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Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched onPop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-15
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This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Developments in AI, robotics and big data are changing the nature of education. Yet the implications of these technologies for the teaching profession are uncertain. While most educators remain convinced of the need for human teachers, outside the profession there is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-11
Collection :
Digital Futures
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Der Mediatisierungsschub der Digitalisierung hat die Produktion, Distribution und mediale Inszenierung von Popmusik grundlegend verändert. Zudem haben soziale Medien und Streaming gänzlich neue digitale Musikpraktiken hervorgebracht. Mario Anastasiadis analysiert die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-10-03
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Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things almost every day, but how do our brains create them?Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in what goes on in your brain...
Editeur :
John Murray Business
Parution :
2019-09-19
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Die Studie von Jasmin Kulterer über die Entwicklung und den Stellenwert des (ehemaligen) Musiksenders MTV folgt den Prinzipien integrativer Kommunikationsforschung. Im Hinblick auf das Aufkommen alternativer Wege der Musik(video)distribution und -nutzung wird gezeigt,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-12
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The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-15
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Japanese Influence on American Children’s Television examines the gradual, yet dramatic, transformation of Saturday morning children’s programming from being rooted in American traditions and popular culture to reflectingJapanese popular culture. In this modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-11
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Digital Identities in Tension deals with the ambivalence of universal digitalization. While this transformation opens up new possibilities, it also redistributes the interplay of constraints and incentives, and tends insidiously to create a greater malleability of...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-06-03
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Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. They regulate and empower us, bringing both joy and discontent. And they are always embedded in ubiquitous power: stories shape power, and power shapes story. In this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-29
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The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal, told by a veteran crime reporter and former senior writer for People magazineBill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2019-04-23
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The definitive and first major text on personas in contemporary culture Modern social media and communication technologies have reshaped our identities and transformed contemporary culture, revealing an expanded and intensified reforming of our collective online...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Africa is a laboratory for managerial and societal innovations built out of pragmatic arrangements. Some African companies offer products and services that go beyond the standard practices of their international counterparts, based on original and inventive managerial...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-03-07
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Over 200 years, industry has mastered iron, fire, power and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects with the widespread integration of chips; from computers and telephones to keys, games and white goods. Data, software and computation structure our...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-01-24
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Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation.Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-01-23
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Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-28
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This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture. The authors in this volume consider the domain of travel from the broadest and most diverse of philosophical perspectives, covering...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This book presents the first in-depth study of the Eurovision Song Contest from an Australian perspective. Using a cultural studies approach, the study draws together fan interviews and surveys with media and textual analysis of the contest itself. In doing so, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-02
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When there are too many choices, there is no choice. The choices are entangled in a maze of rather confused possibilities. They go through many nebulous paths. Doubt, hesitation, indecision, become the only resolutions possible. Choosing is the anxiety of being wrong!...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2018-10-09
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