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Book Synopsis The Spectacle of Expertise by : Alex Preda
Download or read book The Spectacle of Expertise written by Alex Preda and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding a great deal of power and influence through their media presence. How do these experts acquire their authority, and what makes displays of financial expertise persuasive to their audiences? Alex Preda provides an ethnographic exploration of how financial expertise is performed and produced in the media, analyzing its features and how audiences react to it. He examines how analysts, anchors, and producers collaborate in manufacturing financial talk that circulates around the world. Preda emphasizes the significance of talk—as opposed to the written word—in finance, as the fabric of many transactions and a means of capturing capital. Analysts and media figures understand financial talk as requiring a skill set distinct from conducting research or representing facts. Preda demonstrates that analysts and media professionals deploy expertise when they engage with audiences in ways that make it difficult to contest the claims conveyed in their talk. The Spectacle of Expertise is based on close observations of TV and radio studios in Hong Kong, a global financial center and a crucial gateway to China, including interviews with audience members and financial analysts who appear as regular guests. It offers new and global perspectives on the relationship between financial expertise and the media, the making of public-expert talk, and how expertise is used to legitimize financialization.
Book Synopsis The Spectacle of Skill by : Robert Hughes
Download or read book The Spectacle of Skill written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion—and himself. The Spectacle of Skill brings together some of his most unforgettable pieces, culled from nine of his most widely read and important books, alongside never-before-published pages from his unfinished second volume of memoirs. Showcasing Hughes’s enormous range, this indispensable anthology offers a uniquely cohesive view of both the critic and the man.
Book Synopsis The Spectacle of Criminal Justice by : Rosie Smith
Download or read book The Spectacle of Criminal Justice written by Rosie Smith and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitised public engagement with the implementation of control and justice.
Book Synopsis Drawn from Life by : Jonathan Murray
Download or read book Drawn from Life written by Jonathan Murray and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics by : Gil Eyal
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics written by Gil Eyal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last several decades, there has been a surge of interest in expertise in the social scientific, philosophical, and legal literatures. While it is tempting to attribute this surge of interest in expertise to the emergence and consolidation of a "knowledge society," "post-industrial society," or "network society," it is more likely that the debates about expertise are symptomatic of significant change and upheaval. As the number of contenders for expert status has increased, as the bases for their claims have become more diverse, and as the struggles between these would-be experts intensified, expertise became problematic and contested. In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics, Gil Eyal and Thomas Medvetz have brought together a broad group of scholars who have engaged substantively and theoretically with debates regarding the nature of expertise and the social roles of experts to examine these areas within sociology and allied disciplines. The analyses take an historical and relational approach to the topic and are motivated by the sense that growing mistrust in experts represents a danger to democratic politics today. The chapters will be organized into three general parts: key theoretical and historical debates, the politics of expertise, and expertise within and across professional, disciplinary, legal, and intellectual spheres. Among the topics considered here are the value and relevance of the boundary between experts and laypeople; the causes and consequences of mistrust in experts; the meanings and social uses of objectivity; and the significance of recent transformations in the organization of the professions. Bringing together investigations from social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars into the political dimensions of expertise, this Handbook connects interdisciplinary work done in science and technology studies with the more classic concerns, topics, and concepts of sociologists of professions and intellectuals.
Book Synopsis Media/cultural Studies by : Rhonda Hammer
Download or read book Media/cultural Studies written by Rhonda Hammer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
Book Synopsis Fields of Expertise by : Christelle Rabier
Download or read book Fields of Expertise written by Christelle Rabier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primacy of experts and expertise in current fields of public policy, governance and non-governmental organizations has accompanied increasing confusion on the foundations of their practices and the adequacy of their methods. Fields of Expertise clarifies the complex heritage of experts by exploring their relationship with legal, political and administrative powers from a comparative historical and interdisciplinary perspective. Specifically, the authors offer case studies on expert procedures in the two capital cities of Paris and London since 1600 in the essential areas of risk management, medical procedures, economic policy, and administrative reform. In doing so, they provide insight into the evolution of expert procedures while at the same time taking into consideration the interdisciplinary nature of scholarship on expertise drawn from Sociology, Science Studies and Political Science. The following articles thus challenge traditional views on the nature of expertise and provide a synthesis of the vast and disparate literature that has been written on the subject. Fields of Expertise’s international perspectives and multi-disciplinary grasp of the literature in political science, sociology, science studies and history will be useful to scholars and students alike in addressing this highly topical issue. The essays reference mainstream sources and widely-documented cases on experts and expertise, making it accessible to the general reader as well.
Book Synopsis Mr Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma by : R. K. Narayan
Download or read book Mr Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma written by R. K. Narayan and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, human-scale hopes and epiphanies express the promise of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. The three novels brought together in this volume, all written after India’s independence, are masterpieces of social comedy, rich in local color and abounding in affectionate humor and generosity of spirit. Mr. Sampath–The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen–an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi–and commits himself to Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions. As charming as they are compassionate, these novels provide an indelible portrait of India in the twentieth century.
Download or read book ISpy written by Mark Andrejevic and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling account of the tradeoff we are willing to make between interactive media technologies and the power of others to watch over--and control--us. This brave new world of electronic marketing and consumption actually lulls consumers into blissful ignorance of how that usage can be--and is being--monitored.
Book Synopsis Expert Techniques in Ophthalmic Surgery by : Parul Ichhpujani
Download or read book Expert Techniques in Ophthalmic Surgery written by Parul Ichhpujani and published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this comprehensive, 1032-pages text and atlas provides ophthalmic surgeons and trainees with the latest advances and techniques in their field. Divided into ten sections, the book begins with an overview of the basic principles of ophthalmic surgery. Each of the following sections is dedicated to surgical procedures for diseases and disorders in different parts of the eye. Surgical techniques are explained in a step by step format and each section is colour-coded for easy cross reference and navigation. Ethics and medico-legal issues are also discussed in depth. Authored by internationally recognised experts in ophthalmic surgery, this new edition has been fully revised and updated. Nearly 1000 clinical photographs, illustrations and tables further enhance the extensive text. Key points Comprehensive text and atlas providing latest advances and techniques in ophthalmic surgery Fully revised, second edition with nearly 1000 photographs, illustrations and tables Internationally recognised author team Previous edition (9789351525004) published in 2015
Book Synopsis The Death of Expertise by : Tom Nichols
Download or read book The Death of Expertise written by Tom Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Book Synopsis The Expert Consumer by : Alain Chatriot
Download or read book The Expert Consumer written by Alain Chatriot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of consumers themselves who have chosen to speak for all consumers and similar such bodies of experts which act on behalf of consumers. The volume is fortunate in drawing upon a number of scholars who are about to publish major works on the subject, but who are happy to provide summary versions of their work for the volume. The book pays particular attention to specific moments in consumer mobilization and expertise, capturing the range of types of expert consumers across the twentieth century, from ethical consumer groups at the beginning, to intellectuals, housewives, economists and public officials. It addresses questions on the nature of consumer organizing, which bodies can speak for consumers, whether one consumer voice can ever be identified and the relationship between consumption and citizenship. Overview pieces demonstrate the larger narratives involved in the study of the expert consumer, whilst more comparative essays set out the nature of transatlantic exchanges. Other contributions point to the similarities across seemingly different consumption regimes, while case studies of specific organisations and key historical moments draw out the particularities of consumer expertise.
Book Synopsis An ethnography of NGO practice in India by : Stewart Allen
Download or read book An ethnography of NGO practice in India written by Stewart Allen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success.
Book Synopsis The Stenographic Expert for Writers of Gregg Shorthand by : Willard Bodine Bottome
Download or read book The Stenographic Expert for Writers of Gregg Shorthand written by Willard Bodine Bottome and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Insecurity by : Jef Huysmans
Download or read book The Politics of Insecurity written by Jef Huysmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of violence of 9/11 changed the global security agenda, catapulting terrorism to the top of the agenda. Weapons of mass destruction grabbed public interest and controlling the free movement of people became a national security priority. In this volume, Jef Huysmans critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a conceptual framework for studying security. He argues that security policies and responses do not appear out of the blue, but are part of a continuous and gradual process, pre-structured by previous developments. He examines this process of securitization and explores how an issue, on the basis of the distribution and administration of fear, becomes a security policy. Huysmans then applies this theory to provide a detailed analysis of migration, asylum and refuge in the European Union. This theoretically sophisticated, yet accessible volume, makes an important contribution to the study of security, migration and European politics.
Download or read book Expert Testimony written by R. U. Piper and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Expert Shorthand Speed Course by : Rupert Pitt So Relle
Download or read book Expert Shorthand Speed Course written by Rupert Pitt So Relle and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
