"Après environ quarante ans d'existence au Cameroun, la télévision est l'objet d'un ouvrage qui la présente en faisant émerger les interrogations qu'elle suscite sur ses représentations politique, juridique, économique, culturelle et esthétique. Elle a pris une importance substantielle dans
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les vies quotidiennes au point que les citoyens, les entreprises, les pouvoirs publics, les organisations sociales et politiques ainsi que les ménages en font un usage qui, depuis 1985, s'est considérablement accru. Avec la télévision, les perceptions du temps comme de l'espace ont changé, de même que les pratiques relationnelles, politiques, culturelles et territoriales. Il en résulte des enjeux inédits qui se traduisent par de nouveaux défis pour les autorités, à tous les niveaux institutionnels : régulation du paysage audiovisuel, réorganisation de l'économie du secteur, remodelage de la citoyenneté et mutation de la vie démocratique, adaptation technologique aux normes internationales et aux TIC, encadrement esthétique en vue de la préservation du patrimoine culturel, etc. Avec cet ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et réflexif, les auteurs, par une approche pluridisciplinaire, soulignent combien la télévision s'est imposée comme un acteur social majeur et comme un objet de recherche en sciences sociales." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com
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peting histories in the region, and pressing socio-economic and media debates. Additionally, the Handbook explores the impact of regional and international politics on Middle Eastern cultures and media." (Publisher description)
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"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
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iduals, from singers to smugglers, to challenge state-controlled Egyptian media. Enabling an unprecedented number of people to participate in the creation of culture and circulation of content, cassette players and tapes soon informed broader cultural, political, and economic developments and defined "modern" Egyptian households. Drawing on a wide array of audio, visual, and textual sources that exist outside the Egyptian National Archives, Andrew Simon provides a new entry point into understanding everyday life and culture. Cassettes and cassette players, he demonstrates, did not simply join other twentieth century mass media, like records and radio; they were the media of the masses. Comprised of little more than magnetic reels in plastic cases, cassettes empowered cultural consumers to become cultural producers long before the advent of the Internet." (Publisher description)
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"In this book, we attempt to integrate three different research approaches: (1) the traditional social-psychological approach that emphasizes cultural differences and how these differences influence communication, (2) the interpretive approach that emphasizes understanding communication in context,
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and (3) the critical approach that underscores the importance of power and historical context to understanding intercultural communication, including postcolonial approaches. We believe that each of these approaches has important contributions to make to the understanding of intercultural communication and that they operate in interconnected and sometimes contradictory ways. In this eighth edition, we have further strengthened our dialectical approach, which encourages students to think critically about intercultural phenomena as seen from these various perspectives." (Preface, page xx)
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"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,
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and literary studies, the book uses a range of theoretical material that engages readers in three key ways. First, it adopts a critical standpoint with respect to the term "Arab Spring," recognizing the multiple interpretations and varied geographical, historical, and political realities of the term. Second, its focus on carefully selected case studies - namely, Egypt, Tunis, Syria, and Yemen - adds depth to analysis of the cultural, literary and artistic dimensions that operate fluidly across the Arab world. Third, it presents a methodological case study for the growing community of researchers involved in interdisciplinary education." (Publisher description)
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"This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some
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of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective." (Publisher description)
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"The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, fram
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ed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts: 'Literature and Music' deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments. 'Media and Visual Cultures' explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property." (Publisher description)
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"En el primer momento de nuestra investigación plantearemos un estado de situación de la pastoral de la comunicación, analizando algunos documentos del magisterio pontificio desde comienzo del siglo XX hasta nuestros días. Presentaremos las perspectivas y las actitudes de la Iglesia en su víncu
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lo con los medios de comunicación y las líneas pastorales propuestas para afrontar los desafíos culturales suscitados por el impacto de las tecnologías de la comunicación en cada momento de la historia [...] Hemos dicho que somos testigos de los cambios culturales que han producido las tecnologías de la comunicación, pero ¿qué entendemos por el concepto el cultura? A partir de algunos autores, en un segundo momento profundizaremos brevemente en esta noción, a la luz de las ciencias humanísticas, de la antropología y la sociología. Presentaremos también la evolución de este concepto en el magisterio eclesial desde el Concilio Vaticano II hasta nuestros días, llegando a la definición de cultura que propone Papa Francisco en la exhortación Evangelii Gaudium, asumiendo el valioso aporte elaborado por el magisterio latinoamericano. A continuación presentaremos una descripción de la cultura comunicativa actual a la luz de tres autores, Henry Jenkins, Ruggero Eugeni y Luciano Floridi, quienes han investigado las tecnologías de la comunicación y su impacto en el hombre y la sociedad. Por último, presentaremos el aporte de Massimiliano Padula y Filippo Ceretti, que propondrán un retorno a la dimensión antropológica de la comunicación a la que llamarán humanidad medial [...] Luego de adentrarnos en este contexto comunicativo y su impacto en la cultura, la pregunta se hace evidente: ¿cómo pensar una pastoral de la comunicación en esta cultura postmedial? A partir de este análisis intentaremos presentar en el último capítulo algunos elementos para diseñar una pastoral medial hoy. Desde la perspectiva antropológica de las tecnologías de la comunicación, buscaremos reconocer cuál es el kairós propio de este tiempo que nos toca vivir, proponiendo algunos criterios para diseñar una pastoral medial con un nuevo estilo evangelizador a la luz de las enseñanzas de Papa Francisco. No es nuestra intención proponer una guía exhaustiva sobre cómo elaborar y establecer un plan de comunicación eclesial, sino presentar algunos elementos que sirvan como “materia prima” para la reflexión y el discernimiento sobre cómo llevar adelante una pastoral de la comunicación que sea evangelizadora en y de la cultura postmedial." (Introducción, página 6-7)
