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New Media Spectacles and Multimodal Creativity in a Globalised Asia - Art, Design and Activism in the Digital Humanities... New Media Spectacles and Multimodal Creativity in a Globalised Asia - Art, Design and Activism in the Digital Humanities Landscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Sunny Sui-kwong Lam
R3,047 Discovery Miles 30 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume aims to unpack the digitisation of art and media within the dynamics of participatory culture, and how these changes affect the power relations between the production and consumption of these new forms in a globalised Asia. This follows the rise of new art forms and social media platforms in wake of rapid and ongoing digitisation, which has, in turn, produced far-reaching implications for changing media ownership and its role in social, cultural, economic, as well as political activities. New challenges arise every day in relation to digital art and design practices and social media communications, and their respective impact on identity politics. This book showcases a diverse range of interdisciplinary research on these concomitant changes and challenges associated with digital media and technologies within the context of a globalised Asia. The case studies included present perspectives on Asia's evolving digital humanities landscape from Hong Kong, China, India, Korea and from across Southeast Asia, with topics that tackle organisational digital marketing, brand advertising and design, mobile gaming, interactive art, and the cultural activities of ethnic and sexual minority communities in the region. This book will of interest to scholars in digital humanities focused on new media and cultural studies.

Revisiting Moral Panics (Hardcover): Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton, Mark Smith Revisiting Moral Panics (Hardcover)
Viviene E. Cree, Gary Clapton, Mark Smith
R2,996 Discovery Miles 29 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic. With a commentary by Charles Critcher and contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and practitioners, this is a stimulating and innovative overview of moral panic ideas, which will be an essential resource.

Beyond Agenda Setting - Information Subsidies and Public Policy (Hardcover): Oscar H. Gandy Beyond Agenda Setting - Information Subsidies and Public Policy (Hardcover)
Oscar H. Gandy
R3,354 Discovery Miles 33 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume describes the use of mass media and other communication channels by corporations, bureaucrats, politicians and consumer advocates to influence the development and implementation of public policy in areas of science, technology and social service delivery. It provides answers to the critical question--who sets the media agenda, how, and for what purposes. This book is the first to reveal the degree of inequality that exists between participants in any policy debate.

The Theory of the Social Practice of Information (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Francesco Fattorello The Theory of the Social Practice of Information (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Francesco Fattorello; Translated by Maria Way; Contributions by Giuseppe Ragnetti
R1,893 Discovery Miles 18 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Fattorello addresses the differences between contingent and non-contingent information. The theory is translated into English for the first time and is contextualized and put into a historical framework by Prof. Ragnetti's additional text.

Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Raul Diego Rivera Hernandez Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Raul Diego Rivera Hernandez; Translated by Isis Sadek
R1,597 Discovery Miles 15 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. Analyzing contemporary novels, journalistic chronicles, testimonial works, and documentaries, the book reveals the political potential of these communities' vulnerability and victimization portrayed in these fictional and non-fictional representations. Violence against migrants, journalists, and activists reveals an array of human rights violations affecting the right to safe transit across borders, freedom of expression, the right to information, and the right to truth and justice.

Cultural Sexism - The politics of feminist rage in the #metoo era (Hardcover): Heather Savigny Cultural Sexism - The politics of feminist rage in the #metoo era (Hardcover)
Heather Savigny
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does gendered power work? How does it circulate? How does it become embedded? And most importantly, how can we challenge it? Heather Savigny highlights five key traits of cultural sexism - violence, silencing, disciplining, meritocracy and masculinity - prevalent across the media, entertainment and cultural industries that keep sexist values firmly within popular consciousness. She traces the development of key feminist thinkers before demonstrating how the normalization of misogyny in popular media, culture, news and politics perpetuates patriarchal values within our everyday social and cultural landscape. She argues that we need to understand why #MeToo was necessary in the first place in order to bring about impactful, lasting and meaningful change.

