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Book SynopsisLong before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, this title argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. It explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts.Trade Review"Marketing Maximilian is an excellent study of the first ruler to exploit print for verbal and visual propaganda and an appropriately triumphant example of what can be achieved when, allowing the risk of anachronism, modern perspectives are applied to past problems."--Kevin Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement "Silver's book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the political culture of late medieval and early modern Europe."--Joachim Whaley, H-Net Reviews "[I]n its attention to detail and its interpretation of complex iconography, Silver's study of Maximilian and his artistic entourage makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the early stages of the Habsburg imperium."--Lindsay Diggelmann, Parergon "One of the particular virtues of this intellectual biography is the way in which Silver illuminates connections between the intellectual and the spiritual, the visual and the physical worlds... He also makes accessible to English readers much previous research available only in German."--Susan Foister, Print Quarterly "Larry Silver's Marketing Maximilian is an invigorating contribution to the literature on Maximilian I from one of the foremost scholars on this topic. Silver's numerous articles on Maximilian's artistic patronage have formed a foundation for study of this major, yet idiosyncratic figure, and this book provides a comprehensive summation of Silver's decades of study. Yet the book reaches beyond his previous work as well, providing a larger, synthetic framework for understanding Maximilian's ideology and its visual representations as well as offering new information and insights into his various commissions."--Heather Madar, Sixteenth Century Journal "Silver's book makes important contributions to our understanding of Maximilian as a political actor... Silver ... provide[s] the finest study to date on Maximilian's efforts to reformulate political practice. Marketing Maximilian provides more than simply a study of Maximilian; it offers insights into the changing political culture in early modern Europe."--Darin Hayton, Austrian History YearbookTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1: Introduction: Maximilian's Artworlds 1 Chapter 2: Family Ties: Genealogy as Ideology for Emperor Maximilian I 41 Chapter 3: Translation of Empire 77 Chapter 4: Caesar Divus: Leader of Christendom 109 Chapter 5: Shining Armor: Emperor Maximilian, Chivalry, and War 147 Chapter 6: Magnifi cence and Dignity: Princely Pastimes 169 Chapter 7: Conclusions: Dynasty and/or Nation? 215 Notes 237 Bibliography 289 Index 301

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By tracing the history of the Black Panther Party through the evolution of its popular imagery, Jane Rhodes has made a major contribution to scholarship. Her treatment of this controversial organization is well-researched, admirably balanced, singularly insightful, and a pleasure to read."--Clayborne Carson, Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute"No scholar has better documented and explained the Black Panther Party 's continuing hold on the popular imagination than Jane Rhodes. In a moment when black men and women dying at the hands of police is once again in the public eye, and insurgent political confrontation takes form through mediated images and pithy slogans, the republication of Framing the Black Panthers is both timely and relevant."--Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

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Book SynopsisThe alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and trans/queers--vulnerable populations all--to work through the contradictions created by the economic crisis and its freefalling aftermath. Television, film, advertising, and media coverage of the crisis created a distinct kind of story about capitalism and the violence that supports it. Fojas shows how these pop culture moments reshaped social dynamics and people's economic sensibilities and connects the ways pop culture reflected economic devastation. She also examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept off-screen or on the margins even as thTrade Review"Fojas has done it again. With her trademark elegance of prose and sharp cutting cultural critique she slices through those thick layers of capitalist ideology that wrap all variety of popular cultural entertainment. From blue-ice meth to the zombie invasions, Fojas scrapes to the bone just how pop culture speaks to and against very real, everyday material concerns of twenty-first century trans-Pacific borderland denizens. Extraordinary! Exquisite! Edifying!"--Frederick Luis Aldama, author of The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez"The range of this book is astonishing and Fojas does justice to complex theoretical concepts by showing how they help us understand the primary texts while not dumbing down the theory."--David Schmid, author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture"Powerful and inventive, offering a new way to think about zombie media as critiques of debt that are themselves too often unable to think their way of the global orders of racial capitalism against which they so anxiously rage." --American Quarterly"Essential."--PopMatters"Camilla Fojas's Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture is a detailed and timely investigation of some of the most popular media of the past decade in the context of the global economic downturn."--Journal of Asian American Studies"Zombies, Migrants and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture by Camilla Fojas is such as an academic work, bringing together theories and topics from many different disciplines (sociology, economics, cultural studies, philosophy) in a very casual--yet impressively coherent--way." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"An exciting book, quite probably Fojas's most important work to date. It is timely, edgy, well-researched, impassioned. In it, Fojas analyzes journalism, memoirs, literature, photography, art, film, TV, music, economics, history, all in relation to 'popular culture.' . . . She adroitly draws on Greek myths, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Barthes, Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis, Foucault, and others in her contemplation of specific artistic and mass media exemplars."--Christine Holmlund, editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

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Book SynopsisCritiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era

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Book SynopsisExamining the practice of 'political technology', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an aggressive propaganda state which exports its problems globally. Andrew Wilson shows how many other countries have voluntarily adopted or developed similar technologies which now cross-fertilise and influence each other.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Russia: the home of political technology; 2. America: all that is solid melts into money; 3. Trump and after; 4. Globalisation: political technologists abroad; 5. Hungary: everything in the pot; 6. Ukraine: A surprisingly comfortable home for the black arts; 7. The post-Soviet playground; 8. China and India; 9. Does political technology work; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world adapted their routine media pedagogies to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which often led to significant social, economic, and cultural hardships. Combining an innovative mix of traditional chapters, autoethnography, case studies, and dialogue within an intercultural framework, the handbook focuses on the future of media education and provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and affordances of media education as we move forward. Topics range from fighting disinformation, how vulnerable communities coped with disadvantages using media, transforming educational TV or YouTube to reach larger audiences, supporting studentsâ wellbeing through various online strategies, examining early childhood, parents, and media mentoring using digital tools, reflecting on educatorsâ intersectionality on video platforms, youth-produced media to fight injustice, teaching remotely and providing low-tech solutions to address the digital divide, search for solutions collaboratively using social media, and many more. Offering a unique and broad multicultural perspective on how we can learn from the challenges of addressing varied pedagogical issues that have arisen in the context of the pandemic, this handbook will allow researchers, educators, practitioners, institution leaders, and graduate students to explore how media education evolved during 2020 and 2021, and how these experiences can shape the future direction of media education.

