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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and
political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction
argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and
creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical
arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national
to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and
individualist to systems thinking. Key features include: A new
approach to the creative industries based on complex systems and
evolutionary dynamics Combining humanities-based analysis with
economics of innovation A critique of important theorists and
intellectual traditions involved in the study of modern mediated
creativity Reconceptualizing arts, copyright, cities, time, global
media and social agency A thought-provoking reassessment of
modernity to pivot creative enterprise for the challenges of the
Anthropocene era. Scholars and students of media and communications
studies, political economy and economics will benefit from the new
approach to creative media and culture, and its proposals to
rethink the economics of creativity and innovation. This book will
be a helpful guide for policy-makers, consultants and freelancers
who work across the borderlines of art, media, technology, business
and regulation.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and
political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction
argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and
creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical
arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national
to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and
individualist to systems thinking. Key features include: A new
approach to the creative industries based on complex systems and
evolutionary dynamics Combining humanities-based analysis with
economics of innovation A critique of important theorists and
intellectual traditions involved in the study of modern mediated
creativity Reconceptualizing arts, copyright, cities, time, global
media and social agency A thought-provoking reassessment of
modernity to pivot creative enterprise for the challenges of the
Anthropocene era. Scholars and students of media and communications
studies, political economy and economics will benefit from the new
approach to creative media and culture, and its proposals to
rethink the economics of creativity and innovation. This book will
be a helpful guide for policy-makers, consultants and freelancers
who work across the borderlines of art, media, technology, business
and regulation.
Series Information: New Accents
A series of murders targets the nation's best known poets.
Remarkably, they are being murdered in a way that reflects the
style of their poems. Victor Priest is given the task of finding
the murderer but when a car bomb is discovered in his car, by the
eccentric and hilarious young couple turned detectives, a desperate
confrontation takes place
At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research
and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led
society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task
as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and
culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to
be rethought as action not behavior, and media consumption as a
mode of literacy. Online social networks and participatory media
are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press
and banned in schools. But the potential of digital literacy should
not be underestimated. Fifty years after Richard Hoggart's
pioneering The Uses of Literacy reshaped the educational response
to popular culture, John Hartley extends Hoggart's argument into
digital media. Media evolution has made possible the realism of the
modern age journalism, the novel and science not to mention mass
entertainment on a global scale. Hartley reassesses the historical
and global context, commercial and cultural dynamics and the
potential of popular productivity through analysis of the use of
digital media in various domains, including creative industries,
digital storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion.
Encouraging mass participation in the evolutionary growth of
knowledge, The Uses of Digital Literacy shows how today's teenage
fad may become tomorrow's scientific method. Hartley claims the
time has come for education to catch up with entertainment and for
the professionals to learn from popular culture. This book will
stimulate the imagination and stir further research.
At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities
research and its use in understanding the conditions of a
consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical,
scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative
enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher,
consumption needs to be rethought as action not behavior, and media
consumption as a mode of literacy.
Online social networks and participatory media are often still
ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and banned in
schools. But the potential of digital literacy should not be
underestimated. Fifty years after Richard Hoggart's pioneering "The
Uses of Literacy" reshaped the educational response to popular
culture, John Hartley extends Hoggart's argument into digital
media. Media evolution has made possible the realism of the modern
age journalism, the novel and science not to mention mass
entertainment on a global scale.
Hartley reassesses the historical and global context,
commercial and cultural dynamics and the potential of popular
productivity through analysis of the use of digital media in
various domains, including creative industries, digital
storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion.
Encouraging mass participation in the evolutionary growth of
knowledge, "The Uses of Digital Literacy" shows how today's teenage
fad may become tomorrow's scientific method. Hartley claims the
time has come for education to catch up with entertainment and for
the professionals to learn from popular culture. This book will
stimulate the imagination and stir further research.
Series Information: New Accents
How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartleys new book is a lucid defence of the place of television in our lives, and of the usefulness of television studies. Hartley re-conceptualizes television as a transmodern medium, capable of reuniting government, education and media, and of creating a new kind of cultural teaching which facilitates communication across social and geographical boundaries. He provides a historical framework for the development of both television and television studies, his focus ranging from an analysis of the early documentary Housing Problems, to the much-overlooked cultural impact of the refrigerator.
Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggart's classic The Uses of Literacy, John Hartley considers the usefulness of both television and television studies. He re-reads the history of broadcast TV's earliest moments, tracing the critical reception television has received from the 1930s to the present. Uses of Television asks 'improper questions' about what television, and TV Studies too, have been for: about the effect of the vast, unknowable audience on television; about the role of television in promoting 'cultural citizenship' by means of 'transmodern teaching'; and about the effects of knowledge produced in the formal study of television. Via a consideration of neglected aspects of media and domestic history, from the 1930s film Housing Problems to Clarissa Explains It All, from the fridge to Umberto Eco's daughter, Hartley argues that this much-maligned medium can be reassessed in a more positive light. 'Democratainment' and 'do-it-yourself citizenship' are the latest manifestations of a civic and cultural education that TV performs even as it entertains. eBook available with sample pages: 0203024877
The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking from Aristotle to the meaning of picnics. Hartley investigates popular media reality, showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own right.
