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The Young and the Digital

What the Migration to Social-network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future

By: Samuel Craig Watkins

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The Young and the Digital

What the Migration to Social-network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future

By: Samuel Craig Watkins

Timely and deeply relevant, The Young and the Digital covers a host of provocative issues—the influence of social sites like MySpace and Facebook; the growing appetite for “anytime, anywhere” media and “fast entertainment”; how online “digital gates” reinforce race and class divisions; how technology is transforming America’s classrooms—and takes a fresh look at the pivotal role technology played in the historic 2008 election. Watkins also debunks popular myths surrounding cyberpredators, Internet addiction, and social isolation.

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Beacon Press

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080706193X

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9780807061930

Hip Hop Matters

Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

By: Samuel Craig Watkins

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Hip Hop Matters

Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

By: Samuel Craig Watkins

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the hip hop generation, Hip Hop Matters focuses on the fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert greater control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop will have in the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. The story unfolds through revealing profiles, looking at such players as Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, widely recognized as Americas first hip-hop mayor; Chuck D, the self-described -rebel without a pause- who championed the Internet as a way to keep socially relevant rap music alive; and young activists who represent hip hops insurgent voice. Watkins also presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop; the cultures march into Americas colleges and universities; and the rampant misogyny that undermines the movements progressive claims.Ultimately, we see how the struggle for hip hop reverberates with a larger world: global media consolidation and conglomeration; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop music industry; and the ongoing struggle to enrich the lives of ordinary youth.

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Beacon Press

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0807009822

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9780807009826

Why Architects Matter

Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

By: Flora Samuel

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Why Architects Matter

Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

By: Flora Samuel

Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work successfully with others. Without this clarity, the marginalization of architects from the production of the built environment will continue, preventing clients, businesses and society from getting the buildings that they need. The book offers a strategy for the development of a twenty-first-century knowledge-led built environment, including tools to help evidence, develop and communicate that value to those outside the field. Knowing how to demonstrate the impact and value of their work will strengthen practitioners’ ability to pitch for work and access new funding streams. This is particularly important at a time of global economic downturn, with ever greater competition for contracts and funds driving down fees and making it imperative to prove value at every level. Why Architects Matter straddles the spheres of ‘Practice Management and Law’, ‘History and Theory’, ‘Design’, ‘Housing’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Health’, ‘Marketing’ and ‘Advice for Clients’, bringing them into an accessible whole. The book will therefore be of interest to professional architects, architecture students and anyone with an interest in our built environment and the role of professionals within it.

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Routledge

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1317666240

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Hip Hop Matters

Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

By: Samuel Craig Watkins

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Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

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The Young and the Digital

What the Migration to Social-network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future

By: Samuel Craig Watkins

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What the Migration to Social-network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future

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080706193X

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The Young and the Digital

The Young and the Digital

Hip Hop Matters

Hip Hop Matters

Why Architects Matter

Why Architects Matter

Hip Hop Matters

Hip Hop Matters

The Young and the Digital

The Young and the Digital

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