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Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 268 pp.
"Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu's impact on Korea's nationa
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Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar Es Salaam
Köln: Köppe (2014), 286 pp.
"In the wake of the transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal capitalist economy, Tanzania has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of cultural production which went hand in hand with a steep rise in formal and informal media outlets. Bongo Media Worlds provides insights into the diverse a
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Zapping TV: El paisaje de la tele latina
Deep Insights
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2013), 331 pp.
The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 233 pp.
"Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture – the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a glob
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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xxvii, 343 pp.
"The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.
"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are
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Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiii, 258 pp.
"At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life." (Publisher de
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Television and the Gospel of Entertainment in Ghana
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 144-164
"Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields. They shape new forms of public religiosity that spill over into various forms of popular culture and resonate with broad audiences. This article explores the emergence of new Pentecostal publics at
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Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field
London; New York: Tauris (2012), xiv, 321 pp.
"Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Fieldis the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualizing and theorizing the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history,
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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders
New York: Routledge (2012), xiv, 219 pp.
"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ
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Bollywood en Perú: Culturas populares y globalización de las emociones
Nueva Sociedad, issue 241 (2012), pp. 133-148
"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2011), xv, 259 pp.
Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye: Representing Difference, 1950-2000
Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) E Press (2011), 257 pp.
"From 1950, increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Maori women became nationally or internationally renowned. Few reached the heights of international fame accorded Evonne Goolagong or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and few remained household names for any length of time. But their growing numbers and visibilit
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Re-Visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-172
"This new issue of Westminster Papers of Communication and Culture is dedicated for the first time to Latin America, and by re-visiting the cultural and communication standpoints undertaken in the region, it will help to address the ongoing questions on globalisation, and cultural hybridisation from
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences
New York: Peter Lang (2011), xiii, 305 pp.
Kultur. Theorien der Gegenwart
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2., erw. und aktualisierte Aufl. (2010), 785 pp.
"Die Herausgeber Stephan Moebius und Dirk Quadflieg bieten in Zusammenarbeit mit den Autorinnen und Autoren einen systematischen und – in seiner angelegten Breite – erstmaligen Überblick über aktuelle kultursoziologische und -wissenschaftliche Theorien. Die gegenwärtig wichtigsten Kulturtheor
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Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse: Eine Einführung
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 3., überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2010), 321 pp.
Culturas híbridas: Estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad
Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1a ed. actualizada, 3a reimp. (2010), 349 pp.
