How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Ord
In the 2010s, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. Bilge Yesil examines the AKP's English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating ......
In Orthodox Judaism, Halacha-the legal code derived from the Torah and the Talmud-constructs and determines Jewish life, informing not only practices of prayer and holiday observance but also financial behavior, personal relationships, and gender roles. Given the central importance of rabbinical Halachic guidance for everyday Jewish life, the ......
Disney Princesses and Tween Identity: The Franchise in Illiberal Hungary examines how tweens in illiberal Hungary construct verbal and visual identities through engagement with Disney princess animations. Presenting and analyzing ethnographic research in the form of interviews with Hungarian tweens around the time of the populist government's ......
Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines explores current understandings of celebrity-audience relationships in the context of digitalization and the ongoing celebritization of all aspects of culture and society. Focusing on the themes of celebrity and health, celebrity and identity, and celebrity ......
This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News--the five most important American television news networks at the time. Though America's collective memory of the key events of 9/11 have solidified, Paul Arras demonstrates how muddled and chaotic the experience was due to the unique difficulties ......
Since its release in 1980, the Italian cannibal film Cannibal Holocaust has shocked and provoked viewers with its graphic imagery and unrelenting nihilism. Banned all over the world, Cannibal Holocaust is regarded as one of the most controversial films ever released. Following a summary of the story and the controversy over its release, ......
How Digital Media Is Transforming Journalistic Labor
Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists' practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. The interactions of journalists with the technological, social, and cultural features of online and social media environments have shaped new values and ......
How Digital Media Is Transforming Journalistic Labor
Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists' practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. The interactions of journalists with the technological, social, and cultural features of online and social media environments have shaped new values and ......
Following its meteoric rise, the Emmy award-winning series Schitt's Creek (2015-2020) has become a cultural force with its catchphrases and meme-able moments. In Class, Identity, and Finding the Right Wine in Schitt's Creek: A Place To Love, contributors focus on three central themes explored in the series: love, place, and identity. While ......
