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Book SynopsisIn examining the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and by extension their communication styles, this book provides a foundation for understanding charismatic leadership and its potent effect on followers.The book identifies each leader's charismatic leadership attributes, focusing specifically on communication and impression management. It presents a qualitative collection of leader observations and outcomes based on publications and audio and video recordings. By examining two distinctly different leaders, each with evidence of effective, if controversial, outcomes, it shows a spectrum of approaches to mobilizing followers.This book is suited to students and readers interested in leadership studies, leadership communication, and persuasion.

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Book SynopsisWith the revolution in information technology, concerns about the proliferation of false, unverified, and misleading information have been growing. As one of the severe public health crises in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a novel context for the post-truth research. In a post-truth era, people are no longer interested in investigating objective facts, but tend to curl up in echo chambers and resonate with like-minded others. Against this backdrop, this book (1) systematically conceptualises post-truth and analyzes its defining characteristics and driving forces, (2) examines the nuanced effects of information sources and news consumption behaviours and strategies on COVID-19 misperceptions and knowledge, (3) explores the role of social media in shaping COVID-19-related misperceptions and knowledge, and (4) highlights the importance of news media literacy in navigating the post-truth era.The book will be essential reading for students and scholars of mediTable of Contents1. Conceptualizing the “Post-truth” 2. Information Sources and News Consumption Habitus 3. Social Media as a Pandora’s Box 4. News Media Literacy as a Silver Lining 5. Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisInformed by global and intersectional feminist perspectives, this textbook offers a broad introduction to the role of gender in journalism and considers how women in particular are represented in the news.This book begins by introducing theoretical approaches to journalism and diversity, feminisms and intersectionality, and media sociology. With reference to more than 90 countries and an emphasis on the Global South, it offers an expansive history of gender in journalism and insights from multiple global surveys. The next part of the text deals with womenâs participation in news production, highlighting the challenges of men-dominated newsroom cultures. From there, the focus shifts to the way news media represent women in the news, including in relation to politics, war, and violence. The book concludes with a discussion of gender in international media development, gender and media activism, and gender in journalism education. Students are supported by chapter summaries, discussion questions, and a glossary of key terms to help reinforce knowledge and understanding.Inspiring students to incite positive change in the industry, Journalism and Gender is an essential text for those approaching this topic for the first time.This textbook features an e-book+ with interactive features such as links to websites, quizzes, and flash cards.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the current attempts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the communication field.Examining existing and proposed laws, policies and regulations of AI in the United States and the European Union, this book analyzes how the technological development of AI will be affected in the next decade and how this will impact the communication industry. Chapters explore the influence of laws on key communication issues including free speech, disinformation, intellectual property, privacy, and discrimination, as well as the AI industryâs approach to self-regulation. It shows how communication professionals such as content creators, public relations practitioners, advertisers, and journalists will be affected by generative AI content production, and how communication will ultimately be shaped by the regulations and laws placed on AI.Providing readers with a working knowledge of the contemporary legal issues surrounding AI and communication, t

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Book SynopsisExploring the reception and representation of Viking culture in audiovisual media, particularly in cinema and television, this book provides a comprehensive chronological exploration of films and television programmes produced from the early twentieth century to the present day.Providing a conceptualization of the elements that have shaped the representation of Vikings, both aesthetically and ideologically, and how they have evolved over time. The chapters offer an extensive analysis of this corpus, not only of the audiovisual display about Vikings, but most significantly of the entire context within which these productions were developed. Since cinema reflects its contemporary society, it is crucial to comprehend the motivations behind the representation of Vikings in different cultural, political, and geographical contexts. Regarding the latter, a major distinctive feature of this corpus is its spatial dimension. Films from different film industries such as the United States, Nordic countries, Italy, Russia, or Poland are analysed. Illuminating the variations in the conceptualisations of the idea of Vikings between the different countries, always influenced by their own history and their historiographical association with the Nordic world. Additionally, this book includes an appendix the entire film corpus as a resource for readers to conduct their own research.A History of Vikings in Cinema will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in Vikings in popular culture.

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Book SynopsisDesigned to cater to the needs of both novice and seasoned writing instructors, this book provides a range of practical and adaptable strategies for integrating generative artificial intelligence (AI) into English writing curricula.Generative AI in the English Composition Classroom proposes strategic methodologies to ensure that AI is utilized as a facilitator of learning and creativity, rather than as a shortcut to academic success. With a particular emphasis on sophisticated large language models such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, this book critically addresses potential challenges, including concerns related to academic integrity. It includes case studies and practical strategies to exemplify how AI can enhance the writing process while emphasizing the continuing importance of a solid foundation in writing structure, processes, and rhetorical strategies. These case studies and strategies are designed for immediate application, offering educators and students pract

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

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Book SynopsisThe Academy Awards â or âthe Oscarsâ â have held a unique position in defining and enacting âprestigeâ for film industries and their publics. In evaluating âthe bestâ of film, they wield cultural influence over such cinema practices as consumption and evaluation, filmmaking aesthetics and narratives, and the discursive activity of Hollywoodâs industrial agents and audiences. Oscar Bait: The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige offers a comprehensive insight into how a film or star positions oneâs self as a viable competitor worthy of such consecration in new media contexts.Based over three years of âOscars seasonsâ (2019 to 2021), rigorous analysis of film texts, awards telecasts, and circulating discursive media is built through an original scholarly framework for understanding modern cultural awards. Oscar Bait recontextualises the Oscarsâ complex legacy into a new media ecosystem, one in which their established value is undercut by declining broadcast viewership, the changing values and demands of global film publics, and influential discourses aiming to progress popular culture beyond its problematic histories. In this new paradigm of film production and consumption, Boucaut explores what the Oscars mean in a contemporary filmmaking landscape, and what impacts established stereotypes of Oscar-worthiness â the colloquial âOscar Baitâ â continue to hold over the awards.Oscar Bait captures a dynamic snapshot of the Oscars and Hollywood in a critical era. It advances popular culture scholarship by developing an analytical framework for understanding disparate media texts within an awards season â and it critically updates Oscars knowledges for modern contexts. Readers interested in media and cultural studies, celebrity studies, persona studies, popular culture and film will enjoy this book.

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Book SynopsisAre we really being ourselves on social media? Can we benefit from connecting with people we barely know online? Why do some people overshare on social networking sites?The Psychology of Social Media explores how so much of our everyday lives is played out online, and how this can impact our identity, wellbeing and relationships. It looks at how our online profiles, connections, status updates and sharing of photographs can be a way to express ourselves and form connections, but also highlights the pitfalls of social media including privacy issues. From FOMO to fraping, and from subtweeting to selfies, The Psychology of Social Media shows how social media has developed a whole new world of communication, and for better or worse is likely to continue to be an essential part of how we understand our selves.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Profiles 3. Connections 4. Updates 5. Media 6. Messaging 7. Values

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Book SynopsisIn an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as life, love, death, sex. From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including feminism, home and homecoming, class, black masculinity, family, politics, relationships, and teaching. In their fluid and honest dialogue they push and pull each other as well as the reader, and the result is a book that speaks to the power of conversation as a place of critical pedagogy.Trade Review"Imagine if you could listen to a conversation between bell hooks and Stuart Hall about feminism, race, sexuality and love? With this book, we do not have to rely on our imaginations. This conversation between hooks and Hall flickers with life and is full of wit, warmth and wisdom. The book gives us the opportunity to learn from two of the most important black critical thinkers of our time." -Sara Ahmed, independent scholarTable of ContentsForeword by Paul GilroyPreface by bell hooksDialogue between bell hooks and Stuart Hall

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Book SynopsisWinner of two National Communication Association awards:Communication Ethics Division''s 2018 Single-Author Book of the Year AwardOrganizational Communication Division''s 2018 Outstanding Book of the Year AwardExtensive work in psychology and neuroscience reveals that individuals are born with moral intuitions, and this volume capitalizes on that recent insight to provide a new perspective on how to lead organizational ethics. Organizational Moral Learning presents communication-based recommendations for managers and leaders to encourage authentic moral dialogue at work so that these discussions can be used to update work practices vigilantly as organizations strive for ethical excellence. Organizational ethics are crucial to individual, organizational, national, and even global well-being, and this work leads a revolution in thinking about how to manage organizational ethics. Written accessibly for studeTable of ContentsChapter 1: Rethinking Organizational Ethics TrainingChapter 2. Moral Intuition: Advances in Moral Psychology and NeuroscienceChapter 3: The Social Intuitionist ModelChapter 4: Communication and the New Organizational Ethics Chapter 5: How Cultur(ing) WorksChapter 6: Pluralistic Moral Ignorance and Spirals of Silent MisdirectionChapter 7: Here-and-Now Ethics Talk in the WorkplaceChapter 9: Sensemaking and Identity: What to Expect from Moral ReasoningChapter 8: Substituting Here-and-Now Ethics TalkChapter 10: Organizational Learning and Organizational Communication Chapter 11: From Individual Moral Intuition to Organizational Moral LearningChapter 12: Organizing for Moral MindfulnessChapter 13: Stories of Organizational Moral Learning and IgnoranceChapter 14: Communication Practices for Managing Moral MindfulnessReferences

