A sociology textbook/mystery novel, that allows students to join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory.
Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique
To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects
The average person in America watches four hours of television per day and spends the equivalent of nine years of his or her life in front of... Læs mere
From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement.
Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years
When the cold war ended, many hoped it signified enhanced prospects for a more stable world
A brief, inexpensive, informal introductory text for the basic course in communication, Messages features lively writing, a focus on theorists of communication, and inclusion of contemporary topics of identity, social media, and visual communication.
In Blind Men and Elephants, Arthur Asa Berger uses case histories to show how scholars from different disciplines and scholarly domains have tried to describe and understand humor
This introductory textbook familiarizes students with ideas of key thinkers and perspectives related to postmodern thought and everyday life.
Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies.
In concise entries, this dictionary analyzes ideas and concepts about advertising and its social, economic, psychological and cultural significance.