Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
The Social Use of Media
Cultural and Social Scientific Perspectives on Audience Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
This volume weaves together ongoing scholarly debates around how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research. It relies heavily on articles media scholars and media practitioners have written on how the sides can work together for the good of society. The contributions...
Development Through Technology Transfer
Creating New Cultural and Organisational Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Technology transfer is shown here to be much more complicated than the mere handover of new technology hardware to developing countries. It is about innovation and learning and its effective management depends on generating new knowledge and being able to react quickly and effectively to change. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This is Volume 7 of Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). It contains a refereed selection of the papers that were presented at TFP 2006: the Seventh Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. which took place in Nottingham, 19-21 April, 2006. TFP is an international forum for researchers from...
Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape
From State Control to Market Forces
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The book is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth understanding of the changing Bangladesh mediascape. The essays focus on, respectively, specific media (television, radio, film, the press and photography), policy issues and the challenge of the new media to governance in an emerging and...
by Paul Honeywill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how...
Aristotle in Hollywood
Visual Stories That Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Throughout the centuries Aristotle's Poetics remained something of a mystery. What was the great philosopher trying to say about the nature of drama and storytelling? What did he mean by pity, fear and catharsis? In this book, Ari Hiltunen explains the mystery of the 'proper pleasure', which, according...
The Future of Humanity
Global Civilization and China's Rejuvenation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
The Future of Humanity seeks to answer the question: ‘What kind of global civilization should human beings pursue?’, a question that has preoccupied scholars, philosophers and politicians for centuries. In doing so, the book tackles concepts as challenging as the keys to happiness, alien intelligence,...
Shakespeare Valued
Education Policy and Pedagogy 1989-2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compulsory Shakespeare was introduced under the National Curriculum for English in the United Kingdom), to the present, Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem...
Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape
From State Control to Market Forces
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The book is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth understanding of the changing Bangladesh mediascape. The essays focus on, respectively, specific media (television, radio, film, the press and photography), policy issues and the challenge of the new media to governance in an emerging and...
by Grethe Mitchell, Andy Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Videogame art is developing as an area of burgeoning interest, departing from embryonic roots into a flourishing division of scholarly study. The collection provides both an overview of the field, positioning it within a social and commercial context with reference to other forms of digital and pictorial...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
When The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in 1975 it initially received an indifferent reception in movie theatres but began to gain notoriety after it was embraced by audiences at midnight screenings in New York City and elsewhere. A homage to campy B-movies, sci-fi, and horror films, the movie...
Islamic Architecture on the Move
Motion and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible. This book brings together scholars from architectural...
Media, Markets & Public Spheres
European Media at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Using a sample of so-called popular and ‘quality’ European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets & Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in the European public spheres over the last fifty years as well as in-depth analyses of structural changes in press...