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Media Studies

Friending the Past The Sense of History in the Digital Age

Liu Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226451954, ISBN: HB: 9780226451817, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones

Can today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the...

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Media Studies

Scripted Culture Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere

Kleesattel Ines, Widmer Ruedi

ISBN: PB: 9783035800852, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
288 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 60 halftones

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges. In some ways, the digital age seems to have brought the goals of the Enlightenment to their fullest fruition, giving us boundless and instan...

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Law

Media Studies

Reclaiming Fair Use How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (Second Edition)

Aufderheide Patricia, Jaszi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226374192, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Ctrl Alt Delete How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

Baldwin Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781787380066, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Something has gone badly wrong: people loathe politicians, distrust the press and increasingly fear each other. It's easy to blame Russian trolls, Facebook news feeds, or the sinister manipulation of "big data" – but these are...

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Media Studies

Server A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

Krajewski Markus, Iurascu Ilinca

ISBN: HB: 9780300180817, Yale University Press, June 2018
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current-d...

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Computer Science & Internet

Media Studies

#GuyCode The Secret to Success in a Digital World

Launerts Michaela

ISBN: HB: 9781921024603, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2018
192 pp., 19.8x19.3 cm

GUYCODE speaks to Mr Millennials everywhere – the switched on social media generation who are lacking essential social skills for the real world. Helping develop the confidence needed to become the best version of yourself, this book enables the read...

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Media Studies

Middle East

Digital Middle East State and Society in the Information Age

Zayani Mohamed

ISBN: PB: 9781849049054, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by new information technologies,...

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Media Studies

TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs

Gross Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...

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Military

Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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History of Art

Media Studies

Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...

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