Cultural and media studies

Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher.

Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of national unity.

In this book, leading and emerging scholars consider the mixed critical responses to Lena Dunham's TV series Girls and reflect on its significance to contemporary debates about postfeminist popular cultures in a post-recession context.

This book explores the use of technology in young people's social lives against a backdrop of "e;online safety measures"e; put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services.

This book offers support and guidance to sexuality professionals who are looking at different strategies to progress their careers, accounting for all the diverse jobs they can take on or create.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

Based on social research conducted in different countries in Europe, the U.

Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling for Online, Broadcast and Documentary Journalists is an essential guide for solo video storytellers-from "e;backpack"e; videojournalists to short-form documentary makers to do-it-all broadcast reporters.

This book has been initiated by the workshop on Cultural heritage in changing landscapes, held during the IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) European Conference that started in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 200 1 and continued across the Baltic to Tartu, Estonia, in JUly.

The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema.

This rigorously written book on the areas of Islamic principle theory and application is expected to break new ground in modern economic analysis, both for the Islamically inclined and others.

PHILIP SNOWDEN was a proud Yorkshireman, a founding father of the Labour Party, its first Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually was seen as a traitor by the movement he did so much to build.

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition.

From Fanatics to Folk rejects conventional understandings of Brazilian millenarianism as exceptional and self-defeating.

This book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media.

This work is intended as an introduction to the study of Soviet psy- chology.

Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western cities.

This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh.

The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century.

At a moment when superheroes dominate pop culture, Gary Bettinson takes us back to the first comic book blockbuster.

The Solo Video Journalist, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the solo video reporting process from start to finish.

As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.

This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom.

In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational historian, Timothy Glander uses archival materials that have not been widely studied to document, contextualize, and interpret the dominant expressions of this field during the time in which it became rooted in American academic life, and tries to give articulation to the larger historical forces that gave the field its fundamental purposes.

Winner of the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award in 2012, Chandra Mukerji offers with this remarkable new book an explanation of the birth and subsequent proliferation of the many strands in the braid of modernity.

Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pokemon Go on the relationship between parents and their children.

This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran.

Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past.

Welches Radiopublikum lässt sich zu welchen Tageszeiten erreichen, mit welchen Radioformaten, in welchen Nutzungssituationen?

Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume - the type of costume that creates an almost complete stage environment by itself, simultaneously acting as costume, set and performance.

Die Veranstaltungswirtschaft hat sich nach dem Lockdown auf den Weg zu einem „New Normal“ begeben, in dem Live- und digitale Kommunikation eng verbunden sind.

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation.

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.

The Textbook seeks for an innovative approach to Sustainability Communication as transdisciplinary area of research.

Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics.

This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a theoretical and methodological tool for examining the co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have typically been considered as distinct objects of studies.

Juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D with in-depth case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecentres to draw implications for the possible development trajectories induced by the provision of ICTs in rural hinterlands of India.

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture.

The Music Industry Handbook, Second edition is an expert resource and guide for all those seeking an authoritative and user-friendly overview of the music industry today.

In global consumer culture, brands structure an economy of symbolic exchange that gives value to the meanings consumers attach to the brand name, logo, and product category.

This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry.

First published in 1987, this book presents contributions from international authorities reviewing major themes in variant sexuality.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past two hundred years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism, and propaganda.

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.

This book focuses on the spaces and practices of caring for horses, explored in a series of case studies set across the equine lifespan.

This edited book highlights the identities and practices of ethnically diverse families and schools in contexts where multicultural policies are not always a priority.

Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves?

First published in 1982, Organizing Educational Broadcasting provides advice and guidance in organizational and managerial skills for those responsible for the operation of educational broadcasting systems.