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 Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies By David Gauntlett 2015 | 171 Pages | ISBN: 1433123355 | PDF | 6 MB In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity - the vital drive of people to make, exchange, and learn together, supported by online networks. He argues that we should think about media in terms of conversations, inspirations, and making things happen. Media studies can be about genuine social change, if we recognise the significance of everyday creativity, work to transform our tools, and learn to use them wisely. Making Media Studies is a lively, readable, and heartfelt manifesto from the author of Making is Connecting.  Valerie Jenness, Ryken Grattet, "Making Hate A Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement" English | 2004 | ISBN: 0871544105 | PDF | pages: 237 | 16.4 mb Violence motivated by racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia weaves a tragic pattern throughout American history. Fueled by recent high-profile cases, hate crimes have achieved an unprecedented visibility. Only in the past twenty years, however, has this kind of violence―itself as old as humankind―been specifically categorized and labeled as hate crime. Making Hate a Crime is the first book to trace the emergence and development of hate crime as a concept, illustrating how it has become institutionalized as a social fact and analyzing its policy implications. In Making Hate a Crime Valerie Jenness and Ryken Grattet show how the concept of hate crime emerged and evolved over time, as it traversed the arenas of American politics, legislatures, courts, and law enforcement. In the process, violence against people of color, immigrants, Jews, gays and lesbians, women, and persons with disabilities has come to be understood as hate crime, while violence against other vulnerable victims-octogenarians, union members, the elderly, and police officers, for example-has not. The authors reveal the crucial role social movements played in the early formulation of hate crime policy, as well as the way state and federal politicians defined the content of hate crime statutes, how judges determined the constitutional validity of those statutes, and how law enforcement has begun to distinguish between hate crime and other crime. Hate crime took on different meanings as it moved from social movement concept to law enforcement practice. As a result, it not only acquired a deeper jurisprudential foundation but its scope of application has been restricted in some ways and broadened in others. Making Hate a Crime reveals how our current understanding of hate crime is a mix of political and legal interpretations at work in the American policymaking process. Jenness and Grattet provide an insightful examination of the birth of a new category in criminal justice: hate crime. Their findings have implications for emerging social problems such as school violence, television-induced violence, elder-abuse, as well as older ones like drunk driving, stalking, and sexual harassment. Making Hate a Crime presents a fresh perspective on how social problems and the policies devised in response develop over time. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology  Make Your Fried Chicken Better: Fried Chicken Recipes for the Soul by Layla Tacy English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09J3Q8XRF | 64 pages | EPUB | 2.92 Mb Driving past Chick-fil-A on an empty stomach without being able to pull over is about the universe's most evil way of saying you've got some bad karma wandering over you. If this has happened to you lately, we definitely recommend getting your aura and house cleansed of any bad spirits or energies. Either that or you could always make it at home?  Peter Busch, "Magie in neutestamentlicher Zeit" English | 2006 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 3525530811 | PDF | 1,0 mb This study shows that magic was a key expression of folk religion in Graeco-Roman times. Introducing the preserved documents of antique magic, Peter Busch traces the magicians` social background and analyses how these documents are related to New Testament thougt.  Machine Learning Engineering on AWS: Build, scale, and secure machine learning systems and MLOps pipelines in production English | 2022 | ISBN: 1803247592 | 789 Pages | PDF MOBI EPUB (True) | 61 MB  K. B. Zandin, "MOST Work Measurement Systems, 3rd Edition" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0824709535 | PDF | pages: 548 | 15.4 mb This book is an essential guide for those in training for their MOST® certification and a great value to anyone looking to enhance their marketability to prospective employers. Revised to accommodate the evolving needs of current and emerging industries, the third edition clarifies the working rules and data card format for BasicMOST®, MiniMOST® and MaxiMOST®, presents a thorough description of the application of AdminMOST™, a version of BasicMOST® for measuring administrative tasks in retail, banking and service environments, and contains new photographs and illustrations. It is an excellent resource for practicing professionals and newcomers in the fields of industrial engineering and management.  Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts by Freedenthal, Stacey;Jobes, David A.; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1648480241 | 234 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.4 MB  Christina Lupton, "Love and the Novel: Life After Reading" English | ISBN: 1788166485 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB | 515 KB Romantic love was born alongside the novel, and books have been shaping how we experience and think about our most intimate stories ever since. But what do novels give us when our own lives diverge from the usual narrative paths? Christina is a professor used to examining stories with a critical eye; until one day in middle age she finds herself falling in love and leaving her marriage for a romance with another woman. This involves a familiar enough tale, but when her new partner suffers a stroke, Tina begins to reflect on the sorts of love that novels rarely capture. A heady mix of memoir, criticism and storytelling that draws on novels ranging from Pride and Prejudice to Price of Salt, Anna Karenina to Conversations with Friends, to illuminate the ways love and novels work, and show how some types of love, which don't race to a narrative end-point, might be the most important of all.  Lorenzo Milani, The School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice By Federico Batini, Peter Mayo, Alessio Surian 2014 | 127 Pages | ISBN: 1433121530 | PDF | 2 MB This book sheds light on the work of one of the 20th century's foremost critical educators, the Italian Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), on the 90th anniversary of his birth. It provides an exposition and critical analysis of the ideas contained in his writings, ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan localities. The work of Milani and the School of Barbiana that he directed provide signposts for a critically and sociologically engaged pedagogy. Important themes include education and class politics; education and imperialism; education and the culture of militarization; the collective dimensions of learning and writing; peer tutoring; critical media literacy; and reading history against the grain. These ideas are analyzed with reference to similar and contrasting ideas by other international educators, scholars and thinkers. As the book argues, Milani's oeuvre contains important ingredients for a social justice-oriented critical pedagogy. The spirit for this pedagogical approach is captured in the School of Barbiana's motto 'I care.'  Brian McGrath, "Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms " English | ISBN: 0823299805 | 2022 | 192 pages | EPUB | 640 KB Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. |
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