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This book offers a critical road map for understanding and
researching "social innovation media"--initiatives that look for
new solutions to seemingly intractable social problems by combining
creativity, media technologies, and engaged collectives in their
design and implementation. Presenting a number of case studies,
including campaigns dealing with young people, Indigenous peoples,
human rights, and environmental issues, the book takes a close look
at the guiding principles, assumptions, goals, practices, and
outcomes of these experiments, revealing the challenges they face,
the components of their innovation, and the cultural economy within
which they operate.
This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation
of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski
resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors
consider the development of skiing around the world during the
crucial post-war years. With its global lens, Leisure Cultures and
the Making of Modern Ski Resorts highlights both commonalities and
differences between countries. Experts across various fields of
research cover developments across the ski-able world, from Europe,
Asia and America to Australia. Attention to media and material
cultures reveals an insight into global fashions, consumption and
ski cultures, and the impact of mainstream media in the 1960s and
1970s. This global and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to
history, sociology, cultural and media research scholars interested
in a cultural history of skiing, as well as those with more broad
interests in globalization, consumption research, and knowledge
transfer.
This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit
series Grand Designs, which occupies a significant place in the
popular imagination internationally. The authors apply an
empirically grounded, critical perspective to the study of
television to reveal how people use the program in their everyday
lives. The emphasis on everyday uses and meanings combines
creatively with understanding the program theoretically, textually
and in terms of its production structures. This position challenges
framings of the popular lifestyle and factual television genre that
has been dominated by a neoliberal or governmentality perspective
for many years. Presented by British designer and writer, Kevin
McCloud, Grand Designs follows the progress of home owners as they
embark on design, renovation and building projects at almost always
dizzying scales of endeavour. Understanding the program as both a
text to analyse and a site of material impact, the book draws on
interviews with production members, home renovators, building
practitioners and audiences, as well as references to associated
media formats to provide contextual depth to the analysis. The
authors argue that, as a cultural object, the program is both
shaped by and enacts social discourses of home-making, design value
and taste. Navigating public, commercial and promotional logics,
Grand Designs sparks new forms of cultural production and consumer
markets.
This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation
of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski
resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors
consider the development of skiing around the world during the
crucial post-war years. With its global lens, Leisure Cultures and
the Making of Modern Ski Resorts highlights both commonalities and
differences between countries. Experts across various fields of
research cover developments across the ski-able world, from Europe,
Asia and America to Australia. Attention to media and material
cultures reveals an insight into global fashions, consumption and
ski cultures, and the impact of mainstream media in the 1960s and
1970s. This global and interdisciplinary approach will appeal to
history, sociology, cultural and media research scholars interested
in a cultural history of skiing, as well as those with more broad
interests in globalization, consumption research, and knowledge
transfer.
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