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This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, a...

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While many analyses have examined disinformation in recent election campaigns, misuse of 'big data' such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and manipulation by bots and algorithms, most have blamed a few bad actors. This incisive analysis present...

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Theories of Communication is the realization of a project begun in the 1970s with Marshall McLuhan and now brought to completion by his son, Eric McLuhan. This collection of short essays assembles theories of communication from a diverse range of ...

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The interrelationship between journalism and public relations (PR) is one of the most contentious in the field of media studies. Numerous studies have shown that 50-80 per cent of the content of mass media is significantly shaped by PR. But many e...

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We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influenc...

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This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, the Brundtland Report p...

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New Testament lexicons of today are comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative. Behind them lies a tradition dating back to the sixteenth century, whose characteristics are not well known. Besides giving a history of this tradition, A History of...

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From virtual assistants to social robots, people are increasingly interacting with intelligent and highly communicative technologies throughout their daily lives. This shift from communicating with people to communicating with people and machines ...

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The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children's and adults' symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, an...

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This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroth's pioneering research in the field of modern matriarchal studies, based on a new definition of "matriarchy" as true gender-egalitarian societies. Accordingly, matriarchal societi...

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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Youyang zazu is an important Tang dynasty miscellany by the erudite and well-traveled chronicler, Duan Chengshi (c. 800-863). Duan collected over thirteen hundred anecdotes, notes, and...

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This book is a collective statement about a new approach to education - the pedagogy of relation. After revisiting a number of existing conversations, the authors bring together several theoretical traditions under the umbrella of the pedagogy of ...

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Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989. A scholar of law, critical race theory, and Black feminist thought, Crenshaw used intersectionality to explain the experiences of Black women who - because of the intersections of ra...

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What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this sem...

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Tifo refers to the artistic renderings that supporters at football/soccer matches perform. This can involve large banners, coordinated mosaic displays, and pyrotechnics. Originating in Europe, the tradition has spread across the world and to other...

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This collection brings together established and emerging scholars in communication studies to examine the relationship between communication and the economy in contemporary society. Providing context for ongoing debates in the field as well as ope...

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This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. More of our everyday lives and social institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates...

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What changes in education, when it is not just humans whose teaching is sought and acknowledged? And how can educational research be accountable to the voices and agency of such more-than-human teachers, interlocutors, and kin? These have become p...

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A thorough work of contemporary history and a distillation of the complex web of the Iranian Kurdish political world, this biography of Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou depicts the character and passionate action of one of the twentieth cent...

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Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice presents a situated approach to learning that suggests the need for more explicit attention to sociomaterial practice in critical education. Specifically, it explores social, place and narrative dimens...

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Frau Wickerts Arbeit untersucht das Thema Heros und heroisches Zeitalter in seiner Bedeutung fuer die gesellschaftspolitische Ein- stellung Kleists, die sich der ueblichen regressiven oder progressiven Etiquettierung entzieht und sich als politisc...

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Ein wichtiger Aspekt in der Lyrik Johannes Bobrowskis ist die Manipulation von Zeit in seinen Gedichten. Bobrowski benutzt Zeit nicht im metaphysischen Sinne, sondern als ein Medium, mit dessen Hilfe er die geschichtliche Vergangenheit des europae...

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Die Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, die Anordnung und kuenstlerische Ge- staltung des biographischen Materials aufzuzeigen, ein Aspekt, der bei den ersten Besprechungen des Hoelderlin vernachlaessigt worden ist. Die Frage zur Gattung des Werks wird da...

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Ce livre, ecrit pour tous ceux qui s'interessent au Moyen Age, est une introduction aux themes de l'amour courtois. L'auteur, ayant choisi un certain nombre d'oeuvres du XIIIe siecle, examine de pres la fin'amor et la jalousie dans ces romans, en ...

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Cet ouvrage decrit les resultats d'une enquete sociolinguistique effectuee dans une des regions ou la population acadienne se trouve le plus fortement concentree. L'analyse quantitative revele une structuration nette dans la variation linguistique...

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This study interprets debates within the Weimar literary Left over the relation of literature to politics. The historical key to these debates was the German revolution of 1918-1919 and the idea of Bolshevism, i.e. a symbolic allegiance to the onl...

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This study was undertaken to determine if the credibility principle of attitude change applied in the multi-variable context of a team-taught education methods course. Defined as respondent perceptions of communicator expertise and trustworthiness...

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Los ensayos reunidos en esta monografia examinan los principios de estructuracion de la obra teatral que generan en el publico espectador una comprension de los significados nucleares del texto-produccion. Se examinan obras representativas del tea...

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Italy's Fascist experience and role in World War II sparked a reassessment of Italian developments since unification. The peninsula's strategic position, its role in NATO and the European Economic Community, the remaking of postwar democracy, as w...

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La presente edition de L'Interim fait par dialogues met pour la premiere fois depuis le XVIe siecle a la disposition du public le texte du dernier ouvrage polemique de Pierre Viret, importante figure dans le mouvement de la Reforme tant en France ...

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