Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Donald Culverson, Elizabeth Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This book investigates how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. Since many Nollywood films are freely accessible online, the role of online communities repurposes Nollywood films. Female Narratives...
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act
Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Haiti earthquake are only some of the recent examples of the power of new media to transform journalism. Some celebrate this power as a new cosmopolitanism that challenges the traditional boundaries of foreign reporting, yet others fear that...
Media Organizations and Convergence
Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This volume offers a timely examination of technology's impact on media companies and the results of convergence among media industries, considering the effects on journalistic, business, and economic practices. Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers considers...
Sex in Consumer Culture
The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing considers the use of sex to promote brands, magazines, video games, TV programming, music, and movies. Offering both quantitative and qualitative perspectives from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines, this volume addresses...
Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf
Globalization and Institutional Viability
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Over the past quarter century, the people of the Arabian Peninsula have witnessed a revolutionary transformation in higher education. In 1990, there were fewer than ten public universities that offered their Arabic-language curricula in sex-segregated settings to national citizens only. In 2015, there...
Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2014 Conference Proceedings
Rasch and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This book collects and organizes the original studies presented at PROMS 2014 conference on theories and applications of Rasch model. It provides useful examples of the Rasch model used to address practical measurement problems across a range of different disciplines including: Item Response Theory...
Peace as a Global Language
Peace and Welfare in the Global and Local Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book is comprised of a collection of essays compiled by presenters who attended the annual Peace as a Global Language Conference at Rikkyo University in 2013, which took as its theme Peace and Welfare in the Local and Global Community. From civil and community conflict, media literacy and music...
by L. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book explores the construction of identities within a lesbian group, outlining interactive tactics used in the production of mutually-negotiated norms of authenticity. Using ethnography and discourse analysis, a range of group-specific personae are revealed to be continually reworked and reproduced within the women's interaction.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Communication Yearbook 30 continues the tradition of publishing rich, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews. This volume offers insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for other areas of the discipline. Editor Christina S. Beck presents...
Scandalize My Name
Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating...
Teaching with the Screen
Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Teaching with the Screen explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity, these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitutes education. Spotlighting the visual, spatial, and relational aspects of media-based...
Packaging Life
Cultures of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday is a study of the cultural politics of four aspects of everyday life-health, comfort, risk and mobility-as manifest in public culture. The book explores the commodification of these aspects, arguing that our experience and perception of these are mediated by...
by Jack Grieve
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in Written American English takes a corpus-based approach to map over one hundred grammatical alternation variables across the United States. A multivariate spatial analysis of these maps shows that grammatical alternation variables follow a relatively...