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This book is an essential resource for stepfamily members and the professionals who support them, offering a comprehensive roadmap to navigate the unique challenges of stepfamily life.

Written by Dr. Patricia L. Papernow, this second edition of Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships weaves together five decades of clinical experience, the latest research, and many diverse clinical approaches to provide evidence-based strategies for stepfamilies at every stage of their journey. This book offers an accessible framework to help families and professionals understand why stepfamilies differ so fundamentally from first-time nuclear families - and how to address the confusion and conflict that can arise. At the heart of the book are five predictable challenges that can make stepfamily life unexpectedly complex. Dr. Papernow shares best practices for meeting each of these challenges on three levels: practical guidance for what's "normal" and what works, skills for building connection, and more intensive family-of-origin work when needed.

The book's multi-level approach makes it an invaluable guide for both stepfamily members and a wide range of professionals, including therapists, educators, clergy, and legal or medical practitioners. Combining concrete strategies, real-life stories, and current research, this book equips readers with the tools to help stepfamilies not just survive, but thrive.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

In the wake of the Second Intifada and energized by the Arab Spring, young Palestinian designers have used fashion to voice their political consciousness and forge affective communities in the face of Israeli occupation. This book proposes to understand their practices as "queer decolonial fashion," a collaborative aesthetic ethos attuned to gender, sexuality, race, and the environment that transcends nationalist framings of the Palestinian struggle. Making the case for queer decolonial fashion as a model of creative activism, Dressed for Dissent shows how these designers' work-imbricated with body, identity, and land-ultimately emerges as a site where a viable future for a free Palestine can be envisioned, while also offering insights relevant to other settler-colonial contexts.

This book investigates how mourning is transformed in the digital age, where grief is mediated by algorithms, circulated through hashtags, and shaped by the economies of social media platforms.

This timely edited collection explores the rise of digital mourning practices, from TikTok memorials and grief influencers to the politicisation of loss in activist movements. Through a platform- centric lens, the book examines how contemporary grief unfolds publicly, performatively, and often unequally in online spaces. This collection brings together interdisciplinary scholarship, using methods including digital ethnography, visual analysis, and platform critique to reveal the architectures that govern digital mourning. It shows how platform logics determine whose grief is amplified and whose is erased, how moderation policies impact the persistence of loss online, and how mourning is entangled with attention economies, digital labour, and resistance. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how digital spaces both enable and constrain emotional expression, community care, and practices of remembrance during times of grief.

This book will be essential reading for scholars across media and communication studies, death studies, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. It offers conceptual and methodological tools to engage critically with grief's digital turn, addressing questions of visibility, performance, politics, and platform governance. As mourning becomes increasingly public, networked, and algorithmically structured, this book provides a necessary account of how grief is being reshaped in a rapidly changing media landscape.

This book is a pioneering exploration of science and society through insights gathered from social movements in India post-Independence. Based on rigorous empirical investigation of civil society organisations, it unearths the genealogy of science activism in India while raising pertinent questions on science-society coupling.

This interdisciplinary volume spotlights cases and focused content which thoroughly analyses mobilisation, institutionalisation and how science movement organisations have emerged and changed since Independence. Drawing out theoretical perspectives on the people's science movement in India, it identifies new areas of research in science, technology and society studies.

Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book will be useful to the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Political Science, Education, Social Work, Development Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and South Asian Studies. It would also be useful to social activists, social workers, and professionals in the voluntary sector.

Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre.

The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while simultaneously reaffirming its claims to truth. It examines how documentary mechanisms associated with form and content are deployed by filmmakers to represent nonhuman animals as subjects deserving of moral consideration, effectively seeking an ethical response from viewers. Rhetorical devices at the service of the documentary genre and animal ethics discourses come together in the formulation of narratives and aesthetics that reflect filmmakers' awareness of the intertextual forces embodied by nonhuman animals in moving images.

