2024 Audie Finalist - Young Adult Book Of The Year | Spotify Unforgettable Young Adult Books | Amazon Bestseller - Teen Coming Of Age FictionJames Van Der Beek narrates an unforgettable coming-of-age journey set during a transformational time—high school senior year. Packed with laughter, wonder, beauty, and heartbreak, this poignant audiobook based on a true story is a must-listen for fans of the classic movie Dead Poets Society.S...

From Audie Award-finalist and the author of One Night in a Thousand Years comes a new collection of three unforgettable stories-tales of ambition, survival, and the search for ultimate meaning in our lives.In Thunderpower, a young visionary's attempt to resurrect the Library of Alexandria spirals into an unexpected comedy of errors, leading him from a psychiatric institution to an accidental run for mayor. The Western Line follows a couple determined to r...

A classic coming-of-age story about being invited into the adventure of life.Senior year is set up to be everything he ever wanted. But Colt begins to suspect that there has to be more to life than Friday night lights and chasing the next high.He soon crosses paths with a college-aged vagabond named Lucas Oliver who has traveled all over the world and been outcast by his hometown because of his unorthodox ideas about God, life, and death. Lucas's past remai...

In poco più di dieci anni, numerose piattaforme di social media sempre in competizione tra loro, come YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram e Snapchat, hanno creato dal nulla una nuova industria creativa. Il Social Media Entertainment si pone all'incrocio tra l'intrattenimento e l'interattività, tra il contenuto e la pubblicità. I creator hanno sfruttato queste piattaforme per generare tipologie inedite di testi, diversi dal modello – durato secoli – delle proprietà intellettuali e del...

Im Chinesischen bezeichnet der Begriff Wanghong Creator und Social-Media-Unternehmer, die auch als KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) und Zhubo (Showroom-Hosts) bekannt sind, ebenso Influencer und Mikro-Prominente. Zugleich steht Wanghong für eine entstehende Medienökologie, in der diese Akteure Online-Communities mit kulturellem und kommerziellem Wert aufbauen, indem sie chinesische Social-Media-Plattformen wie Weibo, WeChat, Douyu, Huya, Bilibili, Douyin und Kuaishuo nutzen.Das Buch, ger...

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the International Communication AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersHow the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industryIn a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagra...

In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cultural and commercial value by harnessing Chinese social media platforms, like Weibo, WeChat, Douyu, Huya, Bilibili, Douyin, and Kuaishuo. Framed by the concepts of cultural, creative, and social...

Explores new perspectives on social media entertainmentThere is a new class of cultural producers—YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others—who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized “user-generated” content. As this new wave of native social media entrepreneurs emerge, so do new formations of culture and the ways they are studied.In this volume, contributors draw...

The bloody two-day battle of Shiloh changed the course of the American Civil War. The conflagration at Shiloh had its roots in the strong Union advance that resulted in the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee. The offensive collapsed General Albert S. Johnston's advanced line in Kentucky and forced him to withdraw to northern Mississippi. Anxious to attack the enemy, Johnston began concentrating Southern forces at Corinth, a major railroad center just below the Tennessee borde...

In the footsteps of Charles Bukowski comes Hosho McCreesh's magnum opus of drunk poetry. Mammoth in size and scope, DrunkSkull books is pleased to release the audiobook version of A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, a drunken, epic collection about death and love that is unlike any of McCreesh's previous work."Because writing and drinking go hand in hand, it may seem an impossible challenge for a poet to offer new perspective of this well-worn, symbiotic relationship. But Hosho Mc...

Jim Poyser's BBC radio riotous six-part comedy of time travel and delightJason Slater is a very average twenty-first-century English teacher from Cheadle Hulme, but somehow wakes up after a few drinks in nineteenth-century Macclesfield. Apparently, he's now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport, with a faithful valet, a suspicious brother, a spurned ex-girlfriend (who's now going out with his brother) - and no obvious way he'll ever get back home again.From to...