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The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of
public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically
non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production,
amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative
economy. But how do the activities of citizen journalists, fan
fiction writers and bedroom musicians connect with longer
traditions of extra-institutional media production? This edited
collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary
contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0.
Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the
amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features
contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics and
media studies based in the UK, Europe and Singapore. Each section
of the book contains a detailed case study on a selected topic,
followed by two further pieces providing additional analysis and
commentary. Using an extraordinary array of case studies and
examples, from YouTube to online games, from subtitling communities
to reality TV, the book is neither a celebration of amateur
production nor a denunciation of the demise of professional media
industries. Rather, this book presents a critical dialogue across
law and the humanities, exploring the dynamic tensions and
interdependencies between amateur and professional creative
production. This book will appeal to both academics and students of
intellectual property and media law, as well as to scholars and
students of economics, media, cultural and internet studies.
Over the past three decades, "landscape" has become an umbrella
term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the
processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist's
experience of the natural world, from human impact on past
environments to the environment's impact on human thought, action,
and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the
first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a
comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape
archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the
research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global
framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology,
this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All
royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological
Congress.
The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of
public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically
non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production,
amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative
economy. But how do the activities of citizen journalists, fan
fiction writers and bedroom musicians connect with longer
traditions of extra-institutional media production? This edited
collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary
contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0.
Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the
amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features
contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics and
media studies based in the UK, Europe and Singapore. Each section
of the book contains a detailed case study on a selected topic,
followed by two further pieces providing additional analysis and
commentary. Using an extraordinary array of case studies and
examples, from YouTube to online games, from subtitling communities
to reality TV, the book is neither a celebration of amateur
production nor a denunciation of the demise of professional media
industries. Rather, this book presents a critical dialogue across
law and the humanities, exploring the dynamic tensions and
interdependencies between amateur and professional creative
production. This book will appeal to both academics and students of
intellectual property and media law, as well as to scholars and
students of economics, media, cultural and internet studies.
Over the past three decades, "landscape" has become an umbrella
term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the
processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist's
experience of the natural world, from human impact on past
environments to the environment's impact on human thought, action,
and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the
first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a
comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape
archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the
research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global
framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology,
this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All
royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological
Congress.
Archaeologists have long recognised that they study past worlds
which may be quite unlike our own. But how are we to cope with the
difference of the past if our own circumstances are unique within
human history? What if archaeology itself depends on ways of
thinking that are specific to the modern western world? This is the
first book-length study to explore the relationship between
archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas
that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still
dominate our approach to the material remains of ancient societies.
It discusses the modern emphasis on method rather than ethics or
meaning, our understanding of change in history and nature, the
role of the nation-state in forming our views of the past, and
contemporary notions of human individuality, the mind, and
materiality.
This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship
between archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical
ideas that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
still dominate our approach to the material remains of ancient
societies. It discusses the modern emphasis on method rather than
ethics or meaning, our understanding of change in history and
nature, the role of the nation-state in forming our views of the
past, and contemporary notions of human individuality, the mind,
and materiality. Julian Thomas also addresses the modern
preoccupation with depth, which enables archaeology to be used as a
metaphor in other disciplines. The book concludes by advocating a
"counter-modern" archaeology that refuses to separate material
evidence from political, moral, rhetorical, and aesthetic concerns,
as well as meaning.
This book employs contemporary theoretical perspectives to investigate the Neolithic period in southern britain. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991).
This text presents an investigation of the period 4000 - 2200 BC.
Whilst examining the archaeological data of this region, the book
exposes the assumptions and prejudices which have shaped
archaeologists' accounts of the distant past, and presents fresh
interpretations informed by social theory, anthropology and
critical hermeneutics. The book is a fully reworked and updated
edition of the the book "Rethinking the Neolithic", which provoked
much heated debate on publication, especially in providing
alternative ways of interpreting archaeological evidence.
Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject.
Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects.
A complex enclosure identified by aerial photography at Dunragit
Galloway, was demonstrated by excavation to have been of Late
Neolithic date, and comprised three concentric timber ramped
post-rings, 120-300 m in diameter. The two outer post-rings each
comprised large uprights interspersed with smaller members,
probably forming a continuous palisade. Each was a single-phase
structure and the posts had rotted out. The inner ring had largely
been made up of large, free-standing posts, most of which had
rotted away, but some of which had been deliberately removed, the
post-holes being considerably larger than those of the two outer
rings. Where posts had been pulled out, a number of elaborate
deposits had been placed in the crater left by the post-removal.
The entrances to the post-rings are not aligned and the preferred
interpretation is that the monument as a whole had two phases of
construction, in each of which a timber circle was surrounded by a
palisade, and in which the middle post-ring succeeded the outer, or
vice-versa. The enclosure had been preceded by a post-defined
cursus monument in which all the post had been burned in situ and
numerous other post-holes were located on the same axis as the
cursus, extending beyond the monument itself. The most elaborate
entrance, connected with the middle post-ring, is composed of two
parallel lines of features, presumably post-holes, opening toward
the south, and aligned on a large earthen mound at Droughduil, 400
m away. Droughduil Mote, though recorded as a medieval motte,
recalls the association of various very large mounds with with
henges or palisaded enclosures, as at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire.
Excavation demonstrated that it had been constructed with stepped
sides, and that a stone cairn had been constructed on its summit. A
series of optically stimulated luminescence dates on the
accumulated sand over the surface of the mound demonstrated that it
was certainly not medieval, and was probably Neolithic in date.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Many people who would like to try veganism for environmental or
ethical reasons are put off by the thought of a meat-free diet
being unhealthy and nutritionally inadequate. However, this is a
very long way from the truth, and turning vegan can bring a whole
host of health benefits with it, ranging from the minor to the
potentially life-saving. This is true for people at any stage of
life from childhood to old age, and also for pregnant women and
even elite athletes. In Julian's book he covers this focus
entirely. You need to have a copy of Vegan Diet Tips.
This is a thoughtful and accessable account of a teenager growing
up in the 1970s. The experiences of Jez and his mates are easy to
identify and sympathise with, until a single terrible event changes
everything and forces them to grow up fast.
THIS 96 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Two Orations of
the Emperor Julian, by Emperor Julian . To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1564591271.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
THIS 52 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Two Orations of
the Emperor Julian, by Emperor Julian . To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1564591271.
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