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How do we position ourselves in relation to our digital cultural heritage when every software update threatens its very survival?

This book confronts the fragility of computer- and network-based art in an age of relentless technological obsolescence. Focusing on a seminal work by the pioneering artist duo JODI, this interdisciplinary study explores graphical user interfaces, executable files, hard-coded structures and the creative use of randomness. Through a model-assisted storytelling approach, it rethinks how programmed artworks can be remembered, analysed and reactivated once they cease to function.

A bold experiment in science communication, this volume is a must- read for scholars, practitioners and all who care about safeguarding our digital memory.

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What does it mean to become a father at a young age today?

This volume brings together research about the lived experiences of fathers aged 25 and under. Drawing on diverse contexts across the Global North and South, it explores how young fathers form identities and relationships within diverse social, welfare and policy environments.

Moving beyond deficit-based perspectives, the book highlights their social engagement, responsibilities and commitments to family life.

By combining insights from leading scholars within a shared conceptual framework, it provides a comprehensive international comparison of young fatherhood and offers valuable implications for policy, practice and future research.

This second edition of the book examines the various phases of globalization and communication technology and their impact on cultural change in Thailand. Updated with new information and expanded analysis, this edition also includes additional chapters that further explore contemporary developments in Thai society, media, and Buddhism.

The book explores Theravada Buddhism, which underpins the core values of Thai society, through the lenses of ontology, epistemology, and practical application?particularly how Buddhists cope with suffering and maintain inner calm in an increasingly chaotic world. It also explains how Theravada Buddhism has been adapted, influenced, and hybridized into the distinctive form commonly recognized as Thai Buddhism.

In addition, the book investigates issues of social justice, ethics, changing values, sustainability, self-reliance, and modes of communication within the context of Thai Buddhist culture, together with other contributing factors to social development. Drawing on both first-hand fieldwork and documentary research, and employing quantitative as well as qualitative data, the study provides a broad overview of how Thai people engage with social and mass media. It then moves on to examine digital communication in greater depth, highlighting its effects on society and individuals within Thailand’s socio-political, economic, and religious contexts.

The first English-language anthology of Latin American communication theory

Latin American communication scholarship has shaped global debates on mediation, dependency, and mediatization, yet most foundational texts remain unavailable in English. Latin American Communication Theories: From the Origins to Contemporary Approaches, assembled by a team of communication scholars based at leading universities in Spain and Argentina, translates and contextualizes key writings from six decades of regional research for an international readership.

The volume maps intellectual trajectories from development and dependency theories through mediation, cultural industries, popular cultures, and mediatization. Introductory and section-level editorial texts guide readers through the historical, institutional, and theoretical evolution of the field. Classic contributions appear alongside emerging voices, creating a structured overview that connects Latin American debates with contemporary global discussions in media and communication studies.

Readers will also find:

• A curated selection of foundational Latin American texts published in English for the first time, spanning six decades of scholarship
• Editorial framing that contextualizes each section within the broader historical and institutional development of the communication field
• Critical engagement with hegemonic paradigms from the Global North, highlighting the originality of Latin American theoretical perspectives
• Coverage of key concepts including dependency theory, mediation, mediatization, cultural industries, and popular cultures across the region
• A structured intellectual map suitable for graduate coursework in global communication theory, media studies, and Latin American studies

Designed for graduate students, doctoral researchers, and faculty in communication theory, media studies, cultural studies, and Latin American studies, this anthology provides direct access to a scholarly tradition that has remained largely outside the English-language canon while offering structured pathways through its core debates and concepts.

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Technologies are not created hostile, but they can become so. Through neglect, austerity or repurposing, the systems that shape our lives can cause profound harm to people, animals, and physical and social environments in ways their creators neither anticipated nor acknowledged.

Drawing on examples spanning border control, welfare systems, urban design and AI, this provocative collection introduces the concept of technological innocence: the obliviousness that allows bias and hostility to flourish unchallenged.

Moving beyond naive design ethics, it offers scholars, designers and policy makers a powerful new vocabulary for confronting the darker consequences of technological choice.

