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  • The Routledge Companion to Media and Class

    Edited by Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, Radhika Gajjala ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts.From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire "populists", to well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring communication technologies into developing country contexts, to the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Privileged Mobilities

    Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class

    by Erika Polson ...
    Series Book 34 - Intersections in Communications and Culture
    As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

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    by Matt Avery ...
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  • Strategic Management in the Arts

    by Lidia Varbanova ...
    Strategic Management in the Arts looks at the unique characteristics of organisations in the arts and culture sector and shows readers how to tailor a strategic plan to help these diverse organizations meet their objectives.Strategic management is an essential element that drives an organisation’s success, yet many cultural organizations have yet to apply strategic thinking and entrepreneurial ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Advanced Public Speaking

    Dynamics and Techniques

    by Dr. Ruth Livingston ...
    The text provides instruction on how to give different types of presentations and how to improve upon other communication skills including listening. Topics include harnessing the fear of public speaking, applying immediacy, storytelling, motivating others, listening actively, interviewing successfully, lecturing and conducting workshops effectively, speaking off the cuff, selling yourself and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy

    by Marouf A. Hasian ...
    Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.Each chapter illustrates how the impoverished rhetoric of celebrities often privileges the voices of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Making a Short Speech or Toast

    Practical advice, useful ideas and lots of help for anyone asked to speak in public

    by Jackie Arnold ...
    Most people are called upon to make a speech or toast at some point in their lives.This book will help the inexperienced speaker to stand up with confidence, and deliver a really effective speech or toast that is appropriate for the occasion. It also contains a variety of toasts and quotes to help those with more experience in public speaking.There are guidelines on how to prepare and deliver a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Making Media Studies

    The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Series Book 93 - Digital Formations
    In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Home with Hip Hop Feminism

    Performances in Communication and Culture

    by Aisha S. Durham ...
    Series Book 26 - Intersections in Communications and Culture
    This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCAHome with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body converge or collide.To date, there are no books devoted exclusively to black ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories

    Self-representations in New Media

    Edited by Knut Lundby ...
    Series Book 52 - Digital Formations
    Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called «mediatized stories». This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have become possible with the new, digital ... Read more

    $130.19 USD

  • Crowdfunding the Future

    Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society

    Edited by Lucy Bennett, Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones ...
    Series Book 98 - Digital Formations
    The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, has been steadily gaining attention over the last few years. Crowdfunding the Future undertakes a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the new, and growing, phenomenon of crowdfunding and its encompassment of digital society and media ... Read more

    $49.59 USD

  • Gourmands and Gluttons

    The Rhetoric of Food Excess

    by Carlnita P. Greene ...
    From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than within our food discourses.While many would argue that the gourmand vanished from society at the end of the 19th century, this book ... Read more

    $104.99 USD