Author : Rachel Thompson
Publisher : Booktrope Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : American essays
ISBN : 9781620151600
A collection of pieces, both prose and poetry, inspired by life: love, loss, abuse, trust, grief, and ultimately, love again.
Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786481838
This collection of scholarly essays examines reality television. The first show, Survivor, inspired a national craze when it aired in the summer of 2000. Ever since, successors and copycats have been on each of the four largest networks. The basics stay the same: put a group of people into situations bound to cause conflict, and watch them squirm. Rather than criticize the series' voyeuristic appeal, this work evaluates what goes on within the text of such shows and how they reflect or affect our larger culture. Contributors include researchers from communications, sociology, political science, and psychology. The contributions cover such topics as reality television's relationships with cultural identity, publicity rights, historical perspectives, trust, decision-making strategies, political rationality, office politics, and primitivism. Each chapter includes a bibliography. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Christina Julios
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351717618
This book explores the phenomenon of anti-femail genital mutilation (FGM) social media activism. Against a backdrop of over 200 million girls and women worldwide affected by FGM, this volume examines key global online campaigns to end the practice, involving leading virtual platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Drawing from twenty-one fieldwork interviews with anti-FGM activists, frontline practitioners and survivors, the volume investigates opportunities and challenges inherent to cyberspace. These include online FGM bans as well as practices such as ‘cyber-misogyny’ and ‘clicktivism’. Global campaigns featured include the UN’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, the WHO’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme, The Girl Generation, The Guardian’s End FGM Global Media Campaign and the Massai Cricket Warriors. Furthermore, ten case-studies document prominent anti-FGM campaigners. Firstly, five African-led narratives from celebrated activists: Efua Dorkenoo OBE, Waris Dirie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jaha Mapenzi Dukureh and Leyla Hussein. Second, five accounts from FGM survivors interviewed for the book: Mama Sylla, Masooma Ranalvi, Farzana Doctor, Fatou Baldeh and Mariya Taher. By exploring anti-FGM online activism, this book fills a gap in the literature which has largely overlooked FGM’s presence in cyberspace as a virtual social movement. Female Genital Mutilation and Social Media will be of interest to activists, survivors, frontline professionals, students, academics and the wider public.
Author : Tuba Inal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors. Historically, women, men, and children have all suffered sexual violence, during wartime and peacetime as well as inside and outside their homes. This two-volume title focuses on survivors of rape in a variety of social and cultural contexts. It examines different people who are victimized in a variety of situations (including in war and prisons) and studies the particularities of "rape cultures" that are intertwined with ethnic cultures and hatreds and other forms of conflictual social, political, and economic relations. In the introduction, the editors define rape and rape culture and provide historical and cultural context for the information presented throughout the volumes, the first of which primarily focuses on the causes and manifestations of rape cultures; the second considers the consequences of rape cultures for survivors of sexual assault. In both volumes, contributors provide case studies elucidating the experiences of a variety of victims—young, old, male, female, straight, and LGBT—in diverse locations around the world to help readers understand how truly pervasive and portentous rape culture is.
Author : Julie Gray
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781735249704
By most accounts, Gidon Lev, born in 1935 in former Czechoslovakia, is an ordinary man - except for the fact that of the approximately 15,000 children who were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, only an estimated 92 survived. Gidon is one of those children. The True Adventures of Gidon Lev is the story of a charming, playful octogenarian Holocaust survivor, a Californian thirty years his junior and the writing of a book about a very long and storied life. With humor, humanity, and compassion, the story of Gidon Lev offers insights into carrying on despite a painful past, a primer on Jewish and Israeli history, and observations of both the ethos of the modern state of Israel and its conflict today and the opportunities that disaster can create. Weaving Gidon's valuable first-person recollections together with the cultural and historical backstory of time and place, Julie Gray invites readers inside the process of mining memories for truths and history for lessons.
Author : Anya Schiffrin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000863239
Women’s existence in the digital world has been closely studied by scholars and attracted the attention of activists worldwide. Women, like men, early on saw the Internet as a potentially powerful and liberating tool that would help them find groups or communities with similar aims and interests. Today there is more awareness of the deleterious effects of unconstrained online speech such as online violence, ridicule, silencing, and threats against women. Women in the Digital World brings together the latest academic research on women online and includes chapters on political speech, gendered online violence, dealing with sexual assaults, marginalization of women politicians, and how women participate (or don’t) via online environments. The interdisciplinary research in this volume brings together communications studies, gender studies, sociology, politics, and computer science and is essential reading for those seeking to understand a growing field. The book should be of interest also for activists and NGOs who seek to deepen their knowledge on the place of females online. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society.
Author : Harald Hornmoen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787562697
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. Presenting research on social media use in crisis and risk cases: a terrorist attack, a natural disaster and an infectious disease of international concern, this book investigates how social media plays a crucial role in mitigating or preventing crises.
Author : Conrad Riker
Publisher : Conrad Riker
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Are you tired of the victim culture and want to understand its effects on society? Are women exploiting victimhood for empathy, support, and benefits? How do women brand themselves as survivors and leverage their stories? What you will find inside: Discover the psychological roots of the victim mentality ingrained in women's culture. Uncover the advantages women gain by adopting the "survivor" label. Learn the tactics women use to manipulate situations using their victim status. Examine the impact of cultural Marxism on the growing trend of victimhood among women. Understand the consequences of women finding safety and comfort in victimhood on relationships and society. Delve into the phenomenon of false sexual assault allegations and their motivations. Explore the legal system's role in perpetuating the victim mentality in women and its implications. Gain insights into the historical context of women's liberation and the evolution of victimhood. If you want to gain insights into the modern female victim mentality and improve your relationships, then buy this book today.
Author : Marko M. Skoric
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800377053
As social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives. This incisive Research Handbook showcases the academic community’s responses to key societal challenges posed by evolving social media ecologies.
Author : Andrea J. Nichols
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231543360
As awareness and identification of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, using case examples and illustrative guides. Chapters cover the common challenges of working with trafficked and exploited people and how to overcome them, including topics like runaway youth, trauma-bonds, system-level challenges, and resource scarcity. Intended as a teaching tool for students or a supplementary manual for organizations, this book emphasizes interventions and treatments, working with specific populations, programmatic design recommendations, preventative work, and outreach interventions. Researchers, students, and practitioners will find a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of practice with sex trafficking and exploitation survivors.
