"What terms would early 'Christians' have used when they addressed one another? What would they have called each other? Would they have said, 'Are you a Christian?' or 'Are you a disciple?' or Are you a believer?' How would various 'Christian' groups have answered the question '…
Lawler examines debates surrounding identity, and shows how identity is part of the fabric of society, and integral to social relations. The book includes all the core topics covered by courses in this field and uses rich and varied contemporary empirical examples to illustrate …
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
The work provides an introduction to on-line and audience issues through the study of an Internet soap opera fan group composed largely of women. The author shows that women can build good on-line communities, whilst welcoming male participation.
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
"Nancy K. Baym's Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and nonverbal communicative practices create…
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
The work provides an introduction to on-line and audience issues through the study of an Internet soap opera fan group composed largely of women. The author shows that women can build good on-line communities, whilst welcoming male participation.
Shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls for conceptions of anti-racism within and beyond the state
By investigating the narratives of everyday life, 'Identity, Belonging and Migration' provides some understanding of the many socio-political, historical, discursive and socio-cognitive processes involved in expressions of everyday racism in European countries. Consisting of thr…
"This collection of essays addresses the question of migration in Europe, and is centrally concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalized and 'democratized' in European and national political discourses. Mainstream pol…
Emotion can result from interpreting group actions as reflecting on the self due to an association between the two. This text considers the nature of collective guilt, the conditions necessary for it to be experienced, how it can be measured, & how it differs from other group ba…
Emotion can result from interpreting group actions as reflecting on the self due to an association between the two. This text considers the nature of collective guilt, the conditions necessary for it to be experienced, how it can be measured, & how it differs from other group ba…
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