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"Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media as well as a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors ultimately demonstrate how contemporary media came to be mechanisms that create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power"--

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This important book, based on extensive interviews and unprecedented access to SBS archives, argues that SBS is one Australia's most significant and innovative cultural institutions and that its charter to broadcast for multicultural Australia is as relevant today as it was when the organisation started 30 years ago.

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An urgent and gripping investigation into online trolling, disinformation and conspiracy theories by an award-winning BBC correspondent.

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The latest book in the internationally acclaimed Creative Economy series The term 'two cultures' was coined more than 50 years ago by scientist and novelist C.P. Snow to describe the divergence in the world views and methods of scientists and the creative sector.

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The only detailed examination of how the British media treat Muslims

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From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age.

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This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step. Offering a truly global approach, this is a cutting edge text for today's students seeking to understand worldwide media, past and present.

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The year 2012 is forever associated with protest from Occupy Wall Street protesters in America to the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, and popular unrest in the face of austerity measures in Greece and Spain. This book covers these events in segments, accompanied by a flood of images, making them difficult for viewers to assess.

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Examines their genres, themes, textual and marketing strategies, relating these to wider debates about audiences and consumers, the culture industry, technologies and storytelling

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Understanding Media Theory is an approachable introduction to media theory which examines theory in context and explains how to apply it.

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How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.

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"A decade-by-decade compendium of articles, fiction, poetry, and art from Ms. Magazine"--

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This book argues that using a communicative framework to explore identity manifestations and tensions during postpartum depression is critical to achieving a fuller understanding of the challenges women face as they become mothers.

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A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.

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"Against Flow critically examines the idea of flow in order to temper a growing number of voices that focus on play's positive potentials"--

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Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.

(Hardback, Main)

An urgent and gripping investigation into online trolling, disinformation and conspiracy theories by an award-winning BBC correspondent.

(Paperback, Main)

The story of television and how it has changed our lives - from the moon landings to the X Factor.

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A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news. Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist.

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This book examines audiences cognitive and affective responses to user-generated real media violence. Using Knockout Game videos, Antony examines the extent to which realism assessments interact with moral disengagement, and the (in)ability to empathize with victims of real media violence.