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Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Digital Media and Society) by Nancy K. Baym Publisher Comments The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network Into a Propaganda Machine by David Brock Publisher Comments Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone Publisher Comments A million listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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African Media and Democratization by Yusuf Kalyango, Jr. Book News Annotation Drawn from direct primary research, this volume on media and politics in Eastern and Southern Africa provides students, policy makers and professionals working in the region with a concise overview of public opinion of media independence in the area... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World by Daniel C. Hallin Publisher Comments Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $23.10 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-first Century by Robert W. McChesney Publisher Comments The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (Electronic Mediations) by Peter Krapp Publisher Comments To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new... (read more) Your price: $27.75 New - Trade Paper
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Serial Murder and Media Circuses by Dirk C. Gibson Publisher Comments The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. The Manson Family... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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Signifying Europe by Johan Fornas Publisher Comments Signifying Europe provides a systematic overview of the wide range of symbols used to represent Europe and Europeanness, both by the political elite and the broader public. Through a critical interpretation of the meanings of the various symbols&mdash... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide. In the last... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Stories by Peter Phillips Publisher Comments The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry by Melinda Tankard Reist Publisher Comments The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life, popularizing new forms of hardcore misogyny, and strongly contributing to the sexualization of children. Yet, challenges... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments Your price: $23.00 New - Trade Paper
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Networked: The New Social Operating System by Lee Rainie Publisher Comments Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The New Media Monopoly by Ben H Bagdikian Publisher Comments When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Propaganda and Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments The celebrated thematic magazines of the notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment cult were created to be hawked on the street in order to raise money and attract like-minded adherents to their unorthodox Gnostic theology. Printed in order of... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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Iraq War Cultures by Cynthia (edt) Fuchs Book News Annotation This collection of ten essays on war and society examines the cultural reverberations of the Iraq War from several popular media perspectives. Articles address a variety of subjects including the normalization of the language of fear, believable lies... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Trade Paper
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Rev 09 Edition) by Henry Jenkins Publisher Comments “What the future fortunes of [Gramscis] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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TV Cops: The Contemporary American Television Police Drama by Jonathan Nichols-pethick Publisher Comments The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations from Hill Street Blues... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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