Thematising multilingualism in the media
Analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues un…
Mass Media and Historical Change
"Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social netwo…
At present, the picture of the ethnic media is incomplete. There is very little material/research on how the media produced by ethnic communities, for ethnic communities affect (1) the perceptions of self and of the ethnic community & (2) how the production & consumption of ethn…
Ethnic media in context. What are ethnic media? -- The ethnic media in history -- The consumers. Immigrants and their media -- Ethnic minorities and their media -- The producers. Ethnic media audience trends and what lies behind the numbers -- Ethnic media organizations and comp…
"This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of how media produced by ethnic communities, and for ethnic communities, affect identity and perceived lines of division between "us" and "others," as well as how the production and consumption of ethnic medi…
Adapting the past: politics and history -- Adapting authorship: politics and convergence -- Adapting postcolonialism: politics and race -- Adapting nationality: politics and globalization -- Adapting genre: politics and popular culture -- Adapting the body: politics and gender. …
"For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has …
"Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while out…