wyszukanych pozycji: 33
Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
ISBN: 9781433130267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As corporations ramp up workforce globalization and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile places, a new global middle class is emerging.
While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups, they share certain characteristics that... As corporations ramp up workforce globalization and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use onl...
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314,38 zł |
The New Development Paradigm: Education, Knowledge Economy and Digital Futures
ISBN: 9781433118883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Although the concept of -development education- has been widely adopted, the term is still not widely understood. With the advent of globalization, the knowledge economy, and, in particular, the formulation of the World Bank s -knowledge for development- strategy and the UNDP s -creative economy-, development issues have become a central part of education and education has become central to development. It is time to reassess the standard development education paradigm and to investigate the possibilities that take into account emerging trends. The New Development Paradigm, written by...
Although the concept of -development education- has been widely adopted, the term is still not widely understood. With the advent of globalization, th...
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908,87 zł |
Mapping Latina/O Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader
ISBN: 9781433111563 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mapping Latina/o Studies brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the dynamic field of Latina/o Studies. Drawing on media studies, communications, history, education, literature, anthropology, popular music, and sociology, this collection explores the limits and possibilities of the category of Latinidad. The volume includes scholars who support the continuity of nation-specific identities and areas of study such as Chicano and Dominican Studies, in conversation with scholars who not only work within Latina/o Studies as a pan-ethnic, pan-national category but...
Mapping Latina/o Studies brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the dynamic field of Latina/o Studies. Drawing on me...
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538,26 zł |
The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media
ISBN: 9780820462196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series: La Femme Nikita, Aeon Flux, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Detailed readings focus on the ways the structure and content of each series work to create specific understandings of the body that are in contrast to those of male-centered action texts. Arguing that television texts mediate larger cultural concerns, this book considers the feminist implications of the series and uses insights from critical writings on contemporary culture and the body to...
The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series: La Femme Nikita, Aeo...
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185,68 zł |
Home with Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture
ISBN: 9781433107092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body converge or collide.
To date, there are no books devoted exclusively to black women that integrate performance auto/ethnography and media studies from a hip hop feminist perspective. This book serves as a three-sided intervention against a... This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA Home w...
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212,61 zł |
Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies on Education and Cultural Politics
ISBN: 9780820461656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and power each of which explores relationships between formal schooling and larger cultural contexts. Representing some of Koza s most recent thinking, the studies examine interrelated constructs of race, gender, and social class as they materialize in local and specific settings. -No Hero of Mine: Disney, Popular Culture, and Education- (2001); -Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation- (1994); -Unhappy Happy Endings: Cultural...
Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and...
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185,68 zł |
Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice
ISBN: 9781433105388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip hop culture. Originally published in 2001, this second edition is newly revised, expanded, and updated to reflect contemporary currents in hip hop culture and critical scholarship, as well as the epochal social, cultural, and economic shifts of the last decade. Drawing together historical work on hip hop and rap music as well as four years of research at a local community center, Greg Dimitriadis argues here that contemporary...
Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice is the first book-length ethnography of young people and ...
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105,92 zł |
Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History
ISBN: 9780820474052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. James Carey is arguably the founder of the critical cultural study of communication and media in the United States. This volume brings together top communication and media scholars to revisit and engage key themes in Carey's groundbreaking work. This lively assortment of cutting-edge research provides a timely overview of Carey's impact on current scholarship in communication, cultural studies, and U.S. history. Also included is a wide-ranging two-part interview by Lawrence Grossberg in which Carey discusses his intellectual biography, revisits his classic essays, and argues for the urgent...
James Carey is arguably the founder of the critical cultural study of communication and media in the United States. This volume brings together top co...
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172,22 zł |
The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era: Beyond the Propaganda Model
ISBN: 9781433142598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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572,81 zł |
Geographies of Difference: The Social Production of the East Side, West Side and Central City School
ISBN: 9780820486925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Geographies of Difference powerfully documents the multitude of socio-educational processes that construct differentiated students, educators, and educational practices within cities. Through a case study of a large metropolitan school district, this book identifies how the conversations and practices of educators, citywide media, and political relations codify students, schools, and city spaces with spatial metaphors that obscure as well as denote meanings about race and social class. It argues that through these practices of codification, educational processes of constructing and...
