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Media Studies

New Television The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre

Shuster Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226503950, ISBN: HB: 9780226503813, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappe...

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Media Studies

Gender Studies

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Duffy Brooke Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...

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Media Studies

Political Spectrum The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone

Hazlett Thomas Winslow

ISBN: HB: 9780300210507, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government's regulation of the airwaves. Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broad...

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Media Studies

Play All A Bingewatcher's Notebook

James Clive

ISBN: PB: 9780300229707, Yale University Press, June 2017
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were – and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and...

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Middle East

Media Studies

Tough Sell Fighting the Media War in Iraq

Basile Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781612349008, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Like the War on Terror, the Media War rages on. More than ever, America's ability to fight and win against ISIS requires that we understand how best to communicate about war in the digital age. Tom Basile takes readers behind the scenes during his ti...

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Media Studies

Combative Politics The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking

Layton Atkinson Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226441924, ISBN: HB: 9780226441894, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 24 line drawings, 32 tables

From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American p...

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General

Media Studies

Social Media – New Masses

Baxmann Inge, Beyes Timon, Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...

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Photography

Media Studies

Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy

Kennedy Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones

In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...

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Media Studies

Linguistics

Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions

Hodgkin Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226438214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool – it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis...

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Media Studies

Asia

Reporting the Retreat War Correspondents in Burma, 1942

Woods Philip

ISBN: HB: 9781849047173, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end...

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