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Gender and Culture Wars in Italy A Genealogy of Media Representations
This book examines contemporary culture wars around gender in Italy. Applying methods from European cultural studies, the authors reconstruct the...
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Similar Practice, Different Rationales Political Fact-Checking around the World
Misinformation and disinformation have emerged as paramount societal challenges, affecting areas from public health to climate change and eroding...
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The Lure of Communication Sociology through Rhetoric
This book addresses the convergence of sociology, communication and rhetoric, with particular reference to the contemporary expressive and social...
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Societal Deception Global Social Issues in Post-Truth Times
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ‘societal deception’ - how and why people are deceived and led to believe fake news. Coherently...
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Advertising Literacy for Young Audiences in the Digital Age A Critical Attitude to Embedded Formats
This book analyzes how children and adolescents aged between 10 and 17 engage with digital advertising and highlights the importance of promoting...
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Platformization and Informality Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex...
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Gamification of Life and the Gaming Society The Ludic Century
This interesting book discusses why, as an activity, topic and metaphor, play and game have become an integral part of modern life. Empirically...
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Digital Healthcare and Expertise Mental Health and New Knowledge Practices
This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from...
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Facilitating Visual Socialities Processes, Complications and Ethical Practices
This edited collection seeks to enrich the dialogue about the expansive possibilities of visual sociological research facilitation. Although...
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Vision and Verticality A Multidisciplinary Approach
This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts,...
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Filmic Sociology Theory and Practice
This book is an exploration of the intellectual resources offered by the hybridisation of sociology and cinema: practicing sociology, or other human...
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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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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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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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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...