Cultural and media studies

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

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This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the benefits and advantages of adopting technology-driven learning as a central pillar of the universities' teaching, learning, research, and social-responsibility strategies.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2022, which took place in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022.

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life.

This book shares experiences and knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation, risk reduction strategies, communities' responses, and best practices from different landscapes of India.

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c.

This text develops a novel methodology for social investigation into the Flint (Michigan, USA) water crisis by using classical Husserlian phenomenology as its point of departure.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

This comprehensive and up-to-date resource presents the state of the science in the expanding and widely influential field of media psychology and technology.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023.

This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject's personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture.

This book examines an emergent pattern of international student mobility: that of international students from across the African continent who are enrolled on degree programmes at Chinese universities.

This book brings together different intercultural philosophical points of view discussing the philosophical impact of what we call the 'appropriated' religions of Southeast Asia.

This book explores communication as a key influence on the trajectory of conflicts and crises in the specific context of academia.

This book offers an excellent source of knowledge for readers who are interested in keeping up with the developments in the field of cyber security and social media analysis.

This book offers an excellent source of knowledge for readers who are interested in keeping up with the developments in the field of cyber security and social media analysis.

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research in Chinese writing.

The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia.

This book addresses increasing concerns regarding the relationship between social capital and disaster, highlighting conceptual definitions related to social capital and disaster, family, community, vulnerability, disaster experience, and preparedness.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the benefits and advantages of adopting technology-driven learning as a central pillar of the universities' teaching, learning, research, and social-responsibility strategies.

Aspects of the 2017 Final Report of the South African Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) have drawn strong criticism, particularly from South African scholars, politicians and the public.

This book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists.

This book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists.

This book explores communication as a key influence on the trajectory of conflicts and crises in the specific context of academia.

Citizens in the contemporary era are increasingly residing in an age of constant migration, however, not all migratory movements are fully understood as migrants are often excoriated on entry to host countries.

This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world.

This book focuses on a key case study in the history of American territories, public works, transportation and the constitutional system of checks and balances.

This book thus explores the role of African epistemologies in addressing the myriad challenges posed by the inclusive education system in Africa and other contexts.

This book thus explores the role of African epistemologies in addressing the myriad challenges posed by the inclusive education system in Africa and other contexts.

This book explores how China's media narrate climate policy and climate change.

This book is a study of American Muslims' perspectives on Muslims who become radicalized and choose to support the Islamic State.

This book makes the argument that comparing AI to humans leads us to diminish similar outcomes from AI across situations.

This book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social, legal, and political context of Malaysia.