Simplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to essential financial and business language for journalists.

Key Terms for Business Journalism examines the meaning, application, and impact of over 2,000 terms and abbreviations that journalists may encounter in corporate documents, regulatory filings, government reports, and press releases. The authors explain not just how to understand concepts, but also when and how to use them and how to help audiences understand them. This book, previously published as The SABEW Stylebook, has been thoroughly overhauled in its third edition and includes many new definitions, from cryptocurrency to financial contagion, as well as more detailed entries for concepts such as tariffs, economies, international trade, and the Federal Reserve. Guidance on ethical and legal issues, company names, trademarks, punctuation, and capitalization are also provided.

This book is a unique resource for financial journalists, business communicators, and journalism students alike.

This book is an introduction to Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), equipping learners with a deep understanding of these media and enabling them to create impactful experiences applicable to a wide range of industries.

VR's immersive environments and AR's seamless blending of virtual and real elements create effects that no other medium can replicate. This book introduces readers to the hardware and software that power these technologies, explaining them in clear and accessible terms. It then examines the psychological experiences they create, such as the sensations of "presence" and "embodiment" in virtual worlds; explores how real and virtual elements combine in AR and mixed reality; and investigates social VR experiences involving interactions with both real and virtual agents. It concludes by examining how AI and connected virtual social spaces can integrate with VR and AR to shape the next generation of technology platforms.

Supported by a wealth of case studies of VR/AR applications and interviews with VR/AR experts, this book serves as a core textbook for students of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality courses in creative and technical fields.

Throughout the Cold War, the films produced on both sides of the Iron Curtain were shaped by the ideologies of their respective countries. Music played a key role defining the messages sent by these films. The chapters in Music, Ideology, and Commerce in European Popular Cinema: 1940s to 1980s offer the first extended examination of the relationships between music and ideology and between the film and music industries in popular European cinema of the Cold War era.

With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume examines cinematic productions from East and West Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and the former Yugoslavia. The contributors explore the interactions between music, ideology, and commercial and popular cinema that shaped mass culture during the Cold War. The book provides valuable insights for researchers and graduate students in music, film studies, and cultural studies departments who are studying European cinema or film music.

A groundbreaking volume that represents the first examination of cultural production amongst Italian prisoners of war

Captivity and Creativity explores the artistic and material production by Italian prisoners of war (POWs) and some civilian internees who were captured by the Western Allies in 1940-43 and detained in prison camps scattered across Africa, Australia, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States during World War II. Twelve chapters discuss from different theoretical and histori-cal angles the various artistic activities (e.g., theatre, music, visual arts, architecture, chapels, and material objects), technical contributions (e.g., maps, photography, radio), writings (e.g., memoirs, diaries, letters, and fiction), as well as the documentary evidence that resulted from the diverse experiences and transnational exchanges between the prisoners and their captors as military personnel and local civilian populations in different parts of the globe between 1940 and 1947.

The book describes the prisoners' economic importance for the Western Allied powers in their war effort to fight Nazi-Fascism and the enforced diaspora through which POWs were moved across different allied countries. It analyzes the prisoners' daily camp life, work, and treatment before and after the 1943 Armistice, when POWs were asked to sign an agreement to renounce Fascism and become cooperators of war, underlining the different treatment reserved for coop-erators of war and noncooperators of war. The book also investigates the legacy of the prisoners' artistic and material production, the cultural heritage and the practices of memorialization (e.g., photography, monuments, museums, anniversary celebrations, exhibits) that have derived from the Italian presence in camps in different countries up to this date, through reference to groups and communities that preserve that heritage.

In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.

Drawing upon approaches from museum studies, education and critical theory, this volume challenges past and present exhibitions and reconsiders how museum spaces can be re-appropriated in order to produce critical knowledge, rethink education and challenge collections. In doing so, Sternfeld envisages the radical democratic museum as a space that allows us to grapple with the past, negotiate what this means for the present and imagine a future that is more than simply an extension of the present.

This provocative and timely book will be relevant to scholars, students and practitioners with interests in museums, critical heritage studies, social justice and political movements.

This book offers a unique and accessible study of migrant writing in the Swedish context. Sweden used to be renowned for its welcoming migration policy. This changed abruptly with the migration crisis in 2015 when refugees arrived in big numbers. An anti-immigration atmosphere grew stronger, supported by an expanding right-wing party. Yet to some Swedes, experiences of exclusion, even racism, were nothing new. This is evident in fiction and opinion pieces by writers born in Sweden to immigrant parents, or having moved there as children. Exploring migrant writing as craft and career, the book illuminates how the writers learn to write, get published, break through and build reputation. This includes dealing with competition and performing one's literature in public. Since some of this work is translated into other languages, creative translation is considered, as are future scenarios, a recurrent topic in migrant writing. Combining evocative ethnography with a scrutiny of texts, Wulff argues that these writers educate mainstream Swedes about their own society. Ultimately, the book is about the impact of literature on society. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students in anthropology, sociology, comparative literature, migration studies and beyond.

Streaming Europe explores how global streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video have reshaped the audiovisual landscape across Europe.

Since Netflix's arrival in 2012, the European media environment has undergone a rapid transformation, affecting every level of the industry-from production and distribution to policy and audience engagement. This book offers the first comprehensive, empirical, and comparative examination of these changes across different European markets. Written by a team of leading media scholars, it balances accessible analysis with evidence-based insights to examine how streamers have altered production practices and business models, shifted established power dynamics, and challenged long-standing broadcasting legacies. The book examines global streamers' market-entry strategies, the use of diversity and inclusion as competitive positioning, and the tensions between producers over rights retention and local authenticity. It analyses how public and commercial broadcasters across large and small European markets have both emulated Netflix and sought to differentiate themselves from US streamers, and how governments have responded with a patchwork of policy tools such as prominence regulation, quotas, and investment obligations, raising questions about their long-term effectiveness. Finally, it explores how different genres-including teen drama, documentary, European film, scripted television, and web series-both shape and are shaped by global streamers' evolving strategies.

With its strong foundation in research and pan-European scope, Streaming Europe goes beyond single-country perspectives to present a timely and nuanced understanding of how the streaming revolution is shaping Europe's cultural industries. It will be highly relevant to researchers in the field of media industries, media economics, audiovisual industries and media policy.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Turn sound into storytelling magic. Whether you're an indie creator, media student or creative professional eager to dive into audio drama, this guide gives you everything you need to produce professional-quality work that captivates listeners.

Drawing on nearly two decades of award-winning experience, the author lays out a clear, step-by-step roadmap for every stage of audio production, from idea to finished masterpiece. Learn how to develop and format scripts that shine; direct actors and manage recording sessions like a pro; edit, mix and arrange sound for maximum impact; and budget, promote and publish your projects effectively. Whether you're producing for radio or podcasting, this book delivers proven production techniques illustrated with real-world examples and includes a comprehensive glossary of essential terms to strengthen your professional vocabulary. It combines industry insights from several award-winning professionals with an accessible writing style that makes complex processes easy to understand and master.

This book is ideal for both beginners and those looking to develop their skills within radio and podcast production and offers transferable skills for related media professions.

This book takes a close look at online gambling, a rapidly growing industry with the potential for significant social harm.

Exploring multiple-perspectives - including the experience of consumers, the industry itself, the challenges of research and the importance of regulation - the book draws on sociological methods to give a more nuanced account of how the industry really works and the effect it is having on our social world. The book argues that online gambling is an important example of digital production of an addictive commodity with unique commercial determinants, including high profits, high availability, harmful product characteristics and a digital-first business model that is networked with other addictive industries. It explores key themes in online gambling research, including online gambling products and online gambling production, the importance of data or surveillance capitalism, the possibilities and limits of regulating online markets and the future of online gambling markets, and highlights the asymmetry between the industry and regulation in terms of access to, and ability to analyse, data.

Examining the existing evidence and offering new empirical analyses, and containing examples, stories and research data in every chapter, this book is important reading for anybody with an interest in gambling, digital business, the sociology of leisure and consumption, addiction, data capitalism, social harm, governance, public policy or regulation.

This book is a clearly and accessibly written short guide to the contemporary state of urban anthropology. It outlines what urban anthropologists study, how they do so, and what they have learned about urbanization and urbanism in the past and present in a way that makes sense to readers new to the field. Topics covered include:

• Urban community and identity
• Urban politics and economics
• The relationship between culture and the built environment
• Urban nature, climate change, and green urbanism
• The development of urban anthropology

Accompanying the main text are shaded boxes describing key works and key concepts related to the central points of each chapter. Each chapter ends with a bibliography. This text is essential reading for students interested in cities, urban life, the built environment, and social and political dynamics.

Through stories, research, and practical tips, this book includes a variety of communication anxiety and apprehension materials providing information, insight, and guidance to effectively navigate and manage communication anxiety.

Offering effective strategies and techniques to manage communication anxiety, this book helps readers build resilience and the confidence to apply new strategies in various communication contexts. It is not designed to "fix" anxiety; rather, it enables readers to increase their awareness of the human experience, across various situations, and within relationships through contemporary research on communication anxiety and apprehension. Harnessing a variety of narratives and outlooks, this book presents authentic lived experiences as well as the belief that everyone has a story to share.

Focusing on practical skill development and overall wellness, this book is a reference guide for instructors and students of Communication Studies, Public Speaking, and Debate and all who find value in new ways of exploring how anxiety and apprehension affect the people they communicate with.

This book explores what it means to study America in the twenty-first century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.

By analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality, and periodisation, this book reveals both fields of study through the lens of interdisciplinary cases studies, innovative methodologies, and a global perspective. Exploring the imagined geographies of America across space and time, this book rethinks the meaning and production of place, and questions what -and where-it means to study America now.

By addressing the key issues of nation, place and people in this new disciplinary moment, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of American Studies and Area Studies.

Climate Futures Across Disciplines explores the multifaceted nature of climate futures, showcasing how early-career researchers are helping to pioneer what innovation in academia might look like.

The volume shows how emerging scholars can sustain disciplinary rigour while engaging wider ecological, political, societal, and perceptual concerns. Instead of treating climate change purely as scientific or policy analysis, the book approaches future-oriented thinking as a domain of imagination, design, and governance. Initial chapters translate climate change into lived or felt experience through creative performance, visual practice, and palaeoclimate analogues, then move to infrastructure design, fair transport decarbonisation, renewable energy markets, and inclusive water governance. The final section considers governance, law, and institutional responsibility, illustrating how climate futures unfold in sanitation systems, mining towns, carbon markets, and environmental rights frameworks. Throughout, contributors emphasise that climate futures are lived, negotiated, and unevenly experienced. Their analyses foreground justice, lived experience, and practical insight, while recognising the need for future research that connects grounded practices to accelerating risks and inequalities.

Breaking academic barriers to inspire new and innovative research approaches, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of social justice, environmental justice, climate justice, and human rights, as well as to policymakers, activists, NGOs, and public interest lawyers.

This handbook addresses the new watershed moment in youth environmental activism: the collision of the historic and globally prominent youth-centred movements on the one hand, with established, consolidated power in opposition to environmental action on the other.

The central goal of this handbook is to explore the state of the research literature on young people's environmental activism, not just as a global network of movements involving young people, but as a global exchange of ideas, sentiments, and solidarities. The book explores how young people attempt to address the global injustice of environmental damage, take action on environmental issues including climate change, and imagine the world of social and environmental justice that they would like to build. The handbook borrows a slogan seen at Fridays for Future strikes around the world - "Systems Change, not Climate Change" - and asks: what systemic change do young environmental activists envision, and how do they conceive of, and take opportunities to, enact that change? Spanning six themes, Sadiya Akram and Benjamin Bowman have curated a diverse range of experts to interrogate this question, exploring topics such as emotions and identity; creative methods; activism and pedagogy; and institutional perspectives, while combining a global and a specific-movement focus. These expert contributions include reflections, conversations, and co-writing with young environmental activists while drawing on arts-based and creative methodologies.

This innovative handbook is a key resource for students, scholars, and practitioners who are researching and working in the fields of environment and climate justice, climate change and society, climate research, young peoples' activism, and young peoples' political participation.

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present offers a sweeping, accessible overview of how African individuals and communities have challenged slavery across centuries. Bringing together insights from Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, Arabic and Ottoman scholarship, this volume presents a truly pan-African perspective on resistance movements from the precolonial era to the digital age.

The collection traces resistance across diverse geographical regions-from West and Central Africa to the Indian Ocean and Sahara-demonstrating how people confronted external slave trades, local systems of bondage and enduring inequalities that survived abolition. Foregrounding voices too often hidden in the archives, this book explores creative strategies enslaved people used to claim rights, negotiate freedoms and reshape their social worlds through customary, Islamic and colonial courts. It highlights women's pivotal roles in resistance movements, from fleeing sexual violence to forging new kinship networks. Methodologically rich, the collection draws on oral traditions, microhistory, social history and digital humanities to illuminate overlooked experiences. By linking historical struggles to contemporary grassroots activism-including digital mobilisation against modern forms of slavery-it reveals resistance as an ongoing, evolving process that continues to shape African societies today.

Essential reading for scholars of African studies, slavery studies and social history, this volume reframes African resistance as locally rooted, historically continuous and globally significant. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition.

The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandings and even complete neglect in the historiography.

To achieve its aim, this volume brings together well-known military historians who use their unique expertise to approach the Gallipoli Campaign from the perspectives of eight combatant nations. Drawing inspiration from Keegan's famous book about the Normandy Campaign, they highlight the presence of these different nations on the Gallipoli Peninsula and the need to examine them comparatively within the context, especially the case of the Germans, French, Indians and Irish, whose roles in the campaign have been largely overshadowed. Each chapter offers missing insights and reappraisals of the published literature on the Gallipoli campaign, while seeking to avoid the oversimplification, repetition and nationalistic cliches that still haunt new works.

This book is intended for scholars, students and general readers interested in World War I and military history more broadly.

This book focuses on the importance of place and the multifaceted process of placemaking to the creation of durable and meaningful urban environments. It features international thought leaders, judiciously curated and convened across disciplines, cultures, and viewpoints to debate their perspectives on the merits and challenges of place and placemaking. Chapters investigate the tenor, timeliness, and tensions of place, and how we envision, co-create, and communicate place with colleagues, citizens, and critics. Stemming from the first Rudy Bruner Debate on Urban Excellence, chapter authors expressly present their experience, insights, and questions on place and placemaking, inspiring critical reflection and action in the world that surrounds us. This book will be of interest to students and practitioners in urban planning, urban design, real estate, architecture, and landscape architecture and to urban advocates and civic leaders.

Capitalism is the most powerful, creative and destructive social system the world has ever seen. Vigorously celebrated and fiercely contested, it provides the backdrop for the pipelines and platforms that supply audiences with entertainment, information and connection.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the key characteristics of capitalism and illustrates how they shape and distort our media and communications landscapes. Exploring concepts including accumulation, exploitation, ideology, oppression, commodification and colonization, the book discusses the impact of these processes on everything from our experiences online and the dynamics of algorithms to the power of oligarchs and the media's role in the escalating environmental crisis.

At a time when technology is often heralded as either the cause or the solution to issues of polarization, disinformation and atomization, an understanding of the simultaneous resilience and fragility of capitalism is essential. Capitalism and the Media is important reading for students of media, communications, cultural studies and politics and provides a valuable resource for scholars and activists.

At the heart of this collection of essays is a central question: how can humanistic education in faith-based institutions contribute to human flourishing within secular societies?

This book explores the implications of Charles Taylor's analysis of secularity for the work of humanities education in Christian institutions of higher learning. It argues that by locating themselves and their scholarship within Taylor's open frame, scholars can draw on the resources of their disciplinary expertise within the various branches of the humanities to overcome the polarizing tendencies of modern life to the benefit of all. The contributors to the volume challenge and encourage scholars in the humanities to call their students into dialogue with Taylorian themes and concepts as good neighbors working for the flourishing of the academy and the wider world. They draw on Taylor's discussion of the parable of the Good Samaritan to develop the theme of neighborliness in higher education.

An enlightening study of religion and secularism, the book will be an essential reading for scholars, researchers, and administrators in the fields of religious higher education, religious studies, and the philosophy of education.

Narratives of Success and Resilience of Students from Refugee Backgrounds in U.S. Schools offers educators a transformative perspective on teaching students from refugee backgrounds. Through personal narratives, this book highlights the resilience, strength, and wisdom that refugee students carry with them-alongside the rich linguistic and cultural wealth they contribute to schools. Drawing from the frameworks of community cultural wealth and ethics of care, the book challenges deficit perspectives and calls for an education system that values students not for how well they assimilate, but for the global perspectives and knowledge they bring. Centering student voice throughout, this is both a scholarly contribution and a call to action for more just and inclusive educational practices. It provides current and future educators with a deep understanding of refugee students' experiences, from not only language barriers to trauma but also strengths and experiences, ultimately offering teaching strategies for creating inclusive, supportive learning environments.

Cultural Game Studies provides a comprehensive framework for understanding games and play as interconnected cultural phenomena, examining their roles as art, entertainment, and human experience within contemporary society.

This edited volume delivers a societally and culturally informed critical framework that enables readers to develop a nuanced understanding of game cultures and their scholarship. Rather than studying games or players in isolation, the book contextualises the uses, design, and meanings of play as an interconnected whole. Readers will gain detailed insights into the scholarly history of game studies and its key methodologies, while exploring essential themes including player identities, game production, cultural literacy, and game preservation. The book's comprehensive approach opens new perspectives for cultural analysis and provides tools for understanding how games increasingly permeate and inform modern society and culture.

This book is written for researchers, scholars, and advanced students in game studies, cultural studies, media studies, and digital humanities. It is ideal for academics seeking to deepen their theoretical understanding of game cultures, graduate students conducting research in game-related fields, and instructors teaching courses on digital culture, media theory, or contemporary cultural phenomena.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This book explores the intersections between communication and transnationalism from interdisciplinary and multimethodological perspectives.

Transnationalism is a contested space where differences among people, knowledge, materials, trades, and capitals are configured within and beyond national borders. Recognizing that transnationalism remains a key driver of major social, cultural, political, and economic developments globally, this handbook assesses the current dynamics of power flows. Featuring the work of an international team of scholars, the handbook includes a wide range of critical communication and media perspectives, including but not limited to diaspora, queer/trans, intersectional, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches to transnationalism. It is divided into five thematic parts addressing key issues and concerns:

• Conceptualizing Communication and Transnationalism
• Transnational Digital Culture and Communication Technologies
• Transnational Queerness and Transness
• The Politics of Difference in Transnational Media Cultures
• Diaspora, Postcolonialism, and Decoloniality through Transnational Communication

This handbook questions ongoing histories of imperialism and underscores the need to complicate communication theories of transnationalism from multidimensional perspectives. It is an indispensable resource for scholars and students in the fields of communication studies, transnational studies, critical cultural studies, intercultural communication, sociology, and international relations.