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Book SynopsisThe Psychology of Advertising offers a comprehensive overview of theory and research in consumer psychology, exploring how advertising impacts the thoughts, emotions and actions of consumers. It links psychological theories and empirical research findings to real-life industry examples, showing how scientific research can inform marketing practice.This newly updated fourth edition includes a new chapter on social media advertising that considers how brands and social media influencers affects consumer judgement and choice. The book also includes new coverage on the impact of the psychology of advertising on firm performance or consumer behaviour, the application of theory to real-life adverts, and how the psychology of advertising was affected by the covid pandemic. The book offers a comprehensive and state-of-the art overview of psychological theorizing and research on the impact of online and offline advertising and discusses how the traces consumers leave on the Int

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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 HaigIn Millennial Love journalist Olivia Petter explores the questions, quirks and anxieties that consume the contemporary dating landscape.Olivia scrutinises the myths surrounding modern romance and asks why, despite having endless technology designed to aid communication, it's harder to meet someone now than ever before.The book is based on the Independent's chart-topping podcast of the same name and expands on some of the issues discussed on the show, including why contraception is a feminist issue, how dating apps have altered our understanding of attraction, and how ''Love Island'' became the unlikely lens through which the consequences of so many of these things were exposed.Other topics covered include read receipt anxiety, why we need tTrade Review‘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 ‘Olivia Petter archly discusses and deconstructs the trials and tribulations of dating today with the help of former podcast guests including Munroe Bergdorf and Elizabeth Day, to brilliant effect.’ BURO London

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Book SynopsisWell-known for its balanced approach to media industries and professions, Dynamics of Mass Communication offers a lively, thorough, and objective introduction for mass communication majors and non-majors alike. Dynamics of Mass Communication takes a comprehensive and balanced look at the changing world of mass media. Social media, apps' and the new media Goliaths are new and major themes of the 12th edition. Explore how the traditional mass media are dealing with shrinking audiences, evaporating advertising revenue and increased competition from the Internet. The 12th edition brings students up-to-date on the latest developments in the media world including cyber-bullying; new media business models; e-book readers' affects on the traditional print publishing industry; online video sites such as YouTube and hulu.com.; the decoupling of advertising from media content, and much more.Table of ContentsBrief ContentsPart I The Nature and History of Mass Communication Chapter 1 Communication: Mass and Other FormsChapter 2 Perspectives on Mass CommunicationChapter 3 Historical and Cultural ContextPart II Media Chapter 4 The Internet and Social MediaChapter 5 NewspapersChapter 6 MagazinesChapter 7 BooksChapter 8 RadioChapter 9 Sound RecordingChapter 10 Motion PicturesChapter 11 Broadcast TelevisionChapter 12 Cable, Satellite and Internet TelevisionPart III Specific Media ProfessionsChapter 13 News Gathering and ReportingChapter 14 Public RelationsChapter 15 AdvertisingPart IV Regulation of the Mass MediaChapter 16 Formal Controls: Laws, Rules, Regulations.Chapter 17 Ethics and Other Informal ControlsPart V Impact of the Media Chapter 18 Social Effects of Mass CommunicationGlossary Photo Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the perception and representation of Muslims in the Indian media with relation to the rise of global Islamic extremism. It examines how the community is coping with media distortions and stereotyping and tries to provide more nuanced analyses of the issue.Table of ContentsLIST OF TABLE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ATHER FAROUQUI ; I. ENGLISH MEDIA: IMAGE AND DEPICTION ; 1. Muslims and Media Images: Where Things went Wrong Vinod Mehta ; 2. Muslims and the Press: Some Reflections Rajni Kothari ; 3. Muslims and the Indian Press Kuldip Nayar ; 4. Indian Press: The Vernacular and the Mainstream Babel Mrinal Pande ; 5. Contested Representations in Historical Perspective: Images of Islam and Australian Press, 1950-2000 Howard Brasted ; 6. The Print Media and Minority Images Chandan Mitra ; 7. Minority Images in the Indian Print Media Siddharth Varadarajan ; II. TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES ; 8. Muslims and the World Forum K.M.A Munim ; 9. Of Fish and Beef, the New Recipe of the Muslim Identity: A Journey through the Cultural Prism of West Bengal Sabya Sachi ; 10. Issues of Goan Muslims as Seen in the Goan Press Charles J. Borges ; 11. The Ayodhya Controversy in the Czech Press of the 1990s Dagmar Markova ; 12. Indian Muslims and the Free Press Estelle Dryland ; 13. Islam and the West: Ominous Misunderstandings Susan B. Maitra ; III. MUSLIM JOURNALISM: A PHENOMENAL DICHOTOMY ; 14. Urdu Newspapers in India: Waiting for Citizen Kane? Robin Jeffrey ; 15. Urdu Press in India Ather Farouqui ; 16. Muslims and the Press Wahiduddin Khan ; 17. Is Urdu Journalism in India a Lost Battle? Arshad Amanullah ; IV. POPULAR IMAGES AND THE STORY OF STEREOTYPES ; 18. Bollywood Films with Special Reference to Urdu Politics and Muslims Moinuddin Jinabade ; 19. Indian Muslims and Indian Films: Some Observations of Contemporary Indian Art Cinema John W. Hood ; APPENDIX I: MEDIUM IS THE IMAGE VINOD MEHTA ; APPENDIX II: WHO'S THE REAL MUSLIM? ATHER FAROUQUI ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX

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Book SynopsisPublic discourse and everyday life during the last days of YugoslaviaTrade ReviewAnthropologist Živković takes readers a long way toward a long overdue, fair-minded, and full analysis of the Serbian imaginary. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Serbian Dreambook is a must-read for all—graduate students and scholars in social sciences, even political scientists and journalists—interested in European identities, particularly southeastern European identities: how they are created, perpetuated, and sustained. It also contributes to the further understanding of present-day political realities in Serbia. * AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST *[E]ssential for anyone interested in Serbian and Yugoslav history and Balkan studies more generally. * SLAVIC REVIEW *[The author] analyzes the ways in which intellectuals contributed to and directly supported the nationalistic discourse of Milosevic's Serbia, relying on the Kosovo narrative of victimhood and exceptionalism. * WORLD LITERATURE TODAY *Živković proves to be an engaging, but also well-informed, guide to ways in which certain key aspects of Serbian history, geography and culture are not only produced but also endlessly debated and assigned new meanings. Primarily addressed to readers in social and cultural anthropology, the book will also be of use to historians: the theory is sophisticated, but worn relatively lightly, with attempts to engage the lay reader. Quite lengthy endnotes provide necessary context and explanation for the uninitiated, as do a dozen or so suggestive illustrations. * English Historical Review *[A] fascinating addition to Indiana University Press's series on 'New Anthropologies of Europe,' as well as a contribution to the broader academic literature related to the decline of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Unlike most studies of this period, which focus on the larger ethnonationalist, political, and historical processes that divided Yugoslavia under the leadership of Slobodan Milošević, Živković draws attention to the private narratives that Serbian civilians used to make sense of their shifting roles and social realities in the new Serbia. In doing so, Živković reveals a complex matrix of ethnonationalist mythologies that were revised and reinvented by Serbian civilians in their efforts to come to terms with the lived experiences of political upheaval, war, and mass atrocities. 40.1 2013 * ORAL HISTORY REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Belgrade2 Serbia's Position in European Geo-Political Imaginings3 Highlanders and Lowlanders4 Tender-hearted Criminals and the Reverse Pygmalion5 Serbian Jeremiads: Too Much Character, Too Little Kultur6 Glorious Pasts and Imagined Continuities: The Most Ancient People7 Narrative Cycles: From Kosovo to Jadovno8 "The Wish to be a Jew," or the Power of the Jewish Trope9 Garbled Genres: Conspiracy Theories, Everyday Life and the Poetics of Opacity10 Mille vs. Transition: a super informant in the slushy swamp of Serbian politicsConclusion: Chrono-tropes and AwakeningsNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars in shaping the pre-Web social media landscape, Social Media Archeology and Poetics documents social media lineage, beginning in the 1970s with collaborative ARPANET research, Community Memory, PLATO, Minitel, and ARTEX and continuing into the 1980s and beyond with the Electronic Café, Art Com Electronic Network, Arts Wire, The THING, and many more.With first person accounts from pioneers in the field, as well as papers by artists, scholars, and curators, Social Media Archeology and Poetics documents how these platforms were vital components of early social networking and important in the development of new media and electronic literature. It describes platforms

