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by Susan B. Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Once only a sign, technologies have helped to transform brands into symbols that we constantly encounter in our natural and mediated environments. Moreover, the branding of culture marks a commercialization of society. Almost everywhere we look, a brand name or logo appears.
By combining a scholarly...
Digital Media
Transformations in Human Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The age of digital media has given rise to a new social world. It is a world in which the transmission of information from the few to the many is steadily being supplanted by the multi-directional flow of facts, lies, and ideas. It is a world in which hundreds of millions of people are voluntarily...
Digital Fandom 2.0
New Media Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In this completely revised and updated version of Digital Fandom, Paul Booth extends his analysis of fandom in the digital environment. With new chapters that focus on the economics of crowdfunding, the playfulness of Tumblr, and the hybridity of the fan experience, alongside revised chapters that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The studies that comprise Political Socialization in a Media Saturated World synthesize, question, and update our knowledge of political socialization that has accumulated over the past 40 years of related research. The scholarship advances innovative theoretical perspectives and develops new models...
Privacy and Philosophy
New Media and Affective Protocol
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Against the backdrop and scrutiny of Arendt, Aristotle, Bentham,...
Peace in Motion
John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by traditional philosophy. However, such...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Thematically organized around three of the most pressing ethical issues of the digital age (shifting of professional norms, moderating offensive content, and privacy), this volume offers a window into some of the hot-button ethical issues facing a society where digital has become the new normal. Straddling...
The Intersectional Internet
Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
From race, sex, class, and culture, the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies needs theoretical and methodological approaches that allow us to question the organization of social relations that are embedded in digital technologies, and that foster a clearer understanding of how power relations...
Becoming Activist
Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation...
.edu
Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
The Internet has transformed higher education by changing the way universities and colleges teach students. As a result, many institutions are struggling to understand how the next generation of Internet technologies, including Web 2.0, multimedia, virtual presence, gaming, and the proliferation of...
Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi
Volume 3- Studies in Intertestamental, Extra-Canonical, and Early Christian Literature-
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
This is the third of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi. Volume 3 of Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi is a collection of articles discussing the latest findings in a variety of theological subjects related to the Bible as received and interpreted in the Orthodox...
Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi- Volume 2
Studies in the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book, the second of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi, includes contemporary essays on the New Testament. The topics offer a rich array of exegetical studies related to the life and teachings of Jesus and the apostle Paul. Coming from America, the Middle East, and Eastern...
From Digital to Analog
«Agrippa» and Other Hybrids in the Beginnings of Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music industries and their enforcement...
by Claire Stewart, Edward Lee Lamoureux, Steven L. Baron
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This text is a companion to the 2nd edition of Intellectual Property Law And New Media: Free for a Fee. Moving the coverage of case analysis to this separate volume, enables the authors to focus their attention on important trial and legal procedures that apply extant law to, largely, new circumstances.
Readers...