Helping to bridge the gap between data gathering and data analysis, this book is based on a set of easy-to-follow steps woven throughout the text, enabling students to get stuck in and working with qualitative data fast.

Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an accessible yet critical exploration of cultural production and consumption in the global media landscape. This new edition explores the effects of digitalisation on culture and analyses the influence of IT and tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook on the cultural industries.

Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cove...

Organizational Communication is the first textbook in the field written from a critical perspective, while providing a comprehensive survey of theory and research in organizational communication. It familiarizes students with the field of organizational communication-historically, conceptually, and practically-and challenges them to reconsider their common sense understandings of work and organizations, preparing them for participation in 21st century organizational settings. Linking theory w...

This popular and widely recommended book outlines all of the requirements of the Literacy Skills Test, explaining the essential subject knowledge candidates need to know. This fifth edition also includes a full practice test, more practice questions and more question and answer commentary.

Taking readers from media students to media professionals, Introducing Media Practice brings together the 'why' and the 'how to' of media studies. It explains how adding theory to practice improves students' media projects, and shows them how to develop the kind of project skills they need for a career in the creative and media industries. With a clear, easy-to-follow structure, the book: Covers the full range of media practice skills, from building production teams and writing briefs, throug...

Critical, broad and extensively researched, Understanding New Media remains the essential guide to the new media world, with expanded coverage of key topics, including digital participation, extreme pornography and online radicalization and engaging case studies on topics such as selfies, trolling and gaming addiction.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological imagination, exploring how we construct and operate in online spaces, and what the implications of this are for offline social practice.

Taking Emile Durkheim's concept of the 'social fact' (social ...

Taal was belangrijk in de Gouden Eeuw. Schrijvers, dichters, taalgeleerden en journalisten legden zelfbewust de basis voor wat het Standaardnederlands zou worden, een taal waarop iedereen even trots leek te zijn als op de nieuwe Republiek. Tegelijkertijd openden de Lage Landen zich voor de rest van de wereld, onder andere door de handel en het vroege kolonialisme, maar ook door belangstelling voor de ‘nieuwe’ kunsten uit Italië en Frankrijk. Bovendien kwamen door de grote welvaart heel v...