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Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-15
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Stories are everywhere around us, from the ads on TV or music video clips to the more sophisticated stories told by books or movies. Everything comes wrapped in a story, and the means employed to weave the narrative thread are just as important as the story itself. In this context, there is a need to understand the role storytelling plays in contemporary society, which has changed drastically in recent decades. Modern global society is no longer exclusively dominated by the time-tested narrative media such as literature or films because new media such as videogames or social platforms have changed the way we understand, create, and replicate stories. The Handbook of Research on Contemporary ...

The Global Vampire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

The Global Vampire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-01-10
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.

Reality and Fantasy in American Independent Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Reality and Fantasy in American Independent Cinema

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Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts. It looks at the complex ways in which death and dying are managed, from the political level down to end- of- life care, and the inequalities that surround and impact experiences of death, dying, and bereavement. Readers are introduced to key theories, such as the medicalisation of dying, as well as contemporary issues, such as social movements, pandemics, and assisted dying. The book stresses how death is not only a biological ...

Jewish Foreign Trade Officials on Trial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Jewish Foreign Trade Officials on Trial

  • Categories: Law

This book deals with six trials, conducted by the Romanian state against Jewish key officials employed in state-owned import-export companies between 1950 and 1960. It begins with a presentation of the political realities of Romania following the Communist Party's rise to power, in particular those regarding its relationship with Romania's Jews and Gheorghiu-Dej’s policy of National Communism. Rozenberg describes the criminal procedure used in the staged economic trials follows and then examines this procedure based on the legal system of the period, as exemplified by the six analyzed trials. The Românoexport Jewish officials' trial is analyzed in depth, as the case study of the whole boo...

Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618

Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-02
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Traditional and social media are used extensively in terms of public health today. Studies show that social media works much better than other follow-up systems, leading it to become a modern and somewhat new tool for disease coverage and information discovery. The current state of the representation of health and medicine in the media is an important factor to analyze in the field of health communication, especially amidst the onset of a global pandemic. The ways in which the media discusses health, the campaigns that are used, and the ethics around this role of media and journalism are defining factors in the spread of information regarding health. The Handbook of Research on Representing ...

Basic Communication and Assessment Prerequisites for the New Normal of Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Basic Communication and Assessment Prerequisites for the New Normal of Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-10
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The understanding of communication refers to canonical schemes from technologies to decisions on where, how, and why the semic act gains or is at risk; to hypotheses and limits; and to normal and unconventional exchanges of senses, despite the confrontations between codes, coding, and decoding. In this book, communication is defined as concept, skill, potential, behavior, mechanism, category of exchange, phenomenon, tool, and variable. This sophisticated view differs from previous studies and assumes the multiple systems of systems and meanings generated by various fieldworks that require/reclaim their primacy over communication. Basic Communication and Assessment Prerequisites for the New N...

Rationalist Bias in Communication Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Rationalist Bias in Communication Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-04
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

While communication theory has not recognized the implications of the social intuitionist model, psychologists have gathered an impressive body of evidence to support the theory. In social cognition research, there was the idea that human inferential processes are conscious, rational, logical, and accurate, and this belief continues somewhat in the behavioral sciences although there is evidence that it is incorrect. A fresh examination is needed on just how these inferences by the receiver and the implications by the sender, carried out at high speed, impact our understanding of the communication process. Simply put, until now the default case in communication theory is the belief that we co...

Critical Perspectives on Social Justice in Speech-Language Pathology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Critical Perspectives on Social Justice in Speech-Language Pathology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-25
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

There is very little discussion of socially just approaches to speech-language pathology. Within other fields of clinically-oriented practice, social justice is a topic that has received a great deal of attention within the last few years. Pedagogy for addressing social justice has been developed in other disciplines. The field of communication disorders has failed to move forward and do the same. Discussion of social justice is important given the current sociopolitical climate and landscape that clients carry out in their day-to-day functioning. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have an opportunity to engage in practices that help address and alleviate some of the injustices that contrib...

Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-02
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Crises often leave people in vulnerable situations in which a moment in time can function as a turning point of a catastrophic situation for the better or worse. From another perspective, the concept of crisis signifies losing control of everyday privileges, such as that of a pandemic. Therefore, the interaction of rhetoric and sociolinguistics in times of crisis is inevitable. It is crucial to internalize how rhetoric, an effective skill from ancient times to make meaning of sociological breakthrough events, changed the course of events as well as the fate of humanity. Within the same context, research should focus on diverse disciplines to explore, investigate, and analyze the concept of â...