Media & Internet

Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age brings together original chapters from 34 noted scholars from two disciplines - political science and communication - asked to identify the most pressing problems facing the American people and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579987Author Douglas MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury ContinuumPublisher Bloomsbury ContinuumWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

New York Times Bestseller! Let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world-JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more!The official...

The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and...

We 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...

Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was made publicly available. She had her first blog at 12, a successful music website at 16 and, at 31, has just under 100,000 followers on Twitter. She spent her formative...

If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a...

Welcome to the Post-Truth era- a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump's victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants;...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER!New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson takes on the media's misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more.When the facts don't fit their Narrative, the media abandons the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250189745Author Dale BeranFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint All Points BooksPublisher All Points BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm *...

Who gets to exercise free speech, and what happens when powerful voices think they have been silenced?Assembling a diverse group of commentators, activists and academics, this book explores the contemporary free speech wars to try to understand how this...

Described by a former senior Intelligence official as a 'long-term thorn in the side of the intelligence establishment', Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in...

*****PERFECT FOR FANS OF 'THE COMING STORM'ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A chilling overview of a movement that should arguably have no place in any healthy, well-educated society.' - The Telegraph'A compelling book.' - The Guardian'The Storm...

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya - one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While...

On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant women propagate the "pure" white race and post behind-the-scenes selfies at antivaccination rallies. These...

***"One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the monstrous views she encounters." - The New York Times"Shocking, angry, funny and wise... Talia Lavin takes no prisoners." - Danny Wallace,...

The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the Enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which the public reflexively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807093429Author Landon Y. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always been with us, their multiplication and proliferation is unprecedented due to increasing knowledge, a sense of powerlessness, and a distrust of elites, that have...

Why are journalists and politicians trusted to tell the truth as little as estate agents? How can democracy function when everybody just believes whatever they want? Will we ever return to "normal"? Written in an engaging and accessible style for a...

Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: to freely associate, to form...

Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social...

Since 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...

The 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...

Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall. Early in his career, Norton-Taylor successfully campaigned against official secrecy, gaining a reputation...

This book investigates the growing politicization of Mumsnet and its use by politicians to influence middle-class women in the UK. The site's discussion topics go far beyond traditional 'mothering' subjects and encompass politics, feminism and current...

This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358108474Author P.W. SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of...

In his bestselling books The Cult of the Amateur and The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen exposed the cultural and social dangers posed by internet technology. What was once seen as a tool for connecting people and providing opportunities is now...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy-and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573190Author Anne NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm)...

Rupert Murdoch's extraordinary career has no parallel. His control of Fox news, which so successfully supports the Trump presidency, is a key force in American politics. In the UK, his control of The Sun and The Times leaves politicians scrambling to get...

From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American...

China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official...

The New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera-hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become the...

A 2022 Best Comedy Book, VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts...

As seen on CBS 60 Minutes "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Did you know that these twenty-six words are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539913Author Whitney PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538367Author Melissa ZimdarsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm