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Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-02-28
Collection :
Theory Now
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This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic...
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Polity
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2014-01-27
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Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture. Yet there is a growing body of research from a range of disciplines that suggests that consumer capitalism may be past its sell-by date. BeyondConsumer Capitalism begins by showing how, for people...
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Polity
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2014-01-24
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Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Media...
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Polity
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2014-01-23
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This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle forms of conflict. In addition to offering a working definition of the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-01-22
Collection :
Key Themes in Family Communication
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This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-01-21
Collection :
Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
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?Das Bild von der verschwimmenden Grenze zwischen Kommunikator und Rezipient ist das Leitmotiv zur Charakterisierung der gewandelten Kommunikationsverhältnisse im Onlinezeitalter. Die akademische Trennung zwischen Journalismusforschung und Rezeptions- und...
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Springer VS
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2014-01-09
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The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-01-08
Collection :
America Through the Lens
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Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy, provided for thousands of unsung working-class readers a wholly recognisable and...
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Polity
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2013-12-17
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Von einem kommunikationssoziologisch fundierten und medientheoretisch differenzierten Medienbegriff ausgehend wird eine Systematik der Online-Kommunikation entwickelt und begründet. In diesem Zusammenhang werden Medien als institutionalisierte und technisch basierte...
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Springer VS
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2013-12-11
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We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight....
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Polity
Parution :
2013-12-06
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Bits and Atoms explores the governance potential found in the explosive growth of digital information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood. Today, places with weak or altogether missing state institutions are tied internally and to the larger world...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-05
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Radio’s influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the challenges of a new technological age but indeed has extended its reach. This is not a book about digital radio, but rather...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-04
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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Based on a study using online ethnography as the major research method, this book explains why and how men in Hong Kong use QQ—an online instant messenger—to “chase” women in mainland China, especially in the neighboring city of Shenzhen. Chasing women through QQ is a...
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Springer
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2013-12-03
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?Der Titel befasst sich mit dem Wandel der politischen Kommunikation von Verbänden in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland unter den Herausforderungen der Politikbeobachtung durch allgegenwärtige Massenmedien. Nach einer Einführung in die Funktionen und Bedeutung von...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2013-11-25
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Unter dem Stichwort Mediatisierung wird in der aktuellen Forschung die Frage behandelt, wie sich im Zuge des Eindringens einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher (digitaler) Medien in den Alltag Aktivitäten, Interaktivitäten, Rituale, Normalitäten und Konventionen verändern....
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Springer VS
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2013-11-19
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?In diesem Band wird auf einer systemtheoretischen Grundlage eine Theorie der Verbandskommunikation entwickelt. In Verbänden stellen sich drei zentrale Probleme: das Problem der Legitimation gegenüber dem politisch-administrativen System, das Problem zurückgehender...
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Springer VS
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2013-11-19
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Communication in Health Organizations explores the communication processes, issues, and concepts that comprise the organization of health care, focusing on the interactions that influence the lives of patients, health professionals, and other members of health ...
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Polity
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2013-11-15
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The last quarter of a century has seen an unprecedented wave of democratization around the globe. In these transitions from authoritarian rule to a more democratic order, the media have played a key role both by facilitating, but frequently also inhibiting, democratic...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-14
Collection :
Contemporary Political Communication
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????In heutigen Gesellschaften stehen soziale, informationelle und räumliche Mobilität und digitale Kommunikationsmedien in einem engen Zusammenhang. Medien werden dabei nicht nur immer mobiler, sondern die Menschen verwenden sie auch zunehmend zum Zwecke kommunikativer...
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Springer VS
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2013-09-24
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