By Sean Stewart

Forthright anecdotes and interviews fill this eye-opening account of the delivery of the underground newspaper move. Stemming from frustration with the inability of any mainstream media feedback of the Vietnam warfare, the construction of the papers was once emboldened through the victories of the Civil Rights–era, anticolonial pursuits within the 3rd international and using LSD. within the 4 brief years from 1965–1969, the subversive press grew from 5 small newspapers in 5 towns within the usa to greater than 500 newspapers—with hundreds of thousands of readers—all over the area. tales by way of the folks concerned with the creation and distribution of the papers, resembling invoice Ayers, Paul Buhle, Paul Krassner, and Trina Robbins, deliver the historical past of the circulate to lifestyles. Full-color scans taken from a huge diversity of guides, from the Berkeley Barb and the la unfastened Press to Chicago Seed and Screw: The intercourse evaluate, also are incorporated, displaying the excellent power that fueled the counterculture of the Sixties.

By Therese Davis

By Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, Rachel Moore (eds.)

By Adela C. Licona

Develops third-space thought by way of attractive with zines produced by means of feminists and queers of color.

Zines in 3rd Space develops third-space conception with a pragmatic engagement in the subcultural area of zines as replacement media produced particularly through feminists and queers of colour. Adela C. Licona explores how borderlands rhetorics functionality in feminist and queer of-color zines to problem dominant knowledges in addition to normativitizing mis/representations. Licona characterizes those zines as third-space websites of borderlands rhetorics revealing dissident performances, disruptive rhetorical acts, and coalitions that influence new cultural, political, financial, and sexual configurations.

“Zines in 3rd house throws gentle upon an vital and infrequently missed area of different tradition via taking a look at the media generated through humans of colour, who either use the subcultural media to discover and articulate their rules and lives in a manner they consider can't be performed via extra mainstream channels, but additionally comprehend (and articulate) the methods within which the white, middle-class ruled subcultures create new units of constraints and obstacles. inside subcultural reports, and media experiences in normal, this can be a severe region of analysis. the writer is aware the realm of which she speaks.” — Stephen Duncombe, writer of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of other Culture

By Gert Pickel

Im Rahmen des „cultural flip“ der Sozialwissenschaften hat sich die Religionssoziologie wieder zu einem nachgefragten Interessengebiet der Soziologie entwickelt. So werden vermehrt Fragen nach der Vitalität und der politischen Bedeutung von Religionen gestellt. Neben der Soziologie treffen religionssoziologische Analysen gerade in der (praktischen) Theologie, der Religionswissenschaft, der Kulturwissenschaft und der Politikwissenschaft auf Interesse. Der vorliegenden Band soll die zentralen theoretischen Grundprämissen der Religionssoziologie (Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx u.a.) sowie Kenntnisse über die neueren theoretischen Auseinandersetzungen der modernen Religionssoziologie (Säkularisierung, Individualisierung, Pluralisierung) vermitteln. Daneben werden verschiedene, derzeit in der Diskussion befindliche Kernfragen der modernen Religionssoziologie aufgegriffen (Zivilreligion, Globalisierung). Die Einführung wendet sich sowohl an Studierende als auch Doktoranden der oben genannten Fachbereiche.

By Douglas J. Loveless, Bryant Griffith

This ebook explores the complexity of verbal exchange and realizing as a potential asset in formal schooling instead of an issue that should be "fixed". The authors learn the query and event as pedagogical instruments, demanding readers to play the critic and ask not easy questions, starting with: Why do the guidelines mentioned in the ebook subject? The electronic details age with increasing methods of considering, being, speaking, and studying complicates public schooling. So, what occurs as various narratives collide in faculties? to reply to this question, the authors of this ebook delve into conflicting assumptions in the framework of complexity sciences and schooling in an try and discover house past positivist/anti-positivist debates. This comprises interpreting the position of cultural and aesthetic narratives and cautionary stories as technique of acknowledging probabilities in human studies in schooling. those probabilities can facilitate praxis, as concept, study, and educating develop into reflective practices, and as considering schooling broadens to incorporate assorted equipment of figuring out and providing complicated phenomena.

By David Bohm, Lee Nichol, Peter Senge

By no means ahead of has there been a better want for deeper listening and extra open verbal exchange to deal with the complicated difficulties dealing with our agencies, companies and societies. popular scientist David Bohm believed there has been a greater manner for humanity to find which means and to accomplish concord. He pointed out inventive discussion, a sharing of assumptions and knowing, as a way during which the person, and society as a complete, can examine extra approximately themselves and others, and attain a renewed feel of function.

By Jack W. Plunkett

The digital age is bringing sweeping adjustments to leisure and media of all types, together with publishing, broadcasting and picture. Multimedia, the net and different new media shops for leisure and knowledge are being subtle at a quick expense. Media giants are merging and making great acquisitions. This ebook covers those fascinating advancements and gives profiles on hundreds and hundreds of top enterprises in movie, radio, tv, cable, new media, and publishing of every kind together with books, magazines and newspapers. It includes millions of contacts for enterprise and leaders, institutions, websites and different assets. You’ll get in-depth profiles of the "Entertainment & Media 350," our personal particular record of businesses which are the leaders during this box. the following you will find entire profiles of the new businesses which are making information this day, the 350 greatest, so much winning organisations in all elements of the leisure and Media company, from broadcasters to movie construction businesses, on line casino operators to topic park businesses, publishers of books and magazines to game designers, and lots more and plenty extra. Our company profiles contain govt contacts, progress plans, monetary files, tackle, cell, fax, aggressive virtue and masses extra. This cutting edge e-book bargains 515 pages of exact details, all listed and cross-indexed extra for every company! Our research part offers a very good dialogue of commercial and industry developments. The ebook contains statistical tables overlaying sales for numerous sectors. dealers of both the publication or PDF model can obtain a unfastened reproduction of the corporate profiles database on CD-ROM, permitting key notice seek and export of key information.

By Peter Winterhoff-Spurk, Tom H. A. van der Voort

Dr. Peter Winterhoff-Spurk ist Professor für Medien- und Organisationspsychologie an der Universität Saarbrücken und Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift "Medienpsychologie". Tom van der Voort ist Professor für Medienpsychologie an der Universität Leiden, Niederlande.

By Jim McGuigan