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Social Information Seeking - Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Chirag Shah Social Information Seeking - Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Chirag Shah
R3,590 Discovery Miles 35 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume summarizes the author's work on social information seeking (SIS), and at the same time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or social information retrieval, this is a relatively new area of study concerned with the seeking and acquiring of information from social spaces on the Internet. It involves studying situations, motivations, and methods involved in seeking and sharing of information in participatory online social sites, such as Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, and Twitter, as well as building systems for supporting such activities. The first part of the book introduces various foundational concepts, including information seeking, social media, and social networking. As such it provides the necessary basis to then discuss how those aspects could intertwine in different ways to create methods, tools, and opportunities for supporting and leveraging SIS. Next, Part II discusses the social dimension and primarily examines the online question-answering activity. Part III then emphasizes the collaborative aspect of information seeking, and examines what happens when social and collaborative dimensions are considered together. Lastly, Part IV provides a synthesis by consolidating methods, systems, and evaluation techniques related to social and collaborative information seeking. The book is completed by a list of challenges and opportunities for both theoretical and practical SIS work. The book is intended mainly for researchers and graduate students looking for an introduction to this new field, as well as developers and system designers interested in building interactive information retrieval systems or social/community-driven interfaces.

Hollywood's Exploited - Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis (Hardcover): Richard Van Heertum, T.... Hollywood's Exploited - Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis (Hardcover)
Richard Van Heertum, T. Kashani, A. Nocella, B. Frymer
R1,293 R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Save R262 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to which they are dialectically related) in light of Giroux's ideas about public pedagogy. Foreword by Lawrence Grossberg.

Digital Sociology - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover): K. Orton-Johnson, N Prior Digital Sociology - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)
K. Orton-Johnson, N Prior
R3,271 Discovery Miles 32 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New digital technologies have fostered much debate about the nature of social relationships, institutions and structures in a new information age. An amorphous and interdisciplinary field of research has emerged, concerning itself with the complexities and contradictions involved in the fundamental shifts and radical transformations which information and communication technologies (ICTs) are purportedly bringing about across cultural, political and economic practices. From cyberselves to cyber communities, from media wars to the digital divide, sociology confronts a new digital landscape. This text takes stock of how the discipline has addressed the challenge of the digital providing a uniquely sociological framework with which to critically re-evaluate fundamental social concerns: from digital intimacies and online relationships to new forms of mediated inequality and network structures, from digitally mediated media practices to education and health 2.0, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to the transformations wrought by digital technologies to contemporary societies and a critical reflection on how the digital is reconfiguring the tools, concepts and precepts of the discipline.

In the Aftermath of Gezi - From Social Movement to Social Change? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Oscar Hemer, Hans-Ake Persson In the Aftermath of Gezi - From Social Movement to Social Change? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Oscar Hemer, Hans-Ake Persson
R3,574 Discovery Miles 35 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume addresses various aspects of social and political development in Turkey and the latter's role within a global context. Paradigmatically and theoretically, it is situated in the realm of communication and/for social change. The chapters thread together to present a fresh and innovative study that explores an array of issues related to the Gezi protests and their aftermath by scholars and activists from Scandinavia, Turkey and India. Through its thorough analysis of the government's repressive policy and the communication strategies of resistance, during the protests as well as in the dramatic on-going aftermath, the volume has wide international and interdisciplinary appeal, suitable for those with an interest in globalization, communication and media, politics, and social change.

Remembering the Falklands War - Media, Memory and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Sarah Maltby Remembering the Falklands War - Media, Memory and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Sarah Maltby
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands war to uniquely offer multiple perspectives on a single 'remembering' phenomenon. The study offers an analysis of the convergence, interconnectedness and interdependence of media and remembering, specifically the production, interpretation and negotiation of remembering in the media ecology. In so doing it not only examines the role of media in the formation and sustaining of collective memory but also the ways those who remember or are remembered in media texts become implicated in these processes.

