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Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
by Anna SchoberThis book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play—the "everybody" (which stands for "all of us" and is sometimes a "new man" or a "new woman")—is discussed in an interdisciplinary way involving scholars from several European countries. A key aspect is how popularisation and communication practices—which can assume populist forms—operate in contemporary democracies and where their genealogies lie. A second focus is on the ambivalences of attraction, i.e. on the ways in which visual creations can evoke desire as well as hatred.
Populist Disinformation in Fragmented Information Settings: Understanding the Nature and Persuasiveness of Populist and Post-factual Communication (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)
by Michael HameleersIn this highly relevant work, Dr. Michael Hameleers illuminates the role of traditional and social media in shaping the political consequences of populism and disinformation in a mediatized era characterized by post-factual relativism and the perseverance of a populist zeitgeist. Using comparative empirical evidence collected in the US, the UK, and the Netherlands, this book explores the politics and discursive construction of populism and disinformation, how they co-occur, their effects on society, and the antidotes used to combat the consequences of these communicative phenomena. This book is an essential text for students and academics in communication, media studies, political science, sociology, and psychology.
Populist Political Communication in Europe (Routledge Research in Communication Studies)
by Carsten Reinemann Frank Esser Jesper Stromback Toril Aalberg Claes De VreeseIn an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse. While it is widely acknowledged that the media and the role of communication more broadly are key to understanding the rise and success of populist leaders, parties and movements, there is however very little research on populist political communication, at least in the English-speaking research literature. Originating from a research project funded by the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST), this book seeks to advance this research. It includes examinations 24 European countries, and focuses on three areas within the context of populism and populist political communication: populist actors as communicators, the media and populism and citizens and populism.
Por la mano del padre: ¿Qué razones llevan a un hombre a matar a sus tres hijos?
by Martín MorenoA partir de la trágica noticia de un hombre que mata a sus tres hijos pequeños para vengarse de su esposa, por una supuesta infidelidad, Martín Moreno elabora en este libro un reportaje devastador. Al estilo de A sangre fría, de Truman Capote, Las dos amigas y el envenenamiento, de Alfred Döblin o Los hijos de Sánchez, de Oscar Lewis, el autor de Por la mano del padre convierte la nota roja en un trabajo periodístico. Escarba en la más profunda intimidad del asesino: su contexto social fracturado, la relación familiar marcada por la miseria, el abismo del alcohol y las drogas, los rasgos psicológicos de los padres del acusado, de su pareja sentimental, de amigos y familiares que enmarcan este drama urbano. El gran mérito del autor de El derrumbe es alejarse del juicio inmediato de quienes condenan elcrimen para ofrecer una explicación severa del por qué se dan estos brotes de maldad, qué función juega el abandono infantil, la carencia económica y de afectos, y elabora el retrato del filicida sin afán de condenar o justificar, sólo para entregar un rostro estropeado por el vicio, el desamor, el núcleo familiar despedazado. Por la mano del padre es un libro implacable, pero también conmovedor; verdugo y condenados son una sola esencia, revelan que la mano del asesino no sólo es la maldad, también es el vacío existencial y una sociedad cada vez más violenta. Fragmento del ensayo de Vicente Leñero para este libro: "Versión actualísima de aquellos 'hijos de Sánchez' que Oscar Lewis siguió y registró minuciosamente a punta de grabaciones. El mural que hizo Lewis en los años sesenta fue juzgado y censurado como denigrante, cuando lo verdaderamente denigrante para México era el fenómeno mismo de aquella pobreza humana reflejada en su espejo literario. Lo mismo puede decirse, gracias a la investigación de Martín Moreno, de lo que Por la mano del padre se trasluce en pinceladas de estos barrios carcomidos en Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, de esa gente que vive al día sin esperanza alguna de progreso."
