Language Studies category: 15171 books
Journalists, Sources, and Credibility
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This volume revisits what we know about the relationship between journalists and their sources. By asking new questions, employing novel methodologies, and confronting sweeping changes to journalism and media, the contributors reinvigorate the conversation about who gets to speak through the news....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies.
Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them...
by Dolly Roquette
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This is the frank and forthright account of myself, a MtF transsexual, taking into consideration all the joys and sorrows; trials and tribulations along the precarious path to gender reassignment, or gender confirmation as it is now often known.I am documenting a path which has taken me from the heights...
Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia
Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images...
by Eduardo Barros-Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez, Tarah Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...
Creativity and Cultural Production
Issues for Media Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Phillip McIntyre presents the latest scholarly research into creativity and creative practice. The book provides insights to media practitioners and policy professionals, looking at television, radio, film, journalism, photography, popular music and new media in relation to psychology, sociology and cultural studies.
The Past in Visual Culture
Essays on Memory, Nostalgia and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past—accessed with the touch of a finger—are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual culture affects our relationship with history and memory. This...
Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse
Becoming British
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This is a study into how the public discourse on migrant integration in the UK changed from 2000-2010. The book shows that the discursive construction of integration in the British public sphere shifted from one of cultural pluralism to one of neo-assimilation, informed by a wider spread of neo-liberalism...
Voting Deliberatively
FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The 1932 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to hold the promise of Democratic domination for years to come. However, leading up to the 1936 election, persistent economic problems, a controversial domestic agenda, and the perception of a weak foreign policy were chipping away at public support....
Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes
Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current standing of public libraries in public policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative ways. Its parts provide together a broad picture of opposing trends and tensions in media convergence, by underlining the relevance of this powerful idea and emphasizing...
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts
International and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice, articulates problems, and suggests deep-structured strategies from multiple perspectives including performed...
The Magic Window
American Television ,1939-1953
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.