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Comedia eBook Series

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  • Media Events in a Global Age

    Edited by Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz ...
    Series series Comedia
    "This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb ... Read more

    R1 121,66

  • The Place of Media Power

    Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age

    by Nick Couldry ...
    Series series Comedia
    This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves. ... Read more

    R1 071,79

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  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us ... Read more

    R184,10

  • Mediated Society

    by John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen, Yon Hsu ...
    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

    R371,44

  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Read more

    R584,53

  • The Mediatization of Culture and Society

    by Stig Prof Hjarvard ...
    Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.This book presents a major ... Read more

    R1 271,24

  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

    re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash ... Read more

    R299,00

  • Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies

    Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics

    by Jodi Dean ...
    Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton ... Read more

    R466,89

  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

    Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

    by Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Roberto Esposito, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, Joseph Vogl ...
    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

    R540,60

  • Paradoxes of Individualization

    Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity

    by Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Willem de Koster ...
    Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. The process is instead conceptualized as an ... Read more

    R1 695,07

  • Climate Change as Social Drama

    Global Warming in the Public Sphere

    by Philip Smith, Nicolas Howe ...
    Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs Smith and Howe use the perspective of cultural sociology and Aristotle's timeless theories about narrative and rhetoric to explore this ... Read more

    R527,95

  • The Leadership Imagination

    An Introduction to Taxonomic Leadership Analysis

    by Donald R. LaMagdeleine ...
    Series series New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
    The field of leadership studies needs theory and research techniques that balance conventional science with the arts and humanities in order to capture leadership's moral dimension. Borrowing from Aristotle's account of the three types of knowledge, the author argues that leadership is an in-between form that combines craft-based skill with theoretical knowledge adapted for a specific situation's ... Read more

    R699,81