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Book SynopsisHow big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should be required for anyone who wishes to believe that nothing much has changed.” —The Wall Street Journal“Packed with examples, from the nimble-footed who reacted quickly to adapt their businesses, to laggards who lost empires.” —Financial TimesTraditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it had ga

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Book SynopsisContinuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution.An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images.... A useful overview of a critical subject.—New York Times Book ReviewEnhanced? Or faked? Today the very idea of photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital image manipulation and synthesis: photographs can now be altered at will in ways that are virtually undetectable, and photorealistic synthesized images are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual photographs. Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. It describes the technology of the digital image in detail and looks

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Book Synopsis âœa simple yet excellent overview of the multilayered path of audience research, tracing its evolution over the last centuryââ European Journal of Communication*How has the concept of 'the audience' changed over the past 50 years?*How do audiences become producers and not just consumers of media texts?*How are new media affecting the ways in which audiences are researched?The audience has been a central concept in both in media and cultural studies for some considerable time, not least because there seems little point exploring forms of increasingly global communication in terms of their content if the targets of media messages are not also the focus of study. This book ranges across a wide literature, taking both a chronological as well as thematic approach, in order to explore the ways in which the audience, as an analytical concept has changed, as well as examining the relationships which audiences have with texts and the ways in which they Table of ContentsSeries editor's foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Audiences todayAudiences in historical perspectiveAudience commodities and audience activismCause and effect: Theories in flux The audience as citizen: Media, politics and democracyFan audiences: Identity, consumption and interactivity New media, new audience, new research? GlossaryReferencesIndex.

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Book Synopsis âœThis exciting book goes to the heart of a creative commercialand public service culture - it shows why ITV matters and howit was made to work so well. A tremendous contribution.â Professor Jean Seaton, University of WestminsterâœThis is a valuable addition to studies of ITV's history andprogramming...âTom O'Malley, Professor of Media Studies, University of Wales, Aberyswyth, and Co-Editor of Media History. Since breaking the BBCâs monopoly in 1955, ITV has been at thecentre of the British television landscape. To coincide with thefiftieth anniversary of the first ITV broadcast, this accessible bookoffers a range of perspectives on the complex and multifaceted history ofBritainâs first commercial broadcaster.The book explores key tensions and conflicts which have influenced theITV service. Chapters focus on particular institutions, includingLondon Weekend Television and ITN, and programme forms, includingWho Wants to be a Millionaire?, UpsTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Histories From Start-up to Consolidation: Institutions, Regions and Regulation in the History of ITVA Prodigious Act of Memory: What Would an ITV Canon Look Like? And the Rest is History: Lew Grade, the Creation Myth and Television HistoriographyPart 2: Institutions The Transatlantic Adventures of British Television in the 1950s: Funding, Production, Programmes, Formats and the 'Official' History of ITVMammon’s Television? ITV in Wales, 1959-63From Newsreels to a Theatre of News: The Growth and Development of Independent Television NewsLWT in the 1980s: Factual Programmes, Public Service Obligations, Financial IncentivesPart 3: Texts and Intertexts Channeling Celebrity: ITV and the Construction of Television FameRooms Within Rooms: Upstairs Downstairs and the Studio Costume Drama of the 1970sWho Wants to be a Fan of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Television Criticism, “Popular Aesthetics” and the Question of Fan/Academic TastesReal People with Real Problems'?: Public Service Broadcasting, Commercialism and Trisha Conclusion Historical Timeline: The ITV Companies and the Broadcasting ActsIndex

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Book SynopsisNews Culture offers a timely examination of the forms, practices, institutions and audiences of journalism. Having highlighted a range of pressing issues confronting the global news industry today, it proceeds to provide a historical consideration of the rise of 'objective' reporting in newspaper, radio and television news.It explores the way news is produced, its textual conventions, and its negotiation by the reader, listener or viewer as part of everyday life. Stuart Allan also explores topics such as the cultural dynamics of sexism and racism as they shape news coverage, as well as the rise of online news, citizen journalism, war reporting and celebrity-driven infotainment.Building on the success of the bestselling previous editions, this new edition addresses the concerns of the news media age, featuring: An expanded chapter on news, power and the public sphere A chapter-length discussion of war journalism, tracing key factors shaping reportage from the battTable of ContentsSeries Editor's foreword Introduction: The culture of news News, power and the public sphereThe rise of 'objective' newspaper reporting The early days of radio and television news Making news, reporting truths The cultural politics of news discourse News, audiences and everyday life The gendered realities of journalism Racial diversity in the newsWar reportingCitizen journalism in times of crisisGood journalism is popular culture References Index

