wyszukanych pozycji: 213
Chasing a Dream
ISBN: 9781685629939 / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. What can one do if he or she is trapped in an unwanted occupation with no way out? Eric J. Stones, a lifelong illustrator, enlists in the military to pursue an occupation as a medical illustrator. He finds his hopes dashed when he is assigned as a Fire Protection Specialist. Can he work his way back into the field of the creative arts? Or must he spend four years...Chasing a Dream?
What can one do if he or she is trapped in an unwanted occupation with no way out? Eric J. Stones, a lifelong illustrator, enlists in the military to ...
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65,99 zł |
Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online
ISBN: 9780820471181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X-Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction...
Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first ...
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184,82 zł |
Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures
ISBN: 9781433114748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This anthology - the first of its kind in eight years - collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated communication (CMC). The contributions cohere around the central question: how will core religious understandings of identity, community and authority shape and be (re)shaped by the communicative possibilities of Web 2.0? The authors gathered here address these questions in three distinct ways: through contemporary empirical research on how diverse traditions across the globe seek to take up the...
This anthology - the first of its kind in eight years - collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions...
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204,80 zł |
Produsing Theory in a Digital World 2.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory - Volume 2
ISBN: 9781433127281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories some still emerging can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and discrete components of media systems. In some settings, division by audience, content, and production settings remains useful, but this volume, like the first, is all about the interstices.
Contributors reflect varied perspectives in their approaches to the spaces formed as a result of rapidly developing and swiftly deploying new... Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories some still emerging ...
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224,77 zł |
Self-Games and Body-Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex
ISBN: 9780820461748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. One of the most fascinating dimensions of online chat and cybersex are the ways that their medium, the Internet, allows people to reconfigure relationships between self, body, and social interaction. Online chat participants discursively write a self into existence in a disembodied medium that allows for extreme fluidity and multiplicity; cybersex participants evoke bodies in words and images, manipulating relationships between selfhood and the corporeal body. Perhaps never before have so many people been actively involved in social psychological experiments in which they redefine themselves...
One of the most fascinating dimensions of online chat and cybersex are the ways that their medium, the Internet, allows people to reconfigure relation...
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184,82 zł |
Digital Cityscapes; Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
ISBN: 9781433105326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the emerging field of location-aware mobile games, highlighting critical, social scientific, and design approaches to these types of games, and drawing attention to the social and cultural implications of mobile technologies in contemporary society. With a comprehensive approach that includes theory, design, and education, this...
The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-ba...
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224,77 zł |
The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond
ISBN: 9780820486734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond is the first book to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the status of the Internet and its uses and effects in Egypt and the Arab world. Tackling the issue in a systematic, scientific manner, this book also examines Islamic online communications, online censorship, and Internet use by the civic society as an alternative channel for its mostly oppressed voices. This book is a valuable addition to the libraries of students, scholars, and anyone interested in information technologies and the Arab world.
The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond is the first book to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the status of the Internet ...
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377,23 zł |
Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context
ISBN: 9781433160004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book engages the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of the hacker and maker movements in their contemporary contexts.
This book engages the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of the hacker and maker movements in their contemporary contexts. |
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264,98 zł |
Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France
ISBN: 9781433147081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a public self.
Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a public s...
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573,70 zł |
social media and music; The Digital Field of Cultural Production
ISBN: 9781433114489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu s notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, and the roles and the impact they have on the music industry and musicians. In doing so, the author explores the groundbreaking developments that empower independent musicians and problematizes the emergence of a variety of issues symptomatic of social media environments at the height of convergence culture."
This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu s notion of field and c...
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747,39 zł |
Birmingham The SinisterSide
ISBN: 9781844918867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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101,55 zł |
Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies
ISBN: 9781433123351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity the vital drive of people to make, exchange, and learn together, supported by online networks. He argues that we should think about media in terms of...
In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around...
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839,94 zł |
Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space
ISBN: 9781433107979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Online Territories brings key research and writings in the interdisciplinary study of new media and society together to answer questions arising from the ways in which online technologies are currently being envisioned, used, and experienced. The book offers an up-to-date contextualization of online practices and explores, from a variety of perspectives, the emergence of new experiences and routines in relation to and new conceptions of social space. This volume addresses the need for further, research-based contextualization of preexisting theories related with globalization,...
Online Territories brings key research and writings in the interdisciplinary study of new media and society together to answer questions arisin...
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204,80 zł |
The Unconnected; Social Justice, Participation, and Engagement in the Information Society
ISBN: 9781433111433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Despite improvements to those affected by the digital divide, there are still many people who remain -unconnected- in today's world. This volume examines the problems of addressing the digital divide by closely examining those who remain unconnected the untouchables or untouched within the information society. Some remain untouched because of access or ability issues that also reflect race, disability, class, geography, and socio-economic status, but others may be prevented from participation by factors of religion, language, philosophy, culture, or simply disinterest. With noted experts from...
Despite improvements to those affected by the digital divide, there are still many people who remain -unconnected- in today's world. This volume exami...
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204,80 zł |
Web 25; Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web
ISBN: 9781433132698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Web has played an important role in the development of the Internet as well as in the development of most societies at large, from its early grey and blue webpages introducing the hyperlink for a wider public, to today's multifacted uses of the Web as an integrated part of our daily lives. This is the first book to look back at 25 years of Web evolution, and it tells some of the histories about how the Web was born and has... Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 199... |
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304,16 zł |
Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory - Volume 3
ISBN: 9781433153396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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620,21 zł |
Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol
ISBN: 9781433118982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 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, Brentano, Deleuze, Engels, Heidegger, Hume, Husserl, James, Kant, Latour, Locke, Marx, Mill, Plato, Rorty, Ryle, Sartre, Skinner, Spinoza, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, among others, McStay advances a wealth of new ideas and terminology, from affective breaches to zombie media....
What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew Mc...
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211,63 zł |
Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures
ISBN: 9781433114755 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This anthology the first of its kind in eight years collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated communication (CMC). The contributions cohere around the central question: how will core religious understandings of identity, community and authority shape and be (re)shaped by the communicative possibilities of Web 2.0? The authors gathered here address these questions in three distinct ways: through contemporary empirical research on how diverse traditions across the globe seek to take up the technologies...
This anthology the first of its kind in eight years collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions bet...
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694,55 zł |
Growing Up on Facebook
ISBN: 9781433142741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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203,53 zł |
The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781433104206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life reveals how people are managing, exploiting, and resisting technological developments in the digital age. In this unique volume, distinguished experts from a broad range of fields candidly show how the latest technologies are being used to transform and control nitty-gritty aspects of life from conception onward and the surprising benefits and consequences. Bold and provocative, The Culture of Efficiency is for everyone concerned with efficiency and effectiveness. It offers fresh insights about social trends, practical...
The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life reveals how people are managing, exploiting, and resisting technological developments in...
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217,95 zł |