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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Digital Humanities
Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities.
In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital archives, real-time streams and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity. Their “peripheral lives” have “central meaning” (Chaudhary, this volume)...
Taking Back the Boulevard
Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods
Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet...
Pink Globalization
Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization—the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from...
Packaging Life
Cultures of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday is a study of the cultural politics of four aspects of everyday life-health, comfort, risk and mobility-as manifest in public culture. The book explores the commodification of these aspects, arguing that our experience and perception of these are mediated by...
Everyday eBay
Culture, Collecting, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich site...
Time Travel in Popular Media
Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within the media. ’Participatory culture’ has become the new normative standard. Concepts derived from...
Digitized Lives
Culture, Power and Social Change in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
In chapters examining a broad range of issues—including sexuality, politics, education, race, gender relations, the environment and social protest movements—Digitized Lives argues that making sense of digitized culture means looking past the glossy surface of techno gear to ask deeper questions...
Scientifical Americans
The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena. By 2010, roughly 2000 amateur research and investigation groups formed in the U.S.—ghost hunters, Bigfoot chasers and UFO researchers, using an array of (supposedly)...
Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal
If Oscar Wilde Ate People
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In late 19th century England, Oscar Wilde popularized aestheticism, also known as art-for-art’s-sake – the idea that art, that beauty, should not be a vehicle for morality or truth, but an end in-and-of-itself. Rothko and Jackson Pollock enthroned the idea, creating paintings that are barely graded...
El intelectual y la cultura de masas
Argumentos Latinoamericanos En Torno a Ángel Rama Y José María Arguedas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2016
El intelectual y la cultura de masas, de Javier García Liendo, estudia las respuestas intelectuales de Ángel Rama (Uruguay) y José María Arguedas (Perú) a los efectos de la cultura de masas en la cultura de la imprenta latinoamericana y en las culturas indígenas de los Andes. Explora la participación...
A MORTE DO HOMO SAPIENS
A AÇÃO IRRACIONAL COMO VALOR SOCIAL
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 16, 2014
“A sociedade pós-moderna, no alvorecer do século XXI, idolatra e se orgulha das máquinas que pensam. E, numa outra via paradoxal, suspeita e não vê com bons olhos os homens que, negando se tornarem meros apêndices delas, ainda ousam querer pensar.” (autor desconhecido)
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