Cultural and media studies

The volume presented here seeks to shift the concept of “media” from its traditional domain to the political field.

Culture change in four steps!

The volume presented here seeks to shift the concept of “media” from its traditional domain to the political field.

When having coffee with your family, you are offered energized water.

When having coffee with your family, you are offered energized water.

This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry.

This book explores the ways in which educators in media programs at colleges and universities can work toward decolonizing the curriculum and implementing necessary practices of media literacy to help students become more responsible media practitioners.

This book explores the ways in which educators in media programs at colleges and universities can work toward decolonizing the curriculum and implementing necessary practices of media literacy to help students become more responsible media practitioners.

This book delivers a unique way of understanding the heart of every first person military shooter game - its enemies - from within the genre itself to present a nuanced view of opponents in war games.

This book delivers a unique way of understanding the heart of every first person military shooter game - its enemies - from within the genre itself to present a nuanced view of opponents in war games.

First published in 1985, Communication and Persuasion examines the subject of persuasion from a broader perspective, encouraging readers to analyze the social and psychological factors alongside the various verbal and non-verbal agencies and media through which influence is often exerted.

An essential guide to writing and editing for digital media, this sixth edition responds to the mainstreaming of genAI (Generative AI) and LLMs (Large Language Models), among many other changes in the best practices of digital storytelling.

First published in 1985, Communication and Persuasion examines the subject of persuasion from a broader perspective, encouraging readers to analyze the social and psychological factors alongside the various verbal and non-verbal agencies and media through which influence is often exerted.

Based on an analysis of 22 crisis cases from 20 countries and NATO (an IGO), this book highlights the link between socio-cultural variables and crisis communication.

First published in 2001, Heritage Sites of Maritime Maharashtra offers an in-depth exploration of 170 heritage sites located within five kilometers of Maharashtra's coast, showcasing its rich maritime tradition.

Sound Knowledge and the Liminal explores liminality as a key feature of life in the Anthropocene.

First published in 2001, Heritage Sites of Maritime Maharashtra offers an in-depth exploration of 170 heritage sites located within five kilometers of Maharashtra's coast, showcasing its rich maritime tradition.

This book helps readers understand the persuasiveness of popular message levels (agenda, knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intention) and factors (sidedness, conclusiveness, and gain- or loss-framing) in communicating critical environmental issues, particularly the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus.

While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment.

This book examines how digital platforms are reconfiguring the parameters of agency and reflexivity in contemporary social life.

This book examines how digital platforms are reconfiguring the parameters of agency and reflexivity in contemporary social life.

Sound Knowledge and the Liminal explores liminality as a key feature of life in the Anthropocene.

This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry.

This book examines cocoa farming in northeast Brazil to explore a fundamental question: can ecological relationships create their own form of law?

This book examines cocoa farming in northeast Brazil to explore a fundamental question: can ecological relationships create their own form of law?

While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment.

Each city from across the globe has its vibrant shades of various histories, cultures, and experiences, and their identities are often most expressed through architecture and the arts.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

This edited book examines the cultural construction of the “public child” and its impact on children’s rights in Australia.

This book explores how minoritized languages and identities are impacted by “deglobalization” - marked by increased state control, declining global market power, and growing repression of civil liberties.

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An essential guide to writing and editing for digital media, this sixth edition responds to the mainstreaming of genAI (Generative AI) and LLMs (Large Language Models), among many other changes in the best practices of digital storytelling.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India''s constitutional future.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory.

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel''s Logic, the foundational work of his philosophical system.

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

By analyzing migration-food security linkages, this book engages with the larger process of uneven development in India.

The public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality.

Leading scholars investigate Kant''s conception of what a human being is and how a human being can act autonomously.

King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Uncovers the rich diversity and distinctive accomplishments of eighteenth-century German thinking, long overshadowed by Kant''s philosophy.