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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
Bytes and backbeats : repurposing music in the digital age
From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation an…
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- 9780472901180
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- xv, 251p. : ill.
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- 781.6409051 SAV b
Owning the Olympics : narratives of the new China
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." —Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia Universit…
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- 9780472070329
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- 416p. : ill.
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- 796.48 OWN o
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
Developmental, modal, and pathological variation linguistic and cognitive pro…
One significant area of research in the multifaceted field of bilingualism over the past two decades has been the demonstration, validation, and account of the so-called ‘bilingual advantage’. This refers to the hypothesis that bilingual speakers have advanced abilities in executive functions and other domains of human cognition. Such cognitive benefits of bilingualism have an impact on the…
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- 9782889456383
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- 179 p.; 23 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 404.2 DEV d
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
Reading in changing society
The changing state of reading and its fate in the digitalised world is one of the core issues in the contemporary debates about the future of culture. The central position of the printed word, and primarily, books as the most valuable cultural medium and the main source of knowledge, are becoming questioned in the age of the Internet. Reading as gateway to the world of fantasies has been challe…
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- 9789949325757
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- 210 p.; 23 cm.
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- 418.4 LAU r
The Grammar of multilingualism
This volume investigates the nature of grammatical representations in speakers who master multiple languages. Since the early days of modern formal approaches to grammar, most work has been based on the language of monolingual humans. Less work has been conducted based on data from speakers who possess more than one language. Although important insights have been gained from a monolingual focus…
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- 9782889450121
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- 195 p.; 22 cm.
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- 401.43 ALE g
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