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Book SynopsisEvaluating Public Communication addresses the widely reported lack of rigorous outcome and impact-oriented evaluation in advertising; public relations; corporate, government, political and organizational communication and specialist fields, such as health communication. This transdisciplinary analysis integrates research literature from each of these fields of practice, as well as interviews, content analysis and ethnography, to identify the latest models and approaches. Chapters feature: a review of 30 frameworks and models that inform processes for evaluation in communication, including the latest recommendations of industry bodies, evaluation councils and research institutes in several countries; recommendations for standards based on contemporary social science research and industry initiatives, such as the IPR Task Force on Standards and the Coalition for Public Relations Research Standards; an assessment of metrics thatTrade ReviewThis is the most comprehensive book on evaluation that has been written to date. It covers all the bases, from the latest research to evaluation frameworks and a comprehensive list of the methods and metrics that can be used – all brought to life with a series of excellent case studies. As usual, Jim Macnamara is thorough and thoughtful in his approach, and he reinforces the point that evaluation requires a rounded view and judgements to be made. There is no silver bullet, human communication is far too complicated for that.Professor Anne Gregory, University of Huddersfield, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART 1 – The Foundations of Evaluation 1. Why We Need to Critically Examine Communication 2. Evaluation of Communication – Key Concepts, Principles, and Theories 3. Models Informing Evaluation of Communication PART 2 – The Practice of Evaluation 4. Metrics, Analytics, and Beyond – The Evolving Evaluation Landscape 5. Informal Methods to Evaluate Public Communication 6. Research Approaches and Key Procedures 7. Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Public Communication 8. Qualitative and Mixed Methods to Evaluate Public Communication 9. Reporting and Using Evaluation PART 3 – Case Studies in Evaluation 10. Learning from Best (and Worst) Practice – International Case Studies

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Book SynopsisRapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and social implications of the digital, and of specific digital technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear parts, the authors discuss and explain the following key topics: Becoming literate in digital ethics Moral viewpoints in digital contexts Motivating action in digital ethics Speed and scope of digital information Moral algorithms and ethical machines The digital and the human Digital relations and empathy machines Agents, autonomy, and action Digital and ethical activism.The book includes cases and examples that explore the ethical implications of digital hardware and software including videogames, social mTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Ethical and Digital Literacy 1. Becoming Literate in Digital Ethics 2. Moral Viewpoints in Digital Contexts 3. Motivating Action in Digital Ethics Part 2: The Nature of Digital Ethics 4. Speed and Scope of Digital Information (Distributedness) 5. Moral Algorithms and Ethical Machines (Programmability and Procedurality) 6. The Digital and the Human (Embeddedness) Part 3: Implications of Digital Ethics 7. Digital Relations and Empathy Machines 8. Agents, Autonomy, and Action 9. Digital and Ethical Activism Conclusion: Literate Practice and Pedagogy. Appendix: Developing Cases in Digital Ethics Index

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Book SynopsisIn the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political pTrade Review'Citizen political participation is increasing and diversifying in contemporary democracies. Political Participation in a Changing World provides a theoretical guide to this rich and expanding literature. Theocharis and van Deth present a valuable summary of the research evidence and the new research questions in the participation field.' - Russell J. Dalton, University of California'Political Participating in a Changing World addresses several scholarly debates associated with studying how, where, and why citizens engage in politics. The authors argue that participation research has not sufficiently acknowledged societal developments such as globalization, digitalization, and individualization. Theocharis and van Deth attempt to remedy this weakness by identifying five distinct modes of participation that can be used to study how and why citizens engage in and beyond the parliamentary realm of politics. This book offers important advice about studying participation in looser and transnational governance settings that use citizen action to address complex, borderless problems.' - Michele Micheletti, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Would you recognize a form of political participation if you saw one? 2. The continuous expansions of political participation 3. The continuous expansions of concepts and definitions of political participation 4. Conceptualizing political participation 5. Measuring old and new forms of political participation 6. A road map for the study of political participation

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Book SynopsisMaking Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing for the screen, filming and editing, and distribution. In doing so, it explores and analyses the creative, practical, technical, and aesthetic issues that arise when making screen dance.This rigorously revised edition brings the book fully up to date from a technical and aesthetic point of view, and includes: An extended exploration of improvisation in the video dance-making process New writing about filming in the landscape Additional writing on developing a practice and working with scores and manifestos Updated information about camera use, including filming with mobile phones A step-by-step guide to digital non-linear editing of screen dance Ideas for distribution in the 21st century Insights into Katrina's own Trade ReviewOn the first edition: "….timely and very exciting – a long overdue essential for the dance world" – Lea Anderson, Choreographer On this revised edition: Making Video Dance is a seminal work, the first of its kind for screendance/dance film educators. When Making Video Dance arrived on the scene, it soon became the pre-eminent resource for those interested in exploring the practice of making dance films. I whole-heartedly support the revision/additions to Making Video Dance, as its subject has only become more relevant since its first publication. - Ellen Bromberg, Distinguished Professor, University of Utah Katrina McPherson's Making Video Dance helped define the field. With this updated version, she once again implores us to think deeply about the process of bringing dance to the screen. - Douglas Rosenberg, author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image and The Oxford Book of Screendance Studies. Ever since it was first published, undergraduate and postgraduate screendance makers at Bath Spa University and beyond have found Making Video Dance an invaluable resource. For practical guidance in this exciting field of practice, I know of no other publication that covers the subject so well. This revised addition still contains the original wealth of information, but adds insight into the author's considerable experience in the field through anecdotes and thoughtful reflections. - Dr Christopher Lewis-Smith. Course Director Postgraduate Dance, Bath Spa University. Making Video Dance is indispensable reading for anyone interested in broadening their perception of what screendance is and how to make it, from one of the most innovative filmmakers in the field. As you read this book, heed the words of Master Yoda, "You must unlearn what you have learned," and it will forever change your approach to shooting and editing dance. - Ben Estabrook, director, lecturer at UC Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations From Los Angeles to Monte Carlo by Ellen Bromberg How did we get here? Some thoughts on making dance for television by Bob Lockyer Notes on using the exercises Acknowledgements Introduction to the revised edition Introduction to the original edition 1 GETTING STARTED 2 DANCE AND THE CAMERA 3 DEVELOPING THE WORK 4 CREATING YOUR ON-SCREEN WORLD 5 NEXT STEPS 6 WHEN FILMING BEGINS 7 LIGHT, SOUND AND CAMERA MOVEMENT 8 PREPARING TO EDIT 9 THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE EDIT 10 FINAL STAGES 11 OUT IN THE WORLD Glossary Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines a theory of communication and justice for the digital age, updating classic positions in political philosophy and ethics, and engaging thinkers from Aristotle through Immanuel Kant and the American pragmatists to John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Amartya Sen.In communication seeking to define justice and call out injustice, there is such a thing as the last word. The chapters in this book trace the historical emergence of communication as a human right; specify the technological resources and institutional frameworks necessary for exercising that right; and address some of the challenges following from digitalization that currently confront citizens, national regulators, and international agencies. Among the issues covered are public access to information archives past and present; local and global networks of communication as sources of personal identities and imagined communities; the ongoing reconfiguration of the press as a fourth branch of governance; aTrade ReviewA timely and scholarly work that focuses attention on the imperative to deepen the normative turn in communication studies and the communicative turn in philosophy, with focus on the articulation and practice of the contested concept of justice. Drawing on a diverse range of philosophical traditions and thinkers through a communications lens, Jensen succeeds in bringing together philosophy and communications research to propose a seminal theory of justice that speaks to our contemporary global dilemmas.Anjali Monteiro, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MumbaiIn a world seemingly dominated by polarization and disinformation, Klaus Bruhn Jensen’s impressive mastery of both classic philosophy and modern communication science gives his readers a new perspective on how human communication and social justice are fundamentally intertwined.W. Russell Neuman, New York UniversityHow can communication research and theory advance the cause of justice in the world? Klaus Bruhn Jensen’s theory of communication and justice illuminates many possibilities in the spaces between what is, what ought to be, and what could be.Robert T. Craig, University of Colorado BoulderGrounded in a compelling narrative arc from Charles Sanders Peirce to John Rawls, Klaus Bruhn Jensen provides us with a fresh pragmatist philosophy that recognizes communication and its accompanying goods not only as human rights but as engines of civilizational growth.John Durham Peters, Yale UniversityIn an era marked by disturbing shifts towards populism, nativism, identity politics and cancel culture, justice must be done and seen to be done. Communication on and of justice are therefore key. Drawing deeply on philosophical theories and the core foundations of the discipline of communication, Klaus Bruhn Jensen provides us with a reflective and provocative exposition of how justice and communication are deeply intertwined.Sun Sun Lim, Singapore University of Technology and DesignKlaus Bruhn Jensen presents a timely deliberation on communication and justice that links philosophy and communication studies to explore theories and practices pertaining to this crucially important matter. Drawing on ethics and pragmatist inquiry, Jensen considers communication as action and suggests a communicative turn that may help us to better understand various forms of justice, including essential environmental concerns. This insightful book should to be taken very seriously by academics, policy-makers and the public. Janet Wasko, University of OregonJensen offers us a normative theory of communication informed by an historically informed analysis of philosophy and communication theory. His goal is to understand how human communication can better contribute to fairness and justice. Treating communication both as a condition of being and becoming and as deliberative action, its potentials and limitations are critically weighed to assess how communication might make a practical difference. An inspiring and provocative foundation is provided for assessing entitlements to reflection and deliberation in a way that also will spark novel empirical research agendas.Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political ScienceIn this timely volume Klaus Bruhn Jensen proposes nothing less than a theory of communication and justice. The volume travels through the history of ideas to explore the meeting points and different avenues of communication research and classic philosophy, as they relate to justice. In a theory-rich, yet practice-oriented, manner, Klaus Bruhn Jensen convincingly argues that the study of communication can and should engage with debates about justice.Rikke Frank Jørgensen, The Danish Institute for Human RightsTable of ContentsPreface ; 1. The end of communication ; 2. A brief history of justice ; 3. The structural transformation of Jürgen Habermas ; 4. John Rawls behind the veil of communication ; 5. The long legacy of pragmatism ; 6. Media of justice ; 7. The communicative position ; 8. Justice – measure for measure ; 9. The future of justice

