This lively and accessible study of media and discourse combines theoretical reflection with empirical engagement, and brings together insights from a range of disciplines. Within media and cultural studies, the study of media texts is dominated by an exclusive focus on representation. This book adds long overdue attention to social interaction. The book is divided into two sections. The first outlines key theoretical issues and concepts, including informalisation, genre hybridisation, positioning, dialogism and discourse. The second is a sustained interrogation of social interaction in and...
This lively and accessible study of media and discourse combines theoretical reflection with empirical engagement, and brings together insights from a...
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, this book chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed 'The Red Virgin of Montmartre' - a utopian dreamer, notorious anarchist, teacher, orator and poet, she was decades ahead of her time.
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, this book chronicles the incredible and outrageou...