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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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Concerns about the effects of television on children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. David Buckingham, gives an insight into children's responses to horror films, to 'weepies' and soap operas, to news and 'realty programmes'.

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Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive media. Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen provide students with a wide-ranging analysis of the various communication styles and the ways by which text is now understood as the interaction of sound, music, vision, colour and language.

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Offers an overview of ""the Australian"" newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across its first three decades.

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The inside story of the skullduggery at the heart of one the Murdoch empire's subsidiaries, NDS.

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From the Pueblo land protests of the 1920s to the sports teams' mascot controversies of the 1990s, this book chronicles the depictions of Native Americans in the press.

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This book examines societal changes due to the increased use of communication technology. Topics include identity, privacy, communication competence, online communities, online social support, mediated relational maintenance, and mobile communication. It is ideal for graduate students and scholars in sociology, psychology, and communication.

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This book challenges the assumptions behind the idea of digital citizenship in order to turn the attention to cases of innovation, social change and public good.

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This book challenges the assumptions behind the idea of digital citizenship in order to turn the attention to cases of innovation, social change and public good.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of media portrayals of ethnic and religious minorities in Germany. Using years of combined quantitative and qualitative research, the author compares parliamentary discourse with that of the mainstream media and analyzes the politicized uses of collective identities.

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Critically analyzing four decades of television situation comedies from The Honeymooners to The Bill Cosby Show, Hamamoto shows how the sitcom reflects, explains, legitimates, and challenges the society in which it is grounded, illumining the power of laughter both to reaffirm and to question existing social structures.

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This monograph offers a close reading of the financial story of Netflix, exposing the central importance of narrativity, performative language, and affect, which drive the speculative worlds of global finance, technology, and now television.