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After Net Neutrality A New Deal for the Digital Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300241402, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.
This short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a comm...
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£20,00
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That's the Way It Is A History of Television News in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226421520, ISBN: HB: 9780226472454, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charl...
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£13,00
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£24,00
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Invention of News How the World Came to Know About Itself
ISBN: PB: 9780300212761, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons and pr...
