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  • Politics and Web 2.0

    The Participation Gap

    A point of departure for this book is the paradox between the seemingly limitless promise modern web technologies hold for enhanced political communication and their limited actual contribution. Empirical evidence indicates that neither citizens nor political parties are taking full advantage of online platforms to advance political participation. This is particularly evident when considering the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Political Web

    Media, Participation and Alternative Democracy

    As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies. This volume analyses the various factors that shape such participation, and addresses such key topics as civic subjectivity, web intellectuals, and cosmopolitanism. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Media Engagement

    Series series Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
    Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engagement, not as a metric but as a marker of power relations.This book navigates the reader through a tighter analytical notion of engagement within an understanding of media, culture and democracy. Dahlgren and Hill offer a new definition of engagement as an ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • From Expert Student to Novice Professional

    Series series Education (R0)
    Students entering higher education expect their studies to lead them towards some specific form of professional career. But in this age, complex internationalized professions are the main source of work for graduates, so students need to prepare themselves for a future that can be volatile, changeable and challenging. This book shows how students navigate their way through learning and become ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bobby In Search Of A Birthday (Unabridged)

    Narrated by Peter Dahlgren ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Bobby is a little orphan boy of about 5 who discovers he has somehow lost his 'birfhday' and decides to go looking for it. This epic quest takes him into strange places and meetings with people who are sometimes scoffing, but mostly kind and helpful to the small tot. Does he find his birfday? Well I can't tell you that, you will just have to listen. If you like warm, sweet stories with a great ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Young Citizens and New Media

    Learning for Democratic Participation

    Edited by Peter Dahlgren ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena of social and research attention that has become compelling in recent years.The general international concern expressed of declining democratic engagement and the role of citizenship today becomes all the more acute when it turns ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Mediated Society

    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

    $24.19 USD

  • The Mediatization of Culture and Society

    Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.This book presents a major ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Politics, Society, and the Media, Second Edition

    Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the relationship between power and representation in Canada.The framework for the book presents a model ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Language and Globalization

    Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Human Geography

    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical entries, acronyms, organisations, and major periods and schools in the history of human geography, it provides up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information. It also includes entry ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD