Media sociology and journalism

While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociol...

Media u

Media U presents a provocative rethinking of the development of American higher education centered on the insight that universities are media institutions. Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx argue that the fundamental goal of the American research university has been to cultivate audiences and con...

Media use in digital everyday life

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Filling a gap between classic discussions on everyday media use and recent studies of emergent technologies, this book untangles how media become meaningful to us in the everyday, connecting us to communities and ...

Media worlds

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places ...

Media, anthropology and public engagement

This is the first book to explore how anthropologists are engaging with publics through media – it is an essential up date to existing work on public anthropology. The book explores a range of different ways in which anthropologists can engage with publics through media – from blogs to t...

Media, communication, and culture

James Lull's classic work on media and culture in the global perspective is thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated. Drawing on the best contemporary social and cultural theory, the noted scholar offers a balanced, bold, and comprehensive analysis of current developments worldwide. In his famil...

Media, development and democracy

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this 22nd volume in Studies in Media and Communications explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries.

Media, history, and education

This book comprises a collection of essays that shed light on some of the key humanitarian issues that have emerged in independent Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Media, ideology and hegemony

Media, Ideology and Hegemony equips readers with the essential tools they need to think critically about the new digital world.

Media, technology and education in a post-truth society

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the impact of media, emerging technologies, and education on the resilience of the so-called post-truth society.

Medial bodies between fiction and faction

Using examples from literature, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social science, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations thought until recently to be fictional have become a part of our reality. It provides a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerge...

Medialities

Medialities focuses on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.

Mediated bordering

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites—the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function of the EU’s political border is crafted, shaped, produced, an...

Mediated memories in the digital age

This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.

Mediated millennials

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), Millennials and Media brings together case studies from across the globe to provide a timely examination of Generation Y's media practices.

Mediating geographic knowledge

Mediating geography, shaping a nation: how U.S. geographical societies produced, circulated, and legitimized knowledge in turn-of-the-century America.

Mediating mobility

Considers the images that circulate with reference to migrants or draw attention to those that accompany, show, or conceal them.

Mediating social challenges

This book uses critical pedagogies to reflect on art, literature, storytelling, and digital methods as a means to mediating social challenges in teaching practices.

Mediation and thinking development in schools

Different theories of mediation are explored and thinking development and how these can be applied in teaching. It brings together the theories of several renowned educationists and provides an overview of these theories while also bringing them together to discuss society’s impact on education a...

Medical economics

Written by two medics, who are also qualified economists, this introduction to health economics draws on a wider range of economic thinking than that normally underpinning health policy to explore how economics can best contribute to improved health care.

Medical philosophy

This innovative book clarifies the distinction between philosophy of medicine and medical philosophy, expanding the focus from the 'knowing that' of the first to the 'knowing how' of the latter. The idea of patient and provider self-discovery becomes the method and strategy at the basis of therap...

Medical storyworlds

Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the li...

Medicare matters

Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years’ experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health-insurance program of our time. Christine K. Cassel d...

Medicinal rule

This book is the first to introduce medicine as the forgotten model of rule in central and east Africa This book introduces medicinal rule to replace the obsolete trope of divine kingship. It breaks with the old scholarly division of politics and religion This book is a rare comparat...

Medicine and medical ethics in nazi germany

The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, ...

Medicine between science and religion

Offers a sustained exploration of ‘religion’, ‘science’ and ‘medicine’ in Western and Tibetan medical contexts. Discusses the situated confluence and/or friction of medicine between religious and scientific world views in various contexts of healing .  Offers original ethnographic ex...

Medicine in china

In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments. This edition is updated with a new preface which details the immense ideological int...

Medicine in the post-consumerist society

Evangelos Koumparoudis offers a unique philosophical perspective on various aspects of medical practices in our post-consumerist society.

Medicine – religion – spirituality

How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients? This book investigates the entanglements of medicine, religion, and spirituality.

Medicine, patients and the law

This fully revised and update edition provides an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy.

Medicines of the soul

In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and ...

Medieval and early modern murder

Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been the subject of law, literature, chronicles and ...

Medieval armenian manuscripts at the university of california, los angeles

Medieval arms and armour: a sourcebook. volume i

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them."A substantial and impressive piece of scholarship, one that will serve scholars and enthusiasts of medieval arms and armour very well indeed". Dr Robert W. Jones, Franklin and Ma...

Medieval chinese society and the local community

Medieval Chinese Society and the Local Community: Stagnation, Feudalism, and Periodization explores the rich complexities of Chinese history from the Six Dynasties through the Sui and Tang eras. This seminal volume by Tanigawa Michio reexamines the nature of Chinese society and its periodization ...

Medieval christianity in practice

Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials--each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field--the collection illustrat...

Medieval cities

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of...

Medieval english lyrics and carols

A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary.Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging selection, beginning with the first lyrics in Englis...

Medieval ghost stories

Seventy-seven tales of the supernatural, intended to frighten and excite and bring to heel their medieval audience, gathered from medieval chronicles, sagas, heroic poetry and romances.Strongly recommended. M R JAMES NEWSLETTER Stories of restless spirits returning from the afterlife are as old a...

Medieval iberia

For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic advantage culminating in the fall of Muslim ...