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In From Paper to Platform, prominent New Zealand media scholar, Merja Myllylahti, scrutinises how major digital platforms exert ever-growing influence over news, journalism, our everyday lives, personal rights and access to information.

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Australia's advertising agencies enjoyed their reputation as a glamorous and fun place to work. Not surprisingly, many of the nation's brightest and most creative people were drawn to advertising. Behind Glass Doors ventures into the offices to reveal the inner workings of the Australian advertising business during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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A fresh look at historical advertising through a series of thematic and chronological juxtapositions. Richly illustrated, this book features a range of topics from Art to Zeitgeist, showcasing how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century advertisements often capture the spirit of their age and can be rich repositories of information about our past.

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Alissa Quart takes the reader into the disturbing world of teen marketing, showing how they are taught to market to each other and where adults build careers out of insinuating their way into 'friendships' with teens in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to and talk about with each other.

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Focusing on the interrelationships among political, economic, and social forces in the construction of prevailing cultural images and gender roles for women in society, the book examines both the process of creating and the resulting content of wartime mobilization messages found in magazine advertising aimed at American women.

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This book is a collection of essays which examine narratives created on the advertising page, with special focus on gender images. Through a cross-disciplinary investigation, this collection offers a varied analysis of advertising and mass media which are important for students and scholars alike.

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This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop 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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Buyology shares the fruits of this research, revealing for the first time what actually goes on inside our heads when we see an advertisement, hear a marketing slogan, taste two rival brands of drink, or watch a programme sponsored by a major company.

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New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news.

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The first overview of the moving image in advertising, this far-reaching and innovative new text brings together an international ensemble of leading archivists and scholars to examine various aspects of the history, theory and practice of moving image advertising from around the world.

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Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence.

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In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.

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Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society.

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An argument that theoretical works can signify through their materialitytheir noise, or such nonsemantic elements as typographyas well as their semantic content.

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A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

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How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transformingand expandingsocial life.

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An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.

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An argument that great expressive power of computational media arises from the construction of phantasmsblends of cultural ideas and sensory imagination.

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An argument that information exists at different levels of analysissyntactic, semantic, and pragmaticand an exploration of the implications.

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A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.

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Who benefits from smart technology Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity