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This book offers an ethnomusicological case study of a Nigerian congregation in Ireland and engages with some of the most salient issues emerging in twenty-first century migrant Christianity. Situated at the intersection between salvation, music, and embodiment, the study highlights the inextricable connection between expressive cultural forms, local theologies, and religious efficacy. Engaging with accounts of the nature of salvation in African theological discourse, the book explores how salvation is materialised in Christ Apostolic Church, Dublin, through talking drum performance, dance, music and movement in prayer and testimonies, and the language of congregational song. Even while salvific performance represents a continuation of practices brought from Nigeria, areas of tension are emerging in the context of migration. Faced with significant environmental, economic, and social changes, church members are beginning to question some of their beliefs and to adapt their approaches. This book engages not only the efficacious aspects of salvific performance, but also the musical outworking of salvific tensions and contradictions against a backdrop of social and religious change. It will be of interest to scholars of ethnomusicology, anthropology of religion, African religions, African Pentecostalism, theology, liturgical studies, and migration studies.

This book examines creative new ways in which legal and administrative information are communicated to diverse audiences. Using a range of theoretical frameworks, it explores these transformations within broader societal issues such as legal activism, access to justice, and citizen participation.

Increasingly, there has been widespread recognition that non-specialists need to be able to understand legal information. Although plain language campaigns have made considerable progress in ensuring that legal texts are now less dense and more readable, such measures are often shown to be insufficient. For this reason, many institutions such as parliaments and courts have made considerable efforts to present this information in more attractive digital formats, and to disseminate the core messages via other media including video and virtual reality. In addition to addressing the social and political trends underlying these changes, the volume provides evidence of various cognitive and multimodal strategies used in different languages and cultures, investigating discourse practices in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

The collection will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and professionals working in the areas of law, public administration, communication, and applied linguistics.

Acknowledging that there several accepted definition of wisdom, a global array of contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on its societal impact. They embrace the inherent complexity and elusiveness of the concept to address its role in personal development, business, political leadership and individual efforts to make positive contributions to a troubled world. Combining scientific, philosophical and spiritual approaches, entries explore the implications of metaphysics and consciousness, integrating practical and theoretical knowledge to provide a broad and deep overview of wisdom.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Wisdom Research is an essential resource for scholars and students of psychology, business and management, sociology, the humanities and innovation studies. Business leaders as well as ethics policymakers and educators will similarly benefit from its broad analysis and practical recommendations.

Key Features:

• Showcases entries from leading thinkers from around the world, including the Global South
• Analyses the social pre-conditions which foster wisdom to enhance community-led development
• Examines the implications of wisdom for neuroscience, spirituality, religious studies, ethics and philosophy
• Investigates aspects of wisdom that have been under-emphasised in contemporary wisdom research

In the 2010s, digital platforms swiftly became the dominant way to disseminate media content, promising to make communication transparent in ways that print, cinema, and broadcast never could. The Digital Transparent critically interrogates this claim, arguing that while platforms introduce new transparencies, they also create opacities intrinsic to their technology and architecture.

Using Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif, the book demonstrates that transparency arrangements are always selective, partial, and strategically constructed. It argues that transparency functions both as an opening up of the platform and as a mechanism that enables platforms to govern. Through dispositif analysis of two key transparency devices-the dashboard and the transparency centre-the book examines YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, and X.com/Twitter using textual analysis, interface analysis, and interviews with YouTubers.

The Digital Transparent is essential reading for students and scholars in media studies, offering a historical perspective on digital platforms that reveals what is genuinely new and what continues from earlier media. It will appeal to those interested in Foucault's work and its application to contemporary media, researchers in transparency studies seeking critical perspectives on communication and distribution, and platform scholars focused on governance, creative practices, and regulation.

Focusing on children's literature, comics, and digital media, this book explores alternative forms of translation, which differ from the more traditional approaches and practices in these fields and from the predominant conceptualizations of translation.

Alternative translation has been selected as an overarching theme for this project as it has the potential to provide an effective framework for examining underexplored translation activities and cultural contexts. We use it to revisit existing areas of translation and to shed more light on newly-emerging translation territories. The book offers a combination of European and non-European perspectives and several languages represented, including English, Polish, Japanese, Spanish and Catalan. The diverse forms of alternative translation examined in the book include digital manga translation, fan translation, scanlation, transcreation, indirect translation, visual translation, and competing (re-)translations. By exploring these areas, this volume shows valuable contrasts and enables new and more nuanced understandings of translation in general. Connecting Japan, Spain, and Poland under the umbrella of alternative translation, it also invites exploration of other semi-peripheral and non-hegemonic sociocultural contexts.

The book will provide insights for scholars, teachers, and postgraduate students in translation studies, children's literature studies, comics studies, cultural studies, fan studies, and media studies.

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive research methods textbook provides an introduction to the diverse scientific methods that form the foundation of scholarship and practice in Human Development and Family Science (HDFS), with a focus on information literacy for applied practitioners.

Illustrated throughout with studies foundational to the discipline as examples of the strategies described in the text, the book distinguishes empirical scientific research from common sense and personal experience. It explores how scientific consensus is developed and how scientific literacy translates into evidence-based professional practice. It also introduces the use of study design to achieve falsifiability in scientific research and provides an overview of four different study designs: qualitative, prevalence, correlational, and experimental. It then examines systematic empiricism through sampling and measurement and addresses the public verifiability of science, including how information literacy and scientific literacy translates into evidence-based professional practice. This section also includes a discussion of the strategies used by pseudoscience to exploit the well-deserved credibility of science and relevant examples, with guidance to distinguish science from its pretenders.

Key features of this new edition include:

• In-text pedagogical tools, such as learning activities, recorded interviews and mini lectures, and reflection questions
• Interactive digital resources including flashcards and self-testing questions to enhance student engagement and understanding

Research Foundations for Human Development and Family Science is a comprehensive, accessible core textbook for undergraduate research methods classes in HDFS and related fields. It introduces the discipline of HDFS and challenges students to understand the limitations of common sense and the threat of pseudoscience for those working professionally with children and families.

We live in an algorithmic society. Artificial Intelligence and algorithms have become the main mediators through which power and knowledge are enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields - Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance - into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad cultural-political analysis, addressing critical and ethical issues of AI and algorithms.

Governments are increasingly turning towards AI tools to predict criminality, deliver public services, allocate resources, and calculate recidivism rates. Mind-boggling amounts of data regarding our daily actions are analysed to make decisions that manage, control, and nudge our behaviour in everyday life. The contributions in this book offer a broad analysis of the mechanisms and social implications of algorithmic governance. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, the result is illuminating and useful for understanding the relations between AI, power and knowledge.

This new revised and updated edition includes topics such as:

• Algorithmic governmentality
• Transparency and accountability
• Fairness in criminal justice and predictive policing
• Principles of good digital administration
• Digital sovereignty and responsible AI
• AI and the smart city

This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Sociology, Criminology, Public Administration, Political Sciences, and Cultural Theory interested in the integration of AI and algorithms into the governance of society.

This guide provides practical strategies for international students to overcome language and socio-cultural barriers, improve language proficiency, address cultural adaptation challenges, and strengthen academic and professional communication.

Intended to supplement university-provided orientation materials at English-language universities, the book combines theoretical insights with practical, actionable advice that focuses on international students' unique communication challenges. It treats communication as a learnable skill built through practice across every part of campus life, from a first hello to a job interview. Eight chapters carry the reader from the first weeks abroad (including the "arrival cliff") through relationship-building, classroom participation, social support, and career launch. The book is grounded in current research and anchored in real student stories. Frameworks like the S.P.A.C.E. method for starting conversations give readers tools they can use and return to. It names accent bias directly; engages with xenophobia and the immigration climate; and treats neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ identity, and mental health as layered realities for international students rather than as footnotes. It also shows, with worked examples, how to use generative AI ethically to improve academic and professional communication.

This is an accessible book tailored to international students and the faculty, advisors, and counselors who support them.

This book makes a critical intervention into debates about sport, journalism and the broader media industries in the UK, and reveals new insights into the working practices of sports media professionals.

The author argues for the importance of sports reporting as a central feature both of scrutinising the sports industry and of ensuring journalism is informative, entertaining and commercially viable. Drawing on more than 50 interviews, he also brings together a combination of content analyses, archival research and a field ethnography to explore the history and current practice of sports journalism in the UK across video, audio and written media. Themes include the precarity of being a sports journalist, even as sport has become more important economically to the media; insights into how social and online platforms are used by sports journalists and content creators, such as those working in-house for clubs and leagues; and gender and diversity in sports journalism, including the media prominence of women's sport. It's not just football: the book also features chapters examining media coverage of cricket, boxing, rugby league and swimming.

