Cultural and media studies Books

This vintage text comprises a popular treatise containing concise and dependable information on the breeding, feeding, care and management of pigs - to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure, and profit. Complete with clear, concise...

This early work is a fascinating read for any goat enthusiast or historian of the breed, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical for the amateur or professional goat farmer today. Contents Include: How Goats are Kept;...

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.Feminism can reflect the cultural moment, especially as media appropriate and use feminist messaging and agenda...

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

The San Francisco Chronicle And Its History is a historical account of the San Francisco Chronicle, a daily newspaper that has been in circulation since 1865. Published in 1879 by the Chronicle itself, the book provides a detailed look at the newspaper's...

Observations on the Increased Population, Healthiness, etc. of the Town of Maidstone is a book written by John Howlett in 1782. The book is a detailed account of the population growth, health conditions, and other aspects of the town of Maidstone during...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural criticism to pose challenging questions for today's students of media.

Based on interviews and extensive archival research, American Consultants and the Marketization of Television News in the United Kingdom offers unprecedented insight into American news consultants' role in reshaping British television news during the...

This book centers around the first research study administered on Julius Malema's YouTube rhetoric. This research was conducted on Julius Malema's rhetoric and his audience member's reactions to his rhetoric, a bottom-up approach to research, during the...

This book articulates a communicative praxis for resisting multiple forms of oppression by showing how everyday performances of identity and culture challenge master narratives of power and control. As an emancipatory tool, it recenters...

L'Hermite de Londres V2: Ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Anglais au Commencement du XIX Si�����cle (1821) est un livre �����crit par Felix Macdonogh. Il s'agit d'une �����tude sur les coutumes et les habitudes des Anglais au d�����but du...

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated. Part sporting event, part reality show, and part global festival, the Olympics can be seen as both intensely nationalistic and a celebration of a...

Originally published in 1963. This book tells the story of the closure of the News Chronicle and its London evening companion The Star as seen by two journalists on the News Chronicle. They describe the Daily News tradition, record some of its finest...

Originally published in 1986. This book is a unique compilation of biographical sketches which covers editors, publishers, photographers, bureau chiefs, columnists, commentators, cartoonists, and artists. Alphabetical entries provide overviews of the...

Originally published in 1985. One of the most distinguished editors in the history of British journalism, J. L. Garvin created the Sunday newspaper as we now know it. His career at the Observer spanned the golden age of the British press when newspapers...

Originally published in 1990. The Harmsworth family, starting with Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) is the greatest and most influential press dynasty Britain has known. The dynasty has had by far the greatest impact on the shape of the press today of all...

Originally published in 2003. This book examines the growth of news provision on the internet and its implications for news presentation, journalism practice, news consumers, and the business of running news organizations. Much of the focus is placed on...

Originally published in 1991. This fascinating book of journalism history outlines the author's concepts of the three 'central ideas' in journalism which have evolved through time. The first is the Official Story, that which state authorities wanted...

The Ancient Port of Whitby and Its Shipping: With Some Subjects of Interest Connected Therewith is a book written by Richard Weatherill and published in 1908. The book provides a comprehensive account of the history of Whitby, a port town located on the...

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics Volume 4, published in 1906, is a collection of scholarly articles and essays on the history and politics of Iowa. Edited by Benjamin F. Shambaugh, a prominent historian and political scientist of his time, the...

The book ""Geology Of Victoria: A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Specimens In The Industrial And Technological Museum, Melbourne (1875)"" is written by George H. F. Ulrich. This book is a comprehensive catalogue of the geological specimens found in...

""English Colonies In America V4: The Middle Colonies"" is a historical book written by John Andrew Doyle and originally published in 1907. The book is part of a series that explores the colonization of America by the English, focusing on the various...

Eysen V2: Deutscher Adel Um 1900 (1900) ist ein Buch des deutschen Autors Georg Freiherrn von Ompteda. Es ist der zweite Band einer zweiteiligen Buchreihe und besch�����ftigt sich mit dem deutschen Adel um das Jahr 1900. Das Buch enth�����lt zahlreiche...

El Prontuario Orthologi-Graphico Trilingue En Que Se Ensena A Pronunciar, Escribir, Y Letrear Correctamente, En Latin, Castellano, Y Catalan (1742) escrito por Pedro Martyr Angles es un libro que ense�����a a pronunciar, escribir y deletrear...

This edited volume reflects on the profound effort undertaken by artists to contest settler denial and amnesia to disclose Australia's foundations in racialised violence and land theft. The book examines how First Nations creative and cultural...

This book explores the impact of micro-influencers in the digital age, focusing specifically on creative professionals in the Australian communications industry. It examines the phenomenon of micro-influencers and demonstrates how social media platforms...

This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights. It analyzes Indian cinema from multiple human rights perspectives, such as freedom of expression and censorship, socio-economic...

This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world. As the second volume of Chinese Creative Writing Studies, the first of which introduces Chinese creative writing to English-speaking readers, this book expands on...

Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic...

This book discusses the development strategies of Chinese media convergence in the current, fast-changing communication environment. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical data and based on the author's observations, focus groups, and in-depth...

What makes a body of sound appear as an aesthetic object as well as a method for knowledge? In Sounding Bodies Sounding Worlds, Mickey Vallee argues that we must impose our sonic imagination onto the non-sonic, and embrace how we sound to ourselves,...

This book presents a series of studies on the status quo, characteristics of and trends in China's eSports industry, while also analyzing key problems to help the industry avoid potential risks, seize opportunities for development, and promote industrial...

This book explores the current impasse that global regulators face in the digital sphere. Computer technology has advanced human civilization tenfold, but the freedom to interact with others in cyberspace has made individuals, discrete communities,...

The book explores the WIPO journey so far and looks at how relevant the treaties are in contemporary world after 25 years of their existence. It revisits the WIPO Diplomatic Conference, narrates briefly how the Internet Treaties came into being,...

This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from different generations have engaged politically with China's rapidly changing post-socialist society as it has...

This book is the first linguistic study that combines CL and CDA to compare the media representations of Macau's gaming industry in English-language newspapers published in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. An analytical framework based on the notion...

Dieses Buch untersucht im Rahmen der Framing-Theorie, wie Nachrichtenmedien soziale Themen und Ereignisse konstruieren und dadurch bestimmte Wahrnehmungen vermitteln. Durch die Operationalisierung des medialen Framings als Interpretationsprozess durch...

This book explores translation strategies for films and TV programs. On the basis of case studies on subtitle translations, it argues that translators are expected to take into consideration not only linguistic and cultural differences but also the...

This book investigates the use of digital technologies for social organisation during the Covid-19 pandemic, interrogating the specific relationship between digital technologies and social movements. Drawing upon Marx's theory of alienation and Antonio...

This book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover...

This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the "Other." Propaganda is the science of convincing an...

This book examines how women journalists in Malaysia negotiated male power structures, in particular structures determined by the keystone party of the ruling coalition, the United Malays National Organisation. Through both oral histories and content...

This book gathers a selection of essays on the multifaceted aspects of cyber culture in India, both online and offline. It presents an in-depth analysis of cyberspace and its components, while also exploring its lived reality. The respective...

This book provides the readers with an interdisciplinary perspective on communication in the diffuse boundaries that also demonstrates the diversity and inclusion for presenting wide range and rapid changes in contents, and the authors use "smart" as the...

This book decodes commercial news discourses from the perspective of cognitive semantics. It attaches considerable importance to the bodily experientialism and linguistic embodiment advocated in discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics and explores...