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Social Media: Principles and Applications thoroughly examines social media in interpersonal, mass-mediated, educational, organizational, and political settings. Sheldon provides a must-have survival tool for communication, psychology, and social media scholars.

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The first collection dedicated to analysing the casual, social, and mobile gaming movements that are changing games the world over.

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This book engages directly in close readings of technical texts and computer code in order to show how software works. It offers an analysis of the cultural, political, and philosophical implications of software technologies that demonstrates the significance of software for the relationship between technology, philosophy, culture, and society.

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This book engages directly in close readings of technical texts and computer code in order to show how software works. It offers an analysis of the cultural, political, and philosophical implications of software technologies that demonstrates the significance of software for the relationship between technology, philosophy, culture, and society.

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"A philosophical analysis of sonically charged concepts to map a theory of "sound affects.""--

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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This study, written by a Russian expert on the media, analyzes the unique role of the mass media--television and the press--in the social, political, and economic changes that began in the Soviet Union in 1985 under the name of perestroika and culminated recently in the country's dissolution.

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The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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This book presents evidence that verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices towards Muslim women in the United State and that social liberals, not social conservatives, can control activation. Authors suggest media and intrapersonal interventions to mitigate the harmful consequences of gendered Islamophobia.

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This second annual review of international newspaper and periodical history is a further continuation of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. This annual also describes important sources, gives a succinct annual review of newspaper history, and reviews noteworthy new books in newspaper and periodical history.

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In this book, Wanning Sun illuminates the harsh reality of inequality and discrimination that China's rural migrant workers face every day, and how these workers use available media to negotiate these injustices. This book is essential reading for all concerned with the growing use of media in the cultural politics of our highly digitalized world.

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Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films.

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Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films.

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Talking Politics presents the opinions of some of America's leading broadcasters and political commentators on the tension-fraught relationship between politics and the media.