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This collection provides a cross-cultural comparative analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, of how Islam is represented in the media in various countries, from Western Europe to Russia, China, and India.

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This collection discusses the depictions of mothers-in-law in popular culture and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law.

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Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sectors leading products, this book unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the mens magazine audience in the 1990s. It sheds light on the commercial assessment and representation of modern masculine culture.

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Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sectors leading products, this book unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the mens magazine audience in the 1990s. It sheds light on the commercial assessment and representation of modern masculine culture.

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Rod Brookes argues that globalisation and commodification have changed the way in which sport is represented in the media and conversely, that the media themselves have played a major role within these processes.

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This book analyzes social media influencers and their relationship with their online followers. Each chapter represents a unique theoretical and methodological approach to examining the importance of this relationship from a variety of perspectives and contexts.

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Researching Audiences is a practical hands-on guide to the main types of empirical fieldwork that have established themselves in academic, policy and commercial research. It will help you explore what audience members do with the media, how they make sense of it, and how it may influence social affairs from the micro to the macro level.

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Creative production processes are central to all media industries, and there is a need for more detailed understandings of how these industries facilitate and understand their own creativity. This book offers a theoretical framework to consider how researchers can conduct studies of creativity in different media industries.

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This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while cross-border dialogue and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged.

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This book discusses how the evolution of market-driven cultural globalization has reinforced the administration of national cultural borders in Japan. As a result of these processes, a particular kind of cross-border connectivity and exchange is embraced while dialog and engagement with multicultural questions within Japan are discouraged.

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"Through a detailed examination of the Southern Weekly Incident, a prominent example of government censorship, Chen constructs a framework for understanding how the internet promotes civic participation and collective action in China"--

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This book is an ethnographic, First Amendment critique of the state's privacy and anti-harassment laws. It provides the reader with a firsthand look at whether paparazzi comply with the laws and how these restrictions have impacted the celebrity photography industry.

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"The first edited volume to present decolonial critiques of fashion and globalization and explore the dynamics of 'de-globalization' to propose more diverse fashion definitions, practices and aesthetics"--

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Essays on media change past and present, with examples ranging from religious pamphleteers of the seventeenth century to the World Wide Web.