Contributing to the fields of (Critical) Animal, Film, and Media Studies by defining and historicizing these films, the book situates their identity in the context of Western mythographies, politics of sight, the systemic practices of the animal-industrial complex, and contemporary self-reflexivity. It will appeal to academics, students, advocates, activists and people with an interest in nonfiction film, offering them an understanding of the historical and aesthetic place of animal advocacy documentaries, as well as a critical assessment of their limits and problematic interstices.

This volume examines how literary journalism - immersive, long-form journalism so beautifully written that it can stand up as literature - delves into the topic of death and dying.

More than twenty international scholars from six continents draw from an eclectic range of disciplines including media history, media content analysis and cultural studies to offer a balanced and multifaceted exploration of how literary journalists consider the topic of death. Authors explore Svetlana Alexievich's writing about the deaths of Soviet/Russian citizens since 1945, Joan Didion's professional and personal growth while overwhelmed by her own grief, compelling approaches to writing about the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, and the challenges faced by a writer immersing herself in the intimate world of palliative care. One writer examines how, early in the 20th century, the editor of a Black newspaper in South Africa, through thoughtful coverage of the death of tribal kings, helped foster in readers a belief in their own nation. The murder of an Aboriginal man in Australia is studied through the work of a reporter investigating the case for six years over multiple platforms. Biased and balanced writing about gay men is considered in Canadian magazines during the AIDS era of the 1980s, and contrasting strategies for writing true crime stories are explored.

Literary Journalists Explore Death will benefit anyone who writes, studies or teaches any form of narrative nonfiction. Its range of vital topics include journalism ethics, Black studies, death studies, journalism and trauma, criminology, LGBT and queer studies, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, media history and digital journalism.

This book adopts a triangulated approach to explore the complexity of migration discourses, bringing together argumentation analysis and corpus linguistics to the study of the "European refugee" crisis.

Drawing on a corpus with data from across British, Polish, and Spanish newspapers, Zawadzka-Paluektau explores how migration from Asia and Africa to Europe over the 2015-2018 period was conceptualised as a period of crisis for Europe. This volume makes the case for a triangulated approach to understanding these dynamics more fully with its combination of robust quantitative corpus-based studies and richly detailed qualitative discourse analysis. Zawadzka-Paluektau uses this perspective to draw readers' attention to recurring patterns in how refugees were represented in the European press across geographic contexts but also differences owing to extra-linguistic factors, including historical, cultural, and sociopolitical factors. In light of growing forced displacement and migration "crises" globally, this volume offers important insights into the study of immigration discourses in Europe and beyond and future directions for further research.

This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, political discourse, media discourse, and migration studies.

Family Relationships in the Digital Era explores the adoption of digital technologies within various types of family relationships and discusses their potential to foster connection while also having the capacity to create rifts and distance.

The book reconciles the psychological and psychosocial dynamics of human family relationships with the digitally immersed, hyperconnected social environments they inhabit. Synthesising 15 years of research, it explores technology use in a range of family relationships from romantic relationships and parent-child bonds to siblings and later-life kin networks, including transnational family relationships across distance. Expert contributors from diverse disciplines provide a multidisciplinary perspective, bridging communication studies, family studies, media studies, migration studies, and more.

Addressing both personal and societal concerns, this book appeals to a wide readership from academics, educators, and policymakers to anyone interested in the impact of technology on modern family life.

This book investigates the transformative relationship between soccer and women in the 21st century, a time when football has increasingly embraced femininity and women have gained unprecedented visibility and empowerment in the digital soccer landscape. Highlighting the growing presence of women in fan culture and digital spaces, the book explores how these arenas have become pivotal in shaping women's roles and participation in soccer. By examining global, transnational, national, and local contexts, it delves into the interplay between soccer and women, focusing on the dynamic intersections of fandom and digitality.

Through documentary, discursive, analytical, and insider perspectives, the authors uncover the critical themes that define women's engagement with soccer in fan cultures and digital practices. These themes include gender, femininity, sexism, masculinity, misogyny, identity, platformization, digital and social media, e-commerce, and brand activism. The book sheds light on how these factors have influenced not only the women's game but also the broader societal roles of women as players, fans, and contributors to the sport's evolving narrative.