"The Politics of Pictures" searches for the public in the realm of
media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and
page. John Hartley investigates popular media reality, showing how
pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own
right. He embarks on a wide-ranging and sometimes bizarre journey
of discovery, using an amazing variety of primary texts to explore
the way publics have been created, and the political uses of media
audiences.
"The Politics of Pictures" is a history of looking, from Aristotle
to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to the meaning
of picnics, from "Leviathan" to synchronized swimming, Dr. Johnson
to the sexualization of war. Its unconventional approach is
designed to show how popular reality looks to itself, and how its
peculiar forms and connections actually challenge some venerable
political and philosophical truths.
"Cultural Studies" explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting
and innovative way. From new kinds of writing to photo essays, the
journal is both theoretically and politically rewarding.
Teleology brings together John Hartley's work on television. The book draws on current critical theory in cultural studies to develop a wide-ranging and thought-provoking view of television broadcasting in Britain, Australia and the USA. Neighbours, Hancock's Half Hour, Dallas, Monty Python, Miami Vice, Beverly Hillbillies and Bonanza are among the examples of TV art that are discussed in Hartley's exploration of cultural politics. He takes in TV truth and propaganda; populism in the news; mythologies of the audience; TV drama as a `photopoetic' genre in the tradition of Shakespeare; Kylie Minogue, Madonna and gardening shows. eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415068177
Tele-ology brings together John Hartley's writings on television.
Hartley assesses TV as a global and local force, a cultural and
textual system and a corporate and domestic, political and artistic
object of study. He draws on current critical theory in cultural
studies to develop a wide-ranging and thought-provoking view of
television broadcasting in Britain, Australia and the USA. The
collection includes writings on TV truth and propaganda; on
populism in the news; on mythologies of the audience, who, John
Hartley suggests, are as fictional as the shows they watch; on TV
drama as a photopoetic genre in the tradition of Shakespeare; on
the peculiarities of TV continuity and TV advertising and on the
cultural politics of Kylie Minogue and Madonna, The Beverley
Hillbillies and Bonanza, and gardening programmes.
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and
this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without
simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into
the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic
technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological,
scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition
- coinciding with Ong's centenary year - reproduces his best-known
and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two
new exploratory essays by cultural writer and critic John Hartley.
Hartley provides: A scene-setting chapter that situates Ong's work
within the historical and disciplinary context of post-war
Americanism and the rise of communication and media studies; A
closing chapter that follows up Ong's work on orality and literacy
in relation to evolving media forms, with a discussion of recent
criticisms of Ong's approach, and an assessment of his concept of
the 'evolution of consciousness'; Extensive references to recent
scholarship on orality, literacy and the study of knowledge
technologies, tracing changes in how we know what we know. These
illuminating essays contextualize Ong within recent intellectual
history, and display his work's continuing force in the ongoing
study of the relationship between literature and the media, as well
as that of psychology, education and sociological thought.
The creative citizen unbound introduces the concept of `creative
citizenship' to explore the potential of civically-minded creative
individuals in the era of social media and in the context of an
expanding creative economy. Contributors examine the value and
nature of creative citizenship, not only in terms of its
contribution to civic life and to social capital but also to
various and more contested definitions of value, both economic and
cultural.
The creative citizen unbound introduces the concept of 'creative
citizenship' to explore the potential of civically-minded creative
individuals in the era of social media and in the context of an
expanding creative economy. Contributors examine the value and
nature of creative citizenship, not only in terms of its
contribution to civic life and to social capital but also to
various and more contested definitions of value, both economic and
cultural.
Now in its fifth edition, this pioneering volume of Routledge's
'Key Guides' series offers clear explanations of key concepts,
showing where they came from, what they are used for and why they
provoke discussion or disagreement. The new edition is extensively
revised to keep pace with rapidly evolving developments in
communication, culture and media, providing topical and
authoritative guidance to transformational shifts from broadcast to
digital technologies, national to global media and disciplinary to
diverse knowledge. It includes: Nearly 250 entries, covering what
and how to study across this multi-disciplinary field; 50 new
entries: from algorithm and assemblage, dance and data, to woke and
worldbuilding; Updated references with 500 items and suggestions
for further reading; Revisions, updates and examples throughout.
For students and seasoned scholars alike, Communication, Cultural
and Media Studies is an invaluable resource in an ever-changing
landscape.
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and
this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without
simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
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