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Book SynopsisWomen in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This book provides the first in-depth and sustained examination of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philosophical, political and socio-cultural cinematic lens. A historical and theoretical introduction provides the context for thematic chapters exploring topics ranging from female identities, female friendships, women in revolutionary cinema, motherhood and daughterhood, women's bodies, sexuality, and spirituality. Each chapter serves up a theoretical-historical discussion of the chosen theme, followed by two in-depth case studies that provide contextual and transnational readings of the films as well as outlining prodTable of Contents1. Women in African Cinema: Histories and Theories 2. The Multiplicity of Female Identities: Embracing Plurality 3. Female Friendships in Film: Affinities, Affiliations and Activism 4. Women in Revolution and Revolutionary Cinema 5. Daughters and Their Mothers: Between Conflict and Acceptance 6. African Women's Bodies: Journeys into Womanhood 7. (Re)defining Female Sexuality through Film 8. Spiritual Pathways to Emancipation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBuilding on the tradition of social commentators such as Gilbert Seldes, Robert Warshow, and Susan Sontag, Henry Jenkins brings his outstanding insight and compassionate counsel to contemporary cultural phenomena. Here not only media, but affect, matters. A delightful and helpful collection on popular pleasures. -- Janet Staiger,author of Media Reception StudiesOffers a lively, diligently researched, and well-written account of one scholar’s engagement with the emotional punch of media. * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Wow! Part I: The Lively Arts1 Games, the New Lively Art 2 Monstrous Beauty and Mutant Aesthetics: Rethinking Matthew Barney's Relation to the Horror Genre Part II: The Immediate Experience3 Death-Defying Heroes 4 Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama 5 Exploiting Feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island 6 "You Don't Say That in English!": The Scandal of Lupe Velez Part III: Welcome to the Playground7 "Going Bonkers!": Children, Play, and Pee-Wee 8 "Complete Freedom of Movement": Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces 9 "Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty": The Sentimental Value of Lassie Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe collective memories of Nazism that developed in postwar Germany have helped define a new paradigm of memory politics. From Europe to South Africa and from Latin America to Iraq, scholars have studied the German case to learn how to overcome internal division and regain international recognition.InTrade Review“By juxtaposing his insightful readings of historiography with his analyses of mass media, Kansteiner makes even more powerfully clear how little impact historians have had on the public’s understanding of the Nazi past.... He does not tell us how to escape our marginal status; but throughout this important book, he forcefully reminds us of how marginal we are and how little attention we’ve paid to arenas, like television, where many more people learn about the past than in the books we write.” * Modern History *“Kansteiner has made an important contribution to the crowded and growing field of works that explore the way we look at the Federal Republic’s quest to find a way of remembering the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of the twentieth century’s worst, and perhaps least comprehensible, crime.” * H-German *“Unlike other academic literatures that evolve only slowly, the study of working through the Holocaust in Germany has experienced continued change, now well into its third generation. Wulf Kansteiner’s new study provides an outstanding contribution to the literature.” * Holocaust and Genocide Stories *“An enlightening synthesis of the topic.” * Neue Politische Literatur *“Wulf Kansteiner's In Pursuit of German Memory is theoretically sophisticated and a model of empirical research. In a field too widely open to impressionistic essays, it represents an outstanding scholarly contribution.” * author of Nazi Germany and the Jews *“One of the most authoritative and inventive voices on the perpetually important issue of Germany’s relationship to the Nazi past. In Pursuit of German Memory... allows one to take full measure of Kansteiner’s impressive oeuvre and the methodological and thematic threads holding it together.”“This is a tour de force that is going to propel Professor Kansteiner into the front ranks of scholars in the fields of memory and postwar German history. It is empirically rich, cleverly organized, conceptually sophisticated, full of thoughtful and measured judgments and very well written. It pulls together a mass of material in a coherent and enlightening way. Many of the topics and controversies Kansteiner analyzes have been discussed before, but not so thoughtfully, and not within such a wide general and historical framework. We all have much to learn from the efforts of several generations of Germans to suppress, control and exploit the past for a wide mix of political and psychological reasons.” * author of The Tragic Vision of Politics *“Wulf Kansteiner’s In Pursuit of German Memory presents fascinating views on the various ways in which the catastrophic Nazi legacy has been handled in Germany after 1945. Combining originality with broad scope and in depth analysis, this is a major achievement.” * author of Constructing the Past *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Outstanding scholarship that is at once comprehensive, relevant, provocative, and necessary." -- -Steven Wexler California State University, Northridge "Through a dense and layered study which seamlessly connects sustained philosophical readings of Plato, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Jameson, and Negri with a critical analysis of some of the changes resulting from technological innovation and globalization, and incisive interpretations of some of the icons of digital culture, including the iPod, post-cyber/nano-punk and films like The Matrix, Wilkie offers in his book a cutting-edge theorization of digital culture that will instantly establish him as one of the most exciting new voices working in critical and cultural theory today." -- -Peter McLaren University of California, Los Angeles "Touching on the production of knowledge in the digital age, literature, and cinema-and weaving Marx, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, et al. throughout-this book is a clarion call for cultural theory: having promoted digital culture, cultural theory must return to focus on the struggle of labor and how technological development can best serve the interests of all. Highly recommended." -Choice "The Digital Condition advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture and argues that the digital environment has obscured the implications of class difference, changing digital reality and perception. Underlying digital culture are social and historical relations that require class analysis to explain why new realities are determined by global class inequalities. The result is a powerful guide perfect for any college-level computer issues or cultural history holding." -California BookwatchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spirit Technological 2. Global Networks and the Materiality of Immaterial Labor 3. Reading and Writing in the Digital Age 4. The Ideology of the Digital Me Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAs we rely increasingly on digital resources, and libraries discard large parts of their older collections, what is our responsibility to preserve ''old books'' for the future? David McKitterick''s lively and wide-ranging study explores how old books have been represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the present day. Conservation of these texts has taken many forms, from early methods of counterfeiting, imitation and rebinding to modern practices of microfilming, digitisation and photography. Using a comprehensive range of examples, McKitterick reveals these practices and their effects to address wider questions surrounding the value of printed books, both in terms of their content and their status as historical objects. Creating a link between historical approaches and the emerging technologies of the future, this book furthers our understanding of old books and their significance in a world of emerging digital technology.Trade Review'A learned, sensible and well-written piece of historical scholarship.' The Times Literary Supplement'The great value of [this] book is that it attempts to provide a larger, longer-term context for understanding what is happening today not (primarily) to new books but to retrospective collections, as more and more are digitized and made available on the web. If the meaning and status of these historical artifacts are being challenged today in new and menacing ways, it is not for the first time. The history of the transmission and evaluation of old books is itself the record of shifting approaches to these artifacts … what makes McKitterick's narrative so compelling is the wealth of detail it includes as well as the breadth of cultural objects it embraces. McKitterick alerts us at every point that what was true for books was true for sculptures, paintings, buildings, and the whole repertoire of culturally significant objects …' College and Research Libraries'This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in old books, both from the perspective of how their content as well as physical characteristics have been preserved. … Although quite detailed, Old Books, New Technologies is not a heavy academic tome and makes for an enjoyable read. It provides an interesting view of how old books were considered and treated during the 18th and 19th centuries.' Mary McIntyre, Journal of the Canadian Association for ConservationTable of Contents1. The past in pixels; 2. Restoration and invention; 3. Conservation, counterfeiting and bookbinding; 4. Representation and imitation; 5. From copying to facsimile; 6. The arrival of photography; 7. Public exhibition; 8. The Caxton exhibition of 1877; 9. A bibliographical and public revolution; 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to incorporate current academic literature and case law on European, transnational, and international media law into a comprehensive overview intended primarily for students. It introduces the legal framework for globalised communication via mass media, and considers the transformative effect globalisation has had on domestic media law. Engaging case examples at the beginning of each chapter, and questions at the end, give students a clearer idea of legal problems and encourage them to think critically. A wide variety of topics - including media economics, media technology, and social norms concerning media publications - are discussed in relation to media law, and numerous references to case law and suggestions for further reading allow students to conduct independent research easily.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental rights and principles; 3. Restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom; 4. The jurisdictional question; 5. Broadcasting and other audiovisual media services; 6. Internet governance and regulation; 7. Telecommunications; 8. Data protection; 9. Copyright; 10. Media competition law; 11. Media law and state aid.

