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  • The Pandemic Dashboard

    Theorizing Big Data in the Media

    by Giovanna Borradori, Ruoyu Li ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures
    Examining mainstream media on COVID-19 across China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by drawing from various critical theoretical traditions, this book seeks answers to key questions about the experience of living and dying under COVID-19.The COVID-19 pandemic has been conceived, narrated, and visualized as a numerical crisis and a statistical exception – from the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Edited by Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Multilingualism

    Language in a Changing World

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Pandemics and the Media

    by Marina Levina ...
    Series Book 12 - Global Crises and the Media
    Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means – culturally, politically, and economically – to live in an infected, diseased body. Marina Levina argues that mediated representations are essential in translating and ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Democracy and Fake News

    Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics

    Edited by Serena Giusti, Elisa Piras ...
    Series series Politics, Media and Political Communication
    This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy.The volume sheds ... Read more

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  • Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19

    by Clare Birchall, Peter Knight ...
    Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK.The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politically and culturally contextualised close readings informed by cultural studies. In contrast to other ... Read more

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  • Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration

    Edited by Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, Shahram Khosravi ...
    This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular ... Read more

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  • Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic

    Edited by Tong King Lee, Dingkun Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This collection of essays represents the first of its kind in exploring the conjunction of translation and social media communication, with a focus on how these practices intersect and transform each other against the backdrop of the cascading COVID-19 crisis. The contributions in the book offer empirical case studies as well as personal reflections on the topic, illuminating a broad range of ... Read more

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  • Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

    Edited by Michael Butter, Peter Knight ...
    Series series Conspiracy Theories
    Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world.Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, and politicians, not least because conspiracy beliefs have the potential to negatively affect ... Read more

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  • Citizen Media and Public Spaces

    Edited by Mona Baker, Bolette B. Blaagaard ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media
    Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes of co-optation and reverse co-optation, power and resistance, the ethics of witnessing and solidarity, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Digital Unsettling

    Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media

    by Sahana Udupa, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan ...
    Series series Critical Cultural Communication
    How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of colonialityThe revolutionary aspirations that fueled decolonization circulated on paper—as pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, and brochures. Now—as evidenced by movements from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter—revolutions, protests, and political dissidence are profoundly shaped by information circulating through digital ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD