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In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas about ‘media literacy’ will lead us nowhere: we need a comprehensive and coherent educational approach. We all need to think...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-08-05
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This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-08-05
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This book provides a cutting edge analysis of the rapid rise of China’s network society and reviews recent key developments within China’s internet economy, notably the concepts of “Lucky Money” and E-Business on Wechat, and Crowd-Funding Platforms. It focuses on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-01
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We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games. Towards a Digital Poetics explores this relationship between word and computer, querying what it is that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-31
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This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Sharp, in-depth and highly visual, this is the fully revised textbook and teaching aid for students, tutors and in-house learning and development teams keen to know more about the world of trends, forecasting, innovation thinking and strategic foresight.Designed and...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking. Using the StudioLab approach, the author seeks to democratize the social and technical practices of digital culture just as nineteenth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-27
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Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-24
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This book explores the political economics and cultural politics of social media news sharing, investigating how it is changing journalism and the news media internationally. News sharing plays important economic and cultural roles in an attention economy, recommending...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-16
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The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology. Neil Selwyn examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-12
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-09
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In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-09
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What does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and what your views on religious extremists are. But as all our lives become increasingly entwined with...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-07-01
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Anja Kalch erforscht im Rahmen von drei Experimentalstudien die Wirkung von Erfahrungsnähe in narrativen Gesundheitsbotschaften auf stellvertretende Erfahrungen, sozial-kognitive Faktoren und Gesundheitsintentionen. Dabei werden sowohl Themen der individuellen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-28
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This book explores how community radio contributes to social change. Community radio remains a unique communication platform under digital capitalism, arguably capable of expanding the project of media democratisation. Yet there is a lack of in-depth analysis of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-27
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Was macht den Reiz aus, mehrere Folgen einer Serie am Stück anzusehen? Dieser Frage widmet sich Miriam Czichon in ihrem Buch und stellt ein Modell zur Erklärung des Rezeptionsphänomens Binge Watching vor. Wie die empirische Überprüfung des Modells zeigt, profitieren das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-04
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary representation of the author on screen. It does this through two main approaches: by looking at how biographies of well-known authors in Western culture have been adapted onto the film and television...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-01
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By understanding the ontogenesis of NGOs as civil society organizations from a historical-anthropological, communicational, sociological, economical and managerial perspective, Evandro Oliveira outlines the Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication (ITNC). This proposes...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-31
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The volume scrutinizes publics and infrastructures not separately but in their constitutive interrelations and resonances.The contributions, originating in a range of disciplinary perspectives, share a praxeological approach, discussing historical and current processes...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-28
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Digital media have radically altered understandings of racism, so that an issue that has too often been assumed to belong to the past has been thrust into contemporary mainstream debates, news and popular culture. In light of the importance of traditional communications...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-05-27
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