Geographies of Difference powerfully documents the multitude of socio-educational processes that construct differentiated students, educators, ...
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185,68 zł |
Global Technography: Ethnography in the Age of Mobility
ISBN: 9781433102936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book develops and employs a new methodology Global Technography to investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It illustrates that technologies are created to perform roles to act in everyday life, and this demands an ethnography that can track the social performativity of technology in addition to that of human beings. The book is suitable for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in methodology, communications, and cultural work dealing with globalization and new digital communications media."
This book develops and employs a new methodology Global Technography to investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It...
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167,40 zł |
Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
ISBN: 9781433130274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As corporations ramp up -workforce globalization- and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile -places, - a new global middle class is emerging.
While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups, they share certain characteristics... As corporations ramp up -workforce globalization- and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use o...
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1117,81 zł |
Home with Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture
ISBN: 9781433107085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body converge or collide.
To date, there are no books devoted exclusively to black women that integrate performance auto/ethnography and media studies from a hip hop feminist perspective. This book serves as a three-sided intervention against a... This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA Home w...
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791,01 zł |
Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity
ISBN: 9780820471174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Girl Wide Web is an innovative collection of cutting-edge research exploring a wide sweep of issues related to the ways adolescent girls interact with the Internet. Employing a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives primarily within cultural studies, the authors examine a variety of topics from instant messaging and web-diaries to online fan communities and Internet advertising that targets young girls. Taken together, these...
Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Gi...
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185,68 zł |
Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations
ISBN: 9781433102769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabling comparison and contrast in forms of violence and constructions of gender across a wide range of political and geographic contexts. From nonfictional accounts of the mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide to the sexual objectification of women in Serbian media and depictions of prostitute murders...
While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media trea...
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205,76 zł |
Remembering Empire: Power, Memory, & Place in Postcolonial India
ISBN: 9780820467504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Based on an ethnography of Fort St. George Museum in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, Remembering Empire explores the public and private politics of preserving the memory of the British period in the former seat of the British East India Company. K. E. Supriya shows how the preservation of artifacts and paintings from the British period has become a means through which the imperialist politics of empire are reworked in the cultural memory of the South Indian people. Fieldwork in the museum and extensive interviews across three generations show how Indians reconcile with the...
Based on an ethnography of Fort St. George Museum in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, Remembering Empire explores the public and private polit...
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152,16 zł |
The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era: Beyond the Propaganda Model
ISBN: 9781433142581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This work presents the first book-length examination of flak as a form of political harassment, authored by a seasoned researcher on political discourse and mass media.
This work presents the first book-length examination of flak as a form of political harassment, authored by a seasoned researcher on political discour...
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204,49 zł |
Plantation Pedagogy; A Postcolonial and Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781433119736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Plantation Pedagogy originates from an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher s experience. It provides a discourse which extends and illuminates the limitations of current neo-liberal and global rationalizations of the challenges posed to a teacher s practice. Plantation pedagogy is distinguished from critical pedagogy by its historical presence and its double-faced manifestations as simultaneously oppressive and subversive. Plantation pedagogy privileges and relocates educational transformation within the cultural arena, so that culture and history become the vehicles for teaching,...
Plantation Pedagogy originates from an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher s experience. It provides a discourse which extends and illuminate...
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750,88 zł |
Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America
ISBN: 9780820472515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz s groundbreaking book examines the role that sport discourses play in reproducing a central, normative, and superior position for white masculinity in American culture and society at the turn of the twenty-first century. Specifically, Kusz illuminates how the American sports media through cover stories detailing the so-called disappearance of the white (male) athlete in American sports or the rise of extreme sports produced a set of contradictory images of white masculinity as victimized and unprivileged, yet superior and squarely centered in American...
Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz s groundbreaking book examines the role that sport discourses play in reproducing a central, normative, and s...
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185,68 zł |
Global Technography: Ethnography in the Age of Mobility
ISBN: 9781433102943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book develops and employs a new methodology Global Technography to investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It illustrates that technologies are created to perform roles to act in everyday life, and this demands an ethnography that can track the social performativity of technology in addition to that of human beings. The book is suitable for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in methodology, communications, and cultural work dealing with globalization and new digital communications media."
This book develops and employs a new methodology Global Technography to investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It...
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482,38 zł |