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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Has the hype associated with the «revolutionary» potential of the World Wide Web and digital media for environmental activism been muted by the past two decades of lived experience? What are the empirical realities of the prevailing media landscape?
Using a range of related disciplinary perspectives,...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom
Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from...
Making Sense
Beauty, Creativity, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Regardless of field, from the art world to healthcare delivery, there is a growing need for practically useful theory and theoretically informed practice. The time is ripe for a collaborative, creative conversation among thinkers and doers who are concerned about the larger world and our role in it....
Identity Trouble
Fragmentation and Disillusionment in the Works of Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In this book, Eva Yampolsky explores the questions of identity, illusion and suicide in the works of Guy de Maupassant. Utilizing a historical context which stimulated numerous social, technological and scientific transformations and developments during the 19th century, Dr. Yampolsky identifies two...
The Art of Positive Communication
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of how we speak to one another. Our words affect our hopes and dreams, as well as those of our children. We insult, complain, or criticize. We compliment,...
Drones
Media Discourse and the Public Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Drones: Media Discourse and the Public Imagination starts with a basic premise: technology shapes and is shaped by the stories we tell about it. Stories about drones—at once anxious and hopeful, fearful and awe-inspired—are emblematic of the profound ambivalence that frequently accompanies the...
Media Edge
Media Logic and Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. More of our everyday lives and social institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates through conversation, interaction, marketing, as well...
by Marina Levina
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means – culturally, politically, and economically – to live in an infected,...
Pierre Bourdieu
A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas have had a major impact on a number of fields of inquiry. As scholars of media and communication begin to think more frequently and more carefully with Bourdieu’s ideas, this book offers a wealth of points of contact between Bourdieu’s ideas and research topics concerning...
Greening Media Education
Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Media are a powerful educational force that teaches about the relationship between humans and living systems while also physiologically impacting the environment. However, although long considered a tool for promoting critical thinking and cultural citizenship, media literacy does not adequately address...
Media Interventions
Afterword by Nick Couldry
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of «media interventions», which are herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action.
Drawing on insights from media,...
Voices of the Headland
Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent’s end of the American West, Jeffers’ poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize the compelling presence...
English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy
Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives is about the fusion of media and narrative, and explores theoretical and practical dimensions of young people’s engagement with contemporary forms of text. It showcases a range of critical interpretative...
The Hollywood Curriculum
Teachers in the Movies Third Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The third edition of this book analyzes over 165 films distributed throughout the United States over the last 80 years to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies that is grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy. The portrayal of teachers in popular motion pictures is based on individual...