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From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-10-16
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Theory Redux
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In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-10-16
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Der Band bietet einen Überblick über qualitative Auswertungsverfahren und -strategien im Fach Kommunikationswissenschaft. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Auswertung unterschiedlichen Datenmaterials (z. B. Interviews, Gruppendiskussionen, audiovisuelle Daten), mit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-10-16
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Rita Lauter untersucht, wie gut es Fernsehnachrichten gelingt, jungen Zuschauern komplexe Themen zu vermitteln. Dafür wurde in Kooperation mit der WDR-Medienforschung in einer Rezeptionsstudie die Verständlichkeit von Beiträgen über komplexe Themen an 400 Probanden...
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Springer VS
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2017-10-16
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Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis. Offering a unique range of explorations and reflections utilizing field analysis, the eighteen...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-16
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The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-10-16
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In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-16
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In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland Chinese,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-15
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There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and ‘archaeological’ digging. How does forensic literature narrate the past in terms of plot, language,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-14
Collection :
Demographic Research Monographs
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This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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The expansion of Higher Education has been one of the most important changes to affect Western labour markets. More than a third of all British workers are now degree holders.The graduate labour market is often understood as that part of the labour market characterized...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2017-10-13
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This resource supports evidence-informed approaches to improving the cultural competence of health service delivery. By reviewing the evidence from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, it provides readers with a clear and systematic overview of the interventions...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This edited collection offers the latest research into the reproduction of ‘hegemonic’ discourse and the ways in which the description and evaluation of social groups affects their ability to exercise cultural and political autonomy. The book examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-12
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Preface by Julian Assange
Whistleblowers have been making news for ten years. The emblematic cases of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange give evidence of the methods being used to break whistleblowers’ lives. These women and men have the courage to...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2017-10-12
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