Spanning subject areas such as gender studies, women's history, sports sociology, digital culture, and media studies, this book is designed for scholars, students, researchers, and readers passionate about exploring the intersection of soccer, gender, and digital innovation in contemporary society.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society and are now accompanied by a newly updated Introduction.

Concealed behind digital platforms, a vast, dispersed, and largely invisible workforce quietly generates and annotates the data that powers today's AI boom. In Platform Extractivism, information scientist Julian Posada argues that these platforms are engines of extraction rooted in the enduring social inequalities and transnational power disparities of coloniality. Posada reveals that technology, especially today's so-called AI, is not artificial, autonomous, or intelligent; it inherently relies on and extracts from humanity. Drawing on mixed-methods research on three platforms in the Venezuelan data work sector, Posada exposes the human cost of this technology, revealing how digital platforms have capitalized on economic instability, targeting vulnerable populations to extract value from their precarious labor.

A critical intervention in the debate on the future of work, this book provides profound insight into the implications of artificial intelligence and moves beyond the context of advanced economies to focus on the labor involved in its production. Platform Extractivism questions whether AI is a tool for freedom or a motor driving the widening the gap between the unseen workers who teach machines and the corporations that profit from them.

This book explores how Black-produced films, hip hop songs, and magazines shape the way we think about the African American high school experience. Using critical media literacy as its foundation, the book treats media as a powerful teacher, one that sends messages about race, school, success, and who is expected to thrive.

Rather than seeing these images as harmless entertainment, the book shows how repeated media stories help normalize certain ideas about Black youth and education. Qualitative content analysis is used to closely examine popular films, songs, and magazines, looking for patterns in how Black students are portrayed and what education is said to offer them. Beyond theory and method, the book focuses on real-world impact, calling for transformative storytelling that celebrates the diversity and resilience of African American culture while fostering equity in education and media representation.

Offering tools for educators, parents, media creators, and students to develop critical media literacy skills, challenge harmful stereotypes, and demand more authentic, complex, and empowering representations of Black youth and their educational experiences, this book will interest scholars and students of media studies, film and TV studies, education studies, cultural studies, African American studies, sociology, and communication studies.

AI for Healthcare provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to how artificial intelligence is transforming medicine. Structured in three parts, the book first demystifies core technologies (machine learning, deep learning, large language models, and AI agents) through concrete clinical examples.

It then examines real-world applications already deployed in hospitals worldwide, including diagnostic imaging, predictive medicine, connected health, digital mental health therapies, AI-powered disability assistance, and hospital operations optimization.

The final part addresses the conditions for responsible implementation, including ethics, trust-building, cybersecurity, and regulatory frameworks. Each chapter is enriched with exclusive interviews featuring physician-researchers and technology leaders from institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, as well as operational case studies from innovative technology companies and clinics.

The book bridges the gap between technical possibility and clinical reality. It is written for healthcare professionals, hospital decision-makers, health technology leaders, researchers, and policymakers who need to understand, evaluate, and act on AI within their organizations. Readers will gain a clear, jargon-free understanding of what AI can and cannot do today, the critical questions to ask before any deployment, and a practical framework for successfully implementing AI while keeping patients at the center.

In The Attention Gap in College Sports, Joshua Woods delves deeply into data on social media activity among college teams and college athletes and critically examines the ways attention-and attempts to gain it-are reconfiguring power and profit in college sports.

Since a landmark ruling in collegiate athletics granted student athletes the right to profit from their name, image and likeness (NIL), thousands have pursued endorsement deals and business ventures. Important shifts in the time since have accelerated the rise of what this book refers to as an "attention economy," wherein the value placed on athletic performance and success has moved perceptibly online and toward public visibility and influence. The chapters in this book seek explanations for the uneven distribution of NIL opportunities and how these are driven, in part, by gender and race. This book also considers the broader ways in which these opportunities are reshaping college sports, fan engagement and athlete well-being. This book's analysis theorizes the relationships between attention capital and other forms of capital, building a sociological perspective on attention, why it matters in the field of college sports and its far-reaching implications in other fields and across society.