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Media and Gender offers a comprehensive examination of media and gender studies, charting its histories, investigating ongoing controversies, and assessing future trends.The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research.The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct, concrete set of issues, the volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives. Authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field, including postfeminism, sexual violence, masculinity, media industries, queer identities, video games, digital policy, media activism, sexualizationTrade Review"This ambitious project investigates longstanding gender concerns in light of today’s media landscape. Its internationally diverse authors analyze production and reception of recent media texts—journalism, film, reality TV, gaming, music, sports and more—within a postfeminist, neoliberal, and networked popular culture. They also consider consequences of broader shifts in media ecology, such as unequal Internet access that exacerbates discrimination and the roles of social media in both empowering and commodifying women. Scholars will find a wide range of timely case studies and provocative ideas in this rich resource." Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism, Temple University, USA "The editors have put together a valuable compendium of essays from some of the leading scholars in the field. The anthology offers a diverse array of perspectives —theoretical, political, and methodological — on the vital, complex, and ever-evolving sub-discipline of gender and media studies." Meenakshi Gigi Durham, University of Iowa, USA "With this Routledge Companion, three prominent feminist scholars have master-minded an important collection of chapters on gender and media contributed by accomplished scholars. This is truly a companion for the novice scholar needing an entrée into the vast and confusing literature that has grown over the past several decades and that ranges from theory on gender, sexuality, masculinity, intersectionality, transnationalism, and globalism to issues of violence, activism, pornography, news, gaming, social media, and sports. For the advanced scholar, the volume takes stock of where we have been and analyzes why we haven't arrived yet. A particular strength is the attention to reports from countries around the world and essays that don't let us forget the politics, economics, labor, production, and creative appropriation that must be accounted for in our approach to gender and media. We have the foundation documented for us. The next step is to imagine the world we want to live in and the communication systems we will need to make that world possible." Lana F. Rakow, Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, USA "Dedicated to an “extensive examination of a wide array of contemporary critical perspectives and diverse contexts,” the collection is essential for libraries and for those who study children, popular culture, psychology, sexual orientation, sociology, women and gender issues, and other areas of inquiry." Jan Whitt, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "[This collective volume] will prove to be of invaluable help to anyone – faculty staff and students – involved in teaching and working on this topic... Overall, [it] is an excellent effort that will find a natural fit in many course syllabuses in the fields of both media and women’s studies." Iolanda Tortajada, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Table of ContentsIntroduction: Re-Imagining Media and Gender PART I: Her/Histories 1. Media and the Representation of Gender 2. Mass Media Representation of Gendered Violence 3. Lone Wolves: Masculinity, Cinema and the Man Alone 4. To Communicate is Human; To Chat is Female: The Feminization of U.S. Media Work 5. Rediscovering 20th Century Feminist Audience Research 6. Historical Mapping Contemporary Intersectional Feminist Media Studies 7. Sexualities/Queer Identities 8. Gender, Media and Trans/National Spaces Part II: Media Industries, Labor, and Policy 9. Women and Media Control: Feminist Interrogations at the Macro-level 10. Risk, Innovation, and Gender in Media Conglomerates 11. Putting Gender in the Mix: Employment, Participation and Role Expectations in the Music Industries 12. Gender Inequality in Cultural Industries 13. Shifting Boundaries: Gender, Labor, and New Information and Communication Technology 14. Gendering the Commodity Audience in Social Media 15. Youthful White Male Industry Seeks "Fun"-Loving Middle-Aged Women for Video Games: No Strings Attached 16. Boys are… Girls are….: How Children’s Media and Merchandizing Construct Gender 17. Girls’ and Boys’ Experiences of Online Risk and Safety 18. Holy Grail or Poisoned Chalice? Three Generations of Men’s Magazines 19. Making Public Policy in the Digital Age: The Sex Industry as a Political Actor 20. Gender and Digital Policy: From Global Information Infrastructure to Internet Governance 21. Gender and Media Activism: Alternative Feminist Media in Europe 22. Between Legitimacy and Political Efficacy: Feminist Counter-Publics and the Internet in China Part III: Images and Representations across Texts and Genres 23. Buying and Selling Sex: Sexualization, Commerce and Gender 24. Class, Gender and the Docusoap: The Only Way is Essex 25. Society's Emerging Femininities: Neoliberal, Postfeminist and Hybrid Identities on Television in South Africa 26. A Nice Bit of Skirt and the Talking Head: Sex, Politics and News 27. Transgender, Transmedia, Transnationality: Chaz Bono in Documentary and Dancing with the Stars 28. Celebrity, Gossip, Privacy and Scandal 29. "Shameless Mums" and Universal Pedophiles: Sexualization and Commodification of Children 30. Glances, Dances, Romances: An Overview of Gendered Sexual Narratives in Teen Drama Series 31. Smoothing the Wrinkles: Hollywood, "Successful Aging" and the New Visibility of Older Female Stars 32. Globalization, Beauty Regimes, and Mediascapes in the New India 33. Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Messages: Media Coverage of Cosmetic Surgery and Ideal Beauty 34. Narrative Pleasure in Homeland: The Competing Femininities of "Rogue Agents" and "Terror Wives" 35. Above the Fold and Beyond the Veil: Islamophobia in Western Media 36. Sport, Media and the Gender-Based Insult Part IV: Media Audiences, Users, and Prosumers 37. Subjects of Capacity? Reality TV and Young Women 38. Telenovelas, Gender and Genre 39. Gendering and Selling the Female News Audience in a Digital Age 40. Looking Beyond Representation: Situating the Significance of Gender Portrayal within Game Play 41. Textual Orientation: Queer Female Fandom Online 42. Delivering the Male – And More: Fandom and Media Sport 43. Men’s Use of Pornography 44. Gender and Social Media: Sexism, Empowerment or the Irrelevance of Gender? 45. Slippery Subjects: Gender, Meaning and the Bollywood Audience 46. Asian Women as Audiences, Asian Popular Culture and Media Globalization 47. Women as Radio Audiences in South Africa 48. Reading Girlhood: Opportunities for Social Literacy 49. Investigating Users’ Responses to Dove’s "Real Beauty" Strategy: Feminism, Freedom and Facebook 50. Feminism in a Postfeminist World: Women Discuss who’s "Hot" - And Why We Care – On the Collegiate "Anonymous Confession Board" 51. Gendered Networked Visualities: Locative Camera Phone Cultures in Seoul, South Korea 52. Gendering the "Arab Spring:" Arab Women Journalists/Activists, "Cyberfeminism," and the Socio-Political Revolution Part V: Gendered Media Futures and the Future of Gender 53. Latinas on Television and Film: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Inclusion 54. Intersectionality, Digital Identities and Migrant Youths: Moroccan-Dutch Youths as Digital Space Invaders 55. Feminist Debates about the Sexualization of Culture 56. Post Post Feminism 57. Policing the Crisis of Masculinity: Media and Masculinity at the Dawn of the New Century 58. Glassy Architectures in Journalism 59. Online Anti-Sexism Political Action in the UK and USA: The Importance of Collaborative Anger for Social Change

