Cultural and media studies

Internet-ontologies-Things explores how power mobilizes algorithmic and ontological objects, for example smartwatches and smart buildings, to uncover hidden problems within the physical domains of the IoT.

In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas.

This anthology hopes to contribute, in particular, to the analysis of the mutually constitutive interaction of the use of cyberspace and Asian cultures, with particular attention to ethical, feminist, and religious perspectives especially within Catholic Christianity.

The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths.

This book takes the case of the civil war disappeared in Lebanon to draw on fiction's potential to inform peacebuilding processes by allowing the exploration of invisible histories in postwar Beirut.

This book provides a semiotic analysis of 'scenes', powerful vehicles for introducing new ideas, perspectives and behaviours, as a concept.

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C.

This book examines how fiscal policy and management can promote gender equality in developing as well as developed countries.

This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers.

Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored.

Der Historiker Anton Tantner erzählt die Geschichte derer, die nicht zueinander kommen, weil sie nicht voneinander wissen.

This book examines the reasons behind the democratic deficit and analyzes the consequences for active citizenship, for governance and, ultimately, for democratization.

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.

This original new book researches into the praxis of this democracy and its media, delving into Ghana's evolvement, media practice, leadership aspirations, pressure group politics and ethnic and tribal cleavages.

This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions.

Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces.

Der Band gibt eine kompakte Übersicht zu zentralen Theorien (in) der Kommunikationswissenschaft.

Adolescence is both universal and culturally constructed, resulting in diverse views about its defining characteristics.

This title was first published in 1976.

A childhood comic book fan turned comic book retailer, the author soon discovered the prevalence of scams in the world of comics collecting.

Basic text for freshman composition courses.

A CTPT rendition of a controversial and important text.

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era.

This edited collection addresses how therapy can engage with issues of race, culture, religion and spirituality.

Landscape and branding explores the way landscape is conceptualised, conceived, represented and designed by professionals in a brand-driven age.

This book argues that public relations is not merely an organizational tool, but a powerful influence on social and political life.

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding.

Now more than ever, indigenous peoples' interests in their cultural heritage are in the spotlight.

From Moscow, the world looks different.

Latinos have contributed a tremendous amount to American cultural heritage, injecting energy, a unique style, and piquant flavor.

In wissenschaftlichen Betrachtungen zum Film gibt es eine merkwürdige Trennung von Körperlichkeit und Textualität in der Rezeptionsforschung und -theorie.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

This book is about the emergence of a stream of ideas in the 1930s and 1940s within Imamiyya Shi?

Originally published in 1947, The Vertical Man explores a form of Indian sculpture largely ignored in other studies, with a focus on two kinds of sculpture from the province of Bihar.

Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or post-metaphysical thinking.

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics.

The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer famous for The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Red Shoesand many other now classic tales.

What can depictions of psychotherapy on screen teach us about ourselves?

In this book, Yan Geng examines Mao's image from the perspective of its producers, focusing on four artists, chosen for both the diverse media they worked in and their diverse backgrounds.

"Vorarlberg kompakt" geht in die Verlängerung!

Produced to fill a gap in current knowledge about the state of journalism in Latin America, this timely book chronicles how recent changes toward democratization and privatization in the region have influenced mass media industries and the practice of journalism.

By accepted standards of tradition, Calvert's culture is declining.

From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing Jeremy Corbyn, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organisation: the digital party.