Media Studies
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How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the Chaos
$21.99 Add to cartA guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off.
Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturate
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1912891883
- Language: English
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The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartHow we lost control of the internet–and how to win it back.
The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cy- Author: Lingel, Jessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520395565
- Language: English
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Media Racism: The Impact of Media Injustice on Black Women’s Lives
$42.00 Add to cart“A powerful, well-researched indictment of racist media in the United States.“-Kirkus Reviews
https: //www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marquita-m-gammage/media-racism/
As contemporary media continues
- Author: Gammage, Marquita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1942774079
- Language: English
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
$24.95 Add to cartSince the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds — radical and reactionary, professional and amateur — have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, is all
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Kafka, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 194213035X
- Language: English
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The Responsive Chord: The Responsive Chord: How Media Manipulate You: What You Buy… Who You Vote For… and How You Think.
$16.99 Add to cartTony Schwartz, author of seminal text The Responsive Chord, is the progenitor of the study of media manipulation. As of 2016, his book is more important now than ever. The creator of the “Daisy Ad,” w… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 163353605X
- Language: English
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Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression
$24.95 Add to cartThe Department of Justice sought information on all who visited the DisruptJ20.org website for Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Undercover agents infiltrate BlackLivesMatter protests. Police routinely com- Author: Robé, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1629633615
- Language: English
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Passion & Prejudice: A Family Memoir
$19.43 Add to cart“There are many accounts of the Bingham family saga, but no other by someone who was there. For the first time, a gifted writer born into a family of inherited wealth and power takes us with her behin… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Bingham, Sallie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 546
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557830770
- Language: English
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The hounds of Actaeon: the magical origins of public relations and modern media
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Loza, Mauricio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1680531271
- Language: English
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Laughing Back at Empire: The Grassroots Activism of the Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985
$27.95 Add to cartAsian Canadian activism, resistance, and art of the 1970s and 80s
Laughing Back at Empire is a ground-breaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti- sexist, a
- Series: Human Rights and Social Justice #4
- Author: Wong, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840297
- Language: English
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The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics
$30.00 Read moreIn recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years’ worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after another.
- Author: Serazio, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635481
- Language: English
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Media Literacy: An essential guide to critical thinking skills for our complex digital world
$39.99 Add to cartMedia Literacy is a critical skill students must learn to succeed in today’s tech-driven, media-saturated society. This book helps students understand media literacy, and how to implement and share th
- Author: Pernisco, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1087896304
- Language: English
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Signs All Around Us
$9.99 Read moreExplore signs students encounter in everyday life! This fun nonfiction reader gives examples of relevant signs and explains their meanings. Includes a fiction piece related to the topic an extension a… [more below]
- Series: Icivics Readers
- Author: Driggs, Lorin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 20
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1087605660
- Language: English
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
$18.95 Read moreA 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 rad
- Author: Gladstone, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541576
- Language: English
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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
$18.95 Add to cartA revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online-and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like- Author: Bail, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241406
- Language: English
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After the Internet: Digital Networks Between Capital and the Common
$16.95 Add to cartOn the internet’s transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.
The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the- Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention
- Author: Terranova, Tiziana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901685
- Language: English
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
$18.99 Add to cartA prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump — a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller… [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1568586132
- Language: English
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Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper
$39.99 Add to cartAn in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimi… [more below]
- Author: Leff, Laurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: April 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0521607825
- Language: English
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Post-Cinematic Bodies
$37.33 Add to cartHow is human embodiment transformed in an age of algorithms? How do post-cinematic media technologies such as AI, VR, and robotics target and re-shape our bodies? Post-Cinematic Bodies grapples with t
- Author: Denson, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 3957960436
- Language: English
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The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media
$49.92 Read moreA critical history of the social media influencer’s rise to global prominence
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion- Author: Hund, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691231028
- Language: English
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
$19.95 Read moreAn engaging and scholastic presentation of zines and modern culture
Much history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing. From their origins in early 20th cent- Series: Scene History
- Author: Duncombe, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1621064840
- Language: English
