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Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization Includes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube New contributors include Janice Radway, Patricia Hill-Collins, Leah A. Lievrouw, Danah M. Boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, and Gloria Anzaldua.

This book draws together the latest work from scholars around the world using subjective well-being data to understand and compare well-being across countries and cultures. Starting from many different vantage points, the authors reached a consensus that many measures of subjective well-being,ranging from life evaluations through emotional states, based on memories and current evaluations, merit broader collection and analysis. Using data from the Gallup World Poll, the World Values Survey, and other internationally comparable surveys, the authors document wide divergences amongcountries in all measures of subjective well-being, The international differences are greater for life evaluations than for emotions. Despite the well-documented differences in the ways in which subjective evaluations change through time and across cultures, the bulk of the very large internationaldifferences in life evaluations are due to differences in life circumstances rather than differences in the way these differences are evaluated.

This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas Mores classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkiens Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.

This best-selling text pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design. For all three approaches, John W. Creswell and new co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, key elements of the research process, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research applications, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry.

We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything including our relationships our forms of work and leisure and even our democracies in just a few years Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that turns this assumption on its head Rather than treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that is transforming social life he asks what problem does digitalization solve When we pose the question in this way we can see argues Nassehi that digitalization helps societies to deal with and reduce complexity by using coded numbers to process information We can also see that modern societies had a digital structure long before computer technologies were developed already in the nineteenth century for example statistical pattern recognition technologies were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order to recognize monitor and control forms of human behaviour Digital technologies were so successful in such a short period of time and were able to penetrate so many areas of society so quickly precisely because of a pre existing sensitivity that prepared modern societies for digital development This highly original book lays the foundations for a theory of the digital so

This book aims at sensitizing readers towards sustainability and encourages them to understand the importance of lean green and clean LGC issues pertaining to everyday life A wide range of audience including students teachers quality professionals management consultants lean and Six Sigma practitioners will find this book valuable

Focussing on the independent videogames sector, this book provides readers with a vocabulary to articulate and build their games writing practice; whether studying games or coming to games from another storytelling discipline. Writing for Games offers resources for communication, collaboration, reflection, and advocacy, inviting the reader to situate their practice in a centuries-long heritage of storytelling, as well as considering the material affordances of videogames, and the practical realities of working in game development processes.Structured into three parts, Theory considers the craft of both games and writing from a theoretical perspective, covering vocabulary for both game and story practices. Case Studies uses three case studies to explore the theory explored in Part 1. The Practical Workbook offers a series of provocations, tools and exercises that give the reader the means to refine and develop their writing, not just for now, but as a part of a life-long practice.

Marketed as a life saving advancement flame retardants are now mired in controversy Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals Toxic Safety demonstrates that while all parties interested in health issues use science to support their claims they do not compete on a level playing field

This book is the second of three paperback volumes taken from The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. This volume isolates the major strategieshistorically, the research methodsthat researchers can use in conducting concrete qualitative studies. The question of methods begins with questions of design and the matters of money and funding. These questions always begin with the researcher who moves from a research question to a paradigm or perspective, and then to the empirical world. The history and uses of these strategies are explored extensively in this volume. The chapters move from forms (and problems with) mixed methods inquiry to case study, performance and narrative ethnography, to constructionist analytics to grounded theory strategies, testimonies, participatory action research, and clinical research.

There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant positive impacts on global climate efforts There is much debate however on the most effective strategy for unlocking these low cost mitigation opportunities While the Clean Development Mechanism CDM emerged as the main climate finance instrument for engaging developing countries under the Kyoto Protocol the carbon market approach it embodied would largely be replaced by a new array of climate finance instruments based on climate funds In The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries Mark Purdon shows that the effectiveness of climate finance instruments to reduce emissions under either strategy has depended on the interaction between prevailing ideas about how to develop a nation s economy as well as state interests in various economic sectors Based on multiple field visits over a decade in three countries the author demonstrates that climate finance instruments have been more effectively implemented when the state treats them as vehicles for addressing priority development issues Climate finance instruments were more consistently and effectively implemented in Uganda and Moldova than Tanzania despite differences

Elucidates the problematic impact of influential development metanarratives on different actors as well as policy and practice on sustainability challenges This title is also available as open acces

From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, each essay looks at a particular imaginary world in-depth, and world-building issues associated with that world. Together, the essays explore the relationship between the worlds and the media in which they appear as they examine imaginary worlds in literature, television, film, computer games, and theatre, with many existing across multiple media simultaneously. The book argues that the media incarnation of a world affects world structure and poses unique obstacles to the act of world-building. The worlds discussed include Nazar, Barsetshire, Skotopogonievsk, the Vorkosigan Universe, Grovers Corners, Gormenghast, Collinsport, Daventry, Dune, the Death Gate Cycle universe, Twin Peaks, and the Star Trek galaxy.

ndependent Videogames investigates the social and cultural implications of contemporary forms of independent video game development. Through a series of case studies and theoretical investigations, it evaluates the significance of such a multi-faceted phenomenon within video game and digital cultures.A diverse team of scholars highlight the specificities of independence within the industry and the culture of digital gaming through case studies and theoretical questions. The chapters focus on labor, gender, distribution models and technologies of production to map the current state of research on independent game development. The authors also identify how the boundaries of independence are becoming opaque in the contemporary game industry often at the cost of the claims of autonomy, freedom and emancipation that underlie the indie scene. The book ultimately imagines new and better narratives for a less exploitative and more inclusive videogame industry.