Media and society after technological disruption

This interdisciplinary collection studies the Internet's effects on traditional media. Part 1 deals with the breakdown of trust in the media; Part 2 outlines the changing law of defamation and privacy; Part 3 analyzes the challenge of online content moderation; and Part 4 considers the financial challenges facing journalistic enterprises

Children, media, and pandemic parenting: family life in uncertain times

This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents’ understanding of children’s media use. Drawing on interviews with 130 parents at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores specific cultural contexts across seven countries: Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, South Korea, United Kingdom, and United St…

Making sense of politics, media and law: rhetorical performance as invention,…

From Trump’s ‘make America great again’ to Johnson’s ‘build back better’, performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law ‘makers’ do it too: A courtroom trial is a ‘truth factory’ in which facts are not found but forged. The ‘court of popular opinion’ is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its product…

Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with …

An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…

Soldiers' stories : military women in cinema and television since World War II

From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how…

A cultural approach to populism

This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural per-spective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies.Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds …

Konversi biomassa untuk energi alternatif di Indonesia: tinjauan sumber daya,…

Persedian bahan bakar fosil dunia semakin hari semakin menipis, sementara permintaan dan kebutuhan masyarakat akan bahan bakar terus meningkat. Hal ini mengakibatkan harga bahan bakar fosil semakin tidak terjangkau, yang pada akhirnya dapat berujung pada krisis energi global. Di Indonesia, subsidi BBM sudah menjadi momok bagi APBN setiap tahunnya. Oleh sebab itu, dibutuhkan energi alternatif un…

Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is v…

Alternative and Mainstream Media : the Converging Spectrum

Historically, alternative media have been viewed as fundamental, albeit at times culturally peripheral, forces in social change. In this book, however, Kenix argues that these media do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that are so central to mainstream media - in fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always been based on the professional standards of the mainstream. Ken…

A History of the American Civil Rights Movement Through Newspaper Coverage

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ISBN/ISSN

9781433146947

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xviii, 351 p

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323.1196073 HAL h