The Global Dynamics of News - Studies in International News Coverage and News Agenda (Hardcover): Abbas Malek, Anadam P. Kavoori The Global Dynamics of News - Studies in International News Coverage and News Agenda (Hardcover)
Abbas Malek, Anadam P. Kavoori
R2,737 Discovery Miles 27 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Global Dynamics of News is an attempt to locate the study of news-perhaps the genre best epitomizing the process of media globalization-within contemporary debate about news flow, transnational media-cultures and globalization. This book seeks to fill a considerable gap in the literature on international communication and transnational media studies, which have focused on issues of media culture, especially popular culture while leaving news underexplored. This book is the first of its kind, bringing together both theoretical essays and case studies that are informed by historical and contemporary debates about issues of media flow and media imperialism specifically, and those of media globalization generally.

Pixilated Practices (Hardcover): Christopher Peyton Miller Pixilated Practices (Hardcover)
Christopher Peyton Miller
R932 R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Save R175 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace - The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity (Hardcover): Robert A. Saunders Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace - The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity (Hardcover)
Robert A. Saunders
R2,550 Discovery Miles 25 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village, ' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained through countless public/private communication networks, has even begun to alter the very fabric of national identity. This is particularly true among stateless nations, diasporic groups, and national minorities, which have fashioned the Internet into a shield again the assimilating efforts of their countries of residence. As a deterritorialized medium that allows both selective consumption and inexpensive production of news and information, the Internet has endowed a new generation of technology-savvy elites with a level of influence that would have been impossible to obtain a decade ago. Challenged nations-from Assyrians to Zapotecs-have used the Web to rewrite history, engage in political activism, and reinvigorate moribund languages. This book explores the role of the Internet in shaping ethnopolitics and sustaining national identity among four different national groups: Albanians outside of Albania, Russians in the 'near abroad, ' Roma (Gypsies), and European Muslims. Accompanying these case studies are briefer discussions of dozens of other online national movements, as well as the ramifications of Internet nationalism for offline domestic and global politics. The author discusses how the Internet provides new tools for maintaining national identity and improves older techniques of nationalist resistance for minorities. Bringing together research and methodologies from a range of fields, Saunders fills a gap in the social science literature on the Internet's central role in influencing nationalism in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation. This insightful study provides a glimpse of this exciting and sometimes disturbing new landscap

Media, Myth and Terrorism - A discourse-mythological analysis of the 'Blitz Spirit' in British Newspaper Responses to... Media, Myth and Terrorism - A discourse-mythological analysis of the 'Blitz Spirit' in British Newspaper Responses to the July 7th Bombings (Hardcover)
D. Kelsey
R2,832 R1,797 Discovery Miles 17 970 Save R1,035 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Media, Myth and Terrorism is a rigorous case study of Blitz mythology in British newspaper responses to the July 7th bombings. Considering how the press, politicians and the public were caught up in popular accounts of Britain's past, Kelsey explores the ideological battleground that took place in the weeks following the bombings.

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
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 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 Representations of Police and Crime - Shaping the Police Television Drama (Hardcover): M. Colbran Media Representations of Police and Crime - Shaping the Police Television Drama (Hardcover)
M. Colbran
R3,275 Discovery Miles 32 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television dramas. Exploring ten leading British and European police dramas from the last twenty-five years, Colbran, a former scriptwriter, presents a revealing insight into police dramas, informed by media and criminological theory.

The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Last Moyo The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Last Moyo
R2,807 Discovery Miles 28 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histories of imperialism, colonialism, and the ideologies of Eurocentrism and neoliberalism. While Africa and the Global South dismantled the physical empire of colonialism after independence, the metaphysical empire of epistemic and academic colonialism is still intact and entrenched in the postcolonial university's academic programmes like media and communication studies. To address these problems, Moyo argues for the development of a Southern theory that is not only premised on the decolonization imperative, but also informed by the cultures, geographies, and histories of the Global South. The author recasts media studies within a radical cultural and epistemic turn that locates future projects of theory building within a decolonial multiculturalism that is informed by trans-cultural and trans- epistemic dialogue between Southern and Northern epistemologies.