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD''s supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan, cinematic nostalgia, and scholarly insight.Trade Review"A remarkable job of capturing the story of the Criterion Collection.Absolutely spot on and highly illuminating...A balanced, coherent, and compelling narrative." - Michael Nash, Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development, Warner Music Group. "A fascinating account of the evolution of home video from the laserdisc to the DVD with its multiple track audio commentaries and rich supplementary content enabling the broader public to engage more deeply in cinema studies. The book s in-depth interviews and critical analysis gives an unequaled first person perspective and deep insight into film studies in the modern age." - Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher, Microsoft"I know of no other study of the DVD 'revolution' that is as detailed and suggestive as this stylish, lucid investigation. An early scholarly foray into a field this massive, relatively new, and constantly changing cannot be expected to cover all the issues or answer all the questions, but this book does an admirable job raising important questions and identifying new directions in film reception." - Timothy Corrigan, Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsThe DVD and New Media * DVD Production and DVD Producers * Setting the Standard: The History of The Criterion Collection * Directors and DVD Commentary: the Specifics of Intention * Directorial Commentary and Film Study: The Case of Atom Egoyan * Scholarly Commentary and Film Study * The Anthologizing Impulse

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Book SynopsisIn a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national and international political debates. Reflecting an interdisciplinary and international discussion, this book offers a rare long-term specialist perspective into the cosmopolitan and multilingual world of the foreign political press in London, with an emphasis on periodicals published in European languages. It furthers current research into political exile, the role of print culture and personal networks as intercultural agents and the dynamics of transnational political and cultural exchange in global capitals. Individual chapters deal with Brazilian, French, German, Indian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish American, and Russian periodicals. Overarching themes include a historical survey of foreign political groups present in London throughout the long 19th century and the cTrade Review[A] must-read for anybody with a taste for the Victorian press, Victorian politics, cosmopolitanism, and immigration in late nineteenth-century London. It resolutely convinces readers that the foreign political press is a fully fledged part of the British press. * History: Reviews of New Books *[The] potential benefits of this work for any number of audiences are myriad. Its chapters can easily be incorporated into numerous college courses on journalism, anticolonial or revolutionary studies, or the history of nineteenth-century radicalism, to name a few … Bantman’s and da Silva’s volume will likely, and certainly should, stand as a model contribution for the discipline. * JHistory *[A] fascinating book ... Ultimately, the reader is impressed with the volume’s overall sense of topicality, not only, as Bantman suggests, concerning London and multiculturalism, nor with the wider concept of transnational print culture, but with a more radical questioning of the role and responsibility of the press in the development of extremist international politics. * Journal of European Periodical Studies *Provides a wide and viable foundation for future research, thereby fulfilling its stated goals by delivering a valuable collection of studies. * Anarchist Studies *This is an important contribution to print history as well as transnational and migration studies. Its perceptive and revelatory essays break new ground, opening up areas of press activity hitherto downplayed, ignored or unknown. While authoritative, the volume will no doubt inspire a great deal more work in this area. This is a significant book that deserves to be widely read. * Andrew King, Professor of English Literature and Literary Studies, University of Greenwich, UK *This is an invaluable, scholarly, and original book. By exploring the work of many European, Russian, and Indian activists and journalists who were based in London and published newspapers there during the long 19th century, the contributors cast light on the politics of exile and empire, the shifting meanings of liberalism and protest, the uses of print and language, and the transmission of information across national and continental boundaries. * Linda Colley, Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University, USA *A highly significant contribution to the field of Victorian periodical studies. Through case-studies, the contributors present a thorough analysis of the print cultures of many foreign national groups in 19th-century London. This is the first endeavour to consider the foreign political press in Britain globally, and it is set to encourage fruitful discussions and enrich the historiography of the transnational press. * Stéphanie Prévost, Senior Lecturer in 19th-Century British History, Paris Diderot University, France *A solid collection that provides the reader with a detailed geography of the Victorian London publishing world and sheds some light on aspects hitherto neglected. * European Review of History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Local and Transnational Contexts, Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK) Chapter 1: Newsprint Nations: Spanish American Publishing in London, 1808-1827, Karen Racine (University of Guelph, Canada) Chapter 2: Cultural Identity and Political Dissidence in the Spanish Periodicals in London, Daniel Munoz-Sempere (King's College London, UK) Chapter 3: Hipólito da Costa, o Correio Braziliense and the Dissemination of the Enlightenment in Brazil, Isabel Lustosa (Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janiero) and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (University College London, UK) Chapter 4: The Press as a Reflection of the Divisions among the Portuguese Political Exiles (1808-1832), Daniel Alves (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) and Paulo Jorge Fernandes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Chapter 5: From Republicanism to Anarchism: 50 Years of French Exilic Newspaper Publishing, Thomas C. Jones, University of Buckingham, UK) and Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK) Chapter 6: The Italian Anarchist Press in London: A Lens for Investigating a Transnational Movement, Pietro Di Paola (University of Lincoln, UK) Chapter 7: Political Contestation and Internal Strife: Socialist and Anarchist German Newspapers in London, 1878–1910, Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, UK) Chapter 8: News of the Struggle: the Russian Political Press in London 1853-1921, Charlotte Alston (Northumbria University, UK) Chapter 9 : The Indian Nationalist Press in London, 1865-1914, Ole Birk Laursen (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Appendix: Biographies of Journalists Bibliography

