Bøger af Kevin Glynn

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environment by moving across the mediated landscapes of the first, third and fourth (Indigenous people's) worlds, which are deeply intertwined and interconnected under contemporary conditions of neoliberal globalization and emergent regimes of authoritarian post-democracy. The book attends both to the platforms and digital networks of the new media environment and to the cultural forms and practices that have constituted television as the dominant medium of communication throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In the new media environment, transmediation works on behalf not only of those corporate mega-conglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world, but also for many communities that have previously been excluded from access to the means of electronic textual production and circulation. For the latter, grassroots transmediation has become an important technique for the production of cultural citizenship.

Anyone with a grill can flip a burger... But if you want to take it to the next level, you need these essential techniques and recipes!Picture a summer's day, the kids playing and the sun beating down on the backyard. You're surrounded by friends, the beer's flowing, and the smell of grilled meat wafts through the air...You only need a grill to make this happen... But there's grilling... and then there's grilling.You don't just want a hasty burger or the kids' favorite sausages thrown on the grill...You want artfully grilled meat with delectable flavor - the kind of fare that leaves your friends asking when you're next firing the grill up and reminiscing about that time you wowed them with honey-glazed grilled pork chops paired with the perfect side dish.And you know there's more to outdoor cooking than the grill... What about smoked meats? Smoked fish and cheese? Show-stopping sides and perfect marinades?Outdoor cooking is as old as cooking itself, but with the modern understanding of flavor combinations and techniques - not to mention the wide availability of ingredients - you can turn what was once a basic necessity into an art form.Smoking and grilling give you the opportunity to shine - and with a solid foundation to build on, you can grow your repertoire and develop your skills until you're certain that your backyard is the place everyone wants to be when the sun's out.This sizzling guide of delicious recipes and clear guidance is everything you need to sharpen your skills and get to work on that foundation. Inside, you'll discover:The full range of grills and smokers explained clearly - so you can pick your trusty sidekick with confidenceEssential safety and maintenance tips to see you through every cookoutHow to choose the perfect ingredients and create rubs and marinades that will bring every dish to lifeThe grilling techniques that will take you from novice to expert (we're not talking "cooked"... we're talking "beautifully cooked")Why your choice of wood is the most important decision to make before you smoke a thing - and how to choose wisely for each food you add to the smokerMouthwatering sides that go beyond the perfunctory salad and really make your main dishes sing (smoked mac and cheese, anyone?)A tantalizing crop of delicious grill and smoker recipes - complete with precise grilling and smoking instructionsEverything from the classic cheeseburger to garlic and herb marinated tenderloin - find recipes to suit every taste and occasionThe art of producing succulent fish every time (no more dry filets or chewy shrimp!)A beautiful collection of vegetarian grills that will steal the show and convince even the most diehard of carnivores that it's not all about the meatAll the things you didn't know you could smoke made simple and tempting (fish... cheese... vegetables... you name it!)And much more.

Focuses on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyse important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Rejecting elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, this book traces the cultural currents and counter currents running through their forms and products.

This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural theories. There are two main threats to the authoritarian rule of the Nicaraguan government led by Daniel Ortega: the first is the Managua-based NGO and civil society sector led largely by educated dissident Sandinistas, and the second is the escalating struggle for autonomy and land rights being fought by Nicaraguäs indigenous and Afro-descended inhabitants on the country¿s Caribbean coast. In order to confront these threats and, it seems, secure indefinite political tenure, the government engages in a set of centralizing and anti-democratic political strategies characterized by secrecy, institutional power grabs, highly suspect electoral practices, clientelistic anti-poverty programmes, and the control through purchase or co-optation of much of the nation's media. The social movements that threaten Ortegäs rule are however operating through dispersed and topological modalities of power and the creative use of emergent spaces for the circulation of counter-discourses and counter-narratives within a rapidly transforming media environment. The primary response to these mediated tactics is a politics of silence and a refusal to acknowledge or respond to the political claims made by social movements. In the current conjuncture, the authors identify a struggle for hegemony whose strategies and tactics include the citizenship-stripping activities of the state and the citizenship-claiming activities of black, indigenous and dissident actors and activists. This struggle plays out in part through the mediated circulation and counter-circulation of discourses and the infrastructural dynamics of media convergence.