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Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction
New York; London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2020), xiii, 399 pp.
"In this new edition of the pioneering text, students learn to assess the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and gain familiarity with the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, the student-f
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Losing an Imagined Friend: Deriving Meaning from Fictional Death in Popular Culture
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2019), pp. 118-134
"This study focuses on the meanings fans ascribe to the death of fictional characters. Previous research on this topic has been predominantly quantitative in nature, concerned with correlations between the consumption of fictional narratives and people’s coping mechanisms and attitudes. In contras
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Media Cultures in Latin America: Key Concepts and New Debates
New York; London: Routledge (2019), x, 198 pp.
Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con
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Media and Transformation in Germany and Indonesia: Asymmetrical Comparisons and Perspectives
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2019), 346 pp.
"Indonesia, the state with the largest Muslim population in the world, is in a process of continuous societal transformation. From the perspective of Media and Communication Studies, recent political developments towards an increasingly consolidated democratic system are of great interest. The compa
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Environment, Media and Communication
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2019), xv, 244 pp.
"The second edition of Environment, Media and Communication builds on the first edition's framework for analysing and understanding media and communication roles in the politics of the environment. It draws on the significant and continuing growth and advances in the field of environmental communica
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Fördert arabische Populärkultur die Individualisierung? Anschlussdiskurse der Fernsehnutzung bei jungen Ägyptern
In: Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam: eine Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze zum 65. Geburtstag
Leiden: Brill (2018), pp. 451-471
"The article revisits classical debates about the positive and negative relation of popular culture and socio-political developments with regard to the Arab world. Within the Frankfurt School and modern Cultural Studies at times contradictory approaches to the role of entertainment in political cult
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The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxii, 535 pp.
"Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to
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Handbuch Popkultur
Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), vi, 375 pp.
"Das Handbuch begründet Popkultur als inter- und transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld sowie als eigenständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin. Es informiert in über 60 Beiträgen über die wichtigsten Erscheinungsformen und Diskurszusammenhänge der Popkultur und unterscheidet diese grundsätzlich von denen
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Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2017), viii, 360 pp.
Asian Popular Culture Review
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 481-491
"Popular Culture" in a Changing Brazil
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 510-518
"Throughout the last century, the idea of popular culture in Brazil was intertwined with matters affecting the nation and national identity – symbols and practices that in combination became representative emblems of the essence of the country. However, there is a structural ambiguity that pervade
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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive
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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever
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Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), viii, 327 pp.
"Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new a
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Decolonizing Communication for Social Change: A Culture-Centered Approach
Communication Theory, volume 25, issue 2 (2015), pp. 123-143
"The role of communication in planned social change is portrayed as a linear conduit for inducing pro-development behavior change in the "undeveloped" world. Later versions of social change communication started incorporating culture and participation into multicultural participatory development pro
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Hallyu: Der Boom der südkoreanischen Populärkultur in Asien
"Tatsächlich erfreuen sich koreanische Fernsehserien und Filme sowie die koreanische Popmusik (K-pop) im Ausland, insbesondere in Ost- und Südostasien, ganz unerwartet großer Beliebtheit. In Südkorea selbst ist man stolz darauf, es - zumindest in der eigenen Wahrnehmung - endlich geschafft zu ha
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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 583 pp.
"Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: "key issues of definition and of methodology, religious encounters with popular
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Handbuch Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 461 pp.
How Can We Tell the Story of the Colombian War? Bastardized Narratives and Citizen Celebrities
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 170-182
"This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12,
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