university of massachusetts press jan 2025 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three weeks, 712 passengers tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. There were fourteen deaths, and the ship outbreak quickly became the largest cluster of cases outside of China. Guests shared updates on social media that became a key source of information for news outlets and helped set the tone for how media would cover the pandemic for the next several years. Unlike past pandemics, COVID-19 emerged in a digital world of instant communication, with citizen-produced content mingling with more traditional media. Capturing COVID makes sense of how this modern landscape shaped the public's knowledge and perceptions during the progression of the pandemic. Katherine A. Foss focuses on crucial media moments to illuminate how this digital era shaped kept people informed and connected, but also led to the politicization of the virus, rampant mis/disinformation, and stigmatizing messaging that contributed to public distrust and division'-- Provided by publisher.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children's teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely remained in place, and these extra child rearing responsibilities fell disproportionately on mothers. Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus explores how they juggled working, supervising at-home learning, and protecting their children's emotional and physical health during the outbreak. Focusing on both remote and essential workers in central New York, Amy Lutz, Sujung (Crystal) Lee, and Baurzhan Bokayev argue that the pandemic transformed an already intensive style of contemporary American child rearing into extremely intensive mothering. The authors investigate the many ramifications of this shift, and how it is influenced by issues such as class and race. Targeting their study within larger intersections of gender, families and education, they contend that to fully understand the broader social consequences of COVID-19, we must understand the experiences of mothers'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children's teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely remained in place, and these extra child rearing responsibilities fell disproportionately on mothers. Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus explores how they juggled working, supervising at-home learning, and protecting their children's emotional and physical health during the outbreak. Focusing on both remote and essential workers in central New York, Amy Lutz, Sujung (Crystal) Lee, and Baurzhan Bokayev argue that the pandemic transformed an already intensive style of contemporary American child rearing into extremely intensive mothering. The authors investigate the many ramifications of this shift, and how it is influenced by issues such as class and race. Targeting their study within larger intersections of gender, families and education, they contend that to fully understand the broader social consequences of COVID-19, we must understand the experiences of mothers'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three weeks, 712 passengers tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. There were fourteen deaths, and the ship outbreak quickly became the largest cluster of cases outside of China. Guests shared updates on social media that became a key source of information for news outlets and helped set the tone for how media would cover the pandemic for the next several years. Unlike past pandemics, COVID-19 emerged in a digital world of instant communication, with citizen-produced content mingling with more traditional media. Capturing COVID makes sense of how this modern landscape shaped the public's knowledge and perceptions during the progression of the pandemic. Katherine A. Foss focuses on crucial media moments to illuminate how this digital era shaped kept people informed and connected, but also led to the politicization of the virus, rampant mis/disinformation, and stigmatizing messaging that contributed to public distrust and division'-- Provided by publisher.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called 'Tasting and Testing Books.' The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most widely circulated periodical in the United States, doubling its circulation to over two million copies. Much of its popularity stemmed from its intensive promotion of its Seal of Approval for a variety of products, which brought consumers to it for utilitarian purposes. With her focus on regular books, Blair distinguished herself from highbrow literary critics, many of whom have been objects of study as High Modernists. She offered advice to help middle-class women readers make their own choices about the best books in which to invest time and money, rather than dictating what they should or should not read. She aligns herself with the average subscriber, outside the book publishing and reviewer industries, focusing on books that would now be termed middlebrow reading. Blair's time at Good Housekeeping covers the era from the heights of the 'Roaring Twenties' to the depths of the Great Depression, and her recommendations offer a window into the uses of middlebrow reading during this period of dramatic economic and social shifts. Tasting and Testing Books argues that the consumer-first message of Good Housekeeping infused Blair's advice column and validated a new attitude of proudly middlebrow pleasure reading in the mid-twentieth century. These columns shed new light on the reading lives of too-often overlooked women, often living outside of urban centers and away from elite literary circles, and present Emily Newell Blair, who strongly identified with her readers as a truly democratic tastemaker'.