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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 SynopsisThe global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the ''festivalization'' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories might impact the study of festivals, investigates the festivalized production of space in the world''s ''Festival Cities'', and re-examines the social role and cultural work of twenty-first-century theatre, performance, and multi-arts festivals. With chapters on festivals in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, the francophone world, Europe, North America, and Latin America it analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange.Trade Review'… a well-researched and well written Companion that provides a necessary overview of the current landscape of international performing arts festivals within an engaged critical conversation.' Azadeh Sharifi, Performance ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction Ric Knowles; Part I. Contexts and Methods: 1. From post-war to 'Second Wave': international performing arts festivals Keren Zaiontz; 2. International festivals, the practice of coproduction, and the challenges for documentation in a digital age Alexandra Portmann; 3. City festivals and festival cities Marjana Johansson; 4. Indigenous festivals Ric Knowles; Part II. International Festivals around the Globe: 5. European festivals Erika Fischer-Lichte; 6. International theatre festivals in the United Kingdom: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as model neoliberal market Jen Harvie; 7. Under the radar festival, New York: experimental, urban, and global Carol Martin; 8. The Australian festival network Sarah Thomasson; 9. Theatre festivals in post-Arab Spring countries Khalid Amine; 10. Staging East Africa through global exchange: the Kampala International Theatre Festival Julia Goldstein; 11. The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown: culture, economics, and race in South Africa Loren Kruger; 12. Reckoning with historical conflicts in East Asian theatre festivals: the BeSeTo Theatre Festival and Gwangju Media Arts Festival Hayana Kim; 13. Festivals in the francophone world as sites of cultural struggle Emily Sahakian; 14. International festivals in Latin America: festival Santiago a Mil and Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires Jean Graham-Jones; 15. RUTAS | ROUTES: a festival commons of hemispheric interculturalidad Natalie Alvarez; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the ''festivalization'' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories might impact the study of festivals, investigates the festivalized production of space in the world''s ''Festival Cities'', and re-examines the social role and cultural work of twenty-first-century theatre, performance, and multi-arts festivals. With chapters on festivals in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, the francophone world, Europe, North America, and Latin America it analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange.Trade Review'… a well-researched and well written Companion that provides a necessary overview of the current landscape of international performing arts festivals within an engaged critical conversation.' Azadeh Sharifi, Performance ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction Ric Knowles; Part I. Contexts and Methods: 1. From post-war to 'Second Wave': international performing arts festivals Keren Zaiontz; 2. International festivals, the practice of coproduction, and the challenges for documentation in a digital age Alexandra Portmann; 3. City festivals and festival cities Marjana Johansson; 4. Indigenous festivals Ric Knowles; Part II. International Festivals around the Globe: 5. European festivals Erika Fischer-Lichte; 6. International theatre festivals in the United Kingdom: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as model neoliberal market Jen Harvie; 7. Under the radar festival, New York: experimental, urban, and global Carol Martin; 8. The Australian festival network Sarah Thomasson; 9. Theatre festivals in post-Arab Spring countries Khalid Amine; 10. Staging East Africa through global exchange: the Kampala International Theatre Festival Julia Goldstein; 11. The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown: culture, economics, and race in South Africa Loren Kruger; 12. Reckoning with historical conflicts in East Asian theatre festivals: the BeSeTo Theatre Festival and Gwangju Media Arts Festival Hayana Kim; 13. Festivals in the francophone world as sites of cultural struggle Emily Sahakian; 14. International festivals in Latin America: festival Santiago a Mil and Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires Jean Graham-Jones; 15. RUTAS | ROUTES: a festival commons of hemispheric interculturalidad Natalie Alvarez; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow did Zulu Radio in apartheid South Africa, intended to stifle debate, become one of the largest stations in Africa? Gunner maps the fashioning of a modernising Black culture through radio and highlights links between these media figures with writers and political leaders from Harlem to the American South.Trade Review'… Gunner's investigation of the BBC archives as well as deep knowledge of Zulu sources living and passed away is second to none and gives her account of radio and the black modern a personal voice as well as the gravity of history.' Loren Kruger, Research in African LiteraturesTable of ContentsIntroduction: radio, the SABC and the politics of culture; Part I. Sound and 'Migration': 1. K. E. Masinga, Zulu Radio and the politics of 'migrant' aurality; 2. Remembering the past, making the present: the radio worlds of Alexius Buthelezi 1961–1978; Part II. Distance and Intimacy: 3. Exile: Bloke Modisane and the BBC 1959–1987; 4. 'Africa on the rise': the early 1960s, and the radio Voice of Lewis Nkosi; Part III. Drama, Language, and Daily Life: 5. Untidy boundaries, restless identities: Zulu serial drama in the 1970s; 6. Radio drama in the time of violence: Yiz' Uvalo (In Spite of Fear) December 1986–May 1987; 7. 'Ikusasa Lethu' (Our Tomorrow): the 'glorious decade'? Radio drama of the 1990s; 8. Finding a centre; Conclusion: dances of power; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among American political elites, the way we communicate on Facebook uniquely facilitates psychological polarization among the American public. Frenemies introduces the END Framework of social media interaction. END refers to a subset of content that circulates in a social media ecosystem: a personalized, quantified blend of politically informative ''expression'', ''news'', and ''discussion'' seamlessly interwoven into a wider variety of socially informative content. Scrolling through the News Feed triggers a cascade of processes that result in negative attitudes about those who disagree with us politically. The inherent features of Facebook, paired with the norms of how people use the site, heighten awareness of political identity, bias the inferences people make about others'' political views, and foster stereotyTrade Review'Easily the most comprehensive, theory-driven examination of social media and political polarization to date.' Diana Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Pennsylvania'Frenemies is compelling social science with an original, provocative claim: our minds see the often non-political bits and pieces that unknown friends of friends reveal about themselves on Facebook and exaggerate them into a phalanx of misguided political opponents. Combine this mechanism with Facebook's scope, and you get a veritable polarization machine that transforms casual chitchat among strangers into bitter if illusionary partisan disagreement.' Markus Prior, Princeton University'Frenemies is a path-breaking and well-researched book. It offers both theoretical and empirical breakthroughs on the political effects of social media. Settle's novel and insightful theoretical framework succeeds where previous scholarship has failed in providing a coherent model for understanding how unique aspects of the social media environment interact with human psychology to influence political attitudes and behavior. She also makes a compelling and strong case that Facebook, of which a majority of Americans use, has contributed to the increase in partisan bitterness and division that we observe today. This book will set the standard in the study of political communication for years to come.' Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University, Pennsylvania'An instant classic … brilliant, [challenges] assumptions that pundits and scholars have about how the process works. The book will set the standard for future media and politics research.' Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee'Exhaustively researched, intensely data-driven and featuring an index for ease of reference, Frenemies is a welcome contribution to public and college library Social Issues collections.' Library Bookwatch'Frenemies represents the most comprehensive articulation and treatment of the polarizing impact of social media use available and should be essential reading for scholars who delve into this issue … [it will] appeal primarily to academic audiences.' Robert Faris, Perspectives on Politics'… the first comprehensive and truly novel theory of political communication on social media. The book provides a whole slew of testable hypotheses that should set the agenda for research on this topic for years to come.' Kevin Munger, Public Opinion QuarterlyTable of Contents1. A fundamental change in political communication; 2. Facebook in context: theorizing interaction on twenty-first century social media; 3. The END framework of political interaction on social media; 4. How do END interactions on the news feed psychologically polarize users?; 5. In the eye of the beholder: politically informative news feed content; 6. Political inference from content on the news feed; 7. Biased inference from END interactions; 8. Judging the other side; 9. Erasing the coast of Bohemia in the era of social media; Appendix A; Appendix B.

