Media Studies
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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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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
$27.95 Read more“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad ran
- Author: Weill, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643750682
- 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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A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
$19.95 Add to cartA bold reassessment of “smart cities” that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers
Computational models of urbanism–smart cities that use data-driven planning and algor- Series: Places Books #2
- Author: Mattern, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208050
- 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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After the Future
$16.95 Read moreAfter the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of “the future.” Beginning with F. T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” and the worldwide race toward a new and highly mechanized s
- Author: Berardi, Franco Bifo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1849350590
- Language: English
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Veils of Distortion: How the News Media Warps Our Minds
$16.95 Add to cart‘Fake news’ has become an obsessional catchphrase and a worldwide fear. Yet few of us realize that shades of falsehood have always run through the mainstream news media. As news organizations double-d
- Author: Zada, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: February 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1777357101
- 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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Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the COVID lab leak theory to Hunter Biden’s laptop to Jeffrey Epstein, media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer spotlights the problems of a news industry filled with geographically is
- Author: Krakauer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1546003487
- Language: English
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The Journalist and the Murderer
$18.00 Read moreA seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm del… [more below]
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0679731830
- 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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The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
$27.95 Add to cartIn The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous … [more below]
- Author: Ruberg, Bo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006587
- Language: English
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The Idealist
$21.99 Add to cartThis smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society–and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of R… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1476767742
- Language: English
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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can’t… [more below]
- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774728
- Language: English
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
$18.99 Add to cartA total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dang
- Author: Mander, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 371
- Publish Date: March 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0688082742
- Language: English
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How to Survive the Modern World: Making Sense Of, and Finding Calm In, Unsteady Times
$32.99 Add to cartA hopeful guide to living well in the 21st century.
The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transportation. But with these advanc
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1912891530
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid
$16.95 Add to cartPublic discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”–be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi find… [more below]
- Series: Bad Arguments
- Author: Almossawi, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1615198407
- Language: English
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Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
$34.95 Add to cartA dynamic celebration of trans male culture, this essential collection makes visible a decade of FTM and transmasculine experiences.
“A decade’s worth of unfiltered conversations, radical art, and cul
- Author: Mac, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1936932598
- Language: English
