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The Open Covenant examines two opposing trends in contemporary American culture: an adherence to traditional, rigid structures, institutions, and lifestyles;

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A former senior editor at the Gallup Poll exposes how pollsters don't report public opinion, they manufacture it.

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Their story is one of three interacting players: the Croatian government which until recently has sat firmly in control, the compliant press which seemed little motivated to change, and the largely quiescent public which demanded little from its press or its government.

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A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards. -- .

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .

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This examination of key CBS broadcasts and the people behind them that helped to establish the network as the prototype for excellence provides a unique perspective on the early era of broadcasting.

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Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key facets of the debate over PC.

Starting with an examination of the key concepts of PC, Choi and Murphy review the essentials of neo-conservative social philosophy and the Postmodern Alternative as well as neo-conservative critiques of postmodernism.

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Is shopping for food really a political act Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry From the BSE outbreak in the 1990s through to cultural taboos and the genetic modification of produce and livestock, this book raises provocative questions about how we relate to food in the 21st century.

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A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition.

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Is democracy in crisis Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'. -- .

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female X-Files fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the new relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It questions the possibility of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female "X-Files" fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It also questions the relevance of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.

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This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect, power and agency in queer, feminist and antiracist media cultures. Through a range of in-depth case studies, the book explores the potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability as a new political language. -- .

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Untangles the jargon, and provides you with the knowledge to participate in the production of practical media products. This work is a guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry. It also includes specialist jargon found in a TV studio, and on location.

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The difficulty for students and new entrants to the industry is that the day-to-day working language, the customised roles and the specific deployment of skills and specialist activities can seem at first daunting and inpenetrable. The Practical Media Dictionary' is an essential guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry.

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The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse.

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Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial.

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This text is part of a three-volume critical history of the utopian vision and an exploration of the possible reality of utopia. This first volume lays the foundations of the philosophy of process and introduces the idea of the "not-yet-conscious."