Cultural and media studies

Fashion Public Relations delivers a practical approach to the world of public relations and image management, specifically related to the fashion industry.

In this book the expert international contributors attempt to answer questions such as: How far is it possible to attribute change in contemporary Russia as due to cultural factors?

This wide-ranging volume presents an in-depth picture of adolescent sexuality and behavior.

Community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations are all actively exploring the potential of the new information and communication technologies to bring about democratic development and renewal.

This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem.

Die aus Biologie und Kulturgeschichte folgende Andersartigkeit der sozialen, politischen, ökonomischen, kulturellen und intellektuellen Erfahrungswelt weiblicher Autoren lässt andere Imaginationen und andere formalästhetische Ausdrucksformen erwarten als bei ihren männlichen Kollegen.

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.

News stories of the less fortunate, the socio-economically disenfranchised in North America are too often presented to fascinate or horrify their consumers with a construct of stereotypes which commodify and intentionally erase the real lives of people "e;covered"e; by the popular media.

Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements.

The first practical, hands-on guide for female farmers Women in agriculture are sprouting up in record numbers, but they face a host of distinct challenges and opportunities.

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Das Buch analysiert die Auswirkungen der digitalen Medien auf Legitimität, Öffentlichkeit, Transparenz sowie Willensbildung und Partizipation in der repräsentativen Demokratie.

Think/Point/Shoot gives students a thorough overview of the role of ethics in modern media creation.

This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace.

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Anti-consumerism has become a conspicuous part of contemporary activism and popular culture, from 'culture jams' and actions against Esso and Starbucks, through the downshifting and voluntary simplicity movements, the rise of ethical consumption and organic and the high profile of films and books like Supersize Me!

Dieses MCC Online-Marketing Kompendium liefert Ihnen das komplette Wissensspektrum, von den Online-Marketing Grundlagen, den eCommerce Grundlagen bis hin zur Online-Marketing Konzeption.

This excellent book covers editing in the digital age, demonstrating the tools needed for effective text editing.

This book offers a new framework for reading the Bible as a work of reason.

The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border.

Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones, E-Reader, Smart TVs und seit neuestem auch VR-Brillen – wir sind umgeben von Displays und Interfaces.

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm - embodiment, heteronormativity, partnering - and about fitting in, or not, with those narratives.

This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an indispensible guide to the most important terms in the field.

This book constitutes the first monograph dedicated to an academic analysis of David Bowie's appearances in film.

Streaming media has irreversibly revolutionised the ways in which media is transmitted and consumed.

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Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greater impact on film industrial practices than ever before.

Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and their allies.

This monograph examines the complex relationship between Antonio Buero Vallejo [1916 - 2000] and the ideologies of Francoist and post-Franco Spain.

Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, God and Progress offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book is about the application of ergonomics in handicraft manufacturing and design keeping in mind the two sets of users, craftsmen and customers buying handicraft items.

Infolge der rasanten Entwicklungen im Kommunikationsbereich, steht das Recht auf Privatsphare vor immer neuen Herausforderungen.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening.

The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Edmund Burke's historical thought, a neglected area of both Burke scholarship and historiography.

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory.

There should no longer be any doubt: drones are here to stay.

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.

Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation.

One in a series of twenty Old Testament verse-by-verse commentary books edited by Max Anders.

Fresh fruit exported from Chile has become commonplace in our supermarkets during the winter months.

The Magpie and the Wardrobe A Curiosity of Folklore, Magic and Spells, is a lovingly curated compendium of time-honoured traditions and curious customs that have bewitched us for generations.