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Author | : Peter Glotz |
Publisher | : Transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783899424034 |
Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles fascinating approaches and new insights of leading scientists and practitioners. It contains the results of a first international survey on the social consequences of mobile phones and provides a comprehensive inventory of today's issues and an outlook in mobile media, society, and their future study. Peter Glotz is Emeritus Professor of Media and Society, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Stefan Bertschi is a researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Author | : Raymond F. Betts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134598394 |
Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.
Author | : Andrew A. Kling |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2009-10-09 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 142050164X |
95 percent of Americans own some kind of cell phone. It has become a tool that people feel lost without when forgotten at home or elsewhere. This volume comprehensively covers the origins and evolution of cell phone technology. Readers will consider its impact on society and future uses.
Author | : Tony Bennett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317982371 |
If the social does not exist as a special domain but, in Bruno Latour’s words, as ‘a peculiar movement of re-association and reassembling’, what implications does this have for how ‘the cultural’ might best be conceived? What new ways of thinking the relations between culture, the economy and the social might be developed by pursuing such lines of inquiry? And what are the implications for the relations between culture and politics? Contributors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives, including those associated with Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Law and Haraway, in order to focus on the roles of different forms of expertise and knowledge in producing cultural assemblages. What expertise is necessary to produce indigenous citizens? How does craniometry assemble the head? What kinds of knowledge were required to create markets for life insurance? These and other questions are pursued in this collection through a challenging array of papers concerned with cultural assemblages as diverse as brands and populations, bottled water and mobile television.
Author | : Gerard Goggin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2006-09-14 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1136798706 |
Providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory, this book is and clear and sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and technical context. Interdisciplinary in its conceptual framework, Cell Phone Culture draws on a wide range of nationa
Author | : Paul McFedries |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781592577811 |
What does it mean to 'chew the fat'? Why do we put things in 'apple-pie order'? And what on earth is a 'hat trick'? Readers will learn all this and more in this fun and engaging new addition to the Complete Idiot's Guide® series, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins. This humorous book provides entertaining insight on the often metaphorical, always taken-for-granted phrases and expressions used every day. In it, language expert Paul McFedries takes readers through the sometimes surprising, always amusing world of weird words and expressions, and the fascinating stories that surround them. Presented in a fun, easy-to-read style, this book takes readers on a journey through the bizarre and eccentric origins that make up our everyday speech.
Author | : bates torrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Bill German |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1493065092 |
At age sixteen, Bill German began publishing a Rolling Stones fanzine out of his bedroom in Brooklyn. And when he presented an issue to the band on a street in New York, he obviously made an impression: before he knew it, the Stones had hired him to document their career, inviting him in to the studio and to their private jam sessions. He traveled the world with them, stayed at their homes, and, for almost two decades, witnessed their wild parties and nasty feuds. Yet through it all, he never lost his identity as that “nice boy from Brooklyn.” Under Their Thumb is a fish-out-of-water tale about a fan who wanted to know everything about his favorite rock group—and suddenly learned too much. This updated edition, published to mark the Stones’ sixtieth anniversary, features forty new pages of text and more than thirty never-before-seen photos.
Author | : Canal Zone. Health Bureau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Public health |
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Author | : Xiaohong Zhou |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2022-07-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000807908 |
The phenomenon of "Cultural Reverse" (文化反哺) emerged in the 1980s after China's reform and opening up. In this era of rapid social change, the older generation started to learn from the younger generation across many fields, in a way that is markedly similar to the biological phenomenon of "The old crow that keeps barking, fed by their children" from ancient Chinese poetry. In this book, the author discusses this new academic concept and other aspects of Chinese inter-generational relations. In the first volume, the author explains some popular social science theories about generations, traces the history of Chinese intergenerational relationships, and through focus group interviews with 77 families in mainland China, comprehensively discusses the younger generation's values, attitudes, behavior patterns and the ways which differ from their ancestors’. Following on from the first volume, this second volume further analyzes the multiple causes of cultural reverse, including rapid social change, the influence of peer groups, and the impact of the media. Then, in a broader context, the author discusses the complex interdependence of and conflict among the state, society and youth. He tells a story of the transformation of Chinese youth over the past hundred years, and names this "one-place" (fast-changing China) and "one-time only" (unrepeatable) phenomenon "China feeling". The book will be a valuable resource for scholars of Chinese sociology, and also general readers interested in contemporary Chinese society.