|
Sociology
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments "[A] compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century."--Walter LaFeber, The New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone Publisher Comments Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media. This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher... (read more) List Price $93.50 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Chronicles of a Two-Front War: Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press by Lawerence Allen Eldridge Publisher Comments During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President--And Who Is Behind Them by Bill Press Publisher Comments In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Wikileaks by Charlie Beckett Publisher Comments WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure, from across the political and journalistic spectrum.WikiLeaks poses a series of questions to the status... (read more) Your price: $20.54 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World (Information Society) by Hassan (edt) Masum Publisher Comments In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve as filters for information... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan Gonzalez Publisher Comments Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Media Essentials: a Brief Introduction (11 Edition) by Richard Campbell Publisher Comments Media Essentials is a new kind of introductory text. It's built to help students focus on the fundamentals, so that no matter how the media evolves, students can understand what's really going on. Brought to you by best-selling authors Richard Campbell... (read more) List Price $63.15 Your price: $51.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Publisher Comments "At last in Kirschenbaum's Mechanisms we have our tactical plan for thinking inside the black box of digital media, for moving past 'screen studies' to a new take on electronic media informed by deep understanding of technological practices of... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $20.25 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments The author of "The End of Nature" asks an intriguing question: Which provides more "information," 103 cable channels showering viewers with beguiling factoids--or a weekend in the woods?... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Merchants of Culture by John B Thompson Publisher Comments The world of book publishing is going through turbulent times. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the 21st century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Gender, Race, and Class in Media (3RD 11 Edition) by Gail Dines Publisher Comments Incisive analyses of mass media - including such forms as reality television, social networking sites, dramatic series, sitcoms, advertising, children's media, video games, and pornography - enable this provocative new edition of Gender, Race, and Class... (read more) List Price $84.75 Your price: $55.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History by Rodger Streitmatter Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking book, Rodger Streitmatter takes the reader on a sightseeing tour of American history as influenced by the public press, visiting fifteen landmark events in US history, from the American Revolution and the struggle for womens rights... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service -with DVD (07 Edition) by David Hillard Publisher Comments "We knew from the beginning how critical it was to have our own publication, to set forth our agenda for freedom...to urge change, to use the pen alongside the sword," writes David Hilliard in the preface to this stunning collection of pages from the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium; a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cultural Studies in the Future Tense by Lawrence Grossberg Publisher Comments Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
New Media: A Critical Introduction by Martin Lister Publisher Comments New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that... (read more) Your price: $61.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