Pornography: Research Advances and Policy Considerations (Routledge Communication Series)
by Jennings Bryant Dolf Zillmann"...provides good coverage of the empirical literature."—Journal of Communication "...well written and presents a wide diversity of approaches to pornography."—CHOICE
Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the words We Use
by Michael QuinionCan it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb?These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals 'square' rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you're competent at something you can 'cut the mustard'?Michael Quinion here retells many of the more bizarre tales, and explains their real origins where they're known. This is a fascinating treasure-trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.
Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media: Exercises in Strategic Communication
by Karen FrebergFeaturing 50 real-world activities across various social media platforms! Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media shows you how to communicate on social media professionally and strategically by giving you hands-on experiences with real-world challenges. From brand analyses to budget assignments to pitch activities, this practical exercise guide offers you multiple opportunities to create and build your portfolio of work. Designed to be used with Freberg’s Social Media for Strategic Communication, but flexible enough to bundle with any PR textbook, these exercises are useful to any professor looking to incorporate more activities around social media and digital brand development.
Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media: Exercises in Strategic Communication
by Karen FrebergFeaturing 50 real-world activities across various social media platforms! Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media shows you how to communicate on social media professionally and strategically by giving you hands-on experiences with real-world challenges. From brand analyses to budget assignments to pitch activities, this practical exercise guide offers you multiple opportunities to create and build your portfolio of work. Designed to be used with Freberg’s Social Media for Strategic Communication, but flexible enough to bundle with any PR textbook, these exercises are useful to any professor looking to incorporate more activities around social media and digital brand development.
Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media: Exercises in Strategic Communication
by Karen FrebergFeaturing 125 real-world activities across various social media platforms! Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media shows students how to communicate on social media professionally and strategically by giving them hands-on experiences with real-world challenges. From brand analyses to budget assignments to pitch activities, this practical exercise guide offers students multiple opportunities to create and build their portfolio of work. Designed to be used with Freberg’s Social Media for Strategic Communication, but flexible enough to bundle with any PR textbook, these exercises are useful to any professor looking to incorporate more activities around social media and digital brand development.
Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media: Exercises in Strategic Communication
by Karen FrebergFeaturing 125 real-world activities across various social media platforms! Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media shows students how to communicate on social media professionally and strategically by giving them hands-on experiences with real-world challenges. From brand analyses to budget assignments to pitch activities, this practical exercise guide offers students multiple opportunities to create and build their portfolio of work. Designed to be used with Freberg’s Social Media for Strategic Communication, but flexible enough to bundle with any PR textbook, these exercises are useful to any professor looking to incorporate more activities around social media and digital brand development.
Portrait of Hemingway (Modern Library Anthologies Ser.)
by Lillian RossThe definitive sketch of one of America's greatest writers.On May 13, 1950, Lillian Ross's first portrait of Ernest Hemingway was published in The New Yorker. It was an account of two days Hemingway spent in New York in 1949 on his way from Havana to Europe. This candid and affectionate profile was tremendously controversial at the time, to the great surprise of its author. Booklist said, "The piece immediately conveys to the reader the kind of man Hemingway was--hard-hitting, warm, and exuberantly alive." It remains the classic eyewitness account of the legendary writer, and it is reproduced here with the preface Lillian Ross prepared for an edition of Portrait in 1961. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, and to celebrate the centenary of this event, Ms. Ross wrote a second portrait of Hemingway for The New Yorker, detailing the friendship the two struck up after the completion of the first piece. It is included here in an amended form.