Television Coverage of the Middle East (Hardcover): William C. Adams Television Coverage of the Middle East (Hardcover)
William C. Adams
R2,145 Discovery Miles 21 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings together original analyses about how the Middle East is depicted on U.S. television news. It analyzes some of the most intensely reported news stories of the past decade. Its revealing studies also show how broadcasting on Middle Ease issues has changed in recent years. These studies offer important and provocative findings regarding crucual issues in Middle East coverage.

The Second Offline - Doubling of Time and Place (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Hidenori Tomita The Second Offline - Doubling of Time and Place (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Hidenori Tomita
R4,587 Discovery Miles 45 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents current research on mobile Internet society. Past research was not able to show a clear analytical framework, thus was unable to close in on the fundamental changes in that society. This book, however, analyzes mobile Internet society by introducing the concept of "doubling of time and place" and the analytical framework of the "second offline." The emergence of the smartphone has made Internet use easier, and now, people are constantly using online information in the midst of their daily lives. Our society is transitioning from the first offline society, a society without being connected to Internet, to the second offline society, where users are connected to the Internet at all times. In this second offline society, our sense of time and place are beginning to change. Broadcast and communication media have made possible the overlapping of different places, which has been called the doubling of place. Furthermore, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have enabled the overlap of different times, which this book calls the doubling of time. The smartphone makes both possible. With the second offline and the doubling of time and place as keywords, the book takes into consideration research that includes, among other topics, the media usage of young adults, selfies, education, social media usage, mobile games, work stations, and consumer activity in the mobile Internet society.

Misunderstanding International Relations - A Focus on Liberal Democracies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Scott Burchill Misunderstanding International Relations - A Focus on Liberal Democracies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Scott Burchill
R1,589 Discovery Miles 15 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the ways in which the study and practice of international relations are misunderstood, both by scholars and politicians. It begins by examining critical errors in reasoning and argument which determine the way key issues in the field are discussed and explained. It then explores a number of case studies which are affected by these errors, including the legal status of the modern nation-state, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the idea of the Deep State, the relationship between the West and radical Islam, the impact of moral righteousness on historical understanding, and the role of class in modern Western politics.

Crime, Deviance and Doping - Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma (Hardcover, New): M. Yar Crime, Deviance and Doping - Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma (Hardcover, New)
M. Yar
R1,436 Discovery Miles 14 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption.

Daring to Feel - Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions (Paperback): Jody Santos Daring to Feel - Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions (Paperback)
Jody Santos
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Thou shall remain objective' is the number-one newsroom commandment, but lately cracks have begun to appear in the news media's objective fa_ade. American journalists have been pushed to the emotional brink with such recent tragedies and September 11th and Virginia Tech. Like social scientists, reporters are expected to be immune to, and even aloof from, the pain and suffering they chronicle. Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions challenges this journalistic mandate, particularly as it pertains to the emotional topic of violence. Interviewing journalists who have covered some of the worst tragedies in our nation's history, Jody Santos shows what happens when the news media dare to feel. No longer detached observers, they are free to see violence in all of its emotional complexity. In allowing themselves to experience the rage, helplessness and fear of those who have survived violence, these reporters tell deeper, more moving stories-stories that hopefully will have a profound effect on the way society views and confronts devastating problems such as child abuse and school massacres. Daring to Feel is not a call to scrap objectivity but an attempt to rebalance journalism's hierarchical relationship between thinking and feeling; rather, Santos creates an insightful new dialogue about the value of emotionally engaged reporting.

Fragile Spaces - Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities (Hardcover): Steven E. Aschheim Fragile Spaces - Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities (Hardcover)
Steven E. Aschheim
R3,592 Discovery Miles 35 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new, sometimes profound, sometimes fanciful, options of thought and action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some of the ironies, problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught, fragile and creatively fecund confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity, its history, politics, culture and self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility, this work may be helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to come to terms with a similar predicament.

