Ucl Press: 45 books
Social Media in Trinidad
Values and Visibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwellers...
by Shriram Venkatraman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once...
The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations
A Bilingual Edition and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This first bilingual edition and analysis of the earliest Shakespeare plays translated into Hebrew – Isaac Edward Salkinson’s Ithiel the Cushite of Venice (Othello) and Ram and Jael (Romeo and Juliet) – offers a fascinating and unique perspective on global Shakespeare. Differing significantly...
Visualising Facebook
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north...
Social Media in Southeast Italy
Crafting Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people?
This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. Razvan Nicolescu spent 15 months living among the town’s residents,...
by Xinyuan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker
Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community...
Social Media in Northern Chile
Posting the Extraordinarily Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio’s residents – or Hospiceños...
Social Media in Emergent Brazil
How the Internet Affects Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Since the popularisation of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration. Internet cafés became prosperous businesses in working-class neighbourhoods and rural settlements,...
From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing
Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps the current terrain of political...
Suburban Urbanities
Suburbs and the Life of the High Street
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth.
Anchored in the architectural research...
by Nicholas Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute...
The Web as History
Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today’s principal source of information, entertainment and much else, the Web is an integral part of our daily lives, to the extent that some people believe ‘if it’s not online, it doesn’t exist.’ While...
by Dr Nicholas A. Lesica
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What constitutes a healthy diet? Mainstream media and advertisers would like you to think that the answer to this question is complicated and controversial. But science, fortunately, tells us otherwise.
* *A Conversation about Healthy Eating brings together all the relevant science about healthy...
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
Love, Kinship and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events.
Elisabetta...