Featuring scholarly perspectives from around the globe and drawing on a legacy of
television studies, but with an eye toward the future, this authoritative collection examines …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explain how online brand communities work to
support the denormalization of controversial (ie illegal yet normalized) gaming practices …

Using Schatzki's practices framework as a lens, this paper reports on the practices of
university students accessing learning resources at a research-intensive university in South …

Naomi Mezey (2003), Professor of Law at Georgetown University, defines law as an
inherently cultural phenomenon:'Law is simply one of the signifying practices that constitute …

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of
information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an …

Since the early days of parliamentary democracy, political movements have tried to come to
terms with the conflict between the struggle for radical political change and the need to be …

When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public
manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized …

This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss
the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws …

Television delivery throughout the world has changed rapidly over the past two decades.
Within South Africa, much of this global narrative is repeated. The last 25 years have seen a …

This thesis is an investigation into the practices, values, and roles of cinemagoing and film-
watching for contemporary British teenagers using qualitative research methods. My key …