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Echo Chamber and Polarization in Social Media An Agent-Based Modeling Approach
This book addresses increasingly relevant social problems enabled by social media through the lens of system science research and modeling. Instead...
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Women and Persona Performance
This book works to unpack and explicate women’s personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how ‘woman’ has...
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Terrorism as Communication Stocktaking, Explanations and Challenges
Communication theories and terrorism - how can a connection be made here? Terrorism is a dominant topic in today's world: It sometimes dominates...
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Moral Collectives Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Insights
Whether terrorist attacks, refugee or financial crises - the challenges of globalized modernity expose those areas that Durkheim described as anomic...
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Living and Dying in the Roman Republic The Series Spartacus and its Cinematic Examination of Freedom, Violence and Identity
This volume deals with the American production "Spartacus" and the British-American-Italian co-production Rome. In the examination of the present, a...
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Social Science Data Analysis An Introduction
In this book, basic statistical knowledge is conveyed in an understandable and application-oriented manner. The readers should be enabled to carry...
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Videolised Society
This book traces the development of video (especially short video, duan shipin) in China over the past few years, exploring how these videos engaged...
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Mobile Communication and Online Falsehoods in Asia Trends, Impact and Practice
This book focuses on developments and trends pertaining to online falsehoods and mobile instant messaging services (MIMS), the impact of online...
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Deviant Leisure and Events of Deviance A Transgressive Compendium
This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture...
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The Happy Afterlife of Ludwig W. The People that Made Wittgensteinʼs Books and Turned Him into the Worldʼs Most Popular Philosopher
This book tells a great philosophical tale. The backstory of this tale is simple: the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein published only one...
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Engaging Isolated Communities in Disaster Preparation and Communication in the Philippines
This book provides an account of how local government units in the Philippines engage marginalized and geographically isolated communities in taking...
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Racism, Violence and Harm Ideology, Media and Resistance
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms, along with the parts played by media actors and institutions in...
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Contemporary German–Chinese Cultures in Dialogue
This book provides a unique perspective on contemporary German and Chinese cultural encounters. Moving away from highlighting exchanges between the...
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Group Identity Fabrication Theory A Communication-ecological Account with Social-theoretical Implications
To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the...
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Gaming is unlikely A Theory of Ludic Action
A concept of game is justified and unfolded that revolves around the lure and threat of the unexpected. The author duo places their theory of ludic...
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The Forgotten Subject Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds
The volume provides a critical inventory of existing concepts of the subject in communication studies research. In addition, concepts are developed...
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Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation
This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for...
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Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self On the Digital Technologies of the Subject
This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification. These...
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Asylum Seekers in Australian News Media Mediated (In)humanity
This book sheds light on how the public engage with, make sense of, and discursively evaluate news media constructions of people from asylum seeking...
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Research on the Communication Effects and Mass Media Credibility in China The Foundational Theory, Evaluation Methods and Empirical Analysis
This book establishes a measurement index to quantify China’s mass media public credibility, based on extensive research and the encapsulation of...
