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Is your inner artist awake and inspired, bursting with brilliant ideas? Or, has it been slumbering so long you almost forgot you had one?In this heartfelt and uplifting book, award-winning author and creative entrepreneur Teresa R. Funke draws on nearly...

Reshaping the News: Community, Engagement, and Editors is the culmination of a six-year search for an economic resolution to the digital business conundrum facing the newspaper industry.

The case studies in this book, many of which have won national or international awards, represent an impressive scope of public relations practice - from public diplomacy to corporate social responsibility to community relations to tourism to fundraising...

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is characterised by a more and more networked and social structure.

The study of health information seeking has become increasingly important in recent years due to the growing emphasis on the consumer/client relationship in the health arena. This trend implies a shift away from the development of health campaigns with...

It may be said that the beauty of art comes from the struggle that is involved in creating it: struggle to hear the voice, struggle to understand the voice, struggle to express or articulate the voice, struggle to let others hear the voice, and struggle...

I know the first thing you're saying is "Whoa. That's expensive for a paperback book." But let me ask you a question. How long have you been trying to build your career? How many hours have you spent banging your head against a wall?...

Through the contributions of women working in the creative industries, this timely book explores the role of creativity in their lives, the experiences that have positively contributed to and supported their creativity and their work, as well as how...

This volume discusses some of the fundamental traits of the GEMMA feminist alliances, affective convergences and transformative research constructed throughout 15 years of working together.

Artistic intervention, where the world of the arts is brought into organizations, has increasingly become a research field in itself with strong links to both creativity and innovation. Opportunities for the arts to interact with public and private...

Considering that the press is one of the fundamental elements of democracy, this book investigates how the political agenda has been presented in the print media in Turkey.

Im Zuge der so genannten Flüchtlingskrise und der Zunahme von Demonstrationen gegen eine befürchtete Islamisierung des Abendlandes nahmen die Diffamierungen von Medien zu und subsumierten sich plakativ unter dem Schlagwort Lügenpresse. In seiner...

Based on a transcultural understanding of politeness and translation, this book proposes a transdisciplinary methodology for detecting patterns of perceiving and realizing politeness by users of English with different lingua-cultural biographies. It...

Die Autorin untersucht, ob die Verfügbarkeit eines Online-Wörterbuchs im grundschulischen Englischunterricht für den individuellen Gebrauch die Lernerautonomie steigert. Sie analysiert die Ergebnisse zu Wortschatzerweiterung und Wortschatzbehalten und ob...

This volume offers an original view on education for sustainable and solidary development (ESSD). It proposes　reflections and practices across disciplines on: various means and methods for an effective teaching/learning process; transversal skills...

The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously and sometimes paradoxically serving to reinforce, fracture, and/or transcend the ideology of good motherhood.

This edited collection aims to examine religion across: historical media forms using a broad concept of media, contemporary media with a focus on digital forms, religious traditions, and disciplinary approaches. This book attempts to address issues of...

This edited volume shares research on the impact and interaction of campaigns and programming from advertising, marketing, and public relations on internal (e.g., practitioners and employees) and external (e.g., consumers, activists) stakeholders from...

Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today's television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fake memories: Paul Booth's analysis reveals the theory and practices that are changing television and online...

The Skylight and the Dark Room: A Complete Textbook on Portrait Photography is a comprehensive guide to the art of portrait photography, written by Elbert Anderson and originally published in 1872. The book covers all aspects of the portrait photography...

This book presents two lost histories. One relates to the biography of the Vienna Circle-philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) whose life-story reflects the tumultuous early twentieth century, the other to the history of museums, exhibitions, and of...

What's the shape of a market? What's the shape of your business? What's the shape of your conversation? What's the shape of your thought? Are there shapes for those? If there are, how can we see them and why do we need to see them? In other words, why...

This volume traces curious children, eager adolescents, exploring adults, committed partners, and vibrant elderly in their negotiation of sexual development and changes in relationships. It emphasizes communication research dispersed across several...

Practical, Motivational and Inspirational The Modern Artist’s Way: How to Build a Successful Career as a Creative in the 21st Century is a new business book by art dealer and advisor, curator, speaker and inspirational coach Bridgette Mayer.ART MBA...

The purpose of this study is to explore how automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) has framed its corporate identity in domestic ads to convey the 'American brand' image. The author argues that GM has continuously used a patriotic framing in its...

This book offers a range of complementary perspectives on Audiovisual Translation. Inquiries of linguistic, cultural, sociological, computational, educational and historical nature give a comprehensive account of AVT as an expanding and heterogeneous,...

The book analyzes debates about civil-military relationships in post-9/11 wars, observing how civic activists promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for US society. It reads non-Native military life writing and interactions with civilians...

Das Buch zeigt die sich dynamisch entwickelnde Textlinguistik aus dem Blickwinkel des polonistischen und des germanistischen Forschungskreises. Bei der Verwendung neuester theoretischer Ansätze präsentiert er Analysen von modernen Medientexten und...

Democratising the museum is a collection of articles about participation intended for academics and professionals. Democratic museum shares power with the visitors while negotiating the concept of professionalism. In this book the idea of participatory...

This volume discusses how privacy is understood today. Given the multidimensional character of privacy, the book analyses the variety and complexity of its meanings by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. The essays reveal the multifaceted aspects of...

Using the economic perspective, this exciting text offers an alternative view to sociological or art historic approaches to art. The issues discussed include: institutions from festivals to "superstar" museums, different...

Creating your own author 'swag', or merchandise can bring in income and engage your readers as well as giving you the creative edge at literary events and festivals. Bands and film-makers always create merchandise for their creative works, now...

Through a transdisciplinary approach, this book delves into the impact of Artificial Intelligence and new media within the realm of Neoliberal capitalism, whilst issuing a call for action.

While there is some skepticism toward the radical hypothesis of the death of the media, there is mounting concern regarding the changing media space(s) and the relevance of the media's roles and places in different and diverse social spheres. The...

This book explores the concept of the communicative city, developed initially by participants in an international Urban Communication Foundation initiative, by bringing together scholars from across the communication arts and sciences seeking to enhance...

Uniting communication and postcolonial studies, this volume historically situates seminal essays in the field alongside new essays that aim to answer the question: How, if at all, might communication scholars extend, or even renew, the postcolonial...

Based on Web design best practices and data collected from close to 2000 websites in more than 30 countries over a period of eight years, this book defines a methodology for identifying patterns - a pattern language.

Old New Media examines how the introduction of a new medium threatens those accustomed to the old media environment. The book includes theoretical chapters and case studies in five areas: media ecology; critical media theory; freedom of expression;...

This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, and the...

By combining extended qualitative interviews and textual analysis, this book provides an insightful analysis of how the women who are socially located in the Indian diaspora use the spectacle of Bollywood cinema to renegotiate cultural meanings of home,...

African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include...

This book demonstrates how young people from around the world appropriate and reconfigure old and new media in the process of creating personal and social narratives. Five youth media initiatives from Palestine, Israel, India, South Africa, and the...

In examining the hero to villain arc of sport celebrity, this volume features leading scholars from the fields of media, sport, and cultural studies who bring diverse vantage points to understanding how contemporary sport celebrities become heroes and...

Public relations experts and crisis management personnel have done an excellent job over the years of drawing attention to the grand scope of risks associated with crisis. Particularly in the present challenging economic conditions, organizations have...