The book contains eight sections:

• Historical Perspectives
• Political Economy
• Globalization
• Audiences as Labor, Consumers, Interpreters
• Identities
• Social Institutions
• Everyday Life
• The Environment.

With chapters written by leading international scholars working at the intersections of media studies and advertising studies, this book is a go-to source for those looking to understand the ways advertising has shaped consumer culture, in the past and present.

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• Media (inlcuding TV, broadcasting, publishing, video games)
• Journalism
• Film and Cinema
• Cultural Studies (inlcuding gender, race and ethnicity)

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Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

Bornstein starts from the premise that there are not just two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the two-gender framework. Using a unique, deceptively simple and always entertaining workbook format, complete with quizzes, exercises, and puzzles, Bornstein gently but firmly guides readers toward discovering their own unique gender identity.

"My Gender Workbook may take a leap of faith to crack open, but the charm, wit, and quiet intelligence of its author will almost undoubtedly keep you along for the whole trip. And it is a trip, let me tell you."
The Toronto Star

Since its first publication in 1997, My Gender Workbook has been challenging, encouraging, questionning, and handholding those trying to figure out how to become a "real man," a "real woman," or "something else entirely." In this updated edition of her classic text, Bornstein re-examines gender in light of issues like race and class. With new quizzes, new puzzles, new exercises, and plenty of Kate's over-the-top style, My New Gender Workbook, 2e promises to help a new generation create their own unique place on the gender spectrum.
 

The Mediatization of Culture and Society presents a major contribution to the theoretical understanding of the mediatization of culture and society. This is supplemented by in-depth studies of:

•The mediatization of politics: From party press to opinion industry
•The mediatization of religion: From the faith of the church to the enchantment of the media
•The mediatization of play: From bricks to bytes
•The mediatization of habitus: The social character of a new individualism.

Mediatization represents a new social condition in which the media have emerged as an important institution in society at the same time as they have become integrated into the very fabric of social and cultural life. Making use of a broad conception of the media as technologies, institutions and aesthetic forms, Stig Hjarvard considers how characteristics of both old and new media come to influence human interaction, social institutions and cultural imaginations. Order your copy here.
 

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan.

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This book charts the elements involved in such claims—print, culture, technology, history—through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this sense acknowledges McLuhan’s notion of the medium as the bearer of meaning. Even in the digital age, many diverse forms of print continue to circulate and gain meaning from their material expression and their history. However, Frances Robertson argues that print culture can only be understood as a constellation of diverse practices and therefore discusses a range of print cultures from 1800 the present ‘post-print’ culture.

The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students within the areas of cultural history, art and design history, book and print history, media studies, literary studies, and the history of technology.

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New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary.

Drawing on a wealth of mass-produced artefacts, images and environments including sewing machines, cars, televisions, clothes, electronic and branded goods and exhibitions, author Penny Sparke shows how design has helped to shape and reflect our social and cultural development.

This introduction to the development of modern (and postmodern) design is ideal for undergraduate students.

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Reflecting the continued expansion of popular music studies, the changing music industry and the impact of new technologies, Roy Shuker explores key subjects that shape our experience of music, including music production, musicians and stars, musical texts, music video and MTV, audiences and fans, scenes and subcultures and music as political activism and ideology.

This heavily revised and updated fourth edition includes:

• the role of social network sites, marketing and music retail

• the decline of the traditional model of the sound recording companies

• music genres, cover songs and the album canon

• case studies of artists such as Robert Johnson, the Sex Pistols, Shania Twain and Lady Gaga

• a comprehensive discography, based around musical metagenres, along with suggestions for further reading, listening and viewing.

The book now has an accompanying website, with focus questions and further study activities for each chapter, additional case studies and links to relevant websites.

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The collection is underpinned by a number of key reference works: The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, The Encyclopaedia of Race and Ethnic Studies. These are complemented by cutting edge contributions including Black Sexual Politics (Patricia Hill-Collins), Racist America (Joe Feagin) and Racism (Robert Miles and Malcolm Brown).

Coverage is global, spanning both the developed and the developing world, and the collection includes the most important recent developments such as the rise of mixed race studies and the interaction of race and multiculturalism.
 

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Sexuality is considered from a broad range of perspectives, in multicultural, global, and comparative terms. The collection includes titles from disciplines as diverse as literature, media and cultural studies, linguistics, sociology and politics.

Underpinning the collection are some of the most important single contributions to the field such as Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Patricia Hill Collins' Black Sexual Politics, Alan Sinfield's Cultural Politics - Queer Reading and Jeffrey Weeks' Sexuality.

There are also a number of key works of reference, including The Routledge International Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies, The Encyclopaedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, and the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights.

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The diversity of subjects addressed demonstrates the breadth of the subject, and titles address the impact of the internet on culture, health, politics, business, religion, war and the military, education, planning and urban design, and the economy. Coverage is global, and includes the developing world, China and Japan as well as the West.

The collection includes a number of key works of reference such as Cyberculture: The key concepts and the Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. Whilst the focus is on recent and current works, a handful of formative earlier works are also included, for example Paul Levinson's The Soft Edge and Frank Webster's Theories of the Information Society.

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It includes:

• Work by classic theorists such as Weber, Durkheim, Adorno and Schumpeter
• Original contributions by leading contemporary thinkers including Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Terry Eagleton, Zygmunt Bauman and Silvoj Zizek
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"This is a brave book, written with gusto—a student from Edward Said’s early days at Columbia cuts through the myth and puts together the ‘real maestro,’ with respect, sympathy and meticulous attention to detail.” - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

H. Aram Veeser will be having a reading and performance for Edward Said. This innovative multimedia performance will include readings as well as images and dramatic elements, in collaboration with the author’s colleague, Matthew Mead.

Alwan for the Arts is located at 16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004, (646) 732-3261. More information about the event can be found on Alwan for the Arts’ website.
 

Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum. There are large numbers of skinheads in Russia, responsible for a significant number of xenophobic attacks, including 97 deaths in 2008 alone, making this book relevant to Russian specialists as well as to sociologists of youth subculture. It provides a practical example of how to investigate youth subculture in depth over an extended period – in this case through empirical research following a specific group over six years – and goes on to argue that Russian skinhead subculture is not a direct import from the West, and that youth cultural practices should not be reduced to expressions of consumer choice. It presents an understanding of the Russian skinhead as a product of individuals’ whole, and evolving, lives, and thereby compels sociologists to rethink how they conceive the nature of subcultures.