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In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related
offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal
weddings, The Bride Factory critically examines various bridal
media outlets, artifacts, and the messages they convey about women
today. The book departs from conventional wisdom and other
treatments of the bridal industry as a scholarly topic by revealing
how media portray women in modern American society, and how these
portrayals reflect feminism and femininity and illustrate the
hegemony created by these media. The book discusses the portrayal
of women as brides in media coverage throughout history; the
various forms of wedding media, including print, television, and
the Internet; how bridal media forward ideals of feminine beauty;
how reality wedding programs depict brides - and the new
"bridezilla" - as agents of control over their perfect day; the
role of men in wedding planning; and the extent to which the white
wedding ideal is embraced or resisted, with special attention given
to alternative wedding media. Cohesive and multidisciplinary in its
approach, The Bride Factory is the first major publication to shed
critical light on bridal media and their feminist implications.
This book examines issues of citizenship, citizenship education,
and social change in China, exploring the complexity of
interactions among global forces, the nation-state, local
governments, schools, and individuals - including students - in
selecting and identifying with elements of citizenship and
citizenship education in a multileveled polity. It also provides a
clear, detailed guide to studies on China, discussing the country's
responses to global challenges and social transitions for over a
century - from its military defeats by foreign powers in the 1840s
to its rise as a world power in the early 21st century - on its
path toward reviving the nation and making a modern Chinese
citizenry. Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Global Age is
accessible to readers in the fields of sociology, globalization,
citizenship studies, comparative education, and China's
development.
This edited volume seeks to redress the lack of scholarly work that
takes promotion seriously as a form of social, cultural, political,
and economic exchange. It unpacks the vernacular, the institutional
structures, and the practices and performances that make up
promotional culture in everyday life, offering diverse critical
perspectives on how, as citizens, consumers, and users, we absorb,
navigate, confront, and resist its influence. Contributions from
both renowned scholars and emerging intellectuals make this book a
timely and valuable contribution to the fields of media and
communication studies, political science, cultural studies,
sociology, and anthropology.
The media are ubiquitous and constantly changing, causing social
and cultural shifts. This book examines how processes of
mediatization affect almost all areas of contemporary social and
cultural life, and takes the theoretical debate on mediatization in
communication studies and media sociology to a critical edge.
Lankshear (literacy and new technologies, James Cook U. Australia)
and Knobel (language and literacy education, Queensland U. of
Technology, Australia) have chosen the contributors to this volume
based on the idea of emphasizing the plurality of digital
literacies, by which they mean to refer to the diversity of
specific accounts of digital literacy that exist and consequent
implications for digital literacy policy, the strength and
usefulness of a sociocultural perspective on literacy as practice
(according to which literacy is best understood as literacies), and
the benefits that may accrue from adopting an expansive view of
digital literacy and its significance for educational learning.
They present 12 chapters addressing such subjects as the required
cognitive skills for Internet literacy, digital literacy as
information savvy, digital literacy policies in the European Union,
digital literacy in enterprises, the digital literacies of online
shoppers, digital literacy and participation in online social
networking spaces, and digital literacy and the law.
Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and
highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. "The Orator's
Education" ("Institutio Oratoria"), a comprehensive training
program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a
work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory,
but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in
the Roman world.
Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives
guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy);
analyzes the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will
engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range
of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on
memory, delivery, and gestures.
Donald Russell's new five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition
of "The Orator's Education," which replaces an eighty-year-old
translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation
fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to
today's taste. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory
notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the
history of rhetoric.
We -- the users turned creators and distributors of content -- are
TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of
the Year 2007. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace,
YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the
development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going
on? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing
participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core
principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation
in environments, from open source through blogs and Wikipedia to
Second Life. This book shows that what's emerging here is no longer
just a new form of content production, but a new process for the
continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by
collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the
gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will
affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and
democracy.
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