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By integrating eight contemporary American films to determine the role the use of Voodoo in popular representations in the construction of black female imaginaries, this book evaluates the employment of Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black womens spirituality on screen by engaging with themes such as sexuality, agency, and cultural appropriation.

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Explores the ways in which error can serve as a critical lens for understanding the principles of informatic control that govern our contemporary network society.

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Fortners introduction to media ethics challenges students to confront the impact of the digital world on their lives. The second edition includes expanded treatments of truth, politics, identity construction and maintenance, and social change, as well as new chapters on incorporating robots into our lives and virtual and augmented realities impact on human flourishing.

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In this book, Michael Grabowski uses established theories of ethics to evaluate the benefits and risks of using virtual reality (VR). By examining and imagining use cases of VR and related technologies, Grabowski questions how rules should govern VR to address issues of control, access, privacy, bias, deception, and abuse.

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A concise and systematic exploration of 150 distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.

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European Media Studies offers a student-friendly, authoritative and thematic approach which engages readers while exploring the role of mass media in society in a European framework.

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Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsidera fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three.

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Engaging and informative, Evaluating Media Bias provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias. Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias controversy before pivoting to real biases: the p...

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Engaging and informative, Evaluating Media Bias provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias. Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias controversy before pivoting to real biases: the p...

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A comprehensive sourcebook of mnemonic devices, containing hundreds of anagrams, rhymes and word games to aid memory of a wide range of facts.

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The traditional American hero has disappeared and is unlikely to return. He describes how many of the fields from which Americans once drew their heroes have disappeared, and how the structures of other fields that were once sources of heroes have been altered, thereby obstructing the creation of new heroes.

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This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media and their influence on societys conceptions of humanity. These media texts manifest abstract concepts in a genre that has historically focused on exploring new ideas and frontiers, creating powerful media that helps audiences contemplate their existence as human beings.

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The first academic study to focus on experimental British television. Uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts. The book also examines the importance of the changing technologies on British television. -- .

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Today, the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the 1990s: a downward economic spiral, a renewed crime wave, political corruption, and the failure of the government to take bold, new steps in response.

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The ideology of the American dream - the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort - is the very soul of the American nation. This book talks about America's racial conflicts, and claims that the alternative lies in the inclusiveness, optimism, discipline, and high-mindedness of the American dream at its best.

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In this book, the authors examine factors influencing the spread of fake news, and suggest ways to combat it by exploring the key elements which enable and facilitate this phenomenon.

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From renowned critic Lee Siegel--hailed as a model of "original thinking and passionate writing"--a sometimes scathing, always thrilling examination of the state of contemporary art and culture, and beyond