Media Studies
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
$18.00 Add to cartA look at the history and myth of the objective journalist and how this ideal has been used to silence marginalized voices.
In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history- Author: Wallace, Lewis Raven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826589
- Language: English
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Who Is Steven Spielberg?
$6.99 Add to cartWhile other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the worl… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Spinner, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0448479354
- Language: English
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Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
$9.99 Read moreNine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of a young girl trying to enter the school being taunted, haras… [more below]
- Series: Captured History
- Author: Tougas, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0756545129
- Language: English
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The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance
$28.95 Add to cartFrom Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and “insufficiently white” women
More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commit- Author: Strings, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008621
- Language: English
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Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
$18.99 Add to cartA Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.
As a Deafblind woman with partial vision- Author: Sjunneson, Elsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982152400
- Language: English
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Love and Let Die: James Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche
$29.95 Read moreA deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche–the Beatles and the Bond films–and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over si… [more below]
- Author: Higgs, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363300
- Language: English
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Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
$32.95 Add to cartArtificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life … [more below]
- Author: McQuillan, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1529213509
- Language: English
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Analog
$16.95 Add to cartWhy, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog–vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.
We’re surrounded by screens; our music come- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hassan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544490
- Language: English
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
$17.99 Add to cartIn the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sex… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982165782
- Language: English
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Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire
$22.00 Read more“From schoolboy socialist to boy publisher to mogul on the make: Young Rupert offers a revelatory glimpse of Murdoch becoming Murdoch.”–Jeff Sparrow, author of No Way But This: in search of Paul Robe
- Author: Marsh, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1957363517
- Language: English
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Byline: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World
$24.99 Read moreJournalism is in crisis, but the solution is right in front of us.
It’s no secret that news outlets are struggling to maintain their audience, and journalism jobs are being cut to accommodate tighter a
- Author: Hegranes, Cristi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1642256870
- Language: English
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Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
$19.00 Add to cart“Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the ‘unaccountable joy’ of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented
- Author: Sullivan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250906008
- Language: English
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What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise
$12.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based rep… [more below]
- Author: Yasmin, Seema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1665900040
- Language: English
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Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER: National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press CriticismLeading journalists from Fox News, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, newspapers, and other outlets-including Dan Rather, Ashleigh Banfield, Robert Mc… [more below]
- Author: Borjesson, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591022304
- Language: English
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True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by Esquire
A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium–and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gen- Author: Lindemann, Danielle J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862949
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$29.00 Read moreThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. Fo- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394827
- Language: English
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Can You Believe It?: How to Spot Fake News and Find the Facts
$18.99 Add to cartFor today’s tech-savvy kids, here’s the go-to resource for navigating what they read on the internet.
Should we believe everything we read online? Definitely not! And this book will tell you why. Th
- Author: Grant, Joyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1525303228
- Language: English
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Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice
$16.95 Read moreRising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States.
While people of color are fast becoming the ma
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Kolhatkar, Sonali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868729
- Language: English
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The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, Ksan San Francisco
$32.95 Read moreThe Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercul… [more below]
- Author: Rosenfeld, Hank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149307086X
- Language: English
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Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
$24.95 Add to cartThis most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a t… [more below]
- Author: Lipstadt, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 08 1993
- ISBN10: 0029191610
- Language: English