An original intervention offering new insights into sports reporting in a time of technological change and financial pressure on journalism, this book will interest not only sports journalism students, but also those working in sports business, management and events; journalism studies; media industry studies; media sport and sports studies.

As the United States celebrates the 250-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the ninth edition of the hugely successful American Civilization not only describes and explains what makes the United States a "civilization" but also examines the challenges to its cohesion and democratic progress.

This edition introduces readers to the significant debates in U.S. society, culture, and politics, ensuring a nuanced understanding of the complexities of American civilization. Early chapters have been reconfigured to address the challenges of race and discrimination in American political development. The book has been fully updated to reflect developments in education and local government during the second Trump administration, a more critical approach to foreign policy which questions the concept of American exceptionalism, and an examination of the impact, in federal government terms, of the 2024 presidential campaign, election results, and the opening of Trump's second term. New sections have been added to analyse efforts to control the Department of Justice, as well as developments in Medicaid policies and the results of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Supported by exercises, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, watching, and listening at the end of each chapter, as well as a substantial chronology of key events in U.S. history, this textbook remains an indispensable resource for students of American Studies. With its updated content and critical approach, the ninth edition equips readers with the tools to analyse and engage with the ongoing American attempt at creating "a more perfect union."

Global Sport in the Age of Authoritarian Power analyzes how authoritarian and hybrid regimes strategically use global sport to gain domestic legitimacy, international influence and geopolitical advantage, while transforming governance structures, market dynamics and the cultural experience of sport worldwide.

This volume presents a structured and theoretically grounded analysis of authoritarian engagement with global sport, going beyond popular lenses like sportswashing. The book identifies distinct engagement mechanisms, including hosting, ownership, sponsorship and governance influence, and sets out diverse empirical case studies from the Gulf, China and other emerging powers. By integrating political economy, governance and cultural perspectives, the book elucidates both the motivations behind authoritarian investment in sport and the operational strategies and consequences for global sport systems, institutions and stakeholders.

The book is for scholars, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in sport management, international relations and political economy, as well as practitioners, policy analysts and stakeholders concerned with the governance and geopolitics of global sport.

This is the first book to critically examine England football fans' attitudes towards Muslims and Islam through the lens of a sports mega-event, drawing on fan experiences at the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, the first staged in an Islamic society.

Drawing on pre-event interviews, audio-visual diaries, field observations, and post-event reflections with England fans, the book examines whether short-term sporting events can produce transformational shifts in fans' attitudes towards Muslims and Islam, or whether they reinforce existing prejudices despite unprecedented opportunities for intergroup contact. To do so, it develops a novel theoretical framework by integrating Gordon Allport's contact theory with Edward Said's Orientalism, offering a unique lens for understanding intergroup encounters in a sporting context. Arriving at a critical juncture between the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia, as Arabian Peninsula states will likely assume a greater role in global sport, the book makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of football fandom, anti-Muslim prejudice, and the potential for sport to address wider social and cultural issues.

This book is fascinating reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the sociology of sport, social psychology, postcolonial studies, and tourism and events, and will appeal to anybody with a broader interest in football fandom, intergroup relations, Orientalism, or the cultural politics of sports mega-events.

The book critically examines how visual culture, journalism, digital platforms, advertising, and storytelling shape public perception, social identities, political awareness, and cultural experiences across local and global contexts.

The book presents a diverse collection of scholarly studies that analyse contemporary issues in media and communication through critical, cultural, and technological perspectives. It includes discussions on cinematic representation, identity politics, visual symbolism, gender sensitivity, disability discourse, minority visibility, and digital culture. It investigates the role of films, advertisements, and news media in constructing social meanings and influencing audience behaviour, while others examine technological dependency, digital inequality, machine learning applications in journalism, and inclusive design practices in UI/UX. The volume also explores regional and global cultural narratives through studies on anime fandom, environmental justice movements, festival marketing, and diaspora representation. Combining theoretical frameworks with case-study-based analysis, the book demonstrates how media and communication practices continue to evolve alongside technological advancement, social transformation, and shifting cultural identities in the contemporary world.