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Book SynopsisScenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation of the contemporary importance of scenography as a critical tool for art historians and scholars from related branches of study addressing phenomena such as witchy designs, Early Modern festival books, live rock performances, digital fashion photography, and outdoor dance interventions. With its nuanced and detailed case studies, this book is an innovative contribution to ongoing debates within art history and visual studies concerning multisensory events. It extends the existing literature by demonstrating the importance of a reimagined scenography concept for comprehending historical and contemporary art histories and visual cultures more broadly. The book contends that scenography is no longer restricted to the traditional spTrade ReviewThe editors of this provocative and stimulating collection of essays use the concepts of scenography and art history to mutually challenge and expand the analytic potential of each to provide important new strategies for exploring the increasingly complex world of contemporary art. * Marvin Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Theatre and Performance, CUNY, USA *The essays collected in the present volume shift the conversation with scenography away from definitions, and this opens terminology—scenography, scenographics—but also theoretical parameters. … The anthology seeks to give scenography its voice and in so doing, challenges easy boundaries between disciplines and forges new methodologies for thinking with and through scenographic agency. … Scenography and Art History opens its dialogue with art and its histories … at a time when reconceiving the material and imaginative encounters between times, spaces and bodies has never been more urgent and necessary. * Marsha Meskimmon, Professor of Transnational Art and Feminism, and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, UK *A book devoted to the interfaces of scenography and art history is long overdue for numerous reasons. ... As the authors deftly argue, art history has been as ready to dismiss scenography on the same grounds that, until recently, allowed theatre and performance scholars to brush it off as purely decorative (as a practice) or vocational (as a form of thinking). The marriage of these subjects is, consequently, a welcome and exciting addition to the growing library of scenography scholarship and its many possible futures beyond theatre. * Rachel Hann, Senior Lecturer in Performance & Design, Northumbria University, UK *Scenography and Art History is a thrillingly multifaceted and innovative collection of cross-disciplinary case studies unlocking the potentials of scenography as an overlooked sphere, concept and phenomenon in relation to art history as well as to other aesthetic disciplines. * Andrea Kollnitz, Associate professor in Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden *Spatial, temporal, affective, critical, and embodied dimensions of scenographic perspectives inform this cross-disciplinary, multifaceted anthology. An unprecedented dialogue between art history and scenography, this volume is both urgent and necessary, exploring the multisensory workings that can shape culture through scenographic phenomena. * Donatella Barbieri, Senior Research Fellow and Principal Lecturer in design for performance, University of the Arts London, UK *This important study shifts our perceptions and understandings of what scenography is. It shows us how agential modes of creative practice can lead towards new theoretical frameworks and how the expanded relationality between objects, subjects, spaces, and ideas can help us forging new realities within and outside the world of art history. * Alda Terracciano, Participatory Design Consultant at The Sloane Lab (AHRC TaNC Programme), UCL Department of Information Studies, UK *The book is a very important contribution to current discussions on multisensory art historical and contemporary events by proposing scenography both as a theoretical concept and as a practical exercise in the field of art history and related disciplines. * Andrea Sommer-Mathis, Former Senior Research Asscociate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria *Bypassing conventional interdisciplinary anthologies, this collection illuminates the primacy of the physical body and the spatial and material allure it evinces on stage and in visual artistry. Contributions from diverse scholars, sometimes working in direct collaboration, illuminate the many ways in which the performative operates both in real time and in allusive visual form. * Sarah R Cohen, Professor and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University at Albany, SUNY, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Two forewords Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Re-imagining Scenography in Relation to Art History, Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 2. Black Goats and Broomsticks: Feminism and the Figure of the Witch in Leonor Fini’s Designs for Le Sabbat, Rachael Grew (Loughborough University, UK) 3. Scenographing the Dance Archive – Keep Crawling!, Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 4. Michael Chapman’s Rauschenberg: Mis-en-scène and Scenography in Taxi Driver, Gillian McIver (The University for the Creative Arts, UK) 5. A Dynamic Bipolarity: The Royal Holloway Chapel Project, Scenography and Art History, Greer Crawley (Buckinghamshire New University/Royal Holloway University of London, UK) and Harriet O’Neill (British School at Rome, Italy) 6. Killed by Drones: Embodying Live Performance Scenography, Olga Nikolaeva (Independent scholar, Sweden) 7. Evocations of the ‘sonore et voilé’: The Scenographic World of Der Ring in the Art of Henri Fantin-Latour, Corrinne Chong (Peel District School Board/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada) 8. Visual Couture: Costume Agency in the Advertising Campaign Opera Papier, Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 9. ‘Re-Dressing The Part:’ The Scenographic Strategies of Ellen Terry (1847-1928), Veronica Isaac (University of Brighton/New York University London, UK) 10. Scenographing Festival Books: Towards a Multisensory Archive, Carmen González-Román (University of Málaga, Spain) 11. Scenographic Events: Interfacing with Digital Fashion Stories, Christine Sjöberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 12. Beyond Change: Archaeology of a Spook Play, Tamas Szalczer (Designer, USA) and Eszter Szalczer (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) Index

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Book Synopsis**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen''s searing exposé of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company''s struggles to regain control over its platform and to stop the spread of misinformation**__________In the spring of 2021, when news outlets feasted on the Facebook Files, Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of documents. She testified to Congress and spoke to the media. She was hailed at President Biden''s first State of the Union Address. She made sure everyone understood exactly what the documents revealed: Facebook not only set its algorithm to reward extremism, it knew that its customers were using the platform to foment violence, to spread falsehoods, to diminish the self-esteem of young people, and more. But how was it that Frances was the only employee at the company who dared to step forward?The answer to that question is an inspiring tale o

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Book SynopsisOur Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable. RAY KURZWEIL, Author/Entrepreneur/FuturistA wide-reaching exploration of the intersections between AI, VR and AR: it''s a mind-opener, and a source of reflection on how transformative and still unknown the future of communication, personal technology and even personal privacy might become. SCOTT STEIN, Editor at Large, CNETOver the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this n

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Book SynopsisExplains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.Why and how does critical reporting persist at the local level in China despite state media control, a hallmark of authoritarian rule? Synthesizing ethnographic observation, interviews, survey and content analysis data, Convenient Criticism reveals evolving dynamics in local governance and the state-media relationship. Local critical reporting, though limited in scope, occurs because local leaders, motivated by political career advancement, use media criticism strategically to increase bureaucratic control, address citizen grievances, and improve governance. This new approach to governance enables the shaping of public opinion while, at the same time, disciplining subordinate bureaucrats. In this way, the party-state not only monopolizes propaganda but also expropriates criticism, which expands the notion of media control from the suppression of journalism to its manipulation. One positive consequence of these practices has been to invigorate television journalists'' unique brand of advocacy journalism.

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Book Synopsis In this inspiring and hilarious memoir, YouTube star Ricky Dillon gives you an exciting look into his personal life and reveals the ins and outs of being a young star online. A former member of the enormously popular YouTube group Our Second Life, alongside his good friend Connor Franta, Ricky Dillon has connected with millions of fans worldwide, with no less than the New York Times featuring him in an article about the new generation of social media influencers. Now, in his very first book, Ricky takes you into his day-to-day world and shows them what it’s like to be a young star with a number of different creative interests, from crafting weekly videos to collaborating with other YouTube personalities to honing his career as a pop musician. Ricky also takes you into the inner workings of his personal fitness regimen and how he maintains a programme of health and wellness in all areas of his life. In addition to all of this, Ricky cr

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Book SynopsisThis is the fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia. The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries.Table of ContentsPart I: History and Development: 1. Introduction; 2. Wuxia from Literature to Cinema; 3. Reactions against the Wuxia Genre; 4. The Wuxio Genre Shifts Ground; 5. The Rise of Kung Fu, from Wong Fei-hung to Bruce Lee; Part II: The New School and Beyond: 6. The Rise of New School Wuxia; 7. The Wuxia Films of King Hu; 8. A Touch of Zen and the Moral Dilemma of the Female Knight-Errant; 9. Wuxio after A Touch of Zen; 10. Wuxia between Nationalism and Transnationalism; Glossary; Filmography; Works Cited.

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Book SynopsisStarting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book questions how contemporary control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics

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Book SynopsisExplores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them

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Book Synopsis Misinformation has had dramatic and dangerous effects, as evidenced by numerous events of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Reading a steady stream of misinformation leads to distrust, potentially leading to conflict in one''s family and workplace, and even to civil unrest. At the heart of many such matters is scientific illiteracy. Many people enjoy a life of ease and convenience because of science--and since science also crosses courtrooms, classrooms and cultures, it has great potential to debunk misinformation and untangle the confusion on such issues as vaccines, sexual identity, race and evolution, alternative medicine, and human reproduction. This book addresses those issues and the popular stories, conspiracies, and misleading headlines that circulate across media platforms. Bringing accurate knowledge into people''s agendas is challenging, and this book uses science and facts as a basis of every deliberation over laws and policies. The chapters weave together histTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Jim ObergefellPrefaceIntroduction. Approach the Bench: Opening Statements and NewsfeedsU.S. Landmark Case: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) (9–0 decision)  7The Necessity of This Book 7 Legislation 12 Current Events 14 A Popular Press Science Book Is Born 17 Tropism 17 Intellectual Curiosity and Skepticism 18 Science 221. Blinded by Science: The Discipline of FactsU.S. Landmark Case: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 279 (1993) (9–0 decision)  25Scientific Literacy 25 How Science Works 28 Science, Religion and Life 332. Hello Dolly: GeneticsU.S. Landmark Case: Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S. 576 (2013) (9–0 decision)  36Principles of Genetics 36 Genetics as a Science 40 Manipulating Genes in Animals and People 41 Cloning and Twinning 41 Types and Purposes of Cloning 44 Eugenics 46 Modifying Genes and Genetic Screening 47 Genetic Engineering 493. Time Travel: Evolution and RaceU.S. Landmark Case: Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987) (7–2 decision)  52Dinner Party Topics 52 Evolution 54 Tracing Our Ancestry 57 Classifying Living Things 58 Homo sapiens 58 Coding for Skin Color 59 Human Zoos 61 The Tuskegee Study 62 Racism in Medicine 64 We're More Alike Than We Are Different 67 The Founder Effect 684. Jungle Love: Sexual IdentityU.S. Landmark Case: Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015) (5–4 decision)  70Being Gay 70 Chromosomes 73 Sexual Behavior 75 Homosexuality 775. Birds and Bees: Human ReproductionU.S. Landmark Case: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), (7–2 decision)  83Introduction 84 Sex Education 86 Vasectomy, Circumcision and the Hymen 88 Rape 90 Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) 91 Overview of Reproductive Structures 93 Oocytes and Sperm 97 Reproductive Biology 98 Problems with Pregnancy 102 Breastfeeding 104 Separation of Church and State 106 The Tension Between Science and Faith: Choice 107 Planned Parenthood, Obstetrics and Gynecology 113 Legislating Reproductive Health 1156. Staying Alive: Vaccines and the Immune SystemU.S. Landmark Case: Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 562 U.S. 223 (2011) (6–2 decision)  118Preventing Disease 118 Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism 119 Vaccine History 121 Our Immune System 123 Vaccines and Vaccine Development 126 Vaccine Myths 1317. Snake Oil: Complementary and Alternative MedicineU.S. Landmark Case: Dent v. West Virginia, 129 U.S. 114 (1889) (9–0 decision)  134Outside Mainstream Medicine 135 The Placebo Response 137 Acupuncture 138 Homeopathy 139 Naturopathy, Supplements and Herbal Remedies 139 Chiropractic 141 Cardiovascular Disease Treatment 142 Osteoarthritis Treatment 143 Back Pain Treatment 143 Depression and Anxiety Treatment 1448. I Want a New Drug: The Good, the Bad and the UnknownU.S. Landmark Case: Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005) (6–3 decision)  145A Story About Epinephrine (Adrenaline) 146 Pharmacology 148 Drug Tolerance 153 Drug Cumulative Effect 154 Drug Synergism 154 Drug Development 155 Special Drug Programs 161 Drug Addiction 161 Alcohol 162 Opioids, Marijuana and Tobacco 164 War on Drugs 170 Changing Health Behavior 1719. The Final Chapter: Death and DyingU.S. Landmark Case: Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990) (5–4 decision)  173Defining Death and Characteristics of Death 173 Brain Death and the Harvard Committee 176 Perspectives on Death 177 Postmortem Myths and Facts 179 Hypothermia and the Diving Reflex 181 Cardiovascular Disease 183 Psychology of Death 185 Palliative Care and Hospice 187 Experiencing Challenging Circumstances and Terminal Lucidity 188 Dying of a Broken Heart 189 Death Penalty 190 Choice at the End 195 Anorexia Nervosa and Cachexia 197 Terminally Ill 199 ­­End-of-Life Decision-Making Organizations 200 On a Final Note 200BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFor almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves-from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's Hear What You Want ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood draws evidence from noise-canceling headphones, tinnitus maskers, LPs that play ocean sounds, nature-sound mobile apps, and in-ear smart technologies to argue the true purpose of media is not information transmission, but rather the control of how we engage our environment. These devices, which Hagood calls orphic media, give users the freedom to remain unaffected in the changeable and distracting spaces of contemporary capitalism and reveal how racial, gendered, ableist, and class ideologies shape our desire to block unwanted sounds. In a noisy world of haters, trolls, and information overload, guarded listening can be a necessity for self-care, but Hagood argues our efforts to shield ourselves can also decrease our tolerance for sonic and social difference. Challenging our self-defeating attempts to be free of one another, he rethinks media theory, sound studies, and the very definition of media.Trade Review"Hagood points out that we now often talk about personal freedom in terms of what we don’t have to listen to, and he focusses, in the book, on our efforts to navigate sonic nuisances, and also the paradox of combating sound with more sound, in a world that has become loud enough to damage our health. . . . The stakes of Hush might seem small . . . But, once you begin to think about the relationship between the sound waves that constantly pass through us and the potential loss of self, you become more attuned to all the beckoning noises of modern life." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"Hush is provocative and insightful." -- Stephen Phillips * The Wire *"Hagood leaves us rethinking media theory, sound studies, and the definition of media." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Hush is an important addition to the emerging field of sound studies. . . . Scholars of sound studies, digital media, broadcast media, disability studies, and those interested in the intersection of gender and race with media will find this book insightful." -- Jennifer Hyland Wang * Journal of Radio & Audio Media *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Hearing What We Want 1 Part I. Suppression 29 1. Tinnitus and Its Aural Remedies 31 Part II. Masking 73 2. Sleep-Mates and Sound Screens: Sound, Speed, and Circulation in Postwar America 75 3. The Ultimate Seashore: Environments and the Nature of Technology 116 4. A Quiet Storm: Orphic Apps and Infocentrism 148 Part III. Cancellation 175 5. Bose QuietComfort and the Mobile Production of Personal Space 177 6. Beats by Dre: Race and the Sonic Interface 198 Conclusion. Wanting What We Hear 220 Notes 235 References 245 Index 261

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Book SynopsisIn The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme—a set of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics—employs a politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic episteme''s marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender, race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she identifies in Beyoncé''s and Rihanna''s music challenge such marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology, sTrade Review“Through skillful and perceptive negotiations among diverse theoretical paradigms and material practices, Robin James articulates a bold thesis about the shift from the visual character of modernity articulated by Foucault to the sonic episteme characteristic of twenty-first-century biopolitical neoliberalism. In James’s hands, the sonic episteme becomes a diagnostic tool as well as an all-embracing metaphor of the way the new regime of neoliberal biopower works, its modes of governmentality, and its production of excluded groups. An outstanding book.” -- Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, author of * Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism *“The Sonic Episteme is a fascinating exploration of the problems of neoliberalism and the biopolitical that attends to the ways sound has come to be an object of study. Robin James asks readers to refuse the privileging of any one sense experience by examining the ways what she calls the sonic episteme is a part of neoliberal thought, not a break from it. The Sonic Episteme is about the practice of alternatives to the social order in thought and its epistemological possibilities rather than the search for alternatives emerging from the already given epistemological horizon and thrust of Western thought. As such, James offers a way to think sound studies, race, and material cultures together.” -- Ashon T. Crawley, author of * Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility *"James is an insightful philosopher and sharp cultural critic drawing comparisons between musical phenomena such as compression and the loudness wars, and the damages wreaked by neoliberal market economics." -- Karen D. Tregaskin * The Wire *"What makes The Sonic Episteme an impressive accomplishment is its academically acceptable reliance on Philosophy combined with a crucial gesture, beyond Philosophy’s purview, to commercially successful pop music, which has the potential to present a crucial something else." -- Jeff Heinzl * Spectrum Culture *"This extensive assemblage of source texts generates unexpected and often striking conclusions. Most valuably, James organises crucial texts at the intersection of sound studies and critical race studies, proffering their diverse methodologies as alternatives to the techniques of post-democratic perceptual coding. For those interested in the consequences of frequency modeling and the broader project of approaching philosophy through sound, The Sonic Episteme presents a bold . . . foray into the rich territory of neoliberal sonic representation." -- Madeline Collier * Sound Studies *“Robin James’s The Sonic Episteme is an incredibly provocative, well-argued, well-written, and necessary study of popular music and neoliberalism. It will surely be of interest to those in philosophy, popular music studies, sound studies, cultural studies, and Black studies.” -- Elliot H. Powell * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *“With The Sonic Episteme, James intervenes upon sound by asking us to think more critically, inclusively, and ethically with and about it.... [Its] topical and methodological breadth makes it a productive and useful addition to the field of popular music studies.” -- Kate Galloway * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“Robin James’ latest book is a compelling and rewarding showcase of her ability to use music and sound as a means to interrogate an array of contemporary philosophical, political, cultural and scientific perspectives.... By aggregating vernacular and non-elite ways of knowing, as expressed through a range of music and sound practices, she has succeeded in developing credible and coherent alternatives.” -- Matthew Lovett * Popular Music *"The Sonic Episteme promises to be an important addition to graduate syllabi and should push music scholars and practitioners to see how our ideas about the nature of sound might hamper our efforts to reshape the places, settings, and institutions where we make music." -- Alexandra M. Apolloni * Journal of the Society of American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Neoliberal Noise and the Biopolitics of (Un)Cool: Acoustic Resonance as Political Economy 23 2. Universal Envoicement: Acoustic Resonance as Political Ontology 51 3. Vibration and Diffraction: Acoustic Resonance as Materialist Ontology 87 4. Neoliberal Sophrosyne: Acoustic Resonance as Subjectivity and Personhood 126 5. Social Physics and Quantum Physics: Acoustic Resonance as the Model for a "Harmonious" World 158 Conclusion 181 Notes 185 Bibliography 227 Index 239

