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Call for book reviewers - Participations journal

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Submitted by lucybennett on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 09:12.

Participations: the Online Journal of Audience & Reception Studies (http://www.participations.org) is looking for book reviewers to contribute to future issues and has shiny new copies of the following titles:  

New Book: Gaydar Culture

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 13:02.
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Gaydar Culture by Sharif Mowlabocus

- Grindr and 'digital cruising'
- Gaydar, identity and user profiles
- Public sex cultures on and offline
- Bareback websites
- Gay men's visual culture

The book is available from

New Book: Dot Com Mantra: social computing in the Central himalayas

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:57.
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ABSTRACT: Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing
computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that
computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility. This ethnographic
study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative
social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is for the
most part undocumented. In doing so, this book offers fresh and critical perspectives in

New Book: From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:55.
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"From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues",
Clara Sarmento (ed.). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2010.

You may find this book at:
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/From-Here-to-Diversity--Globalization-and-Intercultural-Dialogues1-4438-2366-X.htm

New Book: European Cinema in Motion

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:54.
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We (editors) are delighted to announce the publication of the anthology European Cinema in Motion:
Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe, eds. Daniela Berghahn and Claudia
Sternberg, which has just been published by Palgrave. The book can be ordered directly
from <http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=471050>Palgrave or at

Toby Miller's podcast

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:51.
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New podcast of Toby Miller , 'culturalstudies,' began in August.

The people involved thus far, each with a program devoted to their work,
are:

Doug Kellner
Sarah Banet-Weiser
Tiffany López
Ellen Seiter
Bill Grantham
David Theo Goldberg
plus the latest is a conversation with Armida de la Garza, Germán Gil Curiel, and Israel Tonatiuh Lay on Mexican Film (this conversation is in
Spanish, the others in English)

International Handbook of Internet Research

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:45.
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International Handbook of Internet Research
http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-1-4020-9788-1

Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen

Over 600 pages
With co/authors from: Africa, Asia,  Australia, Europe, India, North America, South
America

Celebration of the McLuhan Centenary

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:31.
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source's note: [my apologies for the very poor quality of the file - but this is how I received it]

Contacts are:
R. Logan <logan AT physics.utoronto.ca>
Robert Scott <40bob.scott At gmail.com>

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McLuhan 100
Celebration of the McLuhan Centenary
Working document (July 12, 2010)
Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (Director, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology)
Introduction
I ú Proposed Initiatives
II  ú  Impact on Scholarship and Research

New Book: Cross-Media Promotion

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:31.
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Cross-Media Promotion 
By Jonathan Hardy

Cross-Media Promotion is the first book-length study of a defining feature of
contemporary media, the promotion by media of their allied media interests.
The book explores the range of forms of cross-promotion including synergistic
marketing of mega-brands such as Harry Potter; promotional plugs in news
media; repurposing media content, stars and brands across other media and
outlets; product placement, and the integration of media content and
advertising.

New Book: Representing Death in the News

Submitted by itirakdogan on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:28.
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Representing Death in the News
Journalism, Media and Mortality
Folker Hanusch
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 9780230230460
£50.00, US$80

‘In this remarkably lucid and accomplished study Folker Hanusch
explores the social construction of death in the news. A must-read for
all those interested in how mediated death and dying enters into public
life and private thoughts.’
- Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communications, Cardiff
University, UK

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