Peter Lang: 4879 books
Mediated Girlhoods
New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls’ media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls’ media representations, girls’ media consumption, and girls’ media production. In an attempt to push research on girls’ media culture...
Adolescents Online Literacies
Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This revised edition of Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture features a variety of digital tools for humanizing pedagogy. For example, the book examines numerous artistic representations of young people’s self-selected graphic novels and fan...
Critical Youth Studies Reader
Preface by Paul Willis
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms of media from cinema and music...
Stepfather-Stepson Communication
Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...
by Henryk Domanski
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
This book discusses the viability of «importing» the middle class to Poland. The 1990s were a step forward in the formation of the Polish middle class and, systematically yet barely discernible in daily life, the process was triggered by an increase in consumption and affluence. However, the changes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From serious illness to natural disasters, humans turn to communication as a major source of strength to help us bounce back and to keep growing and thriving.
Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan addresses the various ways in which communication plays an important role in fostering...
Sociolinguistic Change Across the Spanish-Speaking World
Case Studies in Honor of Anna María Escobar
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This collection of essays presents cutting-edge research in Hispanic sociolinguistics. They include studies on language variation and change, contact varieties, language use, perception, and attitudes and focus on language varieties such as Peruvian Spanish, Mexican Spanish on the U.S. – Mexican...
Antifragility of Islamic Finance
The Risk-Sharing Alternative
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems antifragile. It highlights the benefits of 100% equity-based finance over debt-based finance.
The recent financial crisis has given rise to discussions...
by Ygnacio Flores
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The Pedagogy of Violent Extremism is the first critical analysis of violent extremism via the lens of pedagogical development that considers the nation as an all-encompassing learning environment. Presented through a critical perspective on violent extremism resulting from hegemonic provocation, Flores...
A Quiet Revolution
Some Social and Religious Perspectives on the Nigerian Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In A Quiet Revolution: Some Social and Religious Perspectives on the Nigerian Crisis, Joseph F. Mali argues that contrary to popular belief, corruption and failed leadership are not at the heart of the Nigerian crisis. Corruption and misrule, though they have done a terrible harm to the Nigerian society,...
Communities for Social Change
Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills...
Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories
Self-representations in New Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called «mediatized stories». This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations...
by Stefanie Wagner
Language: German
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Nissart – was ist das? Während Nizza bekannt ist, löst der Name des dort heimischen romanischen Idioms Erstaunen aus. Als Varietät des Okzitanischen hat es zwar ein reiches sprachliches Erbe, doch ist seine Existenz heute bedroht. Stefanie Wagner geht der Frage nach, wie sich ein Lerner dank...