Portraits de traducteurs (Regards sur la traduction)
by Jean DelisleCe recueil de portraits nous fait pénétrer dans l’intimité de dix traducteurs qui appartiennent à diverse époques : XVIe, XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles. Les textes traduits vont de l’article de presse aux Saintes Écritures, en passant par la tragédie grecque, le roman, la poésie, le conte, le « polar » et les traités de droit. Réintroduisant la subjectivité dans le discours sur la traduction, ces portraits contribuent au nécessaire recentrement de l’attention sur la personne de traducteur. Lorsqu’il a entrepris telle ou telle traduction, quelle était sa visée réelle ? S’est-il plié docilement aux contraintes inhérentes à cet exercice de réénonciation interlinguistique et interculturelle ? A-t-il transgressé certaines de ces contraintes ? Où a-t-il travaillé ? À quelle époque ? Pour qui ? À quelle fin ? Dans quelles circonstances ? Quels facteurs externes ont pu infléchir sa manière de traduire, l’amener à modifier le texte original, voire à s’autocensurer ? Autant de questions dont il faut chercher les réponses en dehors des textes traduits. Publié en français
Portuguese Modernisms: Multiple Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts
by Steffen DixFor a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time of profound cultural change. Indeed, the sociocultural transformations that marked the early 20th century in Portugal are still current. This volume provides a critical guide for students and teachers, contributed by an array of scholars with unparalleled knowledge of the period, its artists and its writers. Steffen Dix is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon; Jeronimo Pizarro is Research Fellow at the Linguistics Centre, University of Lisbon.
Positioning Theory and Strategic Communication: A new approach to public relations research and practice (Routledge New Directions in Public Relations & Communication Research)
by Melanie JamesIn public relations, people talk about positioning an idea, a persona, a political ideal, an ideology – but what are they talking about? Why do some positions taken by organizations crystallize in the minds of audiences, while others fail? Whilst positioning is not something new in public relations, this book is the first to explicate what it involves, how it works and how to do it. This is the first in-depth exploration of the possibilities of Positioning Theory for the public relations field and it adds a new perspective to the growing body of multidisciplinary work in this rich theoretical area, moving the discussion away from the traditional communication plans of previous decades, which fail to accommodate the changing media and opinion landscapes. The author pulls together various strands of socio-cultural theory into an analytical framework, providing readers with a tool to analyse the organizational implications of public relations decisions, guiding strategic decision making through realistic scenario planning. This thought-provoking book provides an alternative path to studying communication in increasingly complex environments and as such, will be vital reading for researchers and educators, advanced communication and public relations students, and for senior public relations practitioners.
Positioning and Location-based Analytics in 5G and Beyond
by Stefania Bartoletti; Nicola Blefari MelazziPOSITIONING AND LOCATION-BASED ANALYTICS IN 5G AND BEYOND Understand the future of cellular positioning with this introduction The fifth generation (5G) of mobile network technology are revolutionizing numerous aspects of cellular communication. Location information promises to make possible a range of new location-dependent services for end users and providers alike. With the new possibilities of this location technology comes a new demand for location-based analytics, a new paradigm for generating and analyzing dynamic location data for a wide variety of purposes. Positioning and Location-based Analytics in 5G and Beyond introduces the foundational concepts related to network localization, user positioning, and location-based analytics in the context of cutting-edge mobile networks. It includes information on current location-based technologies and their application, and guidance on the future development of location systems beyond 5G. The result is an accessible but rigorous guide to a bold new frontier in cellular technology. Positioning and Location-based Analytics in 5G and Beyond readers will also find: Contributions from leading researchers and industry professionals High-level insights into 5G and its future evolution In-depth coverage of subjects such as positioning enablers, location-aware network management, reference standard architectures, and more Positioning and Location-based Analytics in 5G and Beyond is ideal for researchers and industry professionals with an understanding of network communications and a desire to understand the future of the field.
Positioning and Navigation Using Machine Learning Methods (Navigation: Science and Technology #14)
by Kegen YuThis is the first book completely dedicated to positioning and navigation using machine learning methods. It deals with ground, aerial, and space positioning and navigation for pedestrians, vehicles, UAVs, and LEO satellites. Most of the major machine learning methods are utilized, including supervised learning, unsupervised learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. The book presents both fundamentals and in-depth studies as well as practical examples in positioning and navigation. Extensive data processing and experimental results are provided in the major chapters through conducting experimental campaigns or using in-situ measurements.
