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    Towards A Critical Data Practice

    Series series Digital Studies
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    by Jonathan Gray ...
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    Archaeologist Jonathan Gray stumbled upon something that shocked him! … a whole cache of "out of place" items that should not exist. And they weren't just in one place. There was a global pattern to them. This pattern showed a lost science and technology. That's when he knew someone had to speak up. This content was of tremendous value.MACHINERY: Did you know that the Egyptians bored into granite ... Read more

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  • Oaths and the English Reformation

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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  • Newly-Qualified Social Workers

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    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
    The first year of practice can be a particularly challenging time for NQSWs. The Assessed and Supported year in Employment (ASYE) is primarily concerned with supporting NQSWs to establish you on the first rung of your professional career. The expectation is that knowledge and skills gained in qualifying education are consolidated and that new knowledge and skills are developed in practice relevant ... Read more

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  • Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory

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    Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, turning their ... Read more

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  • Fandom, Second Edition

    Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

    A completely updated edition of a seminal work on fans and how fandom shapes the culture, social relations, economic models, and politics of our age.We are all fans. Whether we follow our favorite celebrities on Twitter, attend fan conventions such as Comic Con, or simply wait with bated breath for the next episode of our favorite television drama—each of us is a fan.Recognizing that fandom is not ... Read more

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  • Television Studies

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    Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field.What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars studied them? How are they developing? What have been the discipline’s key works? This book answers these questions by tracing the history of television ... Read more

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  • Television Entertainment

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Series series Communication and Society
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  • Public Data Cultures

    Public data shapes what we know and how we live together. It is often digital, freely available and related to matters of shared concern, from global warming graphs to collaborative spreadsheets documenting mass layoffs.Public Data Cultures explores the practices and cultures of how data is made public in the age of the Internet. Looking beyond familiar narratives of data as a resource to be ... Read more

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