Grounded in its command of social media data and its discerning view, The Attention Gap in College Sports is a valuable look at consequential issues happening within college sports. Its important discoveries about social media use in this competitive landscape contribute meaningfully to conversations about sport and society, sports media, and sports business and management.

Throughout the history of football, new leagues have periodically emerged offering high salaries to lure foreign stars - the United States, Japan, and China being prominent examples. Less well known, however, is the case of Colombia. The Colombian professional football league was a brief but remarkable experiment that attracted top South American and European players in the early 1950s, commonly referred to as El Dorado.

Drawing on a wide array of archival material and other primary sources, this book explores how a small, economically underdeveloped country with no established football tradition managed to finance such a high-profile "pirate" league while confronting the international football establishment. It examines the economic and social conditions that made it possible to field world-class players such as Alfredo Di Stefano and Charlie Mitten, and explicitly addresses the domestic and international circumstances that allowed so powerful a league to emerge so far from football's traditional centers of power.

This book also traces the collapse of the league and its lasting ramifications for the history of football in the region. It will be of great interest to readers in sports economics, sports history, economic history, and Latin American studies.

Suicide: The Basics is a concise, accessible, and evidence-informed introduction to the study, prevention, and lived experience of suicide.

Written for students and readers approaching the topic for the first time, this book explains key areas in suicidology such as theories, risk and protective factors, and suicidal crisis processes. Rather than reducing suicide to diagnoses or statistics, it explains how suicidal crises develop through pain, meaning, relationships, and moments of feeling trapped. Bridging science and humanity, it shows not just what suicide is, but how it unfolds and where intervention can make a real difference. By considering methods of assessment, treatments, and community and policy strategies that help, the author explores how age, culture, and identity shape both vulnerability and recovery. He provides a compassionate and straightforward overview of suicide with short sections, illustrative tables, end-of-chapter summaries, and annotated reading lists.

By including practical ways to find help, support others, and pursue further study, this book will appeal to students of counseling, nursing, philosophy, psychology, public health, social work, and sociology, as well as readers with a general interest in the topic of mental wellbeing and suicide prevention.

This book examines the evolving relationship between women and sport, a growing area of study in the 21st century. The connection between women and sport can be understood through three major perspectives: women and sport, women in sport, and women's sport. Within this framework, the book focuses on the rendezvous between women and soccer, exploring this dynamic across global, transnational, regional, national, and local contexts. It delves into extant literature, contexts, categories, methodologies, and key themes, issues, roles, and questions to uncover her stories in the history of soccer.

The authors provide documentary, discursive, and analytical perspectives on the connection between women and soccer, addressing some of the most critical themes that shape women's engagement with the sport in different societies. These themes have influenced not only the women's game but also women's diverse participation and roles in connection with soccer - both women's and men's. The book explores themes such as professionalization, migration, talent, leadership, networks, agency, empowerment, gender, femininity, motherhood, sexism, lesbianism, masculinity, resistance, and identity.

Covering broad subject areas such as gender studies, women's history, sports history, sociology, and cultural studies, this book is an essential resource for academics, researchers, students, and enthusiasts seeking to understand the multifaceted dynamics of women's involvement in soccer and its broader societal implications.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society and are now accompanied by a newly updated Introduction.

This book examines how vast, arid environments have become a coveted natural resource for American and European film and media producers. Seeking to sustain the colonial imaginary of the uninhabited frontier, the screen industries increasingly depend on states in the former colonies, transforming portions of their territories into quasi-extraterritorial zones stripped from Indigenous stewardship, deregulated as tax-exempt enclaves, and devoted to techno-military experimentation. Hot Locations traces the production of abstracted desert images and re-anchors them in their material relations to land and the humans and nonhumans who reside there. In so doing, Daniel Mann produces a highly original work that theorizes the desert as a distinctive extractive formation within cinema: an environment framed, captured, rendered, and circulated as both war zone and extraterrestrial world.