Positively Outrageous Service: How to Delight and Astound Your Customers and Win Them for Life
by T. Scott GrossIn today’s tough economy, cutting prices and providing good service aren’t enough. To be truly successful, innovative businesspeople must learn the art of Positively Outrageous Service (POS)-doing the unexpected unexpectedly and giving the customer more than he or she could hope for. POS put customer service guru T. Scott Gross on the map in the early 1990s. In this revised third edition, he contemporizes his work by examining what’s wrong in the service industry today and how to turn those negatives into POS. In his signature, slightly irreverent, but always insightful style, he shows managers at every level of the service industry how to:Build a customer base by following the four key principles of promotions-have fun, get people to your store, get people involved with your product, and do something good for othersHire the right people and show them the fundamentals of POSEnergize and obtain the most creativity out of employeesWin over customers when mistakes happen, no matter who is at faultPOS is not just a way of doing business, according to Gross; it’s also a state of mind and the key to success in the twenty-first century. T. Scott Gross is a consumer advocate whose client roster for consulting, training, and speaking reads like a who’s who of the Fortune 500. Countless businesses, including Southwest Airlines, FedEx, McDonald’s, Sears, and Wal-Mart, have asked him to motivate the troops at sales meetings and conferences worldwide.Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Positively Speaking: The Art of Constructive Conversations with a Solutions Focus
by Paul Z. Jackson Janine WaldmanSolution Focused approaches can help unlock the most challenging aspects of executive leadership in the modern public sector. Jackson and Waldman's approach instils the discipline of simplicity and builds confidence through positive enquiry.
Possibility Theory for the Design of Information Fusion Systems (Information Fusion and Data Science)
by Éloi Bossé Basel SolaimanThis practical guidebook describes the basic concepts, the mathematical developments, and the engineering methodologies for exploiting possibility theory for the computer-based design of an information fusion system where the goal is decision support for industries in smart ICT (information and communications technologies). This exploitation of possibility theory improves upon probability theory, complements Dempster-Shafer theory, and fills an important gap in this era of Big Data and Internet of Things.The book discusses fundamental possibilistic concepts: distribution, necessity measure, possibility measure, joint distribution, conditioning, distances, similarity measures, possibilistic decisions, fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and integrals, and finally, the interrelated theories of uncertainty..uncertainty. These topics form an essential tour of the mathematical tools needed for the latter chapters of the book. These chapters present applications related to decision-making and pattern recognition schemes, and finally, a concluding chapter on the use of possibility theory in the overall challenging design of an information fusion system. This book will appeal to researchers and professionals in the field of information fusion and analytics, information and knowledge processing, smart ICT, and decision support systems.
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
by William UryThe author of the world’s best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with the world’s toughest conflicts to offer a way out of the seemingly impossible problems of our time. Conflict is increasing everywhere, threatening everything we hold dear—from our families to our democracy, from our workplaces to our world. In nearly every area of society, we are fighting more and collaborating less, especially over crucial problems that demand solutions.With this groundbreaking book, bestselling author and international negotiator William Ury shares a new “path to possible”—time-tested practices that will help readers unlock their power to constructively engage and transform conflict. Part memoir, part manual, part manifesto, Possible offers stories and sage advice from Ury’s nearly 50 years of experience on the front lines of some of the world’s toughest conflicts.One of the world’s top experts in the field, Ury has worked on conflicts ranging from boardroom battles to labor strikes, from the US partisan divide to family feuds, from wars in the Middle East, Colombia and Ukraine to helping the US and USSR avoid nuclear disaster. Now, in Possible, he helps us tackle the seemingly intransigent problems facing us.In Possible, Ury argues conflict is natural. In fact, we need more conflict, not less—if we are to grow, change, evolve and solve our problems creatively. While we may not be able to end conflict, we can transform it—unleashing new, unexpected possibilities.Successfully tested at Harvard University with almost a thousand participants from business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector, Ury’s “Path to Possible” proved so valuable that Harvard’s Program on Negotiation selected it as its inaugural online daylong in April 2022.Possible introduces Ury’s methods and makes them available for everyone. Combining accessible frameworks and powerful storytelling and offering dozens of examples, it is an essential guide for anyone looking to break through the toughest conflicts—in their workplace, family, community or the world.
