Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where

Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions;

Primer (Muro Jennifer)(Paperback)

Artistry and super-heroics collide ain this new superhero story Thirteen-year-old Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. With a father in prison, Ashley has bounced from foster home to foster home and represents a real challenge to the social workers who try to help

Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa (Akwala Alfred O.)(Pevná vazba)

Presents research on the impact of media, and especially new media, on health and culture. Highlighting topics including civic engagement, gender stereotypes, and interpersonal communication, this book is designed for students, multinational organisations, diplomats, expatriates, and

Points of Convergence: Alternative Views on Performance (Dziewanska Marta)(Paperback)

Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown, performance is a medium with a special ability to question its own

Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (Scott Suzanne)(Paperback)

Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Thoreau Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Crime, Media and Culture (Martin Greg)(Paperback)

Working broadly from the perspective of cultural criminology, Crime, Media and Culture engages with theories and debates about the nature of media-audience relations, examines representations of crime and justice in news media and fiction, and considers the growing significance of digital

Pegasus and the New Olympians - Book 3 (O'Hearn Kate)(Paperback / softback)

Mythology and reality collide in a new

The Language of New Media (Manovich Lev)(Paperback)

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema.In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He

What If Culture Was Nature All Along? (Kirby Vicki)(Paperback)

Navigational tools towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential New materialisms argue for a more science-friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention -

Comics and Stuff (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff--junk drawers, bookshelves, attics--as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable--you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed

Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media After 9/11 (Fallon Kris)(Paperback)

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the

Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment (Cunningham Stuart)(Paperback)

Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment There is a new class of cultural producers--YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others--who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized 'user-generated'

Race, Culture and Media (Saha Anamik)(Paperback)

How do media 'make' race? How do legacies of empire shape our understandings of race and media? How does racism structure the media industries? Is the internet an inherently white space? Understanding the relationship between race, culture and media has never been more important. From the

Immortal - Number 6 in series (Ward J. R.)(Paperback / softback)

In a world where sin and salvation collide, mankind's reluctant saviour will face his final and greatest challenge . . . Sunday Times bestselling author J.R. Ward returns with the epic climax to her acclaimed Fallen Angels

Road of Bones (Douek Rich)(Paperback)

Horror, history, and Russian folklore collide in this brutal survival tale, where the worst prison in the world is merely the gateway to even darker terrors. In 1953, the Siberian Gulag of Kolyma is hell on Earth--which is why Roman Morozov leaps at the chance to escape it. But even if they make it

Steel Crow Saga (Krueger Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Jenkins Philip)(Paperback)

In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the

Girl Defined: God's Radical Design for Beauty, Femininity, and Identity (Clark Kristen)(Paperback)

In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of women

Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture (Bak Meredith A.)(Paperback)

Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Sconce Jeffrey)(Paperback)

In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media-from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers-with paranormal or spiritual phenomena. By offering a historical analysis of the relation between

Media Education: Literacy, Learning, and Contemporary Culture (Buckingham David)(Paperback)

This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people's lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice. David Buckingham is one of the leading international experts in the field -