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This book presents a machine-generated review on various works related to pedagogy and space, especially relevant to the context of the Global Sout...

Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, st...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Firmly anchored in contemporary political issues, Freedom and B...

Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society.

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of...

Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this i...

This book explores the dark side of leadershipthose areas of unethical, unlawful and unconscionable practice in which some organizational leaders e...

Since the patenting of the modern beehive in 1852, the alternative techniques prior to this homogenisation have been overlooked. Using an array of...

Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where the digital wont let [...

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on th...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, per...

Patricia M. Greenfield was one of the first psychologists to present new research on how various media can be used to promote social growth and thi...

Oppression and resistance dialectically envelop everyday life, for both the privileged and the oppressed. The disenfranchised live under regimes in...

In this new volume of Studies in Symbolic Interaction Carl J. Couchs (1925-1994) memoir The Romance of Discovery, which has lain unpublished for th...

The Dumville family settled in central Illinois during an era of division and dramatic change. Arguments over slavery raged. Railroads and circuit-...

Reveals how the pyramids of Egypt were sophisticated generators of clean energy. Sharing extensive new evidence and cutting-edge research that the ...

Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and ins...

In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and ...

Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments ma...

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or Wh...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

Over the first two decades of the 21st century, celebrity has undergone significant changes as mass media have shifted from a restricted broadcast ...

Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Me...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. Taking int...

Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipu...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

Are you sceptical about the importance of arts and culture, especially about their possible impact on politics and the economy? This volume outline...

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeaus notion of the everyday as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shap...

Celebrities attract the attention of commercial interests and other public figures. They receive payments from sponsors to endorse brands. They are...

To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals. Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-ch...

This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in socia...

The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the W...

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It provid...

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that ...

A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondons fundam...

Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media lands...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. Taking int...

What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what kind of purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these question...

Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy....

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon hav...

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other...

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah invites 36 writers, artists, scholars, and activists to offer accessible reflections on 36 questions to he...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...