Post, Mine, Repeat
by Helen KennedyIn this book, Helen Kennedy argues that as social media data mining becomes more and more ordinary, as we post, mine and repeat, new data relations emerge. These new data relations are characterised by a widespread desire for numbers and the troubling consequences of this desire, and also by the possibility of doing good with data and resisting data power, by new and old concerns, and by instability and contradiction. Drawing on action research with public sector organisations, interviews with commercial social insights companies and their clients, focus groups with social media users and other research, Kennedy provides a fascinating and detailed account of living with social media data mining inside the organisations that make up the fabric of everyday life.
Post-Crisis Leadership: Resilience, Renewal, and Reinvention in the Aftermath of Disruption
by Ralph A. GigliottiGiven the many pressures facing leaders across higher education, the work of crisis leadership remains an imperative for leaders at all levels. Attention tends to center on strategies for engaging in leadership both prior to and during crisis, often leaving the post-crisis period as an afterthought. This book introduces a research-informed framework for this critical, and often neglected, phase of crisis leadership. With an underlying commitment to values-based, principle-oriented, and people-centered practices, this framework consists of five leadership practices that are recognized as especially critical in the aftermath of crisis: (a) encourage learning, (b) inspire growth, (c) stimulate meaning-making, (d) pursue reinvention, and (e) advance renewal. Communication serves a critical role in each of the various dimensions of post-crisis leadership, and it is a communication orientation that can help to inform the paradoxes, processes, and patterns that arise during these periods of immense tension and, at times, transcendence.
Post-Truth Public Relations: Communication in an Era of Digital Disinformation (Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research)
by Gareth ThompsonThis book explores the purpose, practice and effects of public relations (PR) at a time that has been variously described as an era of populism, post-truth and fake news. It considers how PR processes have contributed to the current social condition of post-truth and what constitutes PR work in this environment. Post-Truth Public Relations: Communication in an Era of Digital Disinformation proposes that while we can now look back upon the last 80–100 years as a period of classical PR, that style is being supplemented by the emergence of a post-classical form of PR that has emerged in response to the post-truth era. This new style of PR consists of a mixed repertoire of communicative work that matches the new geometry of digital media and delivers a mix of online engagement and persuasion in order to meet the needs of increasingly partisan audiences. Using contemporary case studies and original interviews with PR practitioners in several countries, including China and the Philippines, the book investigates how PR workers have reconciled their role as communicative intermediaries with the post-truth era of digital disinformation. This thought-provoking book will be of great interest to researchers and advanced students interested in the changing nature of PR and its practice.
Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality: New Conjunctures
by Rosemary Overell Brett NichollsOur contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating ‘reality’. With the spectre of buzzwords like ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal ‘real’ beneath what are positioned as ‘fake’ articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall’s understanding of ‘conjuncture’ as a way of grasping moments within hegemonic struggle, the essays suggest that the current moment requires a revitalization of the concept of conjuncture.
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood (Routledge Studies In Global Information, Politics And Society Ser.)
by Jannick Schou Johan FarkasThe new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship. Through in-depth analyses of news articles, commentaries, academic publications, policy briefs, and political speeches, the book engages with the underlying normative ideas that shape how fake news is being addressed across the globe. Doing so, it provides an innovative, critical contribution to contemporary debates on democracy, post-truth, and politics. Three new chapters: Chapter 2 provides an outline of the scholarly field of research into fake news; Chapter 5 examines how issues of fake news and (mis)information have become intertwined with contemporary crisis events; and Chapter 9 presents democratic alternatives to post-truth solutionism. A new foreword by Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser. Fully updated examples and studies from contemporary events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Capitol attack, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Extended discussions on the causes of democratic decline, currently proposed solutions to fake news, and democratic alternatives to our current predicament. Interesting, informative, and well documented, Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy continues its commitment to understand and engage with the current state and future of democracy.