Author : Bell, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0335215505
'Ordinary Lifestyles' contains a collection of new essays that explore how various media texts bring ideas about taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences to fashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes an appropriate lifestyle for particular social formations.
Author : David Bell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2005-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0335224202
This book examines the post of subject leader in primary schools in the light of the four key areas defined by National Standards for Subject Leadership: * strategic direction and development * teaching and learning * leading and managing staff * efficient and effective deployment of staff The book combines existing research data and new material gathered by the authors. It presents the underpinning principles and analyses the complex set of roles and responsibilities undertaken by subject leaders. Most importantly it provides practical advice for subject leaders illustrated by a series of case studies and tasks which are addressed directly to subject leaders. The authors have taken a generic approach, looking at issues such as changing roles and responsibilities, planning for teaching and learning, working with colleagues and others, managing resources and bringing about school improvement, that have to be addressed by all subject leaders whatever their particular area of responsibility. Throughout, the book emphasises the importance of leadership, children's learning, professional development and collaboration. The book will be of value to all primary school teachers, and especially subject leaders.
Author : Geoffrey Craig
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137534699
This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the discursive and networked basis of sustainability and demonstrates how such media representations connect the home and local community to broader political, social and economic contexts. The book shows how green lifestyle media negotiate issues of sustainability in varying ways, reproducing the logic of existing consumer society while also sometimes providing projections of a more environmentally friendly existence. In this way, the book argues that everyday lifestyles are not an irredeemable problem for environmentalism but an important site of environmental politics.
Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317121759
Lifestyles have a history, and lifestyle media is fundamentally implicated in this history. This original volume examines issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, providing a wealth of empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping' and 'Playboy', it explores the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present to provide a better understanding of the representation of lifestyle and its relationship to the self. The volume demonstrates how ideas about gender, nation and 'race' problematize taken-for-granted assumptions about lifestyle, with particular emphasis on the new middle classes in the US. The book also examines the role of advertising and marketing in mediating ideas about lifestyle, the role of material culture in the construction of cultural hierarchies and the positioning of social groups within wider cartographies of taste. The volume makes a significant contribution to this growing field and will interest academics and students in media and cultural studies, communication studies, cultural history and sociology.
Author : Dr Chith K. Aravind
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1482888580
The Book of Lifeis an insightful journey to self from the Global footfall Dr. Aravind has had from his career as a dentist and entrepreneur. He has deeply thought of the thinking that has shaped his external worldand deeply pondered how that relates to his inner self. Dr B Ashok, IAS (Writer, civil servant and former Vice-Chancellor) Unchained some perceptions in Hindu beliefs and really demystifyingbold and explicit. Dr.Arun Kuma V. New York University. Enables one to understand Jesus and his practices in light of eastern mysticism and show us how emotions can control/hijack us and make us a mere puppet. Mr.Anil Parakkad C.E.O, Datatemplate Info Tech. Bangalore. Nature influences man through his negative and positive emotions. To understand this fact man needs to wash away all the impurities in his mind. Every saint in human history conquered their emotions before they were granted the amazing freedom of enlightenment. Intelligent people understand these emotions within and learn to balance them to lead a life full of joy and enthusiasm. Others will be forced by nature to face the monstrous side of the life in order to refine and evolve their crude minds. A sincere attempt to know this world will take away most of the miseries of human life and make his life easier and smoother.
Author : Lucia Vodanovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 135112336X
Ranging from travel to wellbeing and fashion to food, Lifestyle Journalism explores a wide variety of subjects within a growing field. This edited collection examines the complex dynamics of the ever-evolving media environment of lifestyle journalism, encompassing aspects of consumerism, entertainment and cosmopolitanism, as well as traditional journalistic practices. Through detailed case studies and research, the book discusses themes of consumer culture, identity, representation, the sharing economy and branding while bringing in important new aspects such as social media and new cultural intermediaries. International and cross-disciplinary, the book is divided into four parts: emerging roles; experience and identity in lifestyle media; new players and lifestyle actors; and lifestyle consumerism and brands. Featuring case studies from a variety of countries including Turkey, the US, Chile and the UK, this is an important resource for journalism students and academics.
Author : Gareth Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317137116
In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites these programmes is their belief that the human subject has a flexible, malleable identity that can be changed within television-friendly frameworks. In contrast to the talk shows of the eighties and nineties where modest transformation was discussed as an ideal, advances in technology, combined with changing tastes and demands of viewers, have created an appetite for dramatic transformations. This volume presents case studies from across the lifestyle genre, considering a variety of themes but with a shared understanding of the self as an evolving project, driven by enterprise. Written by an international team of scholars, the collection will appeal to sociologists of culture and consumption, as well as to scholars of media studies and media production throughout the world.
Author : Alexandrina Vanke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 152616762X
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societies. However, working-class people are often stigmatised, morally judged and depicted negatively in dominant discourses. This book challenges stereotypical representations of workers, building on research into the everyday worlds of working-class and ordinary people in Russia’s post-industrial cities. The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia is centred on the stories of local communities engaged in the everyday struggles that occur in deindustrialising settings under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism. The book suggests a novel approach to everyday life in post-industrial cities. Drawing on an ethnographic study with elements of arts-based research, the book presents a new genre of writing about workers influenced by the avant-garde documentary tradition and working-class literature.
Author : Ana Tominc
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027264767
This book discusses transformations in the construction of culinary taste, lifestyle and class through cookbook language style in post-socialist Slovenia. Using a critical discourse studies approach it demonstrates how the representation of culinary advice in standard and celebrity cookbooks has changed in recent decades as a result of general social transformations such as postmodernity and globalization. It argues that compared to the standard cookbooks, where nutritionist ideology is at the forefront, the celebrity cookbooks reflect the conversational, hybrid nature of the genre, through which they promote global foodie discourse, while at the same time localizing the global trends to the Slovene context. The book lays at the intersection of discourse analysis, sociology, food, cultural, communication and media studies and (post-) socialism and should be of interest to those interested in celebrities, food media, socialism and post-socialism, cookbooks, globalization and discourse change.
Author : Tania Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317991591
The past decade has seen an explosion of lifestyle makeover TV shows. Audiences around the world are being urged to ‘renovate’ everything from their homes to their pets and children while lifestyle experts on TV now tell us what not to eat and what not to wear. Makeover television and makeover culture is now ubiquitous and yet, compared with reality TV shows like Big Brother and Survivor, there has been relatively little critical attention paid to this format. This exciting collection of essays written by leading media scholars from the UK, US and Australia aims to reveal the reasons for the huge popularity and influence of the makeover show. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the essays brought together here will help readers ‘make sense’ of makeover TV by offering a range of different approaches to understanding the emergence of this popular cultural phenomenon. Looking at a range of shows from The Biggest Loser to Trinny and Susannah Undress, essays include an analysis of how and why makeover TV shows have migrated across such a range of TV cultures, the social significance of the rise of home renovation shows, the different ways in which British versus American audiences identify with makeover shows, and the growing role of lifestyle TV in the context of neo-liberalism in educating us to be ‘good’ citizens. This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
