Cultural and media studies

This book offers new definitions, vocabularies and insights for "e;scribbling"e;, viewing it as a fascinating and revealing process shared by many different disciplines and practices.

This book addresses increasingly relevant social problems enabled by social media through the lens of system science research and modeling.

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science).

This edited book demonstrates how love both unites and separates academic thinking across the arts and humanities, and beyond: from popular romance studies to border criminology, from sexology to peace studies, and into the fields of health, medicine, and engineering.

At a moment of notably rising levels of anti-Asian hate, this book offers antiracist resources informed by Asian/North American feminist theology and biblical scholarship.

Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects.

In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood.

From approximately AD 900 to 1600, ancient Mississippian culture dominated today's southeastern United States.

This book offers a historical, cultural, political and socio-economic analysis of the British media.

This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.

This book reviews and advances the theoretical and empirical knowledge at the intersection of opinion change and democracy.

This edited collection takes the prompt "e;hope in crisis"e; as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times.

This book critically examines the role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education, against the backdrop of rapid developments in online learning.

In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping's "e;Chinese dream"e; as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation.

This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built white supremacy as a cultural force, institutional system, and dominant social character.

New and fully updated to cover the last 10 years of accessibility research published since the first edition, this book covers key areas of evaluation and methodology, client-side applications, specialist and novel technologies, along with initial appraisals of disabilities.

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This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

This book presents an extensive study of women's involvement in agricultural activities at the family level in rural Bangladesh, with a particular emphasis on their participation in decision-making.

African music’s most distinctive feature is the urbatextuality that transpires through its diversity and plural functions and the specific geographical, cultural, religious, linguistic, political, economic, and social contexts from which it evolves.

This book critically examines digital media's extensive impact on human behavior, psychology, and broader society.

At a moment of notably rising levels of anti-Asian hate, this book offers antiracist resources informed by Asian/North American feminist theology and biblical scholarship.

This book presents a series of studies on the status quo, characteristics of and trends in China's eSports industry, while also analyzing key problems to help the industry avoid potential risks, seize opportunities for development, and promote industrial drivers.

A new, transformative history in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ';This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.

This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society.

The Palgrave Handbook to Music and Sound in Peak TV charts the transformation of television's sonic storytelling during the new "e;golden age"e; of televisual narrative from the late 1990s to the early 2020s.

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia.

This book discusses ten grammatical items, with main focus on prepositions and plural nouns, to illustrate the structure of Japanese English or the English spoken by 32 Japanese nationals who are the L2 users of English.

This edited book examines the impact of COVID-19 on selected areas of mobile studies, ranging from mobile public spaces to mobile workspaces.

This book presents an alternative approach to studying smartphone-app user notifications.

This book explores the extent to which and the reasons why Russia's citizens harbor feelings of nostalgia for the Soviet Union today.

This book explores the notion of interculturality in education and supports scholars in their discovery of the notion.

This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.

This book represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives.

This book is cast in a Singaporean context in which Chinese Language is taught as a second language with an emphasis on communicational skills.

This book presents new and innovative current discoveries in social networking which contribute enough knowledge to the research community.

This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations.

"e;Kawaii"e; is a Japanese word that denotes "e;cute,"e; "e;lovable,"e; or "e;charming"e; although it does not have exactly the same meaning as those adjectives.

This book successfully represents the indispensable interdisciplinarity of viewpoints by its authors combining legal perspectives with architectural and anthropological approaches.

This book explores the actual process of mediation operation in the translation process and the interaction between mediation and social structure.

This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), "e;Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies"e;.

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of unauthorised acts of character merchandising.

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

This book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals' satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis.