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Printing and prophecy : prognostication and media change, 1450-1550
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and k…
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- 9780472117833
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- xi, 265p. : ill.
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- 261.51309409024 GRE p
Wiki writing : collaborative learning in the college classroom
When most people think of wikis, the first—and usually the only—thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and pr…
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- 9780472116713
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- xvi, 256p. : ill.
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- 808.0420711 WIK w
Skate life : re-imagining white masculinity
Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media te…
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- 9780472070800
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- xi, 225p. : ill.
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- 796.22 YOC s
Digital tools in urban schools : mediating a remix of learning
Digital Tools in Urban Schools demonstrates significant ways in which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an urban public high school in northern California extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms. Through a novel research collaboration between a university and this public school, these teachers were supported and guided in deve…
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- 9780472071531
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- 170p. : ill.
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- 371.0091732 MAH d
Digital scholarly editing: theories and practices
"This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress o…
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- 9781783742400
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- 290 p.; 23 cm.
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- Digital Humanities Series, vol. 4
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- 001 DIG d
The hyperlinked society : questioning connections in the digital age
"Links" are among the most basic---and most unexamined---features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and the academy, The Hyperlinked Society addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of links change the way they approach their work, and how do these c…
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- 9780472070435
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- 319p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 HYP h
Global humanitarianism and media culture
There is as yet no collection that examines the longer histories of global humanitarianism and media culture, which would enable readers to consider the various continuities, as well as the differences, characterising the mass media’s relationship with international humanitarian crisis and relief. This collection examines this relationship from the 1950s to the present, from Marshall Plan doc…
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- 9781526117298
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- 306.4 LAW g
Sign language research, uses and practices. Crossing views on theoretical and…
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languages and vice versa. Conversely, sign linguistics cannot be separated from Deaf community practices, including practices in education and interpretation. Therefore, the current volume brings together work on sign language interpreting, the use of spoken and sign language with deaf children with coc…
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- 9781614511472
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- ix, 174 p.; 22 cm.
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- Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]; Volume 1
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- 418 SIG s
Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media : A Longitudinal Study of the Medi…
This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve years (from 2005 to 2017) and provides a unique perspective on the role of different socialisation contexts, drawing on rich data f…
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- 9783030026530
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- Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research
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- 303.32 PAU s
The crisis for young people : generational inequalities in education, work, h…
This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life domains. A central question addressed is whether…
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- 9783319585475
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- XIII, 161
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- 305.2420941 GRE t
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