"Almost a quarter-century after the Carnegie report, Scholarship Reconsidered, the scholarship of teaching remains a contested idea, celebrated by some and critiqued by others. This new book is particularly relevant now however as it explores the notion of the scholarship of tea…
"Neil Young and Philosophy examines the music, career, and life of Neil Young from a variety of philosophical perspectives in ethics, socio-political thought, and aesthetics. It will be of great interest both to Neil Young fans and to scholars and teachers of philosophy and cult…
Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, bullshit, frauds, knock offs--such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. But what does the modern human obsession with fabrications and frauds tell us about ourselves? And what can ant…
Fake
by Yurchak, Alexei, Severi, Carlo, Jackson, Jr, John L., Jones, Graham M., Thin, Neil, Das, Veena
Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, bullshit, frauds, knock offs--such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. But what does the modern human obsession with fabrications and frauds tell us about ourselves? And what can ant…
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainm…
by Cunningham, Stuart, Craig, David, Duffy, Brooke Erin, Baym, Nancy K., Banet-Weiser, Sarah, Burgess, Jean, Luvaas, Brent, Arriagada, Arturo, El Marzouki, Mohamed, Fraticelli, Damián, Glatt, Zoë, Hill, Stephanie, Kumar, Sangeet, Lv, Junyi, Mohan, Sriram, Postigo, Hector, Punathambekar, Aswin, Sawey, Megan, Scolari, Carlos A., Shtern, Jeremy, Tomasena, José M., Walczer, Jarrod
Explores new perspectives on social media entertainmentThere is a new class of cultural producers--YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others--who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized…
"Real Phonies examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity across the second half of the twentieth century - beginning with adolescents in the 1950s like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield, and ending with mid-career professionals in the 1990s, like sports agen…
Mixed opinions of cute heavy metal band Babymetal reveal a genuine misunderstanding of historical Japanese musicianship and heavy metal scenes, while also exemplifying racist and misogynistic attitudes that are endemic to the heavy metal community as a whole. Drawing on Kimberle…
Preservation Hall is an iconic institution in New Orleans that has presented music known as “traditional New Orleans jazz” since 1961, primarily to a tourist audience in the French Quarter. A revered and internationally celebrated venue, touring band, and nonprofit foundation, t…
Authenticity refers not only to the physical characteristics of cultural properties, but also to the ways in which collective memories connect with particular environments. Each historic site presents a unique interpretation of authenticity, rooted in a combination of the materi…
This study demonstrates the centrality of the legitimation processes of the paradoxical nature of the "battle over immigration" regarding the Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona. Through historical and critical discourse analysis, I illustrate how the language in the immigration debate …
There has been an unrecognized convergence in sociological, psychological and anthropological theory surrounding situations outside of the ordinary. Synthesizing works of Weber, Durkheim, Turner, Maslow and others, this dissertation argues that routine-shattering situations gene…
