Peter Lang: 4879 books
Power of Imagination
Education, Innovations and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The purpose of this book is to encourage the use and exploration of imagination, intuition and insight as essential ingredients for scientific, educational and civic endeavors. This groundbreaking book is a kind of intellectual provocation, but also an antidote for our current crises in education....
Transparency 2.0
Digital Data and Privacy in a Wired World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Transparency 2.0 investigates a host of emerging issues around the collision of information and personal privacy in a digital world. Delving into the key legal concepts of information access and privacy, such as practical obscurity, the U.S. Supreme Court’s central purpose test, and Europe’s
emerging...
Advertising and Race
Global Phenomenon, Historical Challenges, and Visual Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Since colonization, dominant ideologies of «race» have been visualized and communicated through advertising. At its core, this book delineates the continuities and changes in what is termed the «colonial racial script» within global advertising representations. The origins of that script are traced...
The World of Stephanie St. Clair
An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in Early Twentieth Century Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster...
Poland and Artistic Culture of Western Europe
14 th 20 th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In ten studies by Polish authors this book offers an overview of Polish artistic culture and its relation to Western European culture. Thematically, it ranges from fine arts, sculpture and architecture to music, drama and theatre, spanning seven centuries of European artistic culture. While forming...
Avatar, Assembled
The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Avatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars—not as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like...
by Susan B. Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Once only a sign, technologies have helped to transform brands into symbols that we constantly encounter in our natural and mediated environments. Moreover, the branding of culture marks a commercialization of society. Almost everywhere we look, a brand name or logo appears.
By combining a scholarly...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in techno-economic, political and cultural spheres. The contributors focus on the increasing complexity within information societies. To manage this complexity, societies develop constantly evolving context-specific...
Digital Media
Transformations in Human Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The age of digital media has given rise to a new social world. It is a world in which the transmission of information from the few to the many is steadily being supplanted by the multi-directional flow of facts, lies, and ideas. It is a world in which hundreds of millions of people are voluntarily...
Digital Fandom 2.0
New Media Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In this completely revised and updated version of Digital Fandom, Paul Booth extends his analysis of fandom in the digital environment. With new chapters that focus on the economics of crowdfunding, the playfulness of Tumblr, and the hybridity of the fan experience, alongside revised chapters that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The studies that comprise Political Socialization in a Media Saturated World synthesize, question, and update our knowledge of political socialization that has accumulated over the past 40 years of related research. The scholarship advances innovative theoretical perspectives and develops new models...
by Weimin Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book examines how media can be used in facilitating crisis control following natural disasters. Set in the context of the contemporary Chinese nationalistic culture this book dissects how Chinese media enhances disaster relief by constructing the meaning of it. It takes a historical overview...
Privacy and Philosophy
New Media and Affective Protocol
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
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,...
Peace in Motion
John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by traditional philosophy. However, such...