Marketing Semiotics - Signs, Strategies, and Brand Value (Hardcover): Laura R. Oswald Marketing Semiotics - Signs, Strategies, and Brand Value (Hardcover)
Laura R. Oswald
R3,353 Discovery Miles 33 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Everyday consumers buy into the concept of brands and their associated meanings--the perception of quality, a symbolic relationship, a vicarious experience, or even a sense of identity. Marketing Semiotics suggests that the extent to which consumers recognize, internalize, and relate to brand meanings is not only an academic question. These meanings contribute to "brand equity," the financial value of intangible brand benefits that exceed the use value of goods, and impacts upon a firm's financial performance. Therefore, the management of brand equity demands first and foremost the management of brand meanings, or semiotics.
The book uses structural semiotics, a discipline that extends the laws of structural linguistics to the analysis of verbal, visual, and spatial sign systems, to shed light on the cultural codes and discourse of brands. It proposes that semiotic research should form the cornerstone of brand equity management, since brands rely so heavily on sign systems that contribute to profitability by distinguishing brands from simple commodities, from competitors, and engaging consumers in the brand world.
The book includes dozens of global business cases where semiotics has been used to refocus, reposition, or extend the brand to new products, customers, and markets. Drawing upon twenty years of academic and consulting experience, the book provides actionable direction for steering brands through technological and cultural change, differentiating brands in the competitive environment, and counteracting the natural depletion of brand meaning over time.

Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture - Fleeting Images (Hardcover): Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Debbie C. Olson Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture - Fleeting Images (Hardcover)
Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Debbie C. Olson
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, is a collection which examines images of "children" and "childhood" in popular culture, including print, online, television shows, and films. The contributors to this volume explore the constructions of "children" and "childhood" rather than actual children or actual childhoods. In the chapters that are concerned with depictions of actual, individual children, the authors investigate how the images of those children conform or "trouble" current notions of what it means to be a child engaged in a contemporary "childhood." This is a unique volume, because of the academic discourse which is employed-that of "Childhood Studies." The Childhood Studies scholars represented in this collection utilize an interdisciplinary approach which draws upon various academic fields-their methodologies, theoretical approaches, and scholarly conventions-for the scholarly research in this collection. Together, the contributions to this collection interrogate classic notions of childhood innocence, knowledge, agency, and the fluid position of the signifier "child" within contemporary media forms. These interdisciplinary works function as a testament to the infectiousness of the child image in print, television, and cinematic contexts, and represent a new avenue of discursive scholarship; the questions raised and connections made provide fresh insights and unique perspectives to topics regarding children and childhood and their representation within multiple media platforms. The growing field of Childhood Studies is enriched by the intellectual originality represented by this volume's authors who ask new questions about the enduring and captivating image of the child.

A New History of British Documentary (Hardcover): J. Chapman A New History of British Documentary (Hardcover)
J. Chapman
R3,057 R2,072 Discovery Miles 20 720 Save R985 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing institutional and ideological contexts.

Uncertainty of Communication Interpreting Global Social Media Communication in a Way of Philosophy of Science (Hardcover): Dong... Uncertainty of Communication Interpreting Global Social Media Communication in a Way of Philosophy of Science (Hardcover)
Dong Chao
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Regional Aesthetics - Mapping UK Media Cultures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Hugh Chignell, Ieuan Franklin, Kristin Skoog Regional Aesthetics - Mapping UK Media Cultures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Hugh Chignell, Ieuan Franklin, Kristin Skoog
R1,601 Discovery Miles 16 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.

Empire of Pictures - Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy (Paperback): Soenke Kunkel Empire of Pictures - Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy (Paperback)
Soenke Kunkel
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research into the visual media battles that shaped America's Cold War from West Germany and India to Tanzania and Argentina.

