Active sports tourism is a rapidly developing sector. Less expensive, with greater economic impact and more respect for the environment, it includes everything from extreme sports to ‘slow adventure’. This book provides a complete international picture of the phenomenon.
Sport tourism is a tool for sustainable local development. This book’s 24 authors offer analyses from case studies to theory. An essential read for academics, students, policymakers, and professionals looking to promote their territory.
Sports Journalism in the Age of Paterno
For decades, sports journalists made Joe Paterno an American hero. When a devastating scandal revealed the villain beneath, they had to confront their profession. This book examines an industry that built a monster and asks: Is sports journalism journalism at all?
The Automobile and the Environment
This book gathers papers from researchers and engineers on Automotive Powertrains, Alternative Fuels, Vehicle Dynamics, and Transport Safety. It offers new visions on sustainable development and innovation in the modern automotive industry.
The Co-Design of an Online Campaign for an Inclusive Community
This volume shows how communication builds our perception of “us” versus “others,” a cultural obstacle that can lead to radicalisation. We can prevent this with participation and counter-narratives, as shown by a European project that pushes the reader beyond prejudice.
The Image of a Country created by International Media
How does ex-communist Europe come across through the Western media? This book analyzes five years of BBC coverage on Bulgaria, revealing hidden attitudes. Bulgarians are construed as “immigrants,” not “ex-pats,” and associated with CORRUPTION, POOR, and POOREST.
The Univac Corporation
This volume tells the story of the Univac 1100 series. It pioneered the concept of a computer family, a multidimensional OS supporting interactive and batch processing, and evolutionary designs with upward compatibility that protected its customers’ investment.
Old definitions of journalism are under fire; its occupational identity and importance to democracy, public life, and social justice are contested. This conference proceedings discusses the key concepts, categories and models emerging in conversations about journalism today.
Therapeutic Journalism
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
Tomorrow’s Media
This collection of essays from an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts sheds light on where we have come from and where we are going. A unique work of interdisciplinary research, this book exists at an intersection between technology and the arts.
Tools of Their Tools
This book explores communication technologies in American culture over 150 years. How has American society molded these technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are we still, in the words of Thoreau, “tools of their tools”?
Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education
This book explores teaching journalism and communication in a changing media environment. Bringing together professors and students from across Europe, it offers training proposals and insights to strengthen university teaching for professional communicators in the digital age.
Watching Pages, Reading Pictures
While Italian cinema is known for Neo-Realism and Spaghetti Westerns, its crucial affair with literature is less familiar. This book explores this fruitful relationship through discussions of significant film adaptations that exemplify this alliance’s variety.
Women’s Political Visibility and Media Access
Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women’s political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.