Exploring questions of both exploitation and empowerment, Understanding Social Media provides a critical conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media.

A short, innovative book that uses examples and evidence from around the world to analyse the concept of fake news and outline what we know about it, before proposes what we should do about this dangerous phenomenon.

Cutting-edge student exploration of what it means to live in a digital society. Introduces key concepts and research essential for digital media, social media and media/data and society modules.

Combining social and political theory, Media Solidarities explores social change, social justice and how the media shapes our understanding of ourselves. Using relevant and rich examples, this text investigates emerging forms of media solidarities in the digital era.

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

This book asks why humans through history have covered their genitals and worn a cache-sexe. Does the cache-sexe merely provide protection, or is it an instrument to draw attention? Can the cache-sexe be used to stimulate certain thoughts? Why does not wearing a cache-sexe provoke shame one society but not in another? Are nudity and nakedness the same?

On his quest to answer these questions, the author takes the reader on a review of the anatomy of the female and male genitals and reflects ...

Kaas en Nederland worden vaak in een adem genoemd. Bovendien worden kaas en Nederland verbonden met een nostalgische idealisering van het platteland.

Dit boek zoekt de werkelijkheid achter de mythe van ‘kaas als typisch voor Nederland’. Het resultaat toont een kleurrijk palet waarbij kaas en alles wat met kaas te maken heeft op de studietafel wordt gelegd. De auteurs nemen u mee naar koeienstallen en ultrarechtse social media, naar kaasletters, vroegmoderne diplomatie en emigratieliterat...

By the closing decades of the 19th century, photography and postcard-production arrived in British Malaya. The colonial-era postcards that were produced up to the 1940s captured virtually all aspects of life in the British colony and remain as visual testimonies of how the colonial subjects at the time lived and worked, as well as their relationship to the land. And yet, despite the developments in photography and postcard-production, the images that were produced also reiterated and reproduc...

This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular travel writing from maritime Southeast Asia and Ceylon. The examination of these books reveals a coherent genre that was seemingly frivolous yet in fact intensely political, with shared rules and tropes that served to legitimise colonial rule and codify aspects of colonial culture in the popular ...

Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog leek de vaste grond onder de voeten van de adel in Duitsland en Nederland weg te vallen. Rond 1900 hadden de meeste adellijke families nog tot de elite behoord. Nu was die tijd voorgoed voorbij en moesten zij op zoek naar manieren om sociaal, politiek en cultureel te overleven in een zich snel moderniserende samenleving. In Einde van de adelscultuur? wordt deze thematiek in achttien artikelen vanuit een interdisciplinair en vergelijkend perspectief benaderd. Twee vra...