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Media and Public Spheres by Richard Butsch 9780230594494
Booksplease Price: $59.70Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public... -
The Ethics of Reality TV: A Philosophical Examination by Kristie Bunton 9781441189035
Booksplease Price: $48.27Beginning with the new millennium, reality television exploded both in number of shows and in popularity. The scholarship on reality TV is beginning to catch up, but one of the most enduring... -
Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability by Aristea Fotopoulou 9781137504708
Booksplease Price: $118.99This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer... -
Universities in the Neoliberal Era: Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives by Simten Cosar 9781137552112
Booksplease Price: $131.40This book explores the question of how and to what extent the ongoing neoliberal transformation of higher education exerts influence on the university and academic everyday life in different... -
Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia Mirca Madianou 9780415679299
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by... -
National Belonging and Everyday Life: The Significance of Nationhood in an Uncertain World by Michael Skey 9780230247611
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and... -
Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention Mirko Tobias Schäfer 9781041177111
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences... -
Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers Mobilise by Alice Mattoni
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise, struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential political... -
Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories: A Hermeneutic Perspective by Tony Wilson
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Practice theories of our equipped and situated tacit construction of participatory narrative meaning are evident in multiple disciplines from architectural to communication study, consumer, marketing... -
Classics in Media Theory by Stina Bengtsson 9781032557953
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.39This comprehensive collection introduces and contextualizes media studies' most influential texts and thinkers, from early 20th century mass communication to the first stages of digital culture in... -
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism by Benjamin Toff 9780231205191
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $28.47A small but growing number of people in many countries consistently avoid the news. They feel they do not have time for it, believe it is not worth the effort, find it irrelevant or emotionally... -
The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East by Mohamed Zayani 9780197508626
Booksplease Price: $96.47The digital has emerged as a driving force of change that is reshaping everyday life and affecting nearly every sphere of vital activity. Yet, its impact has been far from uniform. The multifaceted... -
Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture by Susan Murray 9780814756874
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $90.16A collection of essays that parse out the seemingly unprecedented rise of reality television Survivor. The Bachelor. Extreme Makeover. Big Brother. Joe Millionaire. American Idol. The Osbournes. It... -
How Voters Feel by Stephen Coleman 9781107601628
Booksplease Price: $41.43This book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between... -
Networked Collective Actions: The Making of an Impeachment by Hyunjin Seo 9780197538890
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.64The summer of 2016 saw one of the most significant citizen protests in the history of democratic South Korea, eventually culminating in the impeachment and conviction of then President Park Geun-hye... -
Mainstreaming Islam in Indonesia: Television, Identity, and the Middle Class by Inaya Rakhmani 9781137557209
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $70.59This cutting edge book considers the question of Islam and commercialisation in Indonesia, a majority Muslim, non-Arab country. Revealing the cultural heterogeneity behind rising Islamism in a... -
Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation by Amanda Lagerkvist 9780190925567
Booksplease Price: $123.71Tied to the profundity of life and death, media are and have always been existential. Yet, as they are deeply embedded in the lifeworld on both individual and global scales, they currently capitalize... -
Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis by Anne Kaun 9781783607365
Booksplease Price: $36.24Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention,... -
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech by Sahana Udupa
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.Digital Hate:... -
Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication and Democracy by Peter Dahlgren
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.57One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizens' political engagement. There are many elements that contribute to this, including fundamental... -
Networked Collective Actions: The Making of an Impeachment by Hyunjin Seo 9780197538883
Booksplease Price: $123.71The summer of 2016 saw one of the most significant citizen protests in the history of democratic South Korea, eventually culminating in the impeachment and conviction of then President Park Geun-hye... -
Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices by Wanning Sun 9781442236776
Booksplease Price: $118.28Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of... -
Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization by Cameron McCarthy 9781433152481
RRP: $133.39Booksplease Price: $117.83Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites... -
Global Debates in the Digital Humanities by Domenico Fiormonte 9781517913250
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.33A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities Often conceived of as an all-inclusive "big tent," digital humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives... -
Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times by Roopali Mukherjee 9780814764008
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $72.01Buying (RED) products-from Gap T-shirts to Apple-to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming... -
Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times by Roopali Mukherjee
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.31Buying (RED) products-from Gap T-shirts to Apple-to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global... -
Global Debates in the Digital Humanities by Domenico Fiormonte
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities Often conceived of as an all-inclusive "big tent," digital humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives... -
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism by Benjamin Toff 9780231205184
RRP: $140.61Booksplease Price: $110.13Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA small but growing number of people in many countries consistently avoid the news. They feel they do not have time for it, believe it is not worth the... -
The Closing of the Net Monica Horten 9781509506897
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79This inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way... -
Celebrity Advocacy and International Development Dan Brockington 9780415707213
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter... -
Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age by Kate Lacey 9780745660240
Booksplease Price: $72.33In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is... -
The Contradictions of Media Power by Dr. Des Freedman 9781849660693
Booksplease Price: $41.33Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are 'powerful'; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the... -
Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age Kate Lacey (University of Sussex) 9780745660257
Booksplease Price: $25.43In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is... -
Understanding Media: Communication, Power and Social Change James Curran 9780241289617
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend, on average, over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The news and entertainment industries... -
The Closing of the Net by Monica Horten 9781509506880
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79This inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way... -
Authentic (TM): The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture by Sarah Banet-Weiser 9780814787137
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $89.77A stimulating, smart book on what it means to live in a brand culture Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media... -
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux 9781442201439
Booksplease Price: $27.97This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines... -
The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen 9780190908850
Booksplease Price: $138.40More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In... -
Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms by Emiliano Treré 9780367540531
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social... -
The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen 9780190908867
RRP: $29.01Booksplease Price: $28.47More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history, and smaller platforms like Twitter serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies. In...