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"This textbook takes a case study approach to media and audience analytics. Realizing the best way to understand analytics in the digital age is to practice it, the authors have created a collection of cases using data sets that present real and hypothetical scenarios for students to work through. Media Analytics introduces the key principles of media economics and management. It outlines how to interpret and present results, the principles of data visualization and storytelling and the basics of research design and sampling. Although shifting technology makes measurement and analytics a dynamic space, this book takes an evergreen, conceptual approach, reminding students to focus on the principles and foundations that will remain constant. Aimed at upper-level students in the fast-growing area of media analytics in a cross-platform world, students using this text will learn how to find the stories in the data and to present those stories in an engaging way to others. Instructor and Student Resources include an Instructor's Manual, discussion questions, short exercises and links to additional resources. They are available online at www.routledge.com/cw/hollifield"--

"Scours the history of the Cold War, from the end of World War II to the end of the Soviet Union, for clues as to why Americans and Russians think about each other the way they do and how the Cold War's legacies affect present politics and popular consciousness in both countries"--

"This book looks to set out best practice for conducing online experiments for all social science disciplines. Some basic content on designing experiments and the advantages and challenges will be included as a foundation and then the main body of the book will provide practical advice on how to design an online experiment. The end of the book will be real world experiments broken down into easy to follow steps"--

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Place -- Chapter 2: Programme -- Chapter 3: People -- Chapter 4: Pictures -- Conclusion: The drive-in and cinema history -- Notes -- Archive collections and databases consulted -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Reference -- Part 1: Eating together in the family circle (case studies) -- 1. TV or not TV?: A comparison of children and young peoples' experiences of conviviality in Spain and the UK -- Introduction: The role of conviviality in the family meal -- Methodology -- TV dinner or dinner in front of the TV? -- TV or table talk -- Conviviality and food choice -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Negotiating food, negotiating family well-being: Eating together in modern Algerian families -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Methods and tools -- Profiling and recruitment of participants -- Ethical considerations in researching children -- Results and discussion -- Social and societal transformations: new roles, lifestyles, and new constraints -- Feelings of guilt and compensatory mechanisms -- Avoiding conflicts and appeasing tensions -- Feeling of "then and now": "the concept of nostalgia -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Dining together with family and mental well-being of young people: A study conducted in four Asian countries -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Dining together and mental well-being -- Family connectedness and mental well-being -- Family togetherness and mental well-being -- Relationship and family dynamic -- Methodology and findings -- Item measurement -- Analysis -- Discussion, conclusion, and future research -- Note -- References -- 4. Swedengate: When commensality norms collide -- Introduction -- Background and empirical material -- A widespread custom? -- What was it like to be left out? -- The sacred family dinner -- Why and when did the custom originate? -- Reciprocity and the search for independence -- A lively custom?.

This collection explores way in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotation between linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography. This book will be of interest to scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- Part I: Current Trends in Multimodality Studies -- 1 Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Multimodality in South Africa -- 2 The Seeds and Growth of Multimodality in Latin America: A Historical Review -- 3 Consolidation of Multimodality Studies in Latin America: A Review of Emergent Themes -- 4 PanMeMic. Changes in Communication and Interaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Insights from a Collective, Multimodal Research Method -- Part II: Challenges to Multimodality Research in Educational Contexts -- 5 Combining Multimodal Techniques to Approach the Study of Academic Lectures: A Methodological Reflection -- 6 A Toolkit for the Analysis of Modal Intensity: Strategies Instructors Use to Facilitate Student Engagement in Learning -- 7 A Multimodal Analysis of an Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE) Lecture: Multimodal Ensembles in Action -- 8 Textbook and Learning -- Part III: Challenges to Multimodality Studies of Social Interaction -- 9 Once Upon a Time: Toy Stories, Affordances, and the Playing Activity -- 10 Chilean Movement for Non-Sexist Education and Semiosis in Social Media: Students Advance, and Teachers Wake Up -- 11 Conflict in Interaction: Diverging Topic Trajectories and Misalignment -- 12 Peer Review and Hidden Modalities of Research Process Genres -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 13 Multimodal Body Work: Research in the Built Environment -- Index.

Yushichang is a village of the Pumi ethnic group. Despite 60 years of transformation, the Yushichang village has preserved its ecological environment and culture relatively intact, although changes are happening at an accelerated pace under the impact of a national culture.