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COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.

A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and reading skills, these programs also have a profound impact on parents. In a surprising turn—especially given the long history of social policies that leave recipients feeling policed, distrusted, and alienated—government-funded after-school programs have quietly become powerful forces for political and civic engagement by shifting power away from bureaucrats and putting it back into the hands of parents. In State of EmpowermentCarolyn Barnes uses ethnographic accounts of three organizations to reveal how interacting with government-funded after-school programs can enhance the civic and political lives of low-income citizens.

IN THIS ISSUE Guest Editors Suzanne Scott and Ellen Seiter Ellen Seiter. Letter from the Editor. Research Articles Paige MacIntosh. Transgressive TV: Euphoria, HBO, and a New Trans Aesthetic Kelsey J. Cummings. Queer Seriality, Streaming Television, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Jia Tan. Platformized Seriality: Chinese Time-Travel Fantasy from Prime-Time Television to Online Streaming Jake Pitre. Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook Watch Anne Gilbert. Algorithmic Audiences, Serialized Streamers, and the Discontents of Datafication Oliver Kröener. Then, Now, Forever: Television Wrestling, Seriality, and the Rise of the Cinematic Match during COVID-19 Book Reviews Briand Gentry. The Serial Will Be Televised: Serial Television's Revolutionary Potential for Multidisciplinary Analysis of Social Identity. Reviews of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure by Dennis Broe, Wayne State University Press, 2019, and Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television by Maria Sulimma, Edinburgh University Press, 2021 Grace Elizabeth Wilsey. The Patchwork That Makes a Global Streaming Giant. Review of Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution by Ramon Lobato, New York University Press, 2019 Asher Guthertz. The History of the American Comic Book, Revised: Review of Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood by Shawna Kidman, University of California Press, 2019 Film Reviews Anne Metcalf. Review of Zola (Janicza Bravo, 2020)

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Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.