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Queer Media Images

LGBT Perspectives

by Richard D. Besel, Kristin Comeforo, Jennifer Guthrie, Brittani Hidahl, Kristel Hladky, Richard Kenney, Zoe Kenney, Adrianne Kunkel, Lori Montalbano, Kristen Norwood, Valarie Schweisberger, Shannon Weber, John M. Wolf, Jason Zingsheim, Bruce E. Drushel, Rachel E. Silverman, Kimiko Akita ...

Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to ... Read more

$47.79 USD

Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to
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Locating Queerness in the Media

A New Look

by Jane Campbell, Theresa Carilli, Simone Cavalcante Da Silva, Ali E. Erol, Judy L. Isaksen, Jamie A. Lee, Colette Morrow, Erika M. Thomas, Melvin L. Williams0, Verdell A. Wright1, Stephanie L. Young2, Bruce E. Drushel3, Lori L. Montalbano4 ...

Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community. It examines what a queer sensibility means and how the queer ... Read more

$42.99 USD

Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community. It examines what a queer sensibility means and how the queer
... Read more
Social Networking and Impression Management

Self-Presentation in the Digital Age

by Nicholas Brody, Sara Green-Hamann, Amber Johnson, Benjamin Johnson, Bree McEwan, Koos Nuitjen, Jorge Peña, Natalie Pennington, Peter Stepman, Binod Sundararajan, Malavika Sundararajan, Daniel C. Davis, Jeffrey A. Hall, Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Corey Jay Liberman, Margaeux B. Lippman, Jennifer J. Mease, Timothy W. Morris, Judith E. Rosenbaum, John C. Sherblom, Catalina L. Toma, Jessica A. Tougas, Bruce E. Drushel ...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how identity is constructed, deconstructed, performed, and perceived on social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, and LinkedIn. The presentation of identity is key to success or failure in the Information Age, especially because SNSs are becoming the ... Read more

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Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how identity is constructed, deconstructed, performed, and perceived on social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, and LinkedIn. The presentation of identity is key to success or failure in the Information Age, especially because SNSs are becoming the
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Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

by Sheena C. Howard, Godfried Asante, Brad Crownover, Darlene K. Drummond, Rachel Alicia Griffin, Michele K. Lewis, Meggie Mapes, Rahul Mitra, Cheryl L. Nicholas, Laurie Phillips Honda0, Myra N. Roberts1, Lourdes Dolores Follins2, Sakile K. Camara3, Lore/tta LeMaster4, Richard G. Jones Jr.5, Claudia Bucciferro6, Bruce E. Drushel7, Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi8 ...

Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural associations, ... Read more

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Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural associations,
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Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic

Advancing New Perspectives

by Brian M. Peters, Barbara Jane Brickman, Emily Deering Crosby, Tim Cusack, Robert Kellerman, Lauren Levitt, Hannah Lynn, Elizabeth M. Melton, Olivia Oliver-Hopkins, Michael V. Perez0, Chris Philpot1, Thomas Piontek2, Carl Schottmiller3, Bruce E. Drushel4 ...

Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through a collection of essays from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives. It includes varied subject ... Read more

$105.29 USD

Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through a collection of essays from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives. It includes varied subject
... Read more
LGBTQ Culture

The Changing Landscape

Edited by Bruce E. Drushel ...

Recent decades have seen remarkable changes in the cultural visibility, legal status, and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, from positive representations of queerness in television series like The L-Word and Will & Grace, to films about queer intersectionality like Moonlight, to openly-gay and lesbian elected officials and leaders in the business community, to the end of anti-sodomy laws and ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Recent decades have seen remarkable changes in the cultural visibility, legal status, and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, from positive representations of queerness in television series like The L-Word and Will & Grace, to films about queer intersectionality like Moonlight, to openly-gay and lesbian elected officials and leaders in the business community, to the end of anti-sodomy laws and
... Read more
The Ethics of Emerging Media

Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology

Edited by PhD Bruce E. Drushel, PhD Kathleen German ...

The Ethics of Emerging Media engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. This collection provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe.Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each ... Read more

$42.89 USD

The Ethics of Emerging Media engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. This collection provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe.Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each
... Read more
Fan Phenomena: Star Trek

Edited by Bruce E. Drushel ...

From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry of spin-off series, feature films and merchandise. Fuelling the ever-expanding franchise are some of the most rabid and loyal fans in the universe, known affectionately as 'Trekkies'. Perhaps no other community so typifies ... Read more

$18.09 USD

From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry of spin-off series, feature films and merchandise. Fuelling the ever-expanding franchise are some of the most rabid and loyal fans in the universe, known affectionately as 'Trekkies'. Perhaps no other community so typifies
... Read more

On Being Included

Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

by Sara Ahmed ...

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

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What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as
... Read more

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Algorithms of Oppression

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble ...

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

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A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why
... Read more
Crip Theory

Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

by Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...

Series Book 9 - Cultural Front
A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze ... Read more

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A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze
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Thanks for Watching

An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

by Patricia G. Lange ...

YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation,
... Read more

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