This book is intended for researchers, academicians, postgraduate students, media professionals, and scholars in communication, journalism, film studies, cultural studies, advertising, literature, and digital media studies. It is especially valuable for readers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to media, identity, technology, and contemporary socio-cultural transformations.

As societies around the globe undergo rapid change, Benjamin Nelson's theories help explain how and why civilizations evolve.
This book offers a full-length, comprehensive analysis of Benjamin Nelson's ideas and historical studies, exploring his civilization-analytic perspective, its intricate ties to Max Weber's theories, and Nelson's arguments about the major historical phases shaping Western European civilization. Donald A. Nielsen argues that Nelson's work centers on religious and cultural universalism, reconstructing Nelson's thesis that 12th-century Europe experienced an axial shift in consciousness toward more rationalized, universalistic cultural orientations. Rather than focusing on the origins of modernity, Nelson examined revolutionary changes in structures of consciousness and civilizations, including six ongoing "revolutions" he identified. Nielsen unpacks Nelson's view of civilizational crises and demonstrates that his theories are rooted in a vision of human life that values lived experience and expression within changing historical contexts. By highlighting how Nelson's theories illuminate the dynamics of cultural universalism and structural transformations across historical contexts, this book provides readers a conceptual framework for analyzing civilizational change.

The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Studies and the New Digital Society offers important new perspectives on the digitization of society in relation to disability.

Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book explores digitization and disability in a wide range of contexts, including schools, healthcare settings, public transport and working life, as well as across different forms of e-government, e-learning and e-business. It examines digitization in everyday life, including digital products such as smart phones, computer games and social media, and explores key themes such as artificial intelligence, the digitization of welfare and social services, overprotection and risk, and universal design and co-creation for better digital solutions. At the heart of the book is a focus on accessibility to digital technology as well as consideration of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This handbook will be of interest to all scholars of disability studies, health and social care, nursing, teaching, sociology, and science and technology studies.

This book examines how twenty-first century horror narratives are shaped by transmedia storytelling, digital convergence, and mediated intertextuality.

Contemporary storytelling is increasingly participatory, multimodal, and intermedial. As a result, it might be tempting to argue that we are witnessing an entirely new set of horrors emerging in today's digitised world. Despite the innovations brought about by artificial intelligence, digital connectivity and social media, this book argues that today's horror narratives are deeply rooted in historical and cultural discourses. Age-old fears are being reimagined in a new media landscape that is both global and deeply personal. This collection offers insights into how horror narratives are evolving across various media platforms including film, television, video games, and social media such as TikTok and YouTube. It also explores the lived reality of communities who engage with horror as a cultural identity and practice, considering how fashion, make-up, and costuming operate as their own forms of transmedia. These chapters examine the relationship between media, culture, and technology, revealing how digital culture reshapes traditional horror motifs and influences social norms. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the connections between new storytelling practices and established genres, as well as how these narratives reflect contemporary societal fears and desires.

This book will be valuable for scholars of media studies, fan studies, game studies, the Gothic, and horror research. By addressing both emerging technologies and historical representations of horror, the collection provides critical perspectives for academics interested in the intersections of media, culture, identity, community, and horror. The interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those studying screen studies, sociology, media representation, and cultural practices, offering new trends and insights within the evolving field of horror studies.

With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, chapters analyse contemporary research and literature, emphasising how external expectations or perceptions can guide our choices. Exploring the Social Norms Approach as a practical intervention framework, the Research Handbook provides guidance on how to design and evaluate social norms-based interventions. Contributing authors utilise case studies to demonstrate the real world application of social norms-based mediations for the promotion of positive behaviour change.

This Research Handbook is a helpful resource for scholars and students of psychology, sociology, social policy and behavioural economics. Researchers and practitioners across the social sciences will equally benefit from its pragmatic approach to practice and scholarship.

Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating "the South" as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes region as an ontological and epistemological project shaped by-and resistant to-Eurocentric regimes of documentality.

