Imagine Society
Imagine Society

Author: Jean Mercier

Publisher: apoemaday.ca

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0973707909

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Poetry / Inspiration / Philosophy / Self-Help The phenomenon with over 1.4 Million followers on Facebook is now a book series Notes for the soul - and for the road - since 2003 (Join or see the page at: https: //www.facebook.com/apoemaday) ..".sometimes, less is more. Jean's poetic mirror is the creative catalyst that can truly change your life One merely has to read and listen. Exquisite, portraits in verse " Dale E. Taylor Former VP, YTV Canada Programming and Production ----- Teachers and Students: The author authorizes the use of this book in your classroom. "Write a few rhymes on any of mine, drop them on my Facebook page, I will likely answer you " - Jean Mercier ----- Ask your library to get it, offer yourself or someone the gift of love, self-help, poetry and positive philosophy all in one with these books 366 original simple short poems in each book that will touch everybody's heart. IMAGINE SOCIETY: A POEM A DAY, Volume 3 (New, 2nd edition, 2013) presents the writings of Canadian Poet Jean Mercier as delivered daily all around the world in its third year through the web series Jean Mercier's A Poem A Day co-created by Junichiro Kuniyoshi and Jean Mercier. This Canadian book is printed locally when needed, for prompt delivery by Create Space, an AMAZON.com company. Published by: apoemaday.TV (Canada) ISBN-13: 978-1482354966 ---- Watercolour on the cover by: Colette Mercier A message from the author: By ordering my books through Create Space (also an AMAZON company, but partner with the publisher) you also help us more as AMAZON pays us a little more for the reference. Want them all? The author gets a little more when you buy it here on CreateSpace. Find the Volume 1 of this series at: https: //www.createspace.com/4203357, Vol. 2 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4203362 Vol. 3 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4158750 Vol 4 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240078 Vol 5 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240080 Vol 6 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240085 Vol 7 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240093 Vol 8 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240095 Vol 9 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240096 Vol 10 at: https: //www.createspace.com/4240097 Thank you in advance for your kindness. Please leave us comments or write anytime through my Facebook page or by email. I'd love to hear from you

Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities

Author: Benedict Anderson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2006-11-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 178168359X

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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Imagined Societies
Imagined Societies

Author: Willem Schinkel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107129737

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Imagined Societies explores how images of 'society' and of national belonging have been forged by the media and politicians through the portrayal of immigrants and their 'failed integration'. Examining the experience of the Netherlands and other Western European countries, this book analyses how discussions of integration, culture, religion, and sexuality promote notions of national societies.

Making Up Society
Making Up Society

Author: Philip Fisher

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 082297696X

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Fisher places the work of George Eliot within the great evolution that constitutes the nineteenth-century English novel. He reports not only about her work, but about an evolving complex literary form. Fisher examines Eliot's work as responding to "the loss of society," the breakdown between public life and individua moral history. As trust in the community as a base of moral life weakens, decisive changes occur: the English novel accommodated itself to the disappearance of society and changed from the representation of individuals as members of a social order to the description of the self surrounded by collections of unrelated others.

Media and Society
Media and Society

Author: Nicholas Carah

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1529757649

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How do media platforms organise social life? How do media empower or disempower our identities? How do we understand the impact of algorithms? How are media audiences produced and managed? Media & Society introduces the role of the media in social, cultural, political and economic life, unpacking the increasing entanglement of digital media technology with our everyday lives. It explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. An age where we both create and consume content, and where we both give and gain attention – translating our social lives into huge flows of data. Associate Professor Nicholas Carah shows how a critical approach to power helps us not only to understand the role media play in shaping the social, but also how we can become critically informed media citizens ourselves, able to participate and be heard in meaningful ways. Media & Society expertly introduces all the key concepts and ideas you need to know, and then puts theory into practice by tying them to contemporary case studies. From using Ghostery to track how your personal data is being collected, to exploring misinformation on social media via Youtube, to the reality of internships and freelancing in today’s digital media industry. It is essential reading for students of media, communication and cultural studies.

Imagining Society
Imagining Society

Author: Catherine Corrigall-Brown

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 1544384122

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Explore sociology′s key concepts, theories, methods, and original voices--all in one innovative text. Imagining Society: An Introduction to Sociology is an versatile and economical resource for your introductory course. With this single text, you can: Teach the discipline’s history, key concepts, subfields, and contributions to social science. Expose students to the central building blocks of sociology—short excerpts from the original works of classical and contemporary sociologists. Explain sociology’s key theoretical insights by connecting them to specific issues. Describe and illustrate the methods used by sociologists—not just in the opening chapter, but throughout the entire text. Engage students in thoughtful, self-directed projects and activities. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

The Metaphorical Society
The Metaphorical Society

Author: Daniel Rigney

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2001-03-21

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1461644801

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This book introduces the novice reader to modern social theory through the creative exploration of eight major metaphors that have shaped Western understandings of human society. Rigney vividly yet concisely examines each major theoretical perspective in sociology, including functionalism, conflict theory, rational choice, and symbolic interactionism. He shows how each of these theories is rooted in a particular metaphorical tradition. Over decades and centuries, Rigney argues, social theorists have variously likened societies to organisms and living systems, to machines, battlefields, legal systems, marketplaces, games, theatrical productions, and discourses. Most interestingly, Rigney deftly shows how nearly all Western social theories fit with one or more of the metaphors. He emphasizes a humanistic understanding of society with an emphasis on the creative agency of social actors and communities. The book offers students a rich understanding of social theory, yet it is simultaneously concise and broad ranging, allowing instructors to further pursue detailed exploration of any perspectives they choose.

A Community of One
A Community of One

Author: Martin A. Danahay

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1993-08-24

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780791415122

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Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category “autobiography” was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the dependence of the nineteenth-century masculine subject on autonomy or self-naming as the prerequisite for the composition of a life history. The masculine autobiographer achieves this autonomy by using a feminized other as a metaphorical mirror for the self. The feminized other in these texts represents the social cost of masculine autobiography. Authors from Wordsworth to Arnold, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Gosse, use female lovers and family members as symbols for the community with which they feel they have lost contact. In the theoretical introduction, the author argues that these texts actually privilege the autonomous self over the images of community they ostensibly value, creating in the process a self-enclosed and self-referential “community of one.”

Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias
Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias

Author: Laura Winter

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 3381112228

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Serial storytelling has the advantage of unlocking rather than simplifying the complexities of digital culture. With their worldbuilding potential, TV series open up new artistic horizons, particularly for the dystopian genre. Situated at the nexus of dystopia, complex TV, and a metamodern cultural logic, Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias offers readers novel insights into the dynamics of serial dystopias in the contemporary streaming landscape. Introducing the term 'complex serial dystopias' to describe series that allow audiences to engage with the dystopian premise from multiple angles, the book examines four Anglo-American series, including Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Kiss Me First. The in-depth analyses trace the variety of ways in which these series offer critical reflections on the human-technology entanglement in digital culture.