| 书目名称 | Terra Ludus | | 副标题 | A Novel about Media, | | 编辑 | Toni Bruce | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Set in a fictional near future, Terra Ludus is a gripping tale of what can happen when individuals stand up for equal rights and makes us ask whether each new generation has to fight for social justic | | 丛书名称 | Social Fictions Series | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Set in the near future, Terra Ludus follows a group of friends as their lives are turned upside down by the downstream effects of the actions of the protagonist, Daniela Bartoli. Five years after the professional International Women’s Basketball League is unceremoniously dumped by its parent men’s organization, Daniela is working in Los Angeles as a freelance journalist and playing regular weekend pick-up games with her friends Mike, Constantin, Dominic and Simeon. Her relatively simple life changes almost overnight after her vlog, challenging a powerful media corporation to step up and broadcast women’s basketball, goes viral. The publicity sets off a chain reaction that brings the sport back into international prominence and sucks Daniela into a vortex of media and public visibility that leads her to question what is really important. In an imagined context where all professional sport takes place in a single country –something like a permanent Olympic Games – we follow a cast of characters with very different viewpoints on a roller-coaster, year-long, journey as they adjust to the new women’s league. Although fictional, Terra Ludus is grounded in decades of researching, theorizi | | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | | 关键词 | Fiction; Sport; Media; Feminism; Social justice; Sexism | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-770-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6300-770-2 | | copyright | SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016 |
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