"The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action addresses the political, ethical, legal and practical issues which influence reactions to humanitarian crisis. It does so by exploring the daily dilemmas faced by a range of actors, including policy makers, aid workers, the private sector and the benef
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iciaries of aid, and by challenging common perceptions regarding humanitarian crisis and the policies put in place to address these. Through such explorations, it provides practitioners and scholars with the knowledge needed to both understand and improve upon current forms of humanitarian action. The Companion will be of use to those interested a range of humanitarian programmes ranging from emergency medical assistance, military interventions, managing refugee flows and the implementation of international humanitarian law. As opposed to addressing specific programmes, it explores five themes that are central to understanding and engaging in all modes of humanitarian action. The first section explores varying interpretations of humanitarianism, including critical historical and political-economic explanations as well as more practice based explorations focused on notions needs assessments and evaluation. Following this, readers will be exposed to the latest debates on a range of humanitarian principles including neutrality and sovereignty, before exploring the key issues faced by the main actors involved in humanitarian crisis (from international NGOs to local community based organizations). The final two sections address what are seen as key dilemmas in regards to humanitarian action and emerging trends in the humanitarian system, including the increasing role of social media in responding to crises." (Publisher description)
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"The first section looks at the history and development of the discipline from a range of theoretical perspectives. Section two considers the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication. Section three examines research on news, entertainment media
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and cultural representations of the environment. The fourth section looks at the social and political implications of environmental communication, with the final section discussing likely future trajectories for the field. The first reference Handbook to offer a state of the art comprehensive overview of the emerging field of environmental communication research, this authoritative text is a must for scholars of environmental communication across a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines." (Publisher description)
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"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo
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rschungsberichte weiter: Die dichte Beschreibung von Medienpraktiken, eine kritische Verortung der Subjektivität im Feld und der Fokus auch auf die Methoden der Beforschten sind zentrale Elemente der Beiträge." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The study of Chinese media is a field that is growing and evolving at an exponential rate. Not only are the Chinese media a fascinating subject for analysis in their own right, but they also offer scholars and students a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communic
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ations within the contexts of globalization and regionalization. Moreover, the study of Chinese media provides an invaluable opportunity to test and refine the variety of communications theories that researchers have used to describe, analyse, compare and contrast systems of communications." (Publisher description)
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"The aim of this handbook is to collect and share the knowledge and experience from the designers’, developers’, teachers’, and students’ views and provide suggestions and advice for future mobile teaching and learning programs. This book includes six sections: design, development, adoption,
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collaboration, evaluation, and future of mobile teaching and learning technology in education. It includes different projects and practices across different countries and different cultures. The book provides in-depth background information and cases studies in high-technology teaching and learning and future expectations for new technology in higher education. The variety of projects and programs running in different countries helps boost innovation and discussion in future projects and practices. It also provides guidelines for future design and development of mobile applications for higher education." (Preface)
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"This concise volume presents key concepts and entries from the twelve-volume ICA International Encyclopedia of Communication (2008), condensing leading scholarship into a practical and valuable single volume. Jointly published with the International Communication Association (ICA), the leading acad
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emic association of the discipline in the world. Contributions come from hundreds of authors who represent excellence in their respective fields." (Publisher description)
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"Dieses Sachlexikon bietet nun bereits in dritter, gründlich überarbeiteter und ergänzter Auflage Grundlagenwissen rund um das Medium Buch: von der Handschrift über das gedruckte Buch bis zum E-Book. Auch andere Schriftmedien wie das Flugblatt, die Zeitung oder die Zeitschrift sind berücksichti
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gt. In ca. 1.500 Artikeln werden alle Bereiche von Buch und Buchhandel behandelt, knapp, verständlich und fachlich kompetent: Herstellung und Technik, Markt und Marketing, Recht und Zensur, Lesen, Schreiben und Drucken, Buchausstattung und Buchillustration sowie Bibliotheken. Zahlreiche Zeichnungen und Graphiken veranschaulichen den komplexen Stoff." (Klappentext)
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"The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research. The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct, con
