-- PART I: Written language and semiotics -- Chapter 1: Researching the representation of a crisis -- Chapter 2: Semiotic Discourse Analysis -- PART II: A Barthesian conceptualisation of written language -- Chapter 3: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 4: Data collection and research principles -- Chapter 5: A Barthesian analysis of the BP data in four stages -- Chapter 6: Stage 1: Contextuali…
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird” -- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far” -- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things” -- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Am…
1. Introduction -- 2. Popular Culture and the Sociology of Fame -- 3. The Life and Times of Lady Gaga -- 4. The Business of Lady Gaga -- 5. The Laws of Lady Gaga -- 6. Gaga Media: From Internet to Radio -- 7. The Audience of Lady Gaga: Beyond the Little Monsters -- 8. Gaga Activism: The New Ethics of Pop Culture -- 9. The Sex of Lady Gaga -- 10. Art Pop: The Styles of Lady Gaga -- 11. Conclusio…
1. Why a politics of listening? -- 2. They only listen when we bash our culture.-3.‘We are only remembered when we riot’ -- 4. Creative Alternatives -- 5. Listening as Solidarity -- 6. Conclusion. .This book explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking. The author draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, …
Chapter 1: Peer Review in Academic Settings -- Chapter 2: The Genre of Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 3: Pragmatics and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 4: Politeness and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 5: Evaluation and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 6: Learning to Do Peer Review -- Chapter 7: Implications for Reviewer Training -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book examines reports that are wri…
1. Context: “Cyberspace”, “Race” and Community Resilience -- 2. Researching Cyber Racism: Methodologies and Methods Across Disciplines -- 3. How Cyber Users Experience and Respond to Racism: Evidence from an Online Survey -- 4. Racism and the Affordances of the Internet -- 5. Targets -- 6. Racist Narratives Online -- 7. Building Online Communities of Resistance and Solidarity -- …
1. What Do We Mean by ‘Child Online Safety’ -- 2. Public Concern and the Policy “Solution” -- 3. Young People and Digital Lives -- 4. Gaming: Violent Content = Violent Children? -- 5. Sexting: “The Teen Epidemic” -- 6. How Big is the Gulf? -- 7. Where next?This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put…
Introduction: Textures and Porosities of Journalistic Fields -- Chapter 1: Contextualizing US and German Journalism -- Chapter 2: The Sacred Discourse of Journalistic Professionalism -- Chapter 3: Staking out the Boundaries of Professionalism: Good and Bad Journalism -- Chapter 4: Competitive Collegiality: The Press Corps Environment -- Chapter 5: Embedded Political Reporting: Boundary Processe…
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The disciplinary landscape -- Chapter 3. Understanding interdisciplinarity -- Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary interaction -- Chapter 5. Knowledge exchange in initial meetings -- Chapter 6. The collaborative construction of knowledge -- Chapter 7. Disciplinary identity -- Chapter 8. How leadership works -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.This book uncovers exactly what…
This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals ‘deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of ‘vindicators’ or how common citizens turned into ‘evil’ modern heroes in the press, and the…