ ELIZABETH DAY AUTHOR OF MAGPIE & HOST OF HOW TO FAIL ‘All’s not fair in love and dating, and Petter is here to remind us that even when we are single, we are not alone. This book is a modern guide for falling in love (and in lust) in the digital era, where the lines of toxic behaviour (consent, ghosting, stalking, etc) are blurred. This love addict thoroughly enjoyed it.’Camille Charriere ‘An important read for anyone dating in the time of dating apps.’ Aja Barber, author of Consumed ‘Millennial Love is easy to read and Petter is an engaging guide to sensitive, personal subjects. The author is also remarkably candid about her own insecurities and mistakes, and brave enough to detail some of her own harrowing experiences. Hopefully, this honest, important book will leave a lot of young readers feeling more reassured and better informed about their own lives.’ THE INDEPENDENT ‘A mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hearts, Petter perfectly dissects why we’re not insane when it comes to love, the realities are their own madness.’ CHARLY COX ‘Funny and honest.’ PANDORA SYKES ‘Olivia Petter is a great journalist and a sharp-eyed chronicler of modern life and offers readers of all stripes and ages a great overview of relationships in the digital era’. MATT HAIG ‘This is a sharp, funny and reassuring memoir-cum-chronicle of the modern dating landscape, charting everything from the trope of “the cool girl” to the tribulations of contraception in a voice that melds journalistic scrutiny with commendable frankness. Petter’s is a world in which Sylvia Plath, Love Island, Pandora Sykes and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days collide with satisfying verve…’ Vanity Fair London ‘Honest, hilarious and heart-breaking’ Mail Plus

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Book SynopsisWhen a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence and power today. Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England''s vanishing working-class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous ''mass'' US-influenced culture. His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading, both as a historical document, and as a commentary on class, poverty and the media.

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