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"Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to
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Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship. Specifically, this Companion includes: "interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing popular culture; wide-ranging case studies; discussions of economic and policy underpinnings; analysis of textual manifestations of popular culture; examinations of political, social, and cultural dynamics and discussions of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability and labor. Featuring scholarly voices from across six continents, The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture presents a nuanced and wide-ranging survey of popular culture research." (Publisher description)
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"Das Handbuch begründet Popkultur als inter- und transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld sowie als eigenständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin. Es informiert in über 60 Beiträgen über die wichtigsten Erscheinungsformen und Diskurszusammenhänge der Popkultur und unterscheidet diese grundsätzlich von denen
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der Hoch- sowie Populärkultur. Die Beiträge widmen sich den Begriffen und Konzepten der Popkultur, der Bedeutung der Popkulturforschung in unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen sowie den Medien und Gattungen der Popkultur - vom Rock 'n' Roll über Soul, Punk, Techno bis hin zu Pop-Art, TV-Serien, B-Movies, Social Media u.v.a. Das Handbuch bietet international erstmalig einen systematischen Überblick über das gesamte Wissensfeld der Popkultur und stellt die Popkulturforschung auf ein historisches und theoretisches Fundament." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics
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. He argues the use of social media reflects contradictory values. Low-income Brazilians embrace social media to display literacy and upward mobility, but the same technology also strengthens traditional networks of support that conflict with individualism." (Back cover)
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"One of the first ethnographic studies to explore the use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, 'Social Media in South India' provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what wa
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s once a space dominated by agriculture has resulted in a complex juxtaposition between an evolving knowledge economy and the traditions of rural life. While certain class tensions have emerged in response to this juxtaposition, a study of social media in the region suggests that similarities have also transpired, observed most clearly in the blurring of boundaries between work and life for both the old residents and the new. Venkatraman explores the impact of social media at home, work and school, and analyses the influence of class, caste, age and gender on how, and which, social media platforms are used in different contexts. These factors, he argues, have a significant effect on social media use, suggesting that social media in South India, while seeming to induce societal change, actually remains bound by local traditions and practices." (Back cover)
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"China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already fo
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ur of the world's leading New Media companies are Chinese. China's old media - television, newspapers, radio - challenge the established powers which were long thought unassailable, such as CNN and BBC. Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story in China's way, with not just news and documentary series but also entertainment. The world's biggest manufacturer of TV drama is now making its stories for export. China's Media tells you why and how. It investigates the Chinese media, their strengths and weaknesses and how they are different. from the West. This detailed and comprehensive guide aims to showcase their immense variety and diversity, and demonstrates how they came to be a powerful new force in the media world." (Back cover)
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"Juliano Spyer procura entender por que brasileiros de baixa renda investiram tanto tempo e dinheiro para incorporar o uso das mídias sociais a seu cotidiano. Explora essa questão por uma variedade de temas, incluindo educação, relacionamentos, trabalho e política e argumenta que o uso das míd
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ias sociais reflete valores e motivações contraditórias. Brasileiros de baixa renda abraçam as mídias sociais para exibir sua crescente escolaridade e mobilidade social, mas a mesma tecnologia também fortalece redes de apoio mútuo tradicionais que rejeitam atitudes individualistas." (Descrição da casa editora)
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"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio’s residents – or Hospice
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ños – express their feelings of marginalisation that result from living in city far from the national capital, and with a notoriously low quality of life compared to other urban areas in Chile. In actively distancing themselves from residents in cities such as Santiago, Hospiceños identify as marginalised citizens, and express a new kind of social norm. Yet Haynes finds that by contrasting their own lived experiences with those of people in metropolitan areas, Hospiceños are strengthening their own sense of community and the sense of normativity that shapes their daily lives." (Back cover)
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