Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is a guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Focusing on the key method of participant observation, the book provid…
This long-awaited textbook provides a unified perspective of a rich and varied field. It recognises that in order to develop strategies for improving the decision-making process one needs to understand how decisions are made in practice and in what ways behaviour differs from gu…
The authors explain the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse in this remarkably interdisciplinary examination.
The authors explain the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse in this remarkably interdisciplinary examination.
The Handbook of Gender and Communication' begins from the premise that gender is, at once, an aspect of both individual identity and of social structure that dramatically and relentlessly shapes individual and collective life. Leading scholars review and evaluate the state of re…
Written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, this report explores the two most influential theoretical discourse traditions, namely Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Based on numerous Swedish and Scandinavian case studies, this account reveals the u…
The Sage handbook of digital technology research
Providing readers with an expansive and international overview, this handbook is the ideal resource on this fast-paced and ubiquitous field. "Research on and with digital technologies is everywhere today. This timely, authoritative Handbook explores the issues of rapid technolo…