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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication

Author : Marnel Niles Goins
Publisher : Unknown
Release Date : 2020
Category : Communication
Excerpts : An extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between communication and gender, which will be invaluable for students and researchers in gender studies and communication studies, its international perspectives and the range of themes covered making it an essential and pragmatic pedagogical resource....
Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State

Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State

Author : Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
Excerpts : This book focuses on the theme of counter-surveillance in art through a multi-faceted engagement with the highly controversial Norwegian play Ways of Seeing. Denounced by the prime minister and subject to a police investigation, the play gained notoriety when it featured footage showing the homes of the country’s financial ...
Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age

Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age

Author : Karl Kaser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
Excerpts : This book provides a fresh overview on the debate about the remarkable regression of gender equality in the Balkans and South Caucasus caused by the fall of socialism and by the revitalization of religion in Turkey. Contrary to the prevailing opinion of researchers who state continuous male domination, the book ...
Re Imagining New Media

Re Imagining New Media

Author : Christoph Ernst
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
Excerpts : The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The ...
The Science of Citizen Science

The Science of Citizen Science

Author : Katrin Vohland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021
Category : Communication
Excerpts : This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has ...
Enhancing Video Game Localization Through Dubbing

Enhancing Video Game Localization Through Dubbing

Author : Laura Mejías-Climent
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021
Category : Audio-visual translation
Excerpts : This book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus. The author analyses the main characteristics of video game localization within the context of English-Spanish dubbing, and emphasizes the ...
Digital Citizenship in China

Digital Citizenship in China

Author : Jun Fu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-17
Category : Uncategorized
Excerpts : ...
Language as Symbolic Power

Language as Symbolic Power

Author : Claire Kramsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Excerpts : Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality....
The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South

The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South

Author : Last Moyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-09
Category : Social Science
Excerpts : This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity’s histories of imperialism, colonialism, ...
Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age

Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age

Author : jan jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-03
Category : Education
Excerpts : This book problematizes the role of education in an increasingly mediatized world through the lenses of creativity, new media, and consumerism. At the core of the issue, the author argues, creativity in art education is being co-opted to serve the purposes of current economic trends towards designer capitalism. Using an ...
Communication Culture and Social Change

Communication Culture and Social Change

Author : Mohan Dutta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
Excerpts : Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting the assumptions that form the basis of development. This ...
Promiscuous Knowledge

Promiscuous Knowledge

Author : Kenneth Cmiel
Publisher : Unknown
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Category : History
Excerpts : "Histories of communication are still relatively rare birds, but this one is distinctive on several grounds. The two authors are/were undisputed giants in the field. Ken Cmiel, the originator of the book, still unfinished when he suddenly died in 2006, was a cultural historian of communication; his best friend, John ...