Bringing together activists, archivists, and scholars across disciplines, the essays in Record, Document, Archive trace the extent to which documentality has governed life and death in the U.S. South, from Indigenous Removal, enslavement, and Jim Crow to contemporary regimes of immigration enforcement, border policing, and the legal erasure of queer and undocumented lives. "Record" emphasizes embodied, affective, and more-than-human acts of marking experience. "Document" interrogates the pedagogical, legal, and evidentiary force of documentation, highlighting counter-hegemonic methods that unsettle dominant southern narratives. "Archive" addresses curation, access, and governance, advancing liberatory memory work that confronts archival violence and privilege while imagining new possibilities for justice-oriented futures.

By attending to the anticipatory acts that precede narrative and law, Record, Document, Archive opens pathways toward "southern elsewheres"-modes of knowing, remembering, and belonging that resist rigid epistemologies and orient scholarship toward liberation.

Contributors explore the intertextuality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, illuminating its ability to both interpret and influence audiences and culture.

The sustained popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and its continued ability to spark fan and cultural responses with each phase of the franchise - achieving both commercial and critical acclaim in its quest to transform a once-niche genre into a pop culture powerhouse - demonstrate the vast potential it holds to convey, channel, and challenge existing discourses of culture, society, politics, entertainment, and education at their various intersection/s. While the franchise relies heavily on genre-based tropes of good versus evil, the intricate intertextuality of the extended universe offers a diversity in character, story, and setting that renders it a particularly deep well for crafting and communicating culture.
An interdisciplinary roster of contributors has selected a wide range of MCU texts, from series like She-Hulk and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to feature films including Captain Marvel (2019) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), to offer critical interrogations through varied lenses across four thematic sections of the volume: political economy and politics; gender studies and feminisms; race, ethnicity, and identity; and symbols and signs. Through their analyses, contributions to this volume ask us to reflect on what messages may be uncovered and understood through deeper interrogation of the texts that entertain and inform us.

This book explores how histories of technology, engineering, and information science can help us better understand history, while also informing how we envision and build more equitable futures. The chapters extend vibrant conversations in the history of technology as well as other fields, including Ccience and Technology Studies (STS), cybernetic studies, literary studies, development studies, discard studies, engineering ethics, and infrastructure studies. In doing so the authors pay tribute to Ronald R. Kline, one of the leading historians of technology and STS scholars of our era. This book showcases cutting-edge research around the state of technology studies today and its influences across and beyond academic fields.

From a murdered teenager being interviewed as though he were alive, to a widow speaking with a chatbot made through voice cloning the digital relics of her late husband, AI-generated versions of the deceased are becoming uncanny in their humanlike form. Are personal memories, so central to our sense of personality, individuality and agency, already lost to a future in which we feel compelled to embrace the humanlike comfort of bots?

Memorybot is the story of the consequences of generative AI on human memory. It reveals how in regenerating past lives, and through mining and sharing present ones, AI removes the once memorial limits of a living individual. The most traumatic and joyous parts of human existence are perpetually subject to a continuous extraction of memories. Hoskins argues that we are witnessing the emergence of a new societal paradigm, characterised by the increasing dominance of hybrid memory, the erosion of anonymity, and the effective end of human forgetting.

Written by a leading international scholar of memory studies, Memorybot is a haunting read for anyone concerned about the growing influence of AI technologies and services, and for the fields of media, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, history and memory studies.

This book explores how people imagine, create, and sustain societal futures through the interplay of imagination, change, and preservation. Drawing on possibility studies and creativity research, it uses the concept of creative preservation as a unifying framework for understanding how communities creatively renew and take care of what already exists rather than only pursuing radical novelty.

Emerging from discussions held at the 4th International Conference of Possibility Studies, the volume begins at the level of global social and ecological systems, examining the extent to which social innovation can function as a force of preservation and regeneration. It then turns to intergenerational creative continuity and ageing to reveal novelty in what societies neglect in old age, before reflecting on methodological considerations from new materialism for addressing work on societal futures. The book then critically discusses the past and present disruptions in academia and proposes perspectives to care for and preserve the possibility for research to contribute meaningfully to societal change. It concludes by exploring the transformative potential of wonder and astonishment in education as a practice of caring and an attitude of exploring individual and collective possibilities.

A thought-provoking response to the growing concerns around how social scientists can provide frameworks to adjust to and contribute to a more caring and sustainable society, this book is for researchers and students in sociology and social theory, education and pedagogy, philosophy and critical theory, cultural and performance studies, creativity studies, sustainability studies, STS, and futures and possibility studies.