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Book SynopsisKathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of anarchist letterpress printers and presses, whose printed materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to 1940s.Trade Review“By focusing on letterpress Ferguson presents a novel way of looking at the history of Anarchism. Letterpress as a way of working generates an active hands-on ambition to build and embody new and creative ideas. . . . Ferguson’s history promotes the message that meaningful radical development builds from face-to-face, hand-to-hand, cooperative endeavour.” -- Peter Good * Kate Sharpley Library *"Ferguson's half-century of involvement in radical politics and her painstaking research in anarchist collections (many of them ill organized) qualifies her to write this dense but compelling history. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- T. S. Martin * Choice *"In fluid prose, Ferguson offers a fresh historical look at the anarchist movement through a focus on lesser-known figures and their lesser-known labours, including printing and letter-writing." -- Layla Saleh * LSE Review of Books *"Letterpress Revolution is essential reading. It is a result of exhaustive and detailed research that clarifies instead of obscures. ... It enriches anarchist history allowing us to appreciate the nuances and bravery of people as well as their complexities." -- Barry Pateman * KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Anarchist Letters 1 1. Printers and Presses 21 2. Epistolarity 83 3. Radical Study 129 4. Intersectionality and Thing Power 185 Appendix A. Compositors, Pressmen, and Bookbinders 215 Appendix B. Brief Biographies 225 Appendix C. Printers Interviewed 231 Notes 233 Letters Referenced 281 Bibliography 287 Index 317

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Book SynopsisIn Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, Eric Drott analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Attentive to the way streaming has reordered the production, circulation, and consumption of music, Drott examines key features of this new musical economy, including the roles played by data collection, playlisting, new methods of copyright enforcement, and the calculation of listening metrics. Yet because streaming underscores how uneasily music sits within existing regimes of private property, its rise calls for a broader reconsideration of music’s complex and contradictory relation to capitalism. Drott''s analysis is not simply a matter of how music is formatted in line with dominant measures of economic value; equally important is how music eludes such measures, a situation that threatens to reduce music to a cheap, abundant resource. By interrogating the tensions between streaming’s benefits and pitfalls, Drott sheds light on music’s situaTrade Review“Streaming Music, Streaming Capital is terrific. Eric Drott offers us an assured and learned guide to understanding recorded music in the present conjuncture and likely for years to come. As a study of the political and psychic economies of music streaming, it is unparalleled and will be a must-read.” -- Sumanth Gopinath, author of * The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form *“Eric Drott offers a much-needed analysis of recorded music, online streaming, and their mutual mediation. With its incorporation into digital platforms, music’s oft-celebrated power to connect takes on new significance as it becomes, simultaneously, a lucrative asset, a service to rent, a means of data accumulation, and an extraeconomic resource. Drott’s fascinating examination of this new music economy’s coherences and contradictions deserves to be widely read.” -- Marie Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, The Open University“For those awaiting the definitive critical interrogation of the global music streaming economy, Eric Drott has provided a consummate account. Drott refuses the fallacy of music’s exceptionalism, and in this skilled reading music portends many of the wider crises characterizing our world.” -- Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Streaming Music 22 2. Streaming Capital 63 3. Music as a Technology of Surveillance 101 4. Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Economy: Spam, Click Fraud, and Fake Artists 144 5. Streaming, Cheap Music, and the Crises of Social Reproduction 193 Epilogue 235 Notes 255 Bibliography 307 Index 331

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Book SynopsisHow children are taught to control their feelings and how they resistthis emotional management through cultural production. Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children's television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues, weaken the intensity and range of children's affective experiences. Don't Use Your Words! seeks to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids between ages five and nine, Don't Use Your Words! situates these prodTrade Review"Juffer raises provocative questions concerning children’s emotions... Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." * Choice *"Juffer values children’s media, demanding that we pay attention to how influential their cultural production is. Including cultural analyses of Blue’s Clues to YouTube, electoral politics to immigration policy, and education to affect theory, Juffer deepens each field as much as she puts them in conversation with each other through careful, deliberate inspection. Her discussions of emotional intelligence, expression, and management are woven alongside her treatment of children’s drawings, art exhibitions, and writings in a way that expands the scope of contemporary media studies. Don’t Use Your Words! is a great accomplishment and a true gift to us all—children, parents, and scholars alike." -- Sarah Projansky, author of Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture"[Juffer] develops a theory challenging the idea that children cannot be viewed as having emotional intelligence. [...] This book is an excellent read for parents, psychological researchers, and educators of all sorts." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisAn irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of cry-along sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are?Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Karen Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observerTrade ReviewThe analysis presents bracing assessments of network TV touchstones, and Tongson’s wit is a treat. Thought-provoking and full of fresh insights, this entertains and enlightens. * Publishers Weekly *What begins as a searing cultural critique of the prevalence of sentimental, whitewashed television shows—This is Us, Parenthood, etc.—unfurls brilliantly into a soul-stirring reflection on personal and cultural grief and the palliative effects of plainness. Tongson exquisitely captures what it means for queer people in particular to find solace in the quotidian. * Electric Literature *Emotionally cathartic. The critic’s wrestling with the compromises that the pleasures of mass culture inevitably demand is heartfelt. In a word, it’s normal. * Arts Fuse *A personal and heartfelt ode to the problematic pleasures of normalcy. Insightful, relatable, and funny, Tongson is a master at twirling the personal around the political, giving us a layered, brainy investigation into this sneaky cultural manipulation. * Michelle Tea, author of Valencia *Normporn is a funny, bracing and unrelentingly smart journey through the pop culture of the last twenty years to explain the confused, damaged state of American identity. Karen Tongson takes a look at everything from WandaVision to True Blood to parse out the conflicting ideas of what America is and should be. It’s that rarest of books, a searingly intellectual cultural analysis that’s fun and dishy enough for the beach. * Guy Branum, author of My Life As A Goddess *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, whether that means noting a long history of new media, or tracing how understandings of media power vary across time periods and knowledge formations. Bringing together an impressive group of established scholars from television studies, film studies, sound studies, games studies, and more, each of the 65 essays in the volume focuses on a critical concept, from fan to industry, and celebrity to surveillance. Keywords for Media Studies is an essential tool that introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers aTrade ReviewWritten by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today. -- Lynn Spigel,Northwestern UniversityOuellette and Grays lexicon of media terms frames complicated constructs in clear and succinct descriptions that tend to render obscure terms accessible to students studying media theory. * Choice *[Keywords for Media Studies] is an excellent and comprehensive reference point for both media studies scholars and students. * European Journal of Communication *

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Book SynopsisA rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era This content is not available in your country. At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Whether trying to watch a DVD purchased during a vacation abroad, play an imported Japanese video game, or listen to a Spotify library while traveling, we are constantly reminded of geography's imprint on digital culture. We are locked out. Despite utopian hopes of a borderless digital society, DVDs, video games, and streaming platforms include digital rights management mechanisms that block media access within certain territories. These technologies of regional lockout are meant first and foremost to keep the entertainment industries' global markets distinct. But they also frustrate consumers and place territories on a hierarchy of global media access. Drawing on extensive research of media-industry strategies,Trade Review‘Lockout’—the region code restrictions in DVDs and videogame consoles and geo-blocking in on-demand services—is at once a more insidious and banal form of control than that envisaged by critics of cultural imperialism. In this wide-ranging book, Evan Elkins has brought us up to date on the textured detail of such technological control, and bequeathed us the theory tools to understand its impact on culture, audiences, and producers. -- Stuart Cunningham, co-author of Social Media EntertainmentLocked Out effectively illustrates the complex cultural, technological, regulatory, and economic reasons why consumers’ access to media content remains so unequal on a global basis. Historically informed, methodologically rich, and fluidly written, Locked Out represents a significant contribution to work on global media flows, distribution cultures, and the cultural history of technology. -- Alisa Perren, author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990sElkins quickly puts aside the staid dichotomy of critical-cultural and political economy approaches to the study of media industries, and instead engages both arenas to paint a more nuanced picture of how regional lockout shapes global media culture [...] Highly accessible, Locked Out would be a generative text in both undergraduate and graduate courses on digital media, media industries, transnational and global media, and cultural geography, as well as for scholars in these fields. * Media Industries *