The book offers an ethnographic account of the composition, leadership, and ritual performance of a charismatic Catholic prayer group. Through analysis, it reveals how the charismatic priest maximizes his authority by integrating personal and institutional power within the context of global Pentecostalism and recent American cultural history.

What happens when charisma and bureaucratic structure collide? This book provides a firsthand look at how charismatic authority emerges within highly institutional settings and explains why it matters. It demonstrates how vertical ties of personal devotion between the leader and followers and horizontal ties among group members, built through stories of conversion and healing, forge deeply charismatic relationships that strengthen group cohesion and resilience. Written in accessible language, the book explores the tension between individualism and distrust of institutional structures and the unique experience of Catholics in a predominantly Protestant culture. Moving beyond the classic Weberian paradigm, it delivers a fresh, nuanced understanding of charismatic leadership in American culture and society and reveals how a deeply personal, sacred form of Christianity takes root.

The book will appeal to scholars and students of religious studies, anthropology of religion, and anyone who is interested in Pentecostalism, Christianity, charisma, and American culture.

This ground-breaking volume demands a fundamental rethinking of how research is conducted with-and accountable to-communities. Moving beyond institutional compliance and procedural checklists, the work calls for an ethics grounded in responsibility, reciprocity, and knowledge sovereignty, challenging researchers to reimagine their relationships with research participants and communities.

Bringing together Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and land-based perspectives, the contributors confront the colonial and extractive logics that continue to shape mainstream research ethics. They advocate for relational accountability, continuous consent, and shared decision-making as essential foundations for just and transformative scholarship. Through personal decolonization narratives, critiques of institutional ethics boards, and practical frameworks for community-led governance, this book equips scholars, community organizers, and policymakers with concrete strategies to dismantle power imbalances and foster equitable research partnerships.

Essential reading for anyone committed to research as a tool for justice rather than extraction, Rethinking Research offers a radical vision of scholarship that centers community voices and collective well-being.

Taeil, Yifan, Naoko, and Fangrong, along with their contributors, examine how China, Korea, and Japan are leveraging digital technologies to address unprecedented demographic shifts in their aging populations.

This book offers a comparative and policy-oriented examination of how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are transforming aging societies in East Asia. Focusing on China, South Korea, and Japan, it brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to analyze how governments are responding to population aging through digital health, long-term care innovation, community-based services, and everyday digital support for older adults. A key feature of the book is its integrated framework, which links technological change with intergenerational relations, welfare institutions, and digital inclusion, rather than treating technology as a purely technical solution. The book combines national policy analysis with local case studies and thematic syntheses, allowing readers to understand both structural differences and shared challenges across countries.

An essential book for academics and researchers of social policy, public administration, gerontology, and digital governance, as well as policymakers and practitioners engaged in aging and welfare reform. Readers will benefit from empirically grounded insights, comparative perspectives, and policy-relevant lessons for designing inclusive, sustainable, and human-centered digital strategies in aging societies.

This book offers a timely and necessary exploration of journalism in fiction, traditionally centered on American media, by analyzing journalistic discourses within European films and television series and examining how audiences make sense of these narratives.

Adopting an intersectional approach that considers gender, race, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of identity, the book revolves around two main pillars: content and audience. The first objective broadens the scope of analysis to include non- American fictional portrayals of journalism, while the third objective focuses on how different audiences engage with and interpret these representations. Interwoven throughout both is the second objective: to analyze diversity in fictional journalism and understand how audiences from various backgrounds perceive and respond to the inclusion of or notable absence of women and minority journalists.

This book will appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who are interested in the intersection of journalism, media representation, and audience reception within communication sciences, journalism studies, cultural studies, and cinema and media studies.

This book explores football's evolution from a community-based sport to a global entertainment industry, examining the profound social, economic, cultural, and technological forces reshaping the world's most popular game.