Media Power in Indonesia - Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital Revolution (Hardcover): Ross Tapsell Media Power in Indonesia - Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
Ross Tapsell
R3,536 Discovery Miles 35 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. While official statistics suggest that internet penetration is low, over 70 million Indonesians have a Facebook account, the fourth highest group in the world. Jakarta is the Twitter capital of the world with more tweets per minute than any other city around the globe. In the past ten years digitalisation of media content has enabled extensive concentration and conglomeration of the industry, and media owners are wealthier and more politically powerful than ever before. Digital media is a prominent place of contestation between large, powerful oligarchs, and citizens looking to bring about rapid and meaningful change. This book examines how the political agencies of both oligarchs and 'netizens' are enhanced by digitalisation, and how an increasingly divergent society is being formed. In doing so, this book enters this debate about the transformations of society and power in the digital age.

Location-Based Social Media - Space, Time and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Leighton Evans, Michael Saker Location-Based Social Media - Space, Time and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Leighton Evans, Michael Saker
R1,727 Discovery Miles 17 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity. This is a pertinent and timely topic given the increase in opportunities people now have to explicitly and implicitly share their location through digital and mobile technologies. There is a growing body of research on locative media, much of this literature has concentrated on spatial issues. Research here has explored how locative media and location-based social media (LBSN) are used to communicate and coordinate social interactions in public space, affecting how people approach their surroundings, turning ordinary life "into a game", and altering how mobile media is involved in understanding the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on identity through an engagement with the current literature on spatiality, a novel critical investigation of the temporal effects of LBSN use and a view of identity as influenced by the spatio-temporal effects of interacting with place through LBSN. Drawing on phenomenology, post-phenomenology and critical theory on social and locative media, alongside established sociological frameworks for approaching spatiality and the city, it presents a comprehensive account of the effects of LBSN and locative media use.

Discursive Constructions of Corporate Identities by Chinese Banks on Sina Weibo - An Integrated Sociolinguistics Approach... Discursive Constructions of Corporate Identities by Chinese Banks on Sina Weibo - An Integrated Sociolinguistics Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Wei Feng
R1,601 Discovery Miles 16 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions. Toward this end, it pursues an integrated sociolinguistics approach combining e.g. thematic analysis, interactional analysis and in-depth interviews. Readers will also find extensive information on the brand-new dialogic framework of corporate identity formation. The book offers an insightful and revealing guide for both practitioners/trainers and teachers in corporate communication who are faced with the challenges of managing public relations and corporate images in the age of social media. It can also serve as a valuable case study for those readers who are fascinated by the Chinese economy and discourse analysis of the Chinese language.

Narrative and Genre - Key Concepts in Media Studies (Hardcover): Nick Lacey Narrative and Genre - Key Concepts in Media Studies (Hardcover)
Nick Lacey
R4,319 Discovery Miles 43 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Narrative and Genre introduces students to these key concepts in media studies, complementing Image and Representation published in 1998. It covers the major narrative theorists including Todorov, Propp, Levi-Strauss, Barthes and applies their ideas via case examples ranging from The X Files to newspaper reporting. It then moves on to offer an extensive analysis of the basic schema and conventions of genre, drawing on the film noir, the TV cop genre and science fiction for examples, and showing how the repertoire of elements of each ranges across setting, character, narrative, iconography, style and stars. Fresh, down-to-earth and well-structured, this is an excellent text for all those in post-16 education, whether in school, college or university.

The Politics of Adaptation - Media Convergence and Ideology (Hardcover): D. Hassler-Forest, P. Nicklas The Politics of Adaptation - Media Convergence and Ideology (Hardcover)
D. Hassler-Forest, P. Nicklas
R3,064 Discovery Miles 30 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.

Policy Practice and Digital Science - Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy... Policy Practice and Digital Science - Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy Research (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Marijn Janssen, Maria A. Wimmer, Ameneh Deljoo
R5,957 Discovery Miles 59 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to navigate the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for this new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blending. Both policy makers, executors and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 point to the specific applications of social networks, semantically enriched and linked data, whereas policy-making has also to do with the use of the vast amount of data, predictions and forecasts, and improving the outcomes of policy-making, which is confronted with an increasing complexity and uncertainty of the outcomes. The field of policy-making is changing and driven by developments like open data, computational methods for processing data, opining mining, simulation and visualization of rich data sets, all combined with public engagement, social media and participatory tools.

