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  • Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture

    Books as Media

    by Simone Murray ...
    Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book’s deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers in the digital ecosystem and the merging of print and digital technologies in contemporary understandings of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Digital Future of English

    Literary Media Studies

    by Simone Murray ...
    More than any other academic discipline, literary studies is the creation of print culture. How then can it thrive in the digital era? Early 1990s predictions of the book's imminent demise presented a simplistic either/or choice between the legacy of moribund print and triumphalist digital technology. Yet we have grown to experience the two media as complexly interdependent and even complementary. ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • The Digital Literary Sphere

    Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era

    by Simone Murray ...
    How has the Internet changed literary culture?2nd Place, N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by The Electronic Literature OrganizationReports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Adaptation Industry

    The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation

    by Simone Murray ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely unexamined crucial questions of how adaptations come to be made, what ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Designing Culture

    The Technological Imagination at Work

    by Anne Balsamo ...
    The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Texture

    Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload

    by Richard H. R. Harper ...
    Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Qualified Self

    Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life

    by Lee Humphreys ...
    How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Age of Sharing

    by Nicholas A. John ...
    Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as empathy, communication, fairness, openness and equality. The Age of Sharing shows how and when sharing became caring, and explains how its meanings have changed in the digital age.But the word �sharing� also ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Digital Humanities Pedagogy

    Practices, Principles and Politics

    by Brett D. Hirsch (Editor) ...
    Series Book 3 - Digital Humanities Series
    Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Creative Writing

    Edited by Graeme Harper ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO CREATIVE WRITINGA Companion to Creative Writing is a comprehensive collection covering myriad aspects of the practice and profession of creative writing in the contemporary world. The book features contributions from an international cast of creative writers, publishers and editors, critics, translators, literary prize judges, and many other top professionals. Chapters not only ... Read more

    $178.00 USD

  • Film Criticism and Digital Cultures

    Journalism, Social Media and the Democratization of Opinion

    by Andrew McWhirter ...
    'The critic is dead.' 'Everyone's a critic.' These statements reflect some of the perceptions of film criticism in a time when an opinion can be published in seconds, yet reach an audience of millions. This book examines the reality of contemporary film criticism, by talking to leading practitioners in the UK and North America - such as Nick James, Mark Cousins, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Richard ... Read more

    $36.49 USD