Through interdisciplinary research and critical inquiry, the contributors explore football's changing landscape across multiple dimensions, from the shifting roles of players, coaches, and referees to the transformation of fans from passionate supporters to global consumers. This book provides fresh perspectives on pressing contemporary issues, including the impact of technologies such as VAR on officiating, the tension between local identity and global commercialisation, and controversial initiatives such as the Super League. Its comprehensive examination of how football's commercialisation and mediatisation have fundamentally altered the sport's relationship with communities' challenges traditional notions of belonging while creating new forms of engagement. Each chapter combines theoretical frameworks with empirical evidence to illuminate the complex interplay between football's emotional roots and its increasingly business-driven model, offering insights into whether these seemingly opposing forces can coexist in the sport's future.

This book will be useful for academics, researchers, and students interested in sport science, football, the sociology of sport, and sport studies more broadly.

Ethical AI and Education: Reality, Opportunities, Governance, and Consequences of AI in the Classroom examines how artificial intelligence is entering schools and what responsible use requires from educators, leaders, and policymakers. It moves beyond claims of inevitable transformation to ask how decisions about AI are made, who holds responsibility, and what is at stake when educational judgment is shaped by automated systems.

The book develops a governance-based approach to artificial intelligence in education, grounded in ethics, law, and institutional practice. It addresses core issues including bias, datafication, academic integrity, teacher agency, and global inequality, while placing recent developments such as generative AI within a longer trajectory of educational technology. Drawing on international frameworks, including the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, it provides practical guidance for schools seeking to implement AI in ways that are lawful, accountable, and educationally meaningful. The central argument is that ethical AI in education depends not on tools alone, but on structures of oversight, professional judgment, and institutional responsibility.

For researchers, educators, and policymakers seeking to understand not only how artificial intelligence is entering education, but how it should be governed, this book provides both analysis and direction.

This thoroughly updated fifth edition provides a broad introduction to the major theoretical perspectives on the ethics of communication, covering classical and modern theories of ethical philosophy that address issues at play in specific careers and domains throughout the field.

By incorporating a framework for ethical reasoning, readers can develop their own understanding of various criteria for making ethical judgments. The book applies ethical theories, such as virtue ethics and dialogical ethics, to interpersonal, political, organizational contexts. There is expanded discussion of social media and developments in artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and machine learning. This edition also continues increased coverage of contemporary and non-Western issues and theories, including Confucian, Islamic, Hindu, as well as African ethical systems of Yoruba, Igbo, and Akan Peoples.

The book serves as a core textbook for undergraduate courses in communication and media ethics and can be used as a supplemental resource for field-specific courses in strategic communication, interpersonal communication, public relations, and others.

Online resources for instructors include sample syllabi, sample assignments, PowerPoint lecture slides, and test banks with multiple choice and essay questions. They are available at www.routledge.com/9781041341499.

This book renews our understanding of contemporary interculturality and today's intercultural world through an illuminating case study of the Labubu phenomenon.

Why do we queue for hours, shake blind boxes and refresh screens at 10 p.m. just for the privilege of buying something we did not even want yesterday? What does our hunger for a grinning monster reveal about how we connect, belong and exclude in today's divided world? Beneath these questions lies an ultimate search for the driving force behind the mania: What are we really chasing? The authors offer a surprising answer: ourselves. Drawing on critical interculturality, the sociology of consumption, media studies and discourse analysis, this interdisciplinary work examines media coverage, social media conversations and ethnographic fieldwork from countries such as China, Finland and France. It unpacks the hyper-capitalist machinery of artificial scarcity, emotional commerce and strategic emptiness, introducing the Labubu Model of Interculturality (LMI) - a framework for understanding how consumption has become the primary language of belonging in a glocalised world.

Written for scholars, students and curious readers alike, this book offers an intriguing and thought-provoking study for those drawn to the Labubu vogue, as well as researchers engaged in intercultural studies, business and marketing and postmodern studies.

Race, Protest, and the Power of the Body in Sport explores how and why athletes use public performance to bring audience's attention to structural racism.