Tourism Discourse - Language and Global Mobility (Hardcover): Adam Jaworski Tourism Discourse - Language and Global Mobility (Hardcover)
Adam Jaworski; Contributions by Virpi Ylanne; Crispin Thurlow
R3,057 Discovery Miles 30 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tourism Discourse offers new insights into the role of spoken, written and visual discourse in representating and producing tourism as a global cultural industry. With a view to the interplay between the symbolic and economic orders of global mobility, the book is grounded in empirically-based studies of key tourism genres.

Survival Media - The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): S. Perera Survival Media - The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
S. Perera
R1,447 Discovery Miles 14 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders.

Rating the Audience - The Business of Media (Hardcover, New): Mark Balnaves, Tom O'Regan, Ben Goldsmith Rating the Audience - The Business of Media (Hardcover, New)
Mark Balnaves, Tom O'Regan, Ben Goldsmith
R2,987 Discovery Miles 29 870 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. Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research became a convention, an agreement, and the first to interrogate the ways that agreement is now under threat. Taking a historical approach, the book looks at the evolution of audience ratings and the survey industry. It goes on to analyse today's media environment, looking at the role of the internet and the increased difficulties it presents for measuring audiences. The book covers all the major players and controversies, such as Facebook's privacy rulings and Google's alliance with Nielsen. Offering the first real comparative study, it will be critical for media students and professionals.

Web Accessibility - A Foundation for Research (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2019): Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper Web Accessibility - A Foundation for Research (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2019)
Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper
R7,211 Discovery Miles 72 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Covering key areas of evaluation and methodology, client-side applications, specialist and novel technologies, along with initial appraisals of disabilities, this important book provides comprehensive coverage of web accessibility. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides an overview of existing research and also looks at future developments, providing a much deeper insight than can be obtained through existing research libraries, aggregations, or search engines.

Comics Memory - Archives and Styles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Maaheen Ahmed, Benoit Crucifix Comics Memory - Archives and Styles (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Maaheen Ahmed, Benoit Crucifix
R3,952 Discovery Miles 39 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact-especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives-in their physical and metaphorical manifestations-this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.

Stalinism and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40 - Crisis Management, Censorship and Control (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Malcolm L.... Stalinism and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40 - Crisis Management, Censorship and Control (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Malcolm L. G. Spencer
R2,539 Discovery Miles 25 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40. The conflict represented a significant crisis for the Soviet Union, inspiring international condemnation and a significant loss of face for its supporters, both at home and abroad. The focus of this study is not upon the military dynamics of the war, but upon its ability to influence events, interpretations and interactions between agents and institutions within the Soviet Union and the wider international communist movement. Through original archival research, this book considers the ways in which the Soviet leadership reacted to the crisis, the tools at its disposal, and the effectiveness with which it managed to manipulate and control the spread of information through official and unofficial channels. It contributes to a more complete and complex picture of the inter-related nature of Soviet politics, propaganda and mass media in this period.

Reading Radio 4 - A Programme-by-Programme Analysis of Britain's Most Important Radio Station (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016):... Reading Radio 4 - A Programme-by-Programme Analysis of Britain's Most Important Radio Station (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Macdonald Daly
R2,924 R1,889 Discovery Miles 18 890 Save R1,035 (35%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a study of contemporary Radio 4 output, covering the entire broadcast day. Radio is largely neglected by media and cultural studies. The small body of existing work on Radio 4 is predominantly historical, focusing on institutional history, or sociological, focusing on contemporary BBC editorial and journalistic practices. Reading Radio 4, by contrast, analyses contemporary Radio 4 programmes entirely from the point of view of today's listener. Individual chapters correspond to all existing Radio 4 timeslots in the entire broadcast day of 19 hours 40 minutes, from 5.20am to 1.00am. The study, while academic in approach, aims to promote an informed and critical appreciation of Radio 4 for all listeners, as well as students of the media.

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