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  • Cultural Journalism in the Digital Age

    Series series Routledge Research in Journalism
    Cultural Journalism in the Digital Age provides the first international, book-length introduction to Western cultural journalism, a distinct type of professional journalism that has expanded and diversified significantly, particularly from the mid-20th century into the first decades of the 21st century.The book shows how cultural journalism, in response to cultural democratisation, globalisation, ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Cultural Criticism

    New Voices in the Digital Age

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age. It provides new insights into how critical authority and expertise in a cultural context are being reconfigured in digital media and by means of digital media, as the boundaries of cultural criticism and who may perform as a cultural critic are redefined or even dissolved. The book applies cross-media and cross-disciplinary ... Read more

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  • Engagement with Culture in Transformative Times

    Mapping the Societal Drivers and Impacts of Cultural Understandings, Practices, Perceptions, and Values across Europe

    At the heart of this volume are the questions: What does culture mean to European citizens in the face of globalisation, digitalisation, diversity, and social inequality? How do Europeans engage with culture in its various forms, and what societal values are tied to this cultural engagement? These questions are explored in depth across the 15 chapters of this book. By delving into the ... Read more

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  • Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in the Media

    Edited by Unni From, Nete Kristensen ...
    Series series Journalism Studies
    This book addresses a topic in journalism studies that has gained increasing scholarly attention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of arts and culture, or what we term ‘cultural journalism and cultural critique’. The book highlights three approaches to this emerging research field: (1) the constant challenge of demarcating what constitutes the ‘cultural’ in cultural journalism and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • More-than-Human Aging

    Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers ... Read more

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  • Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe

    Comparative Case Studies

    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities

    Experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore

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