The book it focuses on the case of Colin Kaepernick and his decision to take the knee, which eventually became a global gesture for bringing attention to structural racism. In doing so, the book provides the reader with a clear understanding of how audiences respond to athlete activists in the US and in global contexts who seek to bring their attention to structural issues. Through the central case study of taking the knee, the book analyses how Kaepernick was able to bring attention to structural racism, and why taking the knee eventually became a global gesture for bringing attention to police brutality. The book also situates taking the knee in a history of athlete activism to recognise patterns in public response to athlete activism and suggests why different performative features can reduce the hostility athlete activists face.

This book is intended for students and scholars interested in athlete activism, sports, and how sports fans respond to activism.

Drawing from interviews with professionals across fields who have changed careers, this book offers new knowledge about professional writing experiences and workplace writing transfer during moments of career change.

Writing transfer is the process through which individuals adapt previous writing skills and knowledge into new writing contexts. In this book, the narratives of career change professionals root us firmly in the workplace, and their writing transitions serve as a common professional moment. The book establishes that workplace-to-workplace writing transfer is markedly different from earlier transitions and offers a new concept to help readers make sense of it: Dynamic Workplace Writing Transfer (DWWT). Dynamic Workplace Writing Transfer is the complex, iterative cognitive process by which professionals successfully transform as writers as they move from one workplace role or context to another. More broadly, the book also explores the life of the professional as a communicator. It considers key contexts, cultural dynamics, both writerly and other identities, and the complexities of writing lives during moments of career changes.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of technical and professional communication, writing studies and rhetoric.

This edited collection presents new work by leading international scholars that addresses the multi-layered meaning of frictions within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.

It brings together an impressive range of global scholars from media and communication, visual and cultural studies, to sociology, anthropology and cultural geography, and digital technology research, to critically examine the dynamics of friction, providing an original perspective on media frictions and a new understanding of the social tensions, instabilities and power inequalities of friction within media, culture and society. Together the chapters provide a timely opportunity to understand both the creative force, and negative consequences, of frictions within media and society.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of television, media and cultural studies.

The East in Western Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive guide to understanding how 'the East' has been represented across Western media, exploring the cultural, ethical, and political implications of cross-cultural representation.

This student-friendly textbook introduces core concepts including orientalism, postcolonialism, and media representation through eleven thematically organized chapters. Each chapter is divided into manageable sections and includes questions for reflection, discussion prompts, and recommended further reading. The flexible structure allows the book to serve as the foundation for an entire course or enables instructors to assign specific chapters and sections tailored to their curriculum. Readers gain a clear understanding of complex cross-cultural issues through structured guidance that demystifies the often-confusing landscape of representation studies, equipping them with critical tools to analyse media portrayals of the East and their broader consequences.

This book is designed for university-level students and instructors in film, media, and cultural studies programmes. It is ideal for courses focusing on cross-cultural representation, orientalism, postcolonial studies, and media analysis, as well as students seeking either a comprehensive overview of the field or focused exploration of specific topics within representation studies.

Fame is fickle, as conventional wisdom has it, but in current times, celebrity seems to be in crisis more than ever. Sexual abuse scandals and the #MeToo movement have rocked the foundations of celebrity culture; media and AI developments have questioned the nature of the 'star' as a human figure; various forms of societal, cultural, and political polarisation have put celebrities under increased public pressure; and more and more famous figures are opening up about their mental health crises and the negative effects of fame, such as burnout, anxiety, the impact of hate speech, body-shaming, or performance pressure.

This edited collection explores how such moments of crisis-scandals, reputational breakdowns, public controversies, and conflicts-shape the contemporary dynamics of celebrity culture. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from media studies, cultural studies, and sociology, the contributions examine a wide range of cases, from high-profile public scandals to the affective politics of celebrity failure and reputational repair. This book highlights how celebrity figures become focal points for broader social debates about gender, class, race, morality, and authenticity, offering critical insights into the mechanisms of fame, the politics of visibility, and the cultural work performed by celebrity scandals in the digital age.

This volume will be of great interest to postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in media and cultural studies, sociology, communication studies, and celebrity studies as well as anyone interested in understanding the complex relationship between fame, power, and contemporary culture. It was originally published as a special issue of Celebrity Studies.