Manufacturing the Enemy - The Media War Against Cuba (Hardcover): Keith Bolender Manufacturing the Enemy - The Media War Against Cuba (Hardcover)
Keith Bolender
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies. From coverage of the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cuban Five and the current issues of Obama's 'Cuban Thaw' in 2014 to the renewed hostility under the Trump Administration, the edition examines with specific clarity how damaging corporate media treatment of Cuba is to the understanding of the revolution and those who continue to support it. This original treatment scrutinises the foundation for the media's hostility against Cuba's socialist political/economic system, providing new insight into the propaganda workings of the so called 'free' press in the US and across Western liberal democracies. The work is a unique resource for activists, journalists and students interested in the ever-complicated relationship between the United States and its island neighbour to the south.

Conceiving Virtuality: From Art To Technology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Joaquim Braga Conceiving Virtuality: From Art To Technology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Joaquim Braga
R3,030 Discovery Miles 30 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of virtuality. All chapters reflect the importance of extending the analysis of the concept of "the virtual" to areas of knowledge that, until today, have not been fully included in its philosophical foundations. The respective chapters share new insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with regard to the main premises of Western thought. Given its thematic scope, this book is intended not only for a philosophical audience, but also for all scientists who have turned to the humanities in search of answers to their questions.

Sounds German - Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational (Hardcover): Kirkland A.... Sounds German - Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational (Hardcover)
Kirkland A. Fulk
R2,716 Discovery Miles 27 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For decades, Germany has been shaped and reshaped by the sounds of popular music-whether viewed as uniquely German or an ideological invader from abroad. This collected volume brings together leading figures in the field of German Studies, popular music studies, and cultural studies at large to survey the sociopolitical impact of music on conceptions of the German state and national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.

Digital Broadcasting - An Introduction to New Media (Hardcover): Jo Pierson, Joke Bauwens Digital Broadcasting - An Introduction to New Media (Hardcover)
Jo Pierson, Joke Bauwens
R3,964 Discovery Miles 39 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Digital Broadcasting presents an introduction to how the classic notion of 'broadcasting' has evolved and is being reinterpreted in an age of digitization and convergence. The book argues that 'digital broadcasting' is not a contradiction in terms, but-on the contrary-both terms presuppose and need each other. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary and international field of research and theory, it looks at current developments in television and radio broadcasting on the level of regulation and policy, industries and economics, production and content, and audience and consumption practices.

Media Power and Plurality - From Hyperlocal to High-Level Policy (Hardcover): S. Barnett, J Townend Media Power and Plurality - From Hyperlocal to High-Level Policy (Hardcover)
S. Barnett, J Townend
R1,979 Discovery Miles 19 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.

Dark Secrets of Childhood - Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals (Hardcover): Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon Dark Secrets of Childhood - Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals (Hardcover)
Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon
R3,186 Discovery Miles 31 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the last few decades, public opinion has been traumatised by revelations of child abuse on a mass scale. It has become the major human rights story of the 21st century in Western society. This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult-child power relations which, in Western countries, has spawned an ever-expanding range of laws, policies and procedures introduced to address the 'explosion' of interest in the issue of child abuse. Allegations of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland - and its 'cover-up' by Church authorities - have given rise to one of the greatest institutional scandals of modern history. Through in-depth analysis of 20 years of media representation of the issue, the book draws significant insights on the media's influence and its impact on civil society. Highly topical and of interest and relevance to lecturers and researchers in the areas of childhood studies, sociology of childhood, child protection and social work, social and public policy and human rights, as well as policymakers, this book provides an important contribution to the international debate about child abuse as reflected to the public through the power of the media.

Postcolonial Piracy - Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South (Hardcover): Lars Eckstein, Anja Schwarz Postcolonial Piracy - Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South (Hardcover)
Lars Eckstein, Anja Schwarz
R3,446 Discovery Miles 34 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity. Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.

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