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crete set of issues, the volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives. Authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field, including postfeminism, sexual violence, masculinity, media industries, queer identities, video games, digital policy, media activism, sexualization, docusoaps, teen drama, cosmetic surgery, media Islamophobia, sport, telenovelas, news audiences, pornography, and social and mobile media." (Back cover)
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"The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition, James Watson and Anne Hill provide a detailed compendium
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of the different facets of personal, group, mass-media and internet communication that continues to be a vital source of information for all those interested in how communication affects our lives. They cover new applications and developments, such as the incorporation of Neuroscience techniques in advertising and marketing. Other updates include Cyber-bullying, Twitter scandals, conduct in media organizations, on-line lobbying, global protesting/petitioning, and gender issues relating to social media in general. While new entries explore the profound shifts that have taken place in the world of communication in recent years, the purpose of this new edition is not necessarily to keep abreast of every new media event but to reflect the trends that influence and prompt such events, such as the Leveson Inquiry and Report and phone hacking via mobile phones." (Publisher description)
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"La selección de términos que recogemos en el Diccionario de conceptos y términos audiovisuales, necesariamente sesgada y parcial, se articula en torno a una serie de perspectivas conceptuales diferenciadas, aunque complementarias entre sí: conceptos y términos relacionados con las teorías del
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cine y las metodologías de análisis del texto filmico; conceptos y expresiones relativos a las corrientes estéticas, movimientos cinematográficos y a la historia del medio filmico; conceptos y términos relacionados con el estudio del cine desde el punto de vista industrial y de la economía del cine, lo que se conoce como el negocio del cine; conceptos y términos relacionados con la producción cinematográfica, incluyendo aspectos como los oficios del cine y la organización de la producción; conceptos y términos relacionados con el campo de la tecnología del cine, del vídeo y del sonido, considerando que el medio cinematográfico se encuentra subsumido actualmente en el mundo del vídeo digital; conceptos y términos relacionados con la enunciación filmica, que permiten asociar la práctica fílmica a sus bases de conocimiento; conceptos y términos relativos a los recursos expresivos y narrativos ligados al lenguaje audiovisual y al lenguaje filmico, desde el tratamiento del profílmico y los elementos filmográficos hasta la cadena sintagmática, esto es, el montaje y el espacio y tiempo fílmicos; finalmente, conceptos y términos relacionados con las hibridaciones y transmutaciones del cine por la imagen digital, siempre relacionados de forma directa e indirecta con el medio fílmico, desde el punto de vista de las relaciones entre el cine y la televisión, entre el cine y la publicidad, y entre el cine, los videojuegos e Internet. Por razones prácticas, todas las entradas del diccionario, más allá de la perspectiva conceptual de que se trate, están ordenadas alfabéticamente, y su extensión varía entre 500 y 1.500 palabras, aproximadamente. Buen número de estas entradas hacen referencia a otros términos cuya relevancia es menor, y que hemos definido como "secundarios" con entradas de breve definición." (Introducción, página 12-13)
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"Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a resource in this area, bringing together scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studie
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d and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The book aims to focus on Internet Studies as an emerging field, each chapter seeking to provide a synthesis and critical assessment of the research in a particular area. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology of the Internet; the Internet's role in everyday life and work; implications for communication, power, and influence; and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The book aims not only to help to strengthen research on the key questions, but also to shape research, policy, and practice across many disciplines that are finding the Internet and its political, economic, cultural, and other societal implications increasingly central to their own key areas of inquiry." (Publisher description)
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"Von Geld über Brief und Comic bis Radio, Video und mobile Medien welchen Platz nehmen diese Themen in den Medienwissenschaften ein? Das Handbuch stellt Begriffe und Theorien vor, darunter systemtheoretische Theorien, die Medienarchäologie und die Akteur-Medien-Theorie. Es verknüpft die einzelnen
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Medien mit der Theorie und macht die vielfältigen Bezüge deutlich. Es zeigt auch die Schnittstellen zu anderen Disziplinen, wie z. B. zur Theater- und Musikwissenschaft oder zu Medienrecht, -psychologie und -pädagogik." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Historically, the Sahara plays an intermediary role between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commercial and human exchanges are intense and based on social networks that now include trafficking. Understanding their structure, geographical and organizational mobility of criminal groups and migra
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tory movements represents a strategic challenge. This book hopes to address this challenge and stimulate strategies for the Sahel of the European Union, the United Nations, the African Union or ECOWAS (Economic Community of the States of West Africa) in order to foster lasting peace. The Atlas is based on an analysis of mapped regional security issues and development objectives to open the necessary dialogue between regional and international organizations, governments, researchers and local stakeholders tracks." (Publisher description)
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