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Book SynopsisAt times of Western crisis, such as the 2007–8 financial crisis, there has been a sudden growth of Afro-optimism, seemingly predicting Africa's 'rise'. Gabay examines British imperial attitudes towards Africa and shows that this phenomenon of positive coverage of Africa is neither unique, unexpected nor unpredictable.Trade Review'Clive Gabay employs a wide-angled lens to focus on the ways in which Euro-American idealisations of 'Africa' - its past, present and future - have continued to underpin the white-dominated racial order over the past hundred years. This painstakingly researched book will help to jolt contemporary conceptualisations of whiteness out of the narrow confines of identity politics (in which it is so often enmired).' Vron Ware, Kingston University'Is it possible to be optimistic about Africa? In this beautifully sculpted book, Clive Gabay argues that whiteness frames both negative and positive impressions of the continent. Via a set of empirically rich historical and contemporary investigations, Gabay comprehensively reveals the extent to which whiteness, in international relations, is a narcissism of the highest order.' Robbie Shilliam, The John Hopkins University'From black and savage Dark Continent to dynamic rising consumerist titan of the future, Africa has long occupied a special place in the Western imaginary. What Clive Gabay's boldly revisionist and impressively original text demonstrates is that the psychic interplay between maps and mapmakers has always been more complex and subtle than assumed - a dialectic reflecting the ongoing evolution of Whiteness itself from exclusionary phenotypical and eugenicist racial supremacy to putatively colourless institutional placeholder that even blacks (the right kind, of course) can now occupy.' Charles Mills, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Whiteness, the Western gaze and Africa; 2. Finding anti-civilisation in Africa; 3. Native rights in colonial Kenya: the symbolism of Harry Thuku; 4. 'Exploding Africa': Of post-war modernisers and travellers; 5. The Age of Capricorn: bridging the past to the present; 6. Afropolitanism, and the White-Western incorporation of Africa; 7. Africa rising, whiteness falling; 8. Making whiteness strange; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.Table of ContentsPart I. Origins: 1. Hearing and the senses Sam Halliday; 2. Fragments on/of voice David Nowell Smith; 3. Sonic forms: Ezra Pound's anti-metronome modernism in context Jason David Hall; 4. Classical music and literature Gemma Moss; 5. Aesthetics, music, noise Brad Bucknell; Part II. Development: 6. Literary soundscapes Helen Groth; 7. Noise James G. Mansell; 8. 'Lost in music': wild notes and organized sound Paul Gilroy; 9. Media history and sound technology Julie Beth Napolin; Part III. Applications: 10. What we talk about when we talk about talking books Edward Allen; 11. Prose sense and its soundings Garrett Stewart; 12. Dissonant prosody A. J. Carruthers; 13. Deafness and sound Rebecca Sanchez; 14. Vibrations Shelley Trower; 15. Feminism and sound Ella Finer; 16. Wireless imaginations Debra Rae Cohen; 17. Attending to theatre sound studies and Complicite's The Encounter Adrian Curtin; 18: Bob Dylan and sound: a tale of the recording era Barry J. Faulk.

