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This book critically analyzes how the perpetuation of negative racial and gender stereotypes in reality television influences how the U.S. views black women.

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"The editor-in-chief of Breitbart News [believes that] the establishment media [has become] weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters on behalf of the political left"--

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An examination of digital coping involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.

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This book examines the mediated construction of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its rise to public and political prominence by way of its direct connection with the NFL. More broadly, this book explores how this relationship situates in and through the sports/media complex.

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Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.

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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. Divided into three sections, this title brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies.

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Software drives design in the 21st century. This book by world-renowned software studies expert, Professor Lev Manovich, explains the cultural impact of this new phenomenon.

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Manovich investigates how the movement from industry to information in the global economy has created an ostensibly new aesthetic of sensibility and representation. In proposing software as modernity's new societal force, this book seeks to reclassify software as today's revitalized combustion engine, underpinning the logic of contemporary culture.

This text surveys mass media in 21 Middle Eastern countries. It covers communication philosophies, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, motion pictures, media regulations, ownership patterns, news agencies, new tachnologies, external media services and the role of media in national development.

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Establishing a critical break with the way we usually experience media as given, this text takes a step back and asks challenging questions about what underpins that experience, and sets out the full range of academic perspectives available to begin to answer those questions.

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This book debunks the post-racial myth among millennial media consumers and producers. Contributors examine the complex ways in which millennial media representations provide audiences with inauthentic understandings of race and how millennials are using social media to combat such misrepresentations.

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Investigates the social and political impact of the Japanese mass-media during war, defeat and Japan's postwar rise as a superpower.

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This book examines the changing representation of race and ethnicity in the visual culture of the first decade of the 21st century - a period market by the traumas of 9/11, the 'war on terror', and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism.

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In 1975, the Mexican network Televisa broadcast the first entertainment-education soap opera, which was written and produced by Miguel Sabido according to his own theory-based research formula.

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With each major technological shift, the question of well-being arises with new purpose. In this book, leading scholars in the philosophy and communication disciplines bring together their knowledge and expertise in an attempt to define what well-being means in this perpetually connected environment.

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This edited collection by leaders in the field is divided into three sections providing an overview of the media industries, discussions of the significance of government policy and analyses of media content.

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An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commercially driven internet.

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A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world.

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Presents the long awaited political and cultural history of one of Australia's best-loved institutions. Combining in-depth research, interviews with the key players and a gift for story telling, it is social history of the highest order.

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An examination of cultural zoning in China considers why government regulation of online video is so much more lenient than regulation of broadcast television.

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A complete but accessible overview of the complex relationship between the media, ideology, knowledge and power.