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Videogames in the Indian subcontinent: development, culture(s) and representations
London:
Bloomsbury
(2023), 261 pp., bibliogr. p.179-202, glossary p.236-238, index
ISBN 978-93-5435-971-2 (pdf);
"Drawing on a series of player and developer interviews and surveys conducted over the last five years, including some recent ones, this book provides a sense of how games have become a part of the culture of the region despite its huge diversity and plurality and opens up avenues for further study ...
Media of the masses: cassette culture in modern Egypt
Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press
(2022), xiii, 279 pp., figures, bibliogr. p.249-269, index
ISBN 978-1-5036-2943-1 (hbk); 978-1-5036-3144-1 (pbk); 978-1-5036-3145-8 (online)
"Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology - the cassette tape - to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary indiv...
Digitale Bildkulturen
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung
(2022), 397 pp., illustr., glossary p.381-397
ISBN 978-3-7425-0843-0
Other Editions: Berlin: Wagenbach, 2022
"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü...
Visual cultures of Africa
Münster; New York:
Waxmann
(2022), 255 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-3-8309-4523-9 (print); 978-3-8309-9523-4 (ebook)
CC BY-NC-SA
"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre...
Collective memory: visual perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa
München:
kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project
(2022), 160 pp.
ISBN 978-3-96848-068-8
"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote...
Cultural production and social movements after the Arab Spring: nationalism, politics, and transnational identity
London:
Tauris
(2021), xii, 250 pp., figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-0-7556-3421-7 (online); 978-0-7556-3419-4 (pdf); 978-0-7556-4127-7 (pbk); 978-0-7556-3418-7 (hbk)
CC BY
"This book provides an original contribution to current social and cultural theory on Arab social movements by giving a fuller historical and critical treatment of contemporary artistic and cultural production from the region and beyond. Thematically structured and covering culture, media, politics,...
Indian sound cultures, Indian sound citizenship
Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press
(2020), vi, 330 pp., bibliogr., index
ISBN 978-0-472-05434-3 (pbk); 978-0-472-12623-1 (online)
"Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circu...
Comics beyond the page in Latin America
London:
UCL Press; University College London
(2020), xiv, 229 pp., figures, index
ISBN 978-1-78735-756-3 (hbk); 978-1-78735-755-6 (pbk); 978-1-78735-754-9 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender iden...
Monetising the dividual self: the emergence of the lifestyle blog and influencers in Malaysia
New York; Oxford:
Berghahn
(2019), xiii, 221 pp., figures, bibliogr. p.199-216, index
ISBN 978-1-78920-118-5 (hbk); 978-1-78920-119-2 (ebook)
"Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter thick description case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media microcelebrities and influencers. It tracks the transformation of pe...
Media anthropology: meaning, embodiment, infrastructure, and activism
In: Perspectives: an open invitation to cultural anthropology
Nina Brown; Laura Tubelle de González; Thomas McIlwraith (eds.)
Arlington, Va.:
American Anthropological Association
(2017), pp. 1-17
ISBN 978-1-931303-55-2
"This chapter introduces some of the theories, insights, and methodologies of media anthropology. At the heart of media anthropology is the assertion that media practices are not universal. Whether we are discussing how television is viewed, how public relations coordinators negotiate corporate hier...
Cultural revolution in Iran: contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York:
Tauris
(2017) new paperback ed., xiv, 287 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-78453-513-1
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2013
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive...
Developing cultural industries: learning from the palimpsest of practice
Amsterdam:
European Cultural Foundation
(2015), 192 pp., abbrev. p.15-17, bibliogr. p.163
"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks...
Puppetry for all times: papers presented at the Bali puppetry seminar 2013
Singapore:
Patridge
(2014), 389 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-1-4828-2811 (hbk); 978-14828-2810-8 (pbk); 978-1-4828-2812-2
"The Puppetry for All Times Seminar held in September of 2013 in Ubud, Bali, was one of the most enchanting of events of its kind held anywhere in recent years. Its success revolved around the fantastic locale, the overwhelming response from performers as well as the paper presenters, and the genero...
Key concepts in creative industries
Los Angeles et al.:
Sage
(2013), xii, 184 pp., bibliogr. p.161-176, index
"This book is the first to present an organized study of the key concepts that underlie and motivate the field of creative industries. Written by a world-leading team of experts, it presents readers with compact accounts of the history of terms, the debates and tensions associated with their usage, ...
Palestine online: transnationalism, the internet and the construction of identity
London; New York:
Tauris
(2012) new paperback ed., xix, 272 pp., 18 illustr., 7 tables, bibliogr. p.249-264, index
ISBN 978-1-84885-364-5 (print); 978-0-7556-0788-4 (online)
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2011
"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban...
Arab cultural studies: mapping the field
London; New York:
Tauris
(2012), xiv, 321 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-8488-5558-8 (pbk); 978-0-7556-1115-7 (online)
Spanish cooperation in culture and communication: an overview of a decade of exchanges with Ibero-America
Global media and communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2012), pp. 65-80
Other Editions: Spanish ed.: Cultura y communicación: la cooperación española e Iberoamérica. In: C. del Valle, F. J. Moreno, F. Sierra Caballero (eds.): Políticas de comunicación y ciudadanía cultural iberoamericana. Barcelona: Gedisa, 345-360
"The article presents the main results of the investigation, ‘Current Situation and Prospects of Spanish Cooperation in Culture and Communication with the Rest of Ibero-America, 1997–2007’. The text offers an overview of the initiatives which took place during the period studied, by country, c...
National studies on assessing the economic contribution of the copyright-based industries
Geneva:
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
(2011), 392 pp.
Localizing the internet: an anthropological account
New York et al.:
Berghahn
(2011), xxv, 150 pp., bibliogr., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-197-2
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma...
Body parts on planet slum: women and telenovelas in Brazil
London:
Anthem Press
(2011), xxv, 156 pp., glossary p.137-138, bibliogr. p.139-148, index
ISBN 978-0-85728-446-4 (online); 978-0-85728-797-7 (print)
"Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochisti...
