In an age where social media platforms structure the very conditions of visibility, this book investigates how LGBTQ lives are made, managed, and sometimes erased by algorithmic infrastructures.

Bringing together voices from across the Global South and diasporic communities, this interdisciplinary volume examines how queer and trans individuals navigate digital platforms as spaces of expression, surveillance, resistance, and survival. Spanning geographies from Bangladesh to China, and Pakistan to the Philippines, contributors explore the affective, political, and economic entanglements of platformed queer life. The chapters interrogate how algorithms sort content, how visibility becomes conditional, and how queer resistance emerges not only through representation, but through subversion, invisibility, memory work, and infrastructural reappropriation. Foregrounding intersectionality, decolonial critique, and transnational feminist and queer theory, this collection reframes digital life not as a neutral terrain, but as one where queerness is contested, commodified, and continuously reimagined. This book is both an urgent critique of platform capitalism and a testament to queer world-building amid precarity and constraint.

A timely exploration of the algorithmic, economic, and socio-technical undercurrents that shape queer lives online, this book will be of interest to students, researchers, and academics working in the areas of queer media, global digital culture, critical platform studies, and media and activism.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the development of the translation of children's literature into Arabic, providing unique insights into the prominent role of Kamil Kilani in shaping its history as well as for the translation of children's literature more broadly.

The volume surveys existing scholarship on the translation of children's literature, which encourages cross-cultural understanding and the promotion of reading in minority languages. In particular, Ayoub and Elimam call attention to translation by adaptation as the driving force in many most translations of children's literature into Arabic and other languages in which cultural differences between source and target languages can prove challenging. The book reflects on Kilani's importance to the translation of Arabic children's literature as one of the first writers to specialize in adapting works for Arab children, charting his influence through the use of narrative theory and framing strategies in adaptations. A final chapter examines the limitations and opportunities of the study, building toward new research on adaptations as the primary route for translations of children's literature both in Arabic and beyond.

This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, adaptation studies, Arabic literature, and children's literature.

Bringing together 46 original contributions from a broad range of international scholars, this comprehensive volume maps the key debates, histories, concepts, and practices that shape animation studies today.

Organised into thematic sections, it addresses animation's historical development, representational politics, and cultural functions, alongside focused discussions of aesthetics, sound, technology, and production contexts. Topics include race, gender, disability, medium specificity, environmentalism, artificial intelligence, game engines, computer-generated animation, and global animation cultures, with sustained attention to both established traditions and emerging forms.

Designed as both a reference work and a pedagogical resource, this Companion is an essential guide for researchers, teachers, and students working in animation, film, and media studies, as well as readers approaching animation from adjacent disciplines or professional contexts.

Research Methods for Photography: Critical and Practical Approaches bridges theory and practice for anyone using photography as a research tool, o-ffering accessible guidance for developing rigorous, theoretically informed visual research.

Spanning subject matter from architectural ethnography to medical humanities, participatory visual research to eco-critical documentary, this book demonstrates how diverse theoretical frameworks and research methods enrich both creative practice and academic inquiry.

Through detailed case studies, you'll see how these approaches work in real-world contexts and learn about theories and methods, as well as how to find and develop your own method and methodology - whether you're a practitioner, theorist, or working at the intersection of both.

A geographically diverse array of leading experts explore theoretical perspectives and methodological advances as frameworks for understanding emotion communication and the social functions of emotions. They analyse discrete emotions such as disgust, anger, love and happiness through interdisciplinary approaches spanning psychology, sociology and computational lenses. Featuring understudied topics and global viewpoints often absent from mainstream research, this Research Handbook serves as a key resource for future avenues of psychological study.

The Research Handbook on Culture and Emotion is an essential reference point for scholars and students of cultural psychology, emotion psychology and communication. Affective scientists and social psychologists will also benefit from its evidence-based approach and theoretical foundations.

This book provides a practical theory and research informed guide to understanding conflict in the creative and cultural industries.

This edited collection provides a 360-degree view of the complex and dynamic presence of conflict in the work of creative and cultural industries such as film, television, radio and podcasting, the fine arts, and beyond. A foundational resource for understanding the complexities of the creative industries, it explores ways conflict can be reframed as a necessary, productive, and manageable force. The essays in the book delve into the underlying causes of conflict in creative enterprises, examine the impact of these conflicts on the creative process, and introduce strategies and tactics used by creative workers to execute their visions with and through conditions of conflict. It features a diverse range of case studies, interviews, and discourse analyses, providing readers with concrete examples of conflicts and how they have been addressed. The inclusion of these real-world case studies and theoretical frameworks make the book an excellent teaching resource.

This book will be a useful resource to students and scholars of media, culture, and communication, particularly those with an interest in media industries, media management, the creative and cultural industries, and media production.

This book brings together studies that provide ethnomethodological accounts of music-related phenomena, describing in detail how they are accomplished and how they contribute to our understanding of the local production of order.

Reflecting the extent to which music intersects with everyday life, the topics covered are broad in scope, including studies of order surrounding the actual playing of musical instruments, as well as chapters that examine how music is produced as a recorded phenomenon, how music is taught and learnt, how it intersects with other activities such as dance, how it is presented for consumption in various environments, and the multiple forms that consumption of music can take, in social groups and on one's own.

A rich and detailed depiction of how people actually go about producing and consuming music in ordinary settings, and the ways that this is woven into ordinary everyday life and common sense reasoning, Ethnomethodological Studies of Music will appeal to social scientists and musicologists with interests in ethnomethodology and research methods.

River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema examines how filmmakers use river imagery to explore themes of home, displacement, and belonging in an era of rapid modernization.

Using the term "river space" to describe geographical areas created by rivers or existing alongside them, the author shows how these areas figure in films as alternative, oppositional, or contradictory sites. The book is divided into four parts, discussing waterscape in Chinese cinema, homesickness and homelessness, rivers in the urban space, and a final comparative reading of Chinese, international, and Hollywood homecoming narratives. Bridging ecocriticism with spatial theories, she explores how rivers function as sites of moral reflection and ethical commitment, offering viewers alternative frameworks for understanding locality, homesickness, and the meaning of home in contemporary globalized society.

This book will be particularly appealing to scholars and students of Chinese cinema, East Asian studies, ecocinema, migration, and cultural studies.

This is an accessible, engaging, and timely overview of the key debates surrounding the ongoing role of VR in society, exploring extended reality (XR), immersive VR, augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR).

Research on VR is quickly evolving, having started with experiments on basic perceptual effects of deep immersion in virtual worlds, but has now expanded to questions of adequate content for the medium, behavioral changes, therapy and learning uses, identification issues, the evocation of emotions and empathy, and pressing ethical concerns. The Social Virtual Reality Debate: Questioning Reality moves beyond the hype of what VR might be in technological terms to focus on motivations and opportunities for adoption: What are the goals and needs of potential social VR users? What do they find in these immersive environments that they cannot find in physical spaces or existing online fora? How do we ensure that social VR spaces do not replicate or reinforce social norms and imperatives? Featuring perspectives from VR scholars and industry professionals who are conducting research and engaging with questions of ethics and privacy at the forefront of this rapidly transforming media landscape, the book explores the key areas that will inform the next cycle of social VR development, pedagogy, educational policy, organizational communication, and future training.

This book provides an essential overview of evidence-based 'hot takes' in virtual reality scholarship, suitable for students and scholars in the disciplines of media, communication, culture, information and technology, and related research areas.

Most research has analyzed and discussed supply chain phenomena at the macro-organizational level so far. However, this book addresses these phenomena at the micro-individual level. The reason is that, given the diversifying challenges in supply chain management (SCM), relying only on a few SCM leaders such as SCM professionals and top executives is risky, and it is essential to encourage the behaviors of SCM followers belonging to various departments (e.g., production, logistics, purchasing, sales, and product development) and trading partners (e.g., suppliers and customers).

Through this book, the authors insist that all individuals participating in supply chain integration (SCI) activities need to contribute to achieving a challenging, common purpose through interactions among individuals. First, this book organizes a multilevel model of SCI, encompassing both organizational and individual levels. After that, this book provides a detailed explanation of the relationships among variables at the individual level. The individual-level model consists of four variables: antecedents, mediating/moderating factors, work behaviors, and individual outcomes. These variables are established based on insights from organizational behavior theory. The authors then demonstrate the validity of the aforementioned model through empirical study and apply the followership theory to individual-level supply chain behaviors.