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  • The Discursive-Material Knot

    Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    The theoretical framework of the discursive-material knot consists out of a non-hierarchical ontology of the interactions of the discursive and the material, articulating the assemblages that are driven by this ontological setting as restless and contingent, sometimes incessantly changing shapes and sometimes being deeply sedimented. This book acknowledges the importance of discourse studies, in ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Iconoclastic Controversies

    A photographic inquiry into antagonistic nationalism

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study, the book shows how these memorials often support, but sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of nationalism. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Towards a Sustainable Information Society

    Deconstructing WSIS

    by Nico Carpentier, Jan Servaes ...
    The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Democracy and Media in Europe

    A Discursive-Material Approach

    by Nico Carpentier, Jeffrey Wimmer ...
    Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media through a constructionist lens.This focus allows us to understand current political struggles over democracy, and over media’s democratic roles, with the latter ranging from the traditional support for an informed citizenry and the watchdog role, to the organization ... Read more

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  • Cyprus and its Conflicts

    Representations, Materialities, and Cultures

    Edited by Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier ...
    The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics—including ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Communication and Discourse Theory

    Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group

    Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen ...
    This volume gathers the work of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group, a group of critical media and communication scholars that deploy discourse theory as a theoretical backbone and an analytical research perspective. The book seeks to show the value and applicability of discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) within the field of media and communication studies, through a variety of case studies that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming the Media

    Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles

    by Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier ...
    At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened and how our communication rights can be expande. This book aims to look at four thematic areas that ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change

    Edited by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Hannu Nieminen, Nico Carpentier, Josef Trappel ...
    This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Audience Transformations

    Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity

    Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
    The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Death

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Trans-Reality Television

    The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience

    by Fernando Andacht, Frank Boddin, Anastasia Deligiaouri, Gunn Sara Enli, Mikko Hautakangas, Matthew Hibberd, Su Holmes, Brian McNair, Jan Pinseler, Mirkica Popovic, Winnie Salamon0, Jan Teurlings1, Tanja Thomas2, Sofie Van Bauwel3 ...
    Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. While some contributors delve deep into the theoretical issues, others approach the topic at hand through empirical studies of specific ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD