Language Studies category: 15171 books
Emerging Media
Uses and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Emerging Media provides an understanding of media use in the expanding digital age and fills the void of existing literature in exploring the emerging new media use as a dynamic communication process in cyberspace. It addresses emerging media dynamics during the second decade of online communication,...
News of Baltimore
Race, Rage and the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015. Contributors take Baltimore to be an important place, symbol, and marker,...
Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa
A Connected Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.
British Public Diplomacy and Soft Power
Diplomatic Influence and the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This volume outlines two decades of reforms at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), British Council and BBC World Service – the so-called Public Diplomacy Partners. Between 1995 and 2015, the FCO and its partner organisations in promoting British influence abroad have introduced major changes...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics....
The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility
The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As the age of social media progresses, the Asia Pacific, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an increase in cultural diversity and global connection. Those within the region are witnessing rapid social and cultural changes. As individuals and groups navigate through an increasingly mobile,...
Public and Political Discourses of Migration
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they influence both the general public’s perception of migration and the policies which regulate both the act...
by Jeffrey D. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Within the study of language and social interaction, the concept of 'accountability'-including related concepts, such as 'account' or 'motive,' 'accounting,' and 'being accountable'-has been of longstanding interest in terms of how interactants in both ordinary and organizational contexts manage their...
by Tomoko Sawaki
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy that can promote diversity...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range...
Research Outside The Academy
Professional Knowledge-Making in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book analyses the practical, information-related dimensions of professional knowledge making and communication in extra-academic organisations. It treats the sites where research takes place and where knowledge is created outside academia in the light, among other things, of new digital resources....
Discussing the News
The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment – the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles. The author argues that it is precisely because both roles are treated as peripheral...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was...
Library Scholarly Communication Programs
Legal and Ethical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives. Library Scholarly Communication Programs is a practical primer, covering these issues for institutional repository managers, library administrators, and other staff...