Contemplating studying media? This handy text will tell you everything you need to know! Beginning with the definition and history of media studies, this book delves into exciting subjects like the political economy of mass media, digitalization, AI, filter bubbles, misinformation and much more. Reading this text, you will encounter:- Real case studies, from a day in the life of a journalist, to global media conglomerates- An exploration of key themes like race and gender in...

While the metaverse is often marketed as a future utopia, the vision of the metaverse represents an attempt for private corporations to control the code of the real. In the hands of companies that established and maintain the surveillance capitalism model, the ability to build a persistent, all-compassing environment means all activity in that world can be metricized and commodified, making the metaverse worthy of critical examination.Significant parts of life are already conducted...

Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pokémon Go on the relationship between parents and their children.The ubiquity of digital media correlates with a mounting body of work that considers the part digital technologies, such as video games, play in the lives of children. Consequently, commentators have deliberated the effects of rising levels of screen time and the association of...

This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, scholars critically reflect on the changing role of planning and governance in sustainable urban development, lo...

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity. This is a pertinent and timely topic given the increase in opportunities people now have to explicitly and implicitly share their location through digital and mobile technologies. There is a growing body of research on locative media, much of this literature has concentrated on spatial issues. Research here has explored how locative media and location-b...

A teacher is enslaved by his African teaching-aide, a husband by his faithless wife and shemale lover, and a lodger by his deviant Indian landlady in these three works of male submission to the female from SFPG.Book-Length: 90000-words.CONTAINS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT READING, INCLUDING: female domination, femdom fiction, erotic mind control, interracial sex, dominant shemale,

This volume contains an Open Access ChapterOffering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the emergence of virtual reality (VR) into the gaming mainstream, Virtual Reality Gaming delves into the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.As the first study to critically assess and systematically investigate the phenomenon of VR Gaming through the tripartite lens of embodiment, presence, and immersion...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail“A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive.” —Wall Street Journal“Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context . . . Just the kind of probing, nuanced and unsparing study to help us think things through.” —The New York TimesThrough a connected set of biographical portraits...

The young African woman who arrives from Nigeria to study English and work as a teaching-aide, as part of an Anglo-Nigerian government initiative, is about to take over the life of the forty-something English husband, father, and schoolteacher she has been assigned to help. And he has absolutely no defence against the growing personal and sexual control she begins to exert over him. Not now - not ever! Contains: interracial femdom, erotic mind control, and white male slavery. Book-Length: ...

A forty-something male teacher in England’s west-country embarks upon a life of unwilling sexual and domestic service and has his home, family, and career, stripped from him after the arrival of his new female teaching aide from Nigeria. A tale of erotic mind control and interracial femdom from Leighton B’zzard. Book-Length:21500-words. WARNING: SEXUALLY EXPLICIT READING INSIDE

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies. While "smart city" advocates are keen to promote the benefits of smart urbanism – increased efficiency, sustainability, resilience, competitiveness, safety and security – critics point to the negative effects, such as the production of technocratic governance, the corporatization of urban services, ...

In this short book, Evans interrogates the implications of VR’s re-emergence into the media mainstream, critiquing the notion of a VR revolution by analysing the development and ownership of VR companies while also exploring the possibilities of immersion in VR and the importance of immersion in the interest and ownership of VR enterprises. He assesses how the ideologies and desires of both computer programmers and major Silicon Valley industries may influence how VR worlds are conceived a...