This book responds to changing views of the disinformation crisis, seeking to complement data-based approaches with a concentrated focus on narrative and story.? Social media have given a new dimension to public involvement in these, but television and cinema lead the way. If lies and disinformation are the arsenal in a propaganda war, story and dramatization are the weaponry, and gaining advantage is all about the design and impact of the weapons. Twisted plot lines, arcs of suspense, motivated actors: these have so much more destructive power against human intelligence than specific falsehoods. The chapters focus on prominent narrative influences in the political arena, illustrating how the dynamics of public communication draw on traditions of fantasy, myth, plotting, performance and dramaturgy. Attention is paid to the ideologies and theoretical paradigms that underpin these imaginative constructions and drive them towards electoral goals. In the geopolitical maelstrom of the 21st century, we are citizens of the world in a new way, and our opinions, collectively, count. Sharper awareness of why and how we participate in the spread of imaginative manipulation is urgently needed.

This Open Access book investigates how to build a narrative for progressive social change. It asks a central question: What would it take to create a society that delivers flourishing lives for all? Drawing on extensive original research conducted in the UK and internationally, the book examines how, in a time of global “permacrisis,” no convincing plan has yet emerged to prevent a slide into dystopia or to create a positive vision for collective wellbeing. While governments around the world appear to have run out of ideas about how to build a good society, people and organisations across civil society are actively developing them. This book describes their efforts and outlines how their work can contribute to meaningful systems change.

Diversity characterizes societies of the present. Some fight using the slogans “We’ll come united”, “Leave no one behind,” “Black lives matter”, and “Trans rights”. Others, however, experience diversity as a loss of control, which they counter with defense mechanisms, including an “us” versus “them” mindset. Accordingly, demands for inclusion and integration are often interwoven with diffuse fears of “new identities” (Hall), for example of refugees and migrants, but also of queer persons and non-heteronormative ways of life. In turn, demarcation struggles and identitarian divisions within social groups can arise from emphasizing difference, and can lead to “positional fundamentalism” (Villa Braslavsky) or so-called social "trigger points" (Mau/Lux/Westheuser). The publication takes these points of departure to explore processes of subjectivation, that is, processes of becoming a subject shaped through discourses, power relations, and social practices.The volume includes contributions that offer feminist, post/decolonial, and intersectional perspectives on subjectivation research, alongside critiques of ableism and racism, in order to analyse existing relations of diversity and difference, including the privileges and disadvantages, discriminations, inequalities and racisms embedded in them.

A rigorous philosophical examination of the ethical dimensions of art

The relationship between art and ethics remains one of the most contested areas in philosophical aesthetics. Art and Morality offers a sustained investigation of how artworks engage moral life?through the emotions they arouse, the beliefs they shape, and the evaluative frameworks we apply to them. Written by a leading philosopher of art, history, and ethics, the book presents arguments for and against the ethical significance of artistic experience with analytical precision.

Three chapters examine the ways art engenders emotions for both good and ill, analyzing competing positions on whether emotional responses carry genuine moral weight. A fourth chapter turns to cognition, investigating art's capacity to influence moral beliefs. The final two chapters engage directly with autonomism?the position that art should be appreciated solely for its own sake, independent of social practices including morality?presenting arguments both supporting and challenging this view.

Art and Morality serves undergraduate and graduate courses on the relation of art to morality and society. Written in an accessible style, it also addresses general readers drawn to philosophical questions raised by the arts, providing a structured framework for debates that have shaped aesthetics over two centuries.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how music represents enigma in film, shedding light on a subject that is both elusive and under-researched. Enigmatic phenomena, which are often inaccessible and hard to define, are regularly depicted in cinema.? With its intrinsic connection to emotion, music enhances the representation and interpretation of these mysteries, creating, intensifying, and addressing the inscrutable and providing emotional understanding where science and logic may fall short.

Music and Enigma in Film?categorizes enigmas into four main themes: religion, mythology, the paranormal, and the inexplicable, which serve as the structural foundation for the discussion. Through a musicological lens, chapters investigate how film music presents and invokes these enigmatic themes, analyzing the role of different music genres, sonic elements, and the relationship between sound and image. The book also explores the psychological mechanisms of musical perception?such as synaesthesia and Gestalt perception?that facilitate the comprehension of mysterious parameters in film music, inviting readers to consider the similarities between these mechanisms and specific musical attributes. Readers will also discover how music expresses ideological meaning by exploring the historical and cultural connotations that underpin the enigmatic undertones of film music.

Music and Enigma in Film?is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film studies, musicology, and cultural studies, as well as filmmakers and composers fascinated by the mysterious interplay of sound and image in cinema

This essential textbook prepares future managers and leaders to drive positive social change across non-profit, public and for-profit organizations.

From experts in social justice-oriented management studies, chapters examine how effective management and leadership can tackle poverty, economic inequality, and discrimination, while promoting fairness and inclusion.

Key features include:

*A values-driven approach exploring critical challenges in addressing economic and social inequalities through leadership and management roles.

*Comprehensive coverage of social justice entrepreneurship, marketing and supply chain management, social and environmental accounting, living wage and volunteer management, regulations, fundraising and impact evaluation.

*Leadership, collaboration, advocacy and storytelling skills.

*Engaging learning activities and contemporary international case studies.

This textbook is vital for students pursuing mission-driven careers, helping to build the next generation of leaders and managers for social justice.

Boundaries and Community is an essential guide for building bridges in a world marked by deep divisions. Across eleven concise chapters, this book offers practical tools and reflective insights for fostering meaningful connections within and across racially, ethnically, politically, and religiously divided communities. Rather than simply describing the problems that fracture our collective lives, it provides a hands-on toolkit for addressing them and empowers readers to move beyond ideological stalemates and take constructive action.

Each chapter tackles a critical challenge of collective life ? shared experience, collective responsibility, individual rights and communal belonging, social trust, and more ? offering a clear “rule” for action, real-life examples, and thought-provoking questions for group discussion. By modelling a forum for open, community-engaged dialogue, the book equips concerned citizens with strategies to address local issues without resorting to polarized formulas of the right or left.

Boundaries and Community serves as both diagnosis and roadmap, helping readers orient themselves in today’s polarized climate and inspiring them to forge new pathways for cooperation and understanding. Whether you are a community leader, organizer, or simply someone who cares about collective well-being, this book provides the tools and inspiration to act together ? even with those with whom you fundamentally disagree.

Public Representations explores how popular screen stories represent, and interact with, politics, governance, and the public sphere. It analyses a selection of recent films and broadcast, cable, and streaming series from the US and the UK, as well as a multi-decade survey of comparable Canadian films and series. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship and popular media commentary, Public Representations considers questions of narrative representation, political agency, and conditions of screen story production as they intersect with race and gender.

Using a rich array of paratexts, including online and legacy media reviews, interviews, news reports and feature coverage, as well as metrics such as production budgets, box office figures, and awards, Public Representations traces the ways in which these screen stories function as frames of reference, and sites of contestation, for the most urgent issues within the contemporary public sphere.

This edited volume explores the interplay between social media and family life across life stages, with contributions from scholars in sociology, psychology, communications, and other fields. Unlike many existing studies on social media that focus primarily on parenting of adolescents, it takes a broader approach by analyzing social media and family dynamics from early childhood through old age, also considering intergenerational relationships broadly. From the phenomenon of "sharenting" and the effects of social media on young children to the role of social media in grandparenting and in coping with death of family members, this volume engages with critical issues like "digital heartbreak," surveillance within families, and the evolving nature of kin connections. It includes diverse methodological approaches such as qualitative ethnographies, survey-based research, and theoretical analysis. It also includes international perspectives, thus expanding the discourse beyond U.S. and U.K. contexts.

The volume is divided into four parts and offers both empirical and theoretical perspectives on how social media shapes family roles, relationships, and experiences at different life stages. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it is highly relevant for scholars and students in family sociology, life course sociology, and social media studies.

In this powerful expose, single parent campaigner and policy expert Ruth Talbot weaves together statistics, real life stories and policy analysis to reveal the true extent of single parent discrimination in Britain today.

Drawing on new research, interviews and her own lived experience, Talbot demonstrates how single parent discrimination is widespread. She reveals how it shapes access to housing, employment, childcare and social security, driving poverty, social exclusion and poorer mental health. Talbot also highlights how mutual support and single parent activism is changing the narrative, building solidarity and securing change. She explores how organisations can - and must - embrace and support these movements.

Offering clear, practical recommendations for legal, regulatory and policy reform, including the long-overdue case for recognising single parents as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act, this is essential reading for all those concerned with improving the lives of single parents and their children.

This book examines one of the central paradoxes of contemporary global politics: why does a governance system that has contributed to maintaining a stable, interoperable, and globally connected internet remain persistently contested by both authoritarian challengers and democratic partners? Addressing this question, it develops a novel framework for understanding the evolution, resilience, and contestation of the U.S.-led multistakeholder model of internet governance.

The book conceptualizes the multistakeholder model as a U.S.-led governance order that emerged through the construction of technological infrastructures, institutional arrangements, and normative frameworks that enabled global coordination of cyberspace. It traces how this order evolved through the establishment of critical internet institutions, the diffusion of governance norms, and the consolidation of legitimacy through institutional reforms and multistakeholder participation.

The main themes include the politics of internet governance, digital sovereignty, legitimacy and authority in global internet governance, technological competition, and the relationship between infrastructure and political order. The book argues that contestation to the US emerges not simply from external geopolitical rivalry, but from internal dynamics embedded within the governance order itself. The same institutional arrangements and normative assumptions that contributed to stability and expansion also generated legitimacy deficits, asymmetries of authority, and forms of exclusion that continue to produce political friction.

This book offers new insights into power, legitimacy, and institutional change in cyberspace. It targets scholars of international relations, internet governance, cybersecurity, digital politics, and policymakers engaged in technology governance and digital diplomacy.

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to research and development in a handful of STEM disciplines. It now actively shapes how we work, communicate, learn, and create. Understanding Artificial Intelligence offers a clear and critical guide to this transformative technology, written for students and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Bringing together insights from philosophy, history, media studies, and communication, award-winning educator David J. Gunkel explains what AI is, how it works, and why it matters. The book introduces key concepts - from algorithms and neural networks to natural language processing and generative AI - while examining the cultural narratives and the political, social, and ethical debates that surround them. Readers are invited to explore how AI redefines creativity, authorship, responsibility, and even what it means to be human.

Balancing accessible technical explanation with rigorous critical reflection, Understanding Artificial Intelligence equips readers to engage with AI technologies with confidence and discernment. It is both a map of today's rapidly evolving AI landscape and a call to participate in shaping its future - essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence will transform knowledge, culture, and everyday life.

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Collaboration, critical thinking and cultural competency are essential skills that shape young people’s futures. These key skills are often cultivated in the informal, creative spaces that society easily overlooks.

Drawing on the Australian Research Council and industry co-funded Vital Arts project, this book offers a bold and practical new vision: an inclusive, practice-based micro-credential system that recognises the competencies that young people build through creative cultural participation. Challenging prevailing policy narratives that pathologise young people, the book shows how partnerships between industry, cultural organisations and youth-led initiatives can reimagine education, diversify pathways into work and support genuine social mobility.

Offering fresh conceptual tools, compelling empirical insights and a transformative model for accrediting skills, this book repositions youth arts organisations and creative programmes as key actors in constructing more equitable and meaningful routes into employment.

Why the idea of English unmusicality arose and how the English sought to uphold national honor in the face of it

Why, while touting their superiority in other spheres, did the English develop an idea of themselves as musically inferior to their neighbors? Historian Amy Dunagin shows that as the English musical marketplace expanded after 1660, evolving beliefs about the effects of climate on national character led the English to identify musicality-along with excess, passion, and effeminacy-as characteristic of a "southern" temperament from which they were eager to distance themselves.

Once established, the idea proved difficult to excise, and the ascendancy of foreign music, especially Italian opera, seemed to confirm it. Eighteenth-century English commentators disagreed about how best to present the state of their national music and developed competing narratives that resonated with Tory, Establishment Whig, and Patriot political ideologies, with profound implications for English cultural identity.

Dunagin traces the idea of English unmusicality as it emerged in the late Stuart period and shows how it became a contested national narrative-one that reflected broader anxieties about identity, virtue, and cultural engagement with Europe.