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Digital Formations eBook Series

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  • Making Media Studies

    The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies

    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

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  • Internet Communication

    Series Book 91 - Digital Formations
    This textbook examines the Internet as a communication system – the single most pervasive, involving, and global communication system ever created by human beings, with a host of political, economic, cognitive, and sociocultural implications. The Internet crosses all cultural boundaries and is the fastest growing global communication system ever witnessed. The text explores the ways in which the ... Read more

    $45.09 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

    $130.99 USD

  • News Evolution or Revolution?

    The Future of Print Journalism in the Digital Age

    Edited by Andrea Miller, Amy Reynolds ...
    Series Book 13 - Mass Communication and Journalism
    This book tells the story of modern-day newspapers by exploring the digital transition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune as a microcosm of the industry. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and professionals across a range of areas, it explores the economic, political, and social context of the move of the largest daily newspaper (to date) from print to the Web. In doing so it paints a complete ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • Mediated Authenticity

    How the Media Constructs Reality

    by Gunn Enli ...
    This book explores the paradox of mediated authenticity – the idea that our understanding of society is based on mediated representations of reality. Enli argues that mediated authenticity is established through negotiations between producers and audiences in what is coined the ‘authenticity contract’. Sometimes the contract is broken, leading to authenticity scandals and the need to renegotiate ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Privacy and Philosophy

    New Media and Affective Protocol

    by Andrew McStay ...
    Series Book 86 - Digital Formations
    What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Against the backdrop and scrutiny of Arendt, Aristotle, Bentham, Brentano, Deleuze, Engels, Heidegger, Hume, Husserl, James, Kant, Latour, Locke, Marx, Mill, ... Read more

    $42.99 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

  • Hip Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology

    Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization

    by André Sirois ...
    Series Book 27 - Popular Culture and Everyday Life
    Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More importantly, it explores how DJs have impacted the evolution of technology. By looking at the networks of innovation behind DJ ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Designing Online Communities

    How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web

    by Trevor Owens ...
    Series Book 72 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators, and designers of online communities can turn to more than 20 years of technical books for ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy

    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

  • Home with Hip Hop Feminism

    Performances in Communication and Culture

    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

    $42.99 USD

  • Contexts of the Dark Side of Communication

    Series Book 10 - Lifespan Communication
    Research on the dark side of communication has typically been studied from a single standpoint confined to a specific context. As an intradisciplinary project, this volume transcends the traditional unilateral perspective and focuses on a wide range of communication topics across a variety of contexts. From interpersonal communication, organizational communication, computer-mediated communication, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD