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The media welfare state : Nordic media in the digital era
A dynamic examination of the media industry in the Nordic countries during the transition to today's digital environment
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- 9780472072156
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- vii, 156p. : ill.
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- 302.230948 MED m
Imagining the global : transnational media and popular culture beyond East an…
A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global
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- 9780472072439
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- vi, 192p. : ill.
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- 302.23 DAR i
Tempest : geometries of play
Atari’s 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a “tube shooter” built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game’s initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed “SkillStep”), a feature that has since became standard for games of all…
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- 9780472072699
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- xi, 154p. " ill.
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- 794.8 RUG t
The digital transformation of labor : automation, the gig economy and welfare
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly benefited by the digitalization/digital…
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- 9780429317866
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- xxi, 349p. : ill.
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- 331.11 DIG d
Speaking power to truth : digital discourse and the public intellectual
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted in the assumption that, by virtue of their training and experience, intellectuals possess kno…
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- 9781771990349
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- VII, 208 p.
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 305.552 SPE s
Making sense of "bad English" : an introduction to language attitudes and ide…
Why is it that some ways of using English are considered "good" and others are considered "bad"? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloquent or refined, whereas others are deemed uneducated, coarse, or inappropriate? Making Sense of "Bad English" is an accessible introduction to attitudes and ideologies towards the use of English in different settings around the world. Outlining …
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- 9781138237469
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- xxiv, 166p. : ill.
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- 427 PET m
Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930
Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confrontation or by stealthy ambush. Many of the indigenous people and some miners were killed. The min…
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- 9781921934346
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- xx, 298p. : ill.
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- 622.3420995 NEL b
The work of professional football : a labour of love?
A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived. A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundat…
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- 9780203014950
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- xii, 196p. : ill.
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- 796.334023 ROD w
Patterns of change in 18th-century English : a sociolinguistic approach
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -sand the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have b…
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- 9789027263834
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- xi. 311p. : ill.
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- 427.009033 PAT p
Knowledge in the age of digital capitalism : an introduction to cognitive mat…
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an acc…
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- 9781911534273
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- ix, 261p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 ZUK k
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