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Promotional Culture and Convergence

2013-05-16T13:48:52Q

The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment culture has created consumers who are seeking out their own information to guide their purchasing decisions. Promotional Culture and Convergence analyses the environments necessary for creating a culture of collaboration with consumers, and critically engages with key areas of contemporary promotional development.

Manga’s Cultural Crossroads

2013-05-16T13:41:51Q

'This is a timely collection that explores a burgeoning area of enquiry in an interesting and original manner. The chapters address a range of relevant topics for anyone interested in the study and history of manga, as well as addressing the adaptation of manga in different media.' - Matthew Green, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham

My New Gender Workbook - Best Summer Books 2013

2013-04-30T09:10:59Q

A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition

By Kate Bornstein

My New Gender Workbook has been named by Publishers Weekly as one of the ‘Best Summer Books 2013’.

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Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

2013-04-10T09:02:54Q

Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.

"In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption, "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.

Have you seen our online Publishing catalog?

2013-04-09T07:56:44Q

Our new catalog dedicated to our publishing titles is now available online.

The catalog showcases favourites such as Inside Book Publishing, Publishing Law and Selling Rights, plus recently published and forthcoming titles such as Book Production, An Introduction to Book History, The Book Publishing Industry and Inside Journals Publishing.

The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

2013-03-20T14:20:18Q

Do you need a guide to the methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising?

Look no further than The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, which provides an essential guide to these key issues!

2013 Media and Communication Catalogues Now Available

2013-03-20T11:50:19Q

We have updated our Media and Communication catalogues to showcase our new and key titles for 2013!

We have two new catalogues, our general Media and Communication catalogue and our Media and Communication Research catalogue.

My New Gender Workbook - Second Edition Now Available

2013-03-04T08:44:11Q

Would you like a step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity?

Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

The Mediatization of Culture and Society

2013-02-06T14:14:43Q

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.

Print Culture

2012-12-20T14:41:23Q

From Steam Press to Ebook

By Frances Robertson

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan.

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An Introduction to Design and Culture

2012-12-20T13:39:12Q

1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition

By Penny Sparke

This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.

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Understanding Popular Music Culture

2012-11-23T09:07:59Q

4th Edition

By Roy Shuker

This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and the difficulties and debates that surround the analysis of popular culture and popular music.

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The Politics of Reality Television reviewed in CHOICE, September 2011

2011-09-01T15:47:07Q

eFocus on Race and Ethnicity - eBook Collection for Libraries

2011-05-01T13:32:26Q

Race and ethnicity have been at the forefront of both academic debate and social issues for many decades. This exciting new resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race, taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.

eFocus on Sexuality Studies - eBook Collections for Libraries

2011-03-31T13:45:56Q

The field of sexuality studies has been a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies have been incorporated into various disciplines. This collection both charts the growth of this area and provides material which would be relevant to a wide cross section of courses.