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Book SynopsisMillions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of southerners--and people in general--are controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern.Drawing from a broad range of narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives challenged concepts of southern nationhood and redefined southern identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South, particularly in the m

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Book SynopsisThe supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows--the female ghost. Inherently liminal, often literally invisible, the female ghost has nevertheless appeared in all genres. Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture brings this figure into the light, exploring her cultural significance in a variety of media from 1926 to 2014. Robin Roberts argues that the female ghost is well worth studying for what she can tell us about feminine subjectivity in cultural contexts.Subversive Spirits examines appearances of the female ghost in heritage sites, theater, Hollywood film, literature, and television in the United States and the United Kingdom. What holds these disparate female ghosts together is their

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewAn absorbing meditation on an object of lasting cultural significance. * Sydney Morning Herald *As the page is to the book, so is the bookshelf to our culture, that is the lesson of this delightful and stimulating essay. Anything can happen on a page, so too, we learn, a bookshelf partakes of that astonishing range of possibility, circumscribed only by rectilinear geometry, a mode nonpareil of storing, displaying, distributing, assembling, categorizing and contextualizing knowledge. Even virtually, it continues unabashed, as a metaphor, like browsing. A lovely glimpse of the joy and scale of human culture endeavor, its forms and functions, contexts and containers. * Richard Nash, Publisher, Red Lemonade *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Bookshelf: What’s In a Name? Chapter 1. From Medieval to Modern: Bookshelves in Chains Chapter 2. The Things that Go On a Bookshelf Chapter 3. Bookshelves That Move Chapter 4. Bookshelves as Signs and Symbols Chapter 5. The Life Cycle of a Bookshelf Conclusion. The Plural Futures of Bookshelves Bibliography Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisAs for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as survival horror as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since Haunted House (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its principal issues. It studies the most important games and game series, from Haunted House (1981) to Alone in the Dark (1992- ), Resident Evil (1996-present), Silent Hill (1999-present), Fatal Frame (2001-present), Dead Space (2008-2013), Amnesia: the Dark Descent (2010), and The Evil Within (2014). Accessibly written, The World of Scary Video Trade ReviewPerron's essay is a rare example of a complete examination of a particular genre, and the way the author went about proposing the synthesis of a subject - perhaps not total, but also close as much as possible - should be a model for such an exercise in the future. * Spirale Magazine *It will undoubtedly find a place on many readers’ shelves. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *Thorough and laden with in-depth knowledge, The World of Scary Video Games is an invaluable resource for fans, scholars and artist/designers of horror. * Tanya Krzywinska, Professor of Digital Games and Director, Games Academy, Falmouth Unversity, UK *(Bloomsbury translation) Newcomers to this field of research will find a wealth of information on digital horror thanks to the detailed descriptions and historical overview, while experts will find new approaches and a well-founded bibliography to further their own research. * MEDIENwissenschaft *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Genre Chapter One The Horror: Falling into the Arena of Video Game Genres Crossing Paths with a “Monstrous” Concept The Need to Use a New Combo Finding Some Directions Chapter Two “You have once again entered the world of survival horror. Good luck!” Loading Screen… A Species of Their Own A Cross-Media Genre The (Survival) Horror Genre Chapter Three Something to Fear: From the Fictional to the Videoludic Gut Reactions The Answer Is Fear Fear-Motivated Actions Chapter Four Building the Pyramid of Scary Video Games: Toward the Scare Tactics of the Videoludic Horror Genre The Gaming Apparatus: Technical and Formal Aspects The Videoludic Treatment of Horror Figures of Interactivity, Actional Modalities and Scare Tactics The Pyramid of Scary Video Games Part II: The History Chapter Five Thinking about the History of the Videoludic Horror Genre, Part I: From Teleology to the Initial Cluster Teleology, This Monster (Before 1981) The Scattered Generic Cluster (1981-1991) Chapter Six Thinking about the History of the Videoludic Horror Genre, Part II: Crystallization and Bipolarity The Crystallization of the Survival Horror (1992-2005) The Antipodal Clusters: Fight or Flight (2006-2016) Scary Virtual Reality (2017 and the future…) Part III: The Scare Tactics Chapter Seven The Frightening Regimes of Vision The Experience of Gamership Third-Person Frightening Regime of Vision First-Person Frightening Regime of Vision Seeing Is Not Everything Chapter Eight The Frightening Regimes of Audition Third-Person and First-Person Frightening Regimes of Audition Synch to the Rendering of the Gruesomeness (In) A Fearful Mood Dreadful Listening and Terrifying Forewarnings Chapter Nine Scary Playgrounds Setting the Mood Caught up in the Maze Unsettling Progression Chapter Ten Monsters Meet Scared Player(-Characters) Some Kind of Monster Figures Under Threat Seek and Destroy Surviving Horror Afterword References Ludography Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocialthe quintessential accessory for the me generation. In Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space. Ranging from postwar Japan to the present, Tuhus-Dubrow tells an illuminating story about our emotional responses to technological change. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewA compelling and expertly researched study of the Sony Walkman. * New Books Network *An honest & deft entry in [Bloomsbury's] Object Lessons series. * Music Book Review *In 2017, having music pumped into your ears through headphones while existing in public is a thoroughly normal thing to do. But as Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow outlines in the delightful Personal Stereo, being able to do so is a relatively recent development ... Her thoughtfulness imbues this chronicle of a once-modern, now-obsolete device with a mindfulness that isn’t often seen in writing about technology. * Pitchfork (named one of Pitchfork's favorite books of 2017) *[A] careful, astute study. * The Wire *Tuhus-Dubrow illuminates a web of stories connected to the Walkman, her references as ubiquitous as its users ... After finishing Personal Stereo, I found myself wondering about the secret lives of every object around me, as if each device were whispering, “Oh, I am much so more than meets the eye”... Tuhus-Dubrow is a master researcher and synthesizer. It would appear that she has left no Walkman-related stone unturned ... Tuhus-Dubrow [is] an elegant, engaging storyteller who unpacks complex social and political concepts with clarity and panache ... Personal Stereo is a joy to read. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Personal Stereo is loving, wise, and exuberant, a moving meditation on nostalgia and obsolescence. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow writes as beautifully about Georg Simmel and Allan Bloom as she does about Jane Fonda and Metallica. Now I understand why I still own the taxicab-yellow Walkman my grandmother gave me in 1988. * Nathaniel Rich, author of Odds Against Tomorrow *Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow’s affectionate history traces the Walkman out of an electronics workshop in bombed-out postwar Tokyo to global icon of solitary, un-networked bliss. * Sasha Issenberg, author of The Sushi Economy *Personal Stereo explores the development of the Walkman, its impact on our culture, and its legacy, not only highlighting its time as a status symbol but discussing its surprising resurgence today as part of the analog revolution. Plus Tuhus-Dubrow shares her own personal memories of Walkman ownership, offering a nice intimate touch to a book full of fun pop-culture trivia and anecdotes. Perhaps the best part of Personal Stereo was seeing parallels between reactions to the Walkman and recent complaints about smartphone ownership. (Particularly regarding selfishness and isolation.) Observing these cyclical historical undercurrents, large and small, is both entertaining and engaging. You might have preferred your iPod, but there’s no doubt the Walkman was worthy of a tribute and brief history like this. * San Francisco Book Review *Tuhus-Dubrow’s valuable historical and pop cultural analysis provides a genuine yet evenhanded portrait of all that has been loved and lost in the way the personal stereo has impacted public spaces and social communication. Personal Stereo is a clear-eyed study on the way this technology continues to disrupt, for better and for worse. * PopMatters *A fascinating and informative, yet also nostalgic, look at the rise and fall of the personal stereo ... The author has worked hard to make this book readable, accessible and thorough in its enquiry ... Tuhus-Dubrow manages to keep the feel of the book light and engaging. It has enough information in to feel academically researched, yet is written in an easily accessible fashion ... Although I enjoyed the final 'Nostalgia' section, I think anybody with an interest in design, business, technology, or social and cultural history, will find the first section, 'Novelty', an interesting delve into the development of Sony as a company, its founders, and its famous Walkman. Five stars. * The Bookbag *Personal Stereo accomplishes a lot in the short time it takes to read. It reminds readers (or informs them) of just how revolutionary the Walkman experience was, and how much it anticipated today's conversations about technology and personal space. * The Current *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Novelty 2: Norm 3: Nostalgia Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index

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