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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
by Marita Sturken  Publisher Comments Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines...
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NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
by Naomi Klein 
Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will...
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Publisher Comments Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify...
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Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media
by Robert W Mcchesney Publisher Comments In this brilliant new book, Robert W. McChesney, one of America's leading media scholars and activists, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media...
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Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication
by Gunther Kress Publisher Comments Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages: "design thinking" and...
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It
by Joseph Roach Publisher Comments A consumer’s guide to iconic celebrity and ageless glamour “Strikingly original, wickedly witty, and thoroughly learned, Roach’s anatomy of abnormally interesting people and the vicarious pleasure we take in our modern...
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Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
by Douglas Rushkoff Synopsis Why do we always listen to what "they" say? A noted media pundit gives a devastating critique of the influences behind the culture of rampant consumerism, showing how the media attempts to interfere with rational decision-making. "An essential book for...
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Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy
by Jeff Chester Publisher Comments The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interests—and what's involved in this high-stakes struggle. With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, we now have the...
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Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism
by Robert W. McChensney and Ben Scott Publisher Comments The FCC's recent controversial decision to roll back restrictions on media conglomeration produced an outpouring of protest and dissent; more than 700,000 Americans personally registered complaints along with organizations as diverse as NOW and the NRA....
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Defeating Terrorism/Developing Dreams #01: Culture Clash/Media Demons
by Arthur B Shostak Publisher Comments This new series aims to address the questions and concerns of two of the most important events of modern life--the tragedy of 9/11 and the "shock and awe" of the second Gulf War. Each volume analyzes key aspects of political, cultural, and economic...
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Life after television
by George Gilder Synopsis In his visionary new book George Gilder brilliantly and persuasively outlines the sweeping new developments in computer and fiber optic technology that spell certain death to traditional television and telephony. In their places, he argues, will emerge a...
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Reading Women's Magazines: An Analysis of Everyday Media Use
by Joke Hermes Publisher Comments This book focuses on women's magazines, on how they are read and the role they play in their readers' lives....
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Amusing Ourselves To Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Neil Postman Synopsis Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged....
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Media Organisations in Society
by James Curran Publisher Comments This widescreen approach to the study of media organizations in society combines a survey of current research with original case studies, providing an in-depth understanding of media industries and the processes of cultural production....
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Media Virus!
by Douglas Rushkoff Publisher Comments The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers...
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Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture
by James Bowman Synopsis Writing with acerbic wit, Bowman shows how the mainstream media's embrace of a spurious notion of objectivity, combined with its addiction to scandal, and an unshakable conviction of its own moral superiority have done irreparable damage to the media's...
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Through Their Eyes
by Stephen Hess Synopsis Informed by scores of interviews and armed with original survey research, Hess reveals the mindset of foreign correspondents from a broad sample of countries. He examines how reporting from abroad has changed over the past twenty years and addresses the...
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Religion Vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context (Media & Society)
by Jay Newman Publisher Comments The subject of competition between religion and television has, if only indirectly, received considerable attention, particularly from religionists disturbed by the threat posed by television programming to traditional religious beliefs, values, and...
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The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media's Effect on Our Children
by James P Steyer Publisher Comments There's a stranger in your house. Every day your children are bombarded by images of sex, commercialism, and violence -- right in your own home. Kids spend more time each week with media than they do with their parents or teachers, and they learn about...
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Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments “A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times.”—San Francisco Chronicle In this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of...
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