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Taking concrete examples drawn from original research on a range of areas-from personal health and home trading in shares to the battle over copyright in the music and film industries-the essays collected here explore how digital engagements are shaped by wider social and cultural dynamics and structures of power and how these forces also generate disconnection and exclusion.

This text investigates some of the most fundamental effects of electric technology that change the human spirit: particularly information overload and our strategies for inhibiting that onslaught. It shows how technical complexity consistently devours simple realities and thus erodes meaning.

This work examines the history of electronic media in education, from film through radio, television, and automated instruction, ending with a look at contemporary educational technology. It relates history to ideas about what schools are for, and how teachers should teach.

A collection of essays addressing sociocultural, ideological, technical and pedagogical concerns relating to digital technologies. The essays fall into three general categories: writing and reading; academic research and publishing; and teaching and learning.

An understanding of how we learn to watch television and why we watch television is integral in any examination of television history, industry or regulation. This text is specifically designed to complement existing texts from a wide variety of related fields of study.

This text demonstrates that identity is materialized in and through communication practices that constitute the social world of everyday meaning. These studies examine how, when and with what consequence identity is represented and becomes contextually relevant.

This is an exploration of the future of narrative discourse. The authors have identified six potential paths, drawing patterns of narrative and visual, pedagogy and possibility.

This is a study of the theoretical and practical problems that revolve around multiculturalism and education. The author's starting point for ethics aims to allow the reader to view these conflicts in a new light and thus bring new changes for insightful resolutions.

From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book engage with the challenges posed by globalization to notions of civic, social and cultural belonging, with the transformative nature of global forces, and with the tensions and contradictions that arise out of the simultaneous pull of cultural homogenization and push for cultural differentiation.

In analyzing the mobile phone as it is contextualized in Israeli society, two opposing social forces can clearly be seen: on the one hand, the mobile is an expression of late modernity and globalization; but on the other hand it is recruited as a tool - as well as a symbol - for the expression of locality and patriotic sentiments.

Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.

Brings together some ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. This book provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of high school reform.

Includes essays that illustrate and analyze various classroom-based strategies for productive collaboration between literature and composition. This work covers topics that span textuality and critical pedagogy, argumentation and hybrid genres, student engagement and popular culture, and materiality and assessment.

Takes up the complicated question of writing faculty development and the training necessary to address shifting definitions of literate acts. This book focuses on issues of aging, addressing both attitudes toward aging literacies and the role that age plays in the acquisition of new literacy practices.

Aimed at the writing teachers and writing program administrators within postsecondary institutions, this book provides theoretical models and methods for helping them conduct the interdisciplinary, collaborative consulting activities that are common with formal and information writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs.

Reducing dangerous drinking on college campuses has received a great deal of attention from prevention specialists, researchers, and college health professionals. This book describes an innovative way to approach the problem of dangerous drinking among college students and describes an award winning prevention campaign.

Discusses deprivatized pedagogy, a tool for shaping classroom practice. It is a way to interior gate classroom practices which are traditionally in inexplicably privatized. The authors hope to provide a space to raise questions, evoke critiques, and embark on the path to self-reflexivity in the practice of teaching and learning.

This volume argues that discussing liberation limits our understanding by avoiding the origins of hierarchy. Examining this topic, the author raises the stakes in debates about liberation, challenging what passes for common ground and moving discussions to moral, existential and spiritual realms.

From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book engage with the challenges posed by globalization to notions of civic, social and cultural belonging, with the transformative nature of global forces, and with the tensions and contradictions that arise out of the simultaneous pull of cultural homogenization and push for cultural differentiation.

The troubling gap between moral values and professional action poses a problem for professional education that is not easily resolved by offering courses on ethics or moral development. This book provides a framework for professors and practitioners who are seeking integration of moral reasoning into professional education and interventions.

Analyzes the political and legal struggles between labor movements and school administrators over the rise of part-time and temporary jobs in higher education.

A collection of essays examining the role of technology in redefining rhetoric, writing, and 'the human.'

Tests cultural adaptation theory in the real world. This volume examines the failed cultural integration of France's Muslim population and the tension that has resulted. Through the use of interviews with Muslims and non-Muslims in France, it reveals that French-Muslims are unable and unwilling to completely assimilate to French culture.

Argues that although corporate media are structurally organized to maximize profits and produce content that generally helps elites achieve their goals; this doesn't mean corporate media have less capacity to facilitate social change than entrepreneurial or other forms of media.

Designed to be an instructional guide for teachers and other education professionals working with students in grades 4 through college. This book links critical pedagogy with adventure learning.