Dear colleagues, (as usual, apologies for cross-posting) we're happy to announce that the edited volume Cultures of Authenticity is out now and available as e-book and hardback from Emerald: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781801179362 The sections on social media, popular culture and political communication could be of particular interest to members of this list. (contents here: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/cultures-of-authenticity/?k=978... ] Abstract below and please feel free to get in touch with any feedback or questions! best wishes, Marie ****************** *Heřmanová, M. <https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=Marie%20He%C5%99manov%C3%A1>, Skey, M. <https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=Michael%20Skey> and Thurnell-Read, T. <https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=Thomas%20Thurnell-Read> (Ed.) Cultures of Authenticity, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 231-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221017 <https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221017>* Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. And a new collection, Cultures of Authenticity, provides the first inter-disciplinary examination of authenticity, by analysing the concept in relation to travel and tourism, branding and marketing, popular culture, social media and political communication. Drawing on cases from around the globe, including Taiwan, Denmark, USA, China and Russia, established scholars and early career researchers have brought together the latest empirical and conceptual scholarship addressing authenticity and its centrality to debates about contemporary culture, media and society. In this way, the authors are able to pinpoint the growing significance of authenticity in the contemporary era, the various ways in which different disciplines approach the topic, and possible ways of advancing the field across disciplines. As one of the editors of the book, Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read explained, 'as authenticity has been so prominent in various areas of academic research, we saw there was scope for a volume bringing together approaches from a range of disciplines such as media and communications, politics, cultural studies, sociology, tourism studies and heritage. The book showcases the similarities and differences in how different disciplines engage with the concept of authenticity and examine how it is claimed and who can claim to be authentic or not'. -- *Dr Marie Hermanova* Postdoctoral researcher - Gender & Sociology Department, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Editor-in-Chief, Gender and Research Journal <https://www.genderonline.cz/> Lecturer - Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies, CERGE-EI (Charles University) @MarieHermanova +420 603 206 655 https://www.soc.cas.cz/en/lide/marie-hermanova