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Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education programs. In this important book, Darius D. Prier explores how hip-hop artists construct a sense of democratic...

Through the lens of lifestyle drug advertisements, Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family unpacks our contemporary obsession with obtaining easy solutions for difficult problems. The ads' discourse illuminates the experience of living within a society...

This book balances critical theory and professional practice to create specific strategies that result in more effective and enlightened news production and consumption. Emerging from the integral theories of Teilhard de Chardin and embracing Neil...

Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body converge or collide. The book will appeal to...

When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1's Divas Live riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form of the Black Diva. Tracing the trajectory of the Diva figure from the Italian castrati to Ntozake Shange's...

This visually stunning catalogue presents a wide range of beautifully crafted frames, mouldings, backing, and solid walnut work. With detailed illustrations and pricing information, it's an indispensable resource for anyone looking to decorate their home...

This book (a novel, really), tells the story of Robert and Ethel Scull. While Robert came from an impoverished immigrant background, he married Ethel Redner, whose father ran a small taxi company (not rich, but certainly comfortable enough that their...

The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound changes within the media and sports. These athletes undermined the original sports-hero ideology and...

This book comprises 12 contributions to the fields of Communication and Cultural Studies. Researchers of the PhD Program in Communication explore social, economic and political dimensions of communication in the digital age from different perspectives...

The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in techno-economic, political and cultural spheres. The contributors focus on the increasing complexity within information societies and allow a better understanding...

Die medienlinguistische Studie befasst sich mit der Analyse der Kommunikation in französischen Weblogs. Sie gibt Einblick in die Sprachverwendung zur Identitätskonstruktion, zu verwendeten Textsorten, zur Herausbildung einer Gruppensprache und zur...

Cet ouvrage expose les conceptions de la langue et du texte que les professionnels des médias écrits québécois ressentent comme des normes en matière de rédaction d'articles. L'étude se base sur une analyse de contenu d'un corpus d'entrevues et contribue...

This book analyses the adaptivity of public service media to the digital network age. Terrestrial, analogue public service broadcasters - PBS - of the 20th century appear, on the surface, to have made a successful transition into becoming 2nd millennia...

This book analyzes unobvious relations between historical definitions of the face and its contemporary usage in popular culture and social media, like Facebook or Instagram. The authors focus on both metaphorical and material meanings of the face and...

Der Sammelband untersucht, inwieweit Verknappung bewusst als funktionales Instrument und zeitgenössisches Stilmittel in Sprache, Kultur und neuen Medien eingesetzt wird.

This book is the second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age-MEDA. The contributions discuss the risks of the digital turn in educational storytelling but also of the opportunities for critical engagements. They...

This book aspires to make an expedient contribution to the trust-based body of knowledge. It approaches trust from the standpoint of different sub-branches of communication discipline, including brand management, public relations research, comparative...

This book offers a cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphoricity of visual representations in comics. It implements an exploration of conventionalized visual signs depicting diegetic situations, motion events, sound events, and diverse psychological...

Im Fokus dieses Buches steht die Frage der Argumentationsindikatoren, das heißt der typischen Wörter und Ausdrücke, die bei der Identifizierung der Argumentationsvorgänge behilflich sein können. Der Autor exemplifiziert die aufgelisteten Indikatoren im...

The book explains when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy. The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internationally. The Polish...

Twitter was extensively used during the 2014 European Parliamentary elections. This volume analyses campaign-related microblogging activity in six countries, providing insights into communication styles and strategies observed in different languages and...

Exploring the genre of advertising in three European languages (British English, French and Polish), this volume offers a contrastive study of the differences between high- and low-context cultures. Aspects covered include the use of foreign languages,...

Dieses Buch untersucht sprachwissenschaftliche und medienspezifische Fragestellungen sowie Herangehensweisen unter dem Aspekt der Medienlinguistik. Die AutorInnen beziehen dabei Ansätze, Konzepte und Methoden weiterer Disziplinen mit ein und geben anhand...

Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been widely used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi's deliberate...

In a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality, 19 authors and specialists, of diverse origins, consider how transculturality can help us understand the world. The contributions deal with literary texts, movies, drama, and visual art. The chapters...

Speziell für Frauen haben sich die Bedingungen im Literaturbetrieb in den letzten 60 Jahren stark verändert und der Buchmarkt ist mehr denn je von rasanten Entwicklungen bestimmt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen u.a. den Einfluss dieser...

Im Zentrum dieses interdisziplinären Bandes steht die mediale Repräsentation von Täter- und Opfergemeinschaften. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Auseinandersetzung mit den Folgen der Zerstörung menschlicher Gemeinschaft durch politisch und ethnisch motivierte...

The aim of this conference proceeding was an attempt to answer the question what the phenomenon of convergence really is with regard to media, and how the permeation of media phenomena influences contemporary culture. The debate included thematic blocks...

A career as a freelance artist? Not possible, you say? The Three Jaguars beg to differ! In this cartoon and checklist-filled guide, Marketer, Business Manager, and Artist walk you through the challenges of starting and building a creative business...

Are you an artist struggling to figure out the "business" of being an artist? Did you go to college or grad school to refine your talent but have a hard time getting your work seen or recognized in the art world? Are you living sale to sale, or seeking a...

This anthology collectively critiques the commodification of the post-princess child consumer through analysis of historical and contemporary toys, video games, clothing, websites, and other popular culture phenomena.

Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive, powerful, albeit...

Mutated Symbols in Law and Pop Culture plays with iconic representations of fusion, liminality, dispossession, and development.

The second volume of Ethics for a Digital Age contains a selection of research presented at the fifth and sixth Annual International Symposia on Digital Ethics hosted by the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago's School of...

Pathology & Technology is the first comprehensive look at "technopathologies."

Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy - from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West - this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term...

This book offers unique insights into how news media today make disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how globalization is affecting the meanings of disaster...

This book argues for - and carries out - what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological...

The chapters reprinted in this volume have been selected to showcase the variety and diversity of topics published in the Mediated Youth series. Grounded in cultural studies, they approach mediated youth through the lenses of race, ethnicity, gender,...

Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social identities, gun violence, and public policy. The chapters...

Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereotypes in fictional programming. The book draws attention to the group labeled as disabled, which is often...

Now in its second edition, Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus.At a time when our networks arguably feel more insecure than ever, the book provides an...

This volume addresses questions and explores scenarios, phenomena, and developments which point to new configurations arising from new media business models, innovative ways in which media practitioners engage their audiences, intercontinental media...

Using the Dexter saga of novels and television programs as its basis, the book argues that a Dexter Syndrome has emerged whereby we no longer see a difference between real and fictional serial killers.

This innovative book draws together the work of seventeen writers to show that, starting in the 1640s during the English Civil War, and continuing through to the present time, humor has indeed been an important ingredient of journalism. Countries studied...

This collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas, presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from six different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina.

This volume provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and...

As corporations ramp up workforce globalization, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of...