Cultural and media studies

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.

The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Big Data Applications and Services (BigDAS 2017), held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on August 15-18, 2017.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

This book examines how mobile phones and the internet have become a vital part of the everyday lives of people experiencing homelessness.

This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa.

This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia.

Instapoetry is one of the most popular literary phenomena of our time.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of sustainable reuse of built heritage, as presented by international researchers at the conference "e;ReUSO - Documentation, Restoration and Reuse of Heritage"e;, held on November 2-4, 2022, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal.

Explores the Romantic conviction that there were ''too many'' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.

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This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s.

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This book constitutes selected papers from the 19th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2022, which was held virtually during December 7-8, 2022.

This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort to achieve universal HIV treatment has shifted away from its initial focus on the excessive human suffering precipitated by the epidemic.

This book explores the differential mode of people management in the Chinese context.