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Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization Includes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube New contributors include Janice Radway, Patricia Hill-Collins, Leah A. Lievrouw, Danah M. Boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, and Gloria Anzaldúa
This landmark collection maps and motivates the anthropological voice in media studies by locating the media in worlds of practice, sentiment, debate and dissent. Using such vivid examples as the image management of the Dalai Lama and the social organization of Nigerian cinema theatres, the authors remind us that media machineries are not more magical than the social worlds they inhabit and project. [Back cover].
An engaging and accessible introduction to a broad range of critical approaches to contemporary mass media theory and research A decade after its first publication, Critical Media Studies continues toshape and define the field of media studies, offering innovative approaches that enable readers to explore the modern media landscape from a wide variety of perspectives. Integrating foundational theory and contemporary research, this groundbreaking text offers the most comprehensive set of analytical approaches currently available. Twelve critical perspectives—pragmatic, rhetorical, sociological, erotic, ecological, and others—enable readers to assess and evaluate the social and cultural co...
Two authors steal you away into a world of dark dreams, shapeshifters and dangerous and forbidden romance!
In this ninth installment in the wildly popular Immortals After Dark series from #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance author Kresley Cole, a woman must conceal her identity from her one true love—or risk losing him forever. He vowed he’d come for her… Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives. She awaits his return… When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. But Declan takes her captive, intending retribution against all immortals—unaware that he belongs to their world. To sate a desire more powerful than death… Yet every reincarnation comes with a price, for Aidan is doomed to die when he remembers his past. To save herself from Declan’s torments, will Regin rekindle memories of the passion they once shared—even if it means once again losing the only man she could ever love?
Manchmal ist es nur ein kurzer Moment, der das Gewöhnliche von dem Monströsen trennt. Seit seiner Kindheit interessiert sich Jimmy Hawthorn für BDSM-Pornos. Bondage ist das Einzige, was ihn sexuell erregt. Doch harmlose Rollenspiele sind es nicht, wovon er träumt: Jimmy will Frauen wirklich foltern und verletzen. Im Sommer ergreift er die Chance. Jimmy entführt ein Mädchen aus seiner Schule und sperrt sie in einen alten, unterirdischen Bunker. Samantha lernt den Wahnsinn kennen und Jimmy das Glück, einen Menschen zu brechen. Doch die Dinge werden kompliziert, als sich Megan, auf der Suche nach ihrer Freundin, dem Bunker nähert - und bald hängen zwei gefesselte Mädchen an seinen Hak...
This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin,Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek.
This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.
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With the changing times, the changing world affects the lives of people in many ways. Some of these effects are good and some are bad. This book brings to the fore the many unseen aspects of social media that impact people's lives in many different ways.To conclude,it is not hard to see that excessive online socialization is bad. It affects relationships. It is true that the internet has enriched our lives in many ways, but if anyone addicted to it, it will develop many problems. Used social media for advantage.