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Explores nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues, from Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, to Marvel's X-Men and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Critically analyzing four decades of television situation comedies from The Honeymooners to The Bill Cosby Show, Hamamoto shows how the sitcom reflects, explains, legitimates, and challenges the society in which it is grounded, illumining the power of laughter both to reaffirm and to question existing social structures.

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"Neverending Stories examines the re-emergence of digital fiction into popular media such as TV, film, and publishing"--

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"Neverending Stories examines the re-emergence of digital fiction into popular media such as TV, film, and publishing"--

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This volume argues that a new class is emerging in the wake of the information economy, and studies how this class is reshaping American culture.

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Examines a range of innovative practices and processes in digital poetry published on the global computer network during the past decade.

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"New Media Cultures" provides a comprehensive analysis of the value of cultural studies in the face of new media, and the changes necessary for cultural studies to tackle the issues that new media presents.

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Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the impact of new media on contemporary society and culture: information, network, interface, interactivity, archive and simulation. Each concept is considered through a range of examples.

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Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the impact of new media on contemporary society and culture: information, network, interface, interactivity, archive and simulation. Each concept is considered through a range of examples.

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Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

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Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

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A reporter assesses the state of modern journalism with a critical, but hopeful eye, covering such topics as the relationship between tabloid and traditional journalism and the death of Princess Diana.

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Examines the way local, national and cross-national Arab audiences engage with different news sources and how the rapidly expanding news markets have changed news consumption.

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Examines the way local, national and cross-national Arab audiences engage with different news sources and how the rapidly expanding news markets have changed news consumption.

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"Draws on actor-network theory (ANT) to posit a unique and multifaceted method for understanding and negotiating media influence to improve policy and project outcomes"--

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This book offers the most comprehensive look to date at the effort of about forty U.S. media organizations to make themselves more accountable. Nemeth provides a critical assessment of the ombudsmen's work from the ombudsmen themselves, their editors, media critics, and scholars.

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This is an examination of how developments in the organization, financial structures and regulation of news media, combined with changes in journalism's composition and news-gathering practices, have resulted in shifting editorial standards in newspapers, radio and television.

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Jana Wendt sets out to discover what drives us in the work we do. She follows a compelling group of people, from a boxer set for a comeback to a maverick priest, and a CEO whose company is mired in scandal to a forensic anthropologist investigating murder. The result is a wonderfully observed and entertaining portrait of modern work.

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The media's most important job is to present unbiased information about events, issues, and policies to the public. Arguing that the press failed to do its job since the 9/11 attacks, here, the author compares how the US and international media covered key events during this period and explores the ramifications for democracy of a weak press.

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Focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that, due to the dangerously extreme speed at which it is produced, is only half thought out, half true and lazily repeated from anonymous sources interested in selling opinion and wild speculation as news.

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Offers a look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. This book demonstrates how media blitz scrambles the public's perspective in ways that potentially shape how we think, act and react as a global society.