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Book SynopsisIndia's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together two neglected areas of research in media studies in India - the intertwined genealogies of sovereignty, public, religion, and nation in radio and television, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of broadcasting into a single analytic inquiry. It argues that the spatiotemporalities of broadcasting and the inter-relationships among the public, religion, and nation can be traced to an organizing concept that shaped India's late colonial and postcolonial histories - sovereignty. The book contends that studies of television have glossed over the meanings, experiences, and practices of the religious in televisual narratives and viewers' interpretations of television programs. Drawing on the philosophical writings of Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, connecting their ideas with media, cultural, and religious studies, it examines cultural discourses, power relations, repertoire of meanings, social events, etc. iTrade Review'This ambitious and wide-ranging book uses the form and force of state-run media (radio and television as well as music broadcasts) in India, to stage a broader argument about critical and postcolonial media studies, drawing on Foucault and Ricoeur. It will be of great interest to media scholars, postcolonial theorists and South Asia experts.' Arjun Appadurai, New York UniversityTable of ContentsList of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Broadcasting, spatiotemporalities, and power; 2. Doordarshan, literary drama, and narrative identity; 3. Televisual representations of socio-spatial conflicts, and the religious-secular imaginaries; 4. Patriotism and its avatars: tracking the national-global dialectic in music videos and television commercials; 5. Remembering Doordarshan: figurations of memories and nostalgia on Blogs, YouTube, and in oral interviews; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisStill Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, looking at how photographic images have shaped perceptions of historicity, performance, and Shakespearean character, and how their dissemination has affected Shakespearean authority. Barnden reveals how photography has conditioned the reception of Shakespeare''s works in two key ways. Firstly, as a form of performance documentation, photographs shape the way individual performances are remembered and their positioning in relation to traditional and iconoclastic interpretations of the text. Secondly, photographs are vehicles of Shakespearean iconography, encouraging certain compositions and interpretations. Exploring both theatrical and staged art photographs, Still Shakespeare demonstrates the role of photography as a contributor to the calcification of Shakespearean quotation, advertising, and iconography, and to the attrition of the relationship between image and text whereby images become attached to narratives far beyond their original context.Trade Review'… Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance is a fascinating book for this photoshopping age … Still Shakespeare offers an enlightening and engaging introduction to the study of Shakespeare photography that should appeal to performance historians and theatre creators alike.' Daniel Yabut, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: leave not a rack behind; Part I. Photographing Performers: 1. Liveness, documentation, and the RSC's dreams, 1954–77; 2. Photographing the past in the theatre of Charles Kean; 3. Julia Margaret Cameron, sympathetic Shakespeare and photographic afterlives; Part II. Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet: 4. 'Too much of water': Ophelia, photography, dissolution; 5. Poor Yorick: the photograph as memento mori; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisContemporary society, the society of the future, will require us to develop entirely new knowledge, skills and competences. In this respect, functional literacies are among the key competences for the 21st century society, which is known in Japan as Society 5.0, or the so-called super-smart society. The qualitative leap from Society 3.0, the industrial society, to Society 4.0, known also as the information society, has already been marked by computers and their processing power in the form of virtually unlimited memory capacity. Humans as intelligent beings, on the other hand, have made little progress over the last few centuries in terms of information processing power and storage capacity. The shift to a super-smart society, i.e., Society 5.0, can hardly be imagined with just humans as the central characters in these changes, given their limited processing power and memory capacity. The society of the future, the super-smart society, is surely going to be a technological society, a society of independent and smart systems, which are going to be managed and directed more or less by artificial intelligence (AI), because this is the only way to arrive to the so-called super-smart society. In such an environment it will be vital for humans, who will be increasingly dependent on technology, not only to be able to communicate with their equals, i.e., other humans, but also to be able to understand technology and AI, and communicate with it in some way or another. This book focuses on literacy for the 21st century and/or Society 5.0 in the narrow sense. In other words, the focus is on the reading, writing and communication processes as part of digital literacy, or, indeed, as part of the digital, technological and engineering literacy 4.0/5.0 paradigm. The latter includes competences required for the three main ways of communication in the 21st century, which are: human-human communication via the Internet of Things (IoT) or/and the Internet of People (IoP); human-machine communication, directly and via the IoT; communication between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). In these three types of communication, humans will be expected to apply particular ways of thinking and reasoning when addressing a problem, and to acquire and demonstrate three kinds of practices/skills in particular: understanding technological principles; developing solutions and achieving goals and communicating and collaborating. The main topics in this book are organized into nine core chapters, including the following: Development of Human Society and the Function of Communication Skills and Media, Historical Development of Communication Media, Literacy and Artificial Intelligence, and The Direction of Society's Development in the 21st Century. It seems fair to assume that some of the explanations, points of view and parts of content presented in this book will be different from notions generally true. We hope that because of this, we will be able to provoke cognitive dissonance/intellectual unease in the reader, thus encouraging them to update and/or internalize some of the "theories inside their heads", which have been embedded there since their school years.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Development of Human Society and the Function of Communication Skills and Media; Historical Development of Communication Media; The Role of Communication Media and Human Society Development; Communication, Literacy and Media; The Changing Society of the 21st Century and the Function of Literacy: From General Functional Literacy to Technology and Engineering Literacy; Literacy and Artificial Intelligence; Direction of Society Development in the 21st Century; Concluding Remarks; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays emphasizes new and emerging research paradigms in the communication world. The aim of this book is to provide researchers and practitioners with new paradigms in the form of ideas, concepts, trends, values and practices in the communication realm. This book will examine current, emerging, and cutting-edge approaches to communication in the broadest sense. The focus of this book is to draw in-depth understanding on the phenomenon of continuous and rapid growth of new communication means, shifting from the traditional unidirectional sharing of information to multidirectional sharing channels. The chapters take the reader on a journey through new paradigms and emerging domains in which communication is expected to play a greater role. Readers of this book will be inspired by these new paradigms in communication and seek to push the boundaries even further to keep up with the breath-taking speed of the digital era. Perhaps the most significant take-home message from this book is the demonstration of how practices map onto paradigms. This collection presents 18 high quality chapters from a multi-disciplinary collection of internationally leading and emerging scholars. These chapters provide students, scholars, and practitioners alike with readable, engaging and innovative ways to think critically about communication.Table of ContentsPreface; The Paradigm Shift in Practices of Journalism Through Traditional to the New Media: A Critical Assessment; Media Performance: From the Perspective of the Comparative Advantage Theory of Competition; Discourse Management and Contextualization Shift: COVID-19 and the New Normal; Digital Nomadism as a New Concept at the Intersection of Gig Work, Digitalization and Leisure; The Darker Side of the Virtual Environment: Online Discrimination; Representation of the Elderly and Agedness in the Media, the Sample of News Sites; A Systematic Literature Review of Game Studies Research in the Last Decade: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Go from Here?; Step Aside, Millennials and Centennials! The Attitudes of Baby Boomers toward Social Media Influencers; Generational Difference in Media Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Child Influencers on YouTube as the New Narrators: Consumer Socialization Theory Revisited; An Integrated Framework for the Communication Processes between Digital Influencers and Brands; New Stories and Digital Storytelling for New Consumers; Mücbir Sebepler: Turkeys Talk Show for COVID-19 Lockdowns; Extended Reality to Extended Cognitive Effects: The Impact of Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality on Storytelling; Philosophical Perspectives on Ethical Issues in Neuromarketing; Refugees Made Invisible in Turkey and Turkish Media on the COVID-19 Pandemic Process; Digital Media Influencers Commodification of Social Movements and Human Suffering; Social Movements Digitalized: Turkish Citizens Perception of and Participation in Online Social Movements; Index.

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Book SynopsisWrite Here is designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice. It is adaptable; because it covers the basics of reading, writing, and the modes of writing, it is appropriate to use in developmental composition classrooms. However, it also covers such topics as logical fallacies, rhetoric, timed writing, academic writing, source integration, and MLA/APA documentation, making it appropriate for a first-year or 'stretch' composition course. Many beginning writing students are underprepared and feel that writing just 'isn't for them.' The authors hope to dispel that myth by using media examples and a conversational tone to introduce and teach the material. Write Here provides examples that are interesting to students, while allowing them to connect to the subject matter on a more personal level - additionally, the process of analyzing the media helps students sharpen their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.Trade ReviewWe need this book in the composition market because it offers a new, refreshing perspective. The authors have a comprehensive understanding of students, their interests, and their needs, and they have created an extremely student-friendly book. Current research in rhetoric/composition tells us that our ultimate goal in freshman writing should be for our students to be able to evaluate their own communication skills as they move through their composition courses, and this is exactly what Randi Brummett de Leon and Brooke Hughes have accomplished at the end of each of their chapters in ‘Assessing Your Knowledge.’ This is a brilliant feature of the book that puts the students in charge of their own learning. Congratulations on an excellent new contribution to the field!" —Kim Flachmann, California State University, Bakersfield"This book covers a wide range of topics, with plentiful examples drawn mostly from student writing or from a variety of media sources. It provides valuable guides for developing a rhetorical understanding of media sources and critical media literacy skills; this section of the book is the most detailed and engaging, and the book will be most useful in classes in which most of the work revolves around such non-traditionally-academic sources. The explicit and detailed way in which it links reading and writing is also a welcome feature, as is the discussion of sentence-level issues that concludes the volume." —Michael Kaler, University of Toronto Mississauga"Write Here aims to boost student writers’ confidence by connecting the strategies used to read and analyze social media and popular culture with the reading, analysis, and writing processes required by first-year composition courses. De Leon and Hughes connect the elements of academic writing commonly taught in those courses¾reading and writing as processes, argumentative appeals and fallacies, essay structures, documentation, sentence grammar¾to the competencies students already possess. I particularly appreciate the clear and accessible approach to sentence grammar, which usefully explains both basic patterns and common errors." —Noel Currie, Langara College"In our fast-paced, social-media-soaked society, students read more words each day than prior generations, which makes the skills they learn in courses—rhetorical analysis, synthesis, how to evaluate sources, etc.—more important than ever as they navigate a landscape in which conspiracy theories thrive alongside peer-reviewed research articles. This is where Write Here shines. In addition to providing exceptional academic reading and writing strategies, de Leon and Hughes have culled relevant readings that are simultaneously complex and accessible, fresh and enduring—many of which are poised to become the timeless standards of future textbooks. Armed with Write Here, students and instructors alike will be better equipped to read, reflect, and respond in an ever-changing world." —Crystal Huddleston, Taft CollegeTable of Contents Chapter 1: Welcome to Write Here Part I: Connecting Reading & Writing Before You Read Chapter 2: Reading Chapter 3: Writing: The Writing Process Chapter 4: Writing: Parts of the Essay Chapter 5: Parallels Between Reading and Writing Skills Chapter 6: What are Modes of Writing? Chapter 7: Timed Writing Chapter 8: What is Rhetoric? Chapter 9: Errors in Thought Part II: Analyzing the Media Before You Read Chapter 10: Social Media Chapter 11: Advertisements Chapter 12: News Chapter 13: Television Part III: Exploring Academic Writing Before You Read Chapter 14: The Research Paper Process Chapter 15: Using Sources Chapter 16: MLA and APA Documentation Guide Part IV: Polishing Your Writing Before You Read Chapter 17: Parts of Speech, Phrases, and Clauses Chapter 18: Subject-Verb Agreement Chapter 19: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Chapter 20: Fragments Chapter 21: Run-Ons Chapter 22: Commas Chapter 23: Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, and Parentheses Chapter 24: Apostrophes Chapter 25: Quotation Marks Chapter 26: Easily Confused Words

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Book SynopsisIf one culprit is suspected above all others for encouraging society to become more violent and unfeeling, it is television. This medium, which has become so pervasive in the last 50 years, seems to play an enormous role in the lives of the vast majority of people. But who controls the content which exerts such an enormous influence and to an extent controls the people? What are they doing now and what will they be doing tomorrow? Is violence essential to sell toothpaste and hamburgers? What are our children becoming and what will their children be like? Will every child carry a gun or other weapon just waiting for someone to trigger their violent nature and ignite their preprogrammed anger?

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Book SynopsisIn The Media Ecosystem, Antonio Lopez draws together the seemingly disparate realms of ecology and media studies to present a fresh and provocative interpretation of the current state of the mass media—and its potential future. Lopez explores the connections between media and the environment, arguing that just as the world''s powers have seized and exploited the physical territories and natural resources of the earth, so, too, have they colonized the "cultural commons"—the space of ideas that everyone shares. He identifies the root of the problem in the privileging of "mechanistic" thinking over ecological intelligence, which recognizes that people live in a relationship with every other living thing on the planet. In order to create a more sustainable media ecosystem—just like the preservation of organic ecosystems—we must reconnect our daily media activities to their impact on others and the environment. To become "organic media practitioners," we must become aware of the impact of media use on the environment; recognize media''s influence on our perception of time, space, and place; understand media''s interdependence with the global economy; be conscious of media''s interaction with cultural beliefs; and develop an ethical framework in order to act upon these understandings. Above all, Lopez calls for media producers and consumers alike to bring a sense of ritual and collaboration back to the process of communication, utilizing collective intelligence and supporting a new culture of participation. Containing both wide-reaching analysis and practical tips for more conscious media use, The Media Ecosystem is designed for all those who seek a more sustainable future.The Media Ecosystem is part of the EVOLVER EDITIONS Manifesto Series.

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Book SynopsisStorytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and 'get a life'. So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely stop to ask: what are these stories? How do they shape our lives? And why do they matter? The authors ably guide readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way they show the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on narrative performances, and the myriad ways storytelling orders information and tasks, constitutes meanings, and positions speaking subjects. Readers will also learn that narrative performance is consequential as well as pervasive, as storytelling opens up experience and identities to legitimization and critique.The authors' multi-leveled model of strategy and tactics considers how relations of power in a system are produced, reproduced, and altered in performing narrative. The authors explain this strategic model through an extended discussion of family storytelling, using Franco Americans in Maine as their exemplar. They explore what stories families tell, how they tell them, and how storytelling creates family identities. Then, they show the range and reach of this strategic model by examining storytelling in diverse contexts: a breast cancer narrative, a weblog on the Internet, and an autobiographical performance on the public stage.Readers are left with a clear understanding of how and why the performance of narrative is the primary communicative practice shaping our lives today. Author note: Kristin M. Langellier is Mark and Marcia Bailey Professor at the University of Maine where she teaches communication and women's studies. A former editor of "Text and Performance Quarterly", she has published numerous journal articles on personal narrative, family storytelling, and Franco American cultural identity. Eric E. Peterson is Associate Professor at the University of Maine where he teaches communication. He is coeditor of a recent book on public broadcasting and has published a variety of journal articles on narrative performance, media consumption, and communication diversity and identity.Trade Review"Storytelling in Daily Life is remarkably coherent and immediately invaluable. This will be a model for approaching narrative performatively: actively, productively, critically, and creatively. It is extremely timely, and most original in what I would call its radical empiricism. The chapter on family storytelling is a brilliant new take on the subject. No other book currently engages the performance of narrative/narrative performance critically with such incisiveness." --Della Pollock, Department of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Storytelling in Daily Life is stunning, a major contribution to narrative studies. The authors, using a variety of interesting and varied examples, theorize and empirically analyze how storytelling works as an emergent communicative relational practice. Stories represent, produce, and complicate dominant identities and hierarchies (of family, gender, ethnicity, in web/digital communication, narratives of illness experience and sexuality)--our multiple 'selves.' The performance approach to narrative has never been better articulated." --Catherine Kohler Riessman, Research Professor of Sociology, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. A Communication Approach to Storytelling 1. Performing Narrative in Daily Life Part II. Family Storytelling: A Strategy of Small Group Culture 2. Ordering Content and Making Family Stories 3. Family Storytelling: Ordering Tasks in Small Group Cultures 4. Performing Families: Ordering Group and Personal Identities Part III. Storytelling Practices: Three Case Studies 5. Storytelling in a Weblog: Performing Narrative in a Digital Age 6. Breast Cancer Storytelling: The Limits of Narrative Closure in Survivor Discourse 7. Performing Narrative on Stage: Identity and Agency in an Autobiographical Performance Coda Notes References Index

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