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"Examines digital embodiment, digital representations, and visual vernaculars as a mode of identity performance and management online"--

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This book explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV shows, arguing that these portrayals typically have the effect of cementing dominant assumptions about motherhood in placeor, less often, of disrupting those assumptions, causing us to ask whether motherhood could be constructed differently.

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Mediated Nostalgia works to help understand the cultural, historical, and sociological implications of a past-obsessed media industry. It takes a cross-media and interdisciplinary approach in its study of the nostalgia common in contemporary digital media, film, television, and video games.

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Mediated Nostalgia works to help understand the cultural, historical, and sociological implications of a past-obsessed media industry. It takes a cross-media and interdisciplinary approach in its study of the nostalgia common in contemporary digital media, film, television, and video games.

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This book demonstrates how media technologies shape amateur sports and how some of these sports are modified. The author uses an innovative measuring approach to analyze how people use media technologies in conjunction with sports and how their relationship with physical activity is affected by the ever-present influence of the media.

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Peter Ruehl's humorous columns on life, family and politics have been one of the Australian Financial Review's most beloved and prominent features for more than two decades.

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Mental Disorders in Popular Film discusses popular cinematic representations of characters with mental disorders or diversity, contextualizing these works in the Hollywood machine. These films demonstrate the many ways that Hollywood has used people with mental disorders as excuses to control or oppress diverse people and ideas.

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Mental Disorders in Popular Film discusses popular cinematic representations of characters with mental disorders or diversity, contextualizing these works in the Hollywood machine. These films demonstrate the many ways that Hollywood has used people with mental disorders as excuses to control or oppress diverse people and ideas.

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Brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture.

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At the dawn of the talkies, one of the most popular genres was the gangster film, through which the city was often portrayed as a powerful force that sent poor souls to their doom. This work considers the development of the "cyber-city" where urban exiles use their computers to re-imagine the cities of their youth as safe, and warm places.

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Providing food for the brain as well as the body, this wonderful collection of essays explores the boundaries between Mexican and Mexican-American foods, promotes philosophical understandings of Mexican-American cuisine, and shares recipes from both past and present.

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The first cross-national survey of its kind, this pioneering volume examines the condition of Middle East studies in nine major countries across three continents.

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Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media traces the emergence and evolution of milestone celebrations in the digital era, from social media spectacles like promposals and gender-reveals to closure commemorations like divorce parties and living wakes.

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In the space of a few years, Minecraft has become one of the most astonishing success stories of the internet age, attracting millions of players and proving how a single great idea can topple empires in the digital, post-industrial world.

This is the story of the man behind the game.

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This book posits that universities can thrive amidst misinformation and post-truth polarization by developing a metadisciplinary approach: misinformation studies. We must reframe our disciplinary investments around the fact of misinformation, which is a consequence and catalyst of our politically divided, postdigital environment.

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This book is a socially situated exploration of South Asian migrants in Singapore that critically examines migrants negotiations of cultural identity, power, and friendship networks in mediated mobile phone spaces.

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The mobile phone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life. This book presents an overview of the transformations and challenges presented by this most personal technology.