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Is straight the new queer? David Beckham and the dialectics of celebrity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In his book, Understanding Celebrity (2004), Turner provides a comprehensive overview of the vast literature which has developed on issues of celebrity and fame, painting a broad picture of concerns divided between the significance of the apparent ...
Rahman, Momin
core   +1 more source

Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: postcolonial media culture in Britain by Rosalind Brunt and Rinella Cere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain is a refreshing and interesting text that introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates. Asiya Islam is concerned
Islam, Asiya
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‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
wiley   +1 more source

About the Medialogical Understanding of the Concept of “Book Culture”

open access: yesБиблиосфера
The concept of “book culture”, which entered the domestic book-study discourse in the 1980s, is currently one of the central ones for both historical-book and theoretical-book studies. However, it has not yet received a conventional definition in Russian
S. V. Kozlov, I. V. Lizunova
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: Gender, violence and popular culture: tellingstories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This book approaches the interrelation of popular representations of gender and violence and global politics by focusing on the narrative of television shows like Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The West Wing.
Gouseti, Ioanna
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Small vesicles, big potential: A review of innovative exosome delivery and molecular mechanisms in preclinical myocardial infarction models

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This narrative review discusses animal models of exosome‐based myocardial infarction treatments. Emerging techniques aim to improve exosome stability, targeting, and bioavailability for MI treatment as drug delivery vehicles and regenerative mediators that promote myocardial regeneration. Abstract Exosomes have emerged as promising therapeutic carriers,
Chayanisa Phutiyothin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

We don’t need just the DFC, we needs lots of comics, and what’s more, we can make them. Let’s get to it! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Comics have too often been dismissed as unsophisticated, popular culture texts or as a phase of reading which children are encouraged to move out of towards more ‘worthy’ literary fare.
Gibson, Mel
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A Geomorphometric Approach to Estimate the Deterioration of Earthen Archaeological Sites by Rainfall and Diffusion Processes: The Huaca Chornancap (Eighth–14th Century ad), Lambayeque, Peru

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rain‐induced erosion processes can severely damage Earthen archaeological sites. Huaca Chornancap (HCH; eighth–14th century ad) is a platform located in the Lambayeque region (Peru) exposed to seasonal rain due to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Luigi Magnini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Review) Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Reviews Richard Hingley\u27s book entitled Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiii, 208. ISBN 0-415-35176-6.
Adler, Eric
core   +1 more source

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