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Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by Jillian York
£21.68What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our... -
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World by Will Sommer
RRP: £20.00£13.34'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear... -
Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics by Asta Zelenkauskaite
£35.39With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity, Creating Chaos Online unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic processes. Asta Zelenkauskaite finds... -
On Being Unreasonable: Why Being Bad Can Be a Force for Good by Kirsty Sedgman 9780571366866
RRP: £9.99£6.70We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what's... -
Reactionary Democracy: Racism, Populism, the Far Right and 'the People' by Aurelien Mondon
RRP: £16.99£14.50Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding of the power to the people (demos cratos) for... -
Badvertising: Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos by Andrew Simms 9780745349145
RRP: £20.00£13.35**An Independent Book of the Month** 'Brilliant ... if you thought your brain was being gently warmed by the advertising industry, read this book and you'll realise it's being fried' - Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 Advertising is selling us a dream, a... -
New Power: How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize, and Succeed in Our Chaotic, Connected Age by Jeremy Heimans
RRP: £18.00£11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781101971109Author Jeremy HeimansFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) by Tom Chivers
RRP: £9.99£6.80Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics... -
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz
RRP: £14.99£11.76Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information... -
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect by Mick West
RRP: £12.99£11.58The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre.... All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in some cases, outright... -
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet by James Griffiths
RRP: £35.00£26.62'Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields - both technically and politically' - Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo 'An urgent and much needed reminder... -
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
RRP: £17.49£15.11For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the... -
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way by Steve Richards
RRP: £12.99£8.56Intelligent, nuanced and wide-ranging, this is the essential handbook for understanding the chaotic political times in which we live.In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it's Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, or... -
The War Against the BBC: How an Unprecedented Combination of Hostile Forces Is Destroying Britain's Greatest Cultural Institution... And Why You Should Care by Patrick Barwise
RRP: £12.99£9.09There's a war on against the BBC. It is under threat as never before. And if we lose it, we won't get it back.The BBC is our most important cultural institution, our best-value entertainment provider, and the global face of Britain. It's our most trusted... -
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
RRP: £9.99£7.63'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter 'She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this' Philip Pullman 'Vibrates with outrage' The Times ... -
Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game by Rachel Bitecofer 9780593727140
RRP: £30.00£18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593727140Author Rachel BitecoferFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Enter Ormerod's vital manual' - Pandora Sykes'A statistic-packed investigation into a worldwide phenomenon... It is no exaggeration to say this book is essential reading for anyone' -METRO'Who better to help us wade through the muddy waters of the great... -
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER, bestselling author of ContagiousHow did movements like the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter take off when they did? How did... -
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin 9780008274993
RRP: £9.99£6.64The International Bestseller The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A Vast Conspiracy casts an insightful eye over the extraordinary ordeal... -
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump by Jennifer R. Mercieca
RRP: £27.95£22.66Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential... -
On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better by Kirsty Sedgman
RRP: £16.99£11.27We're living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can't we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what's... -
Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order by Corneliu Bjola 9781032571317
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations.This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes... -
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
RRP: £10.99£8.94Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the... -
Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
RRP: £12.99£8.63In this characteristically turbocharged book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part... -
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World by James Ball 9781785902147
RRP: £9.99£7.112016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.From Trump... -
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media by Marc Owen Jones
RRP: £30.00£26.43You are being lied to by people who don't even exist. Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an... -
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £16.99£11.54Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all-the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative... -
Esc. by Marie Le Conte
RRP: £16.99£11.08'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year... -
Guilty Of Journalism: The Political Prosecution of Julian Assange by Kevin Gosztola
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212721Author Kevin GosztolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control by Vili Lehdonvirta
RRP: £26.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PROSE Award - Business, Finance & Management 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780262047227Author Vili LehdonvirtaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication by Kate Kenski 9780190090456
£73.27Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and... -
How to Stay Safe Online: A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship by Seyi Akiwowo
RRP: £10.99£7.77A powerful, comprehensive guide to spotting, responding to and proactively defending yourself from online abuse - and learning how to be a good ally to those experiencing it.'The need-to-know, must-have and barrier breaking book on fighting online abuse... -
Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health by Lesley Henderson
RRP: £38.99£34.22This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as studies of audience reception of media... -
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
RRP: £12.99£8.68'Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed' Financial Times'This fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook's founder' James Marriott, Sunday Times'The inside story of how Facebook went... -
How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back by Nina Jankowicz
RRP: £11.99£8.84"Blisteringly witty." Kirkus "An essential guide." Publisher's Weekly "Timely." Booklist When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment,... -
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers
RRP: £40.00£29.81The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off... -
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982732Author Gabriel ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier 9780393357448
RRP: £13.99£12.25We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billboards that... -
Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths by James Morrison
£24.65Scroungers, spongers, parasites ... These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or the unemployed. Long a popular... -
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff
RRP: £17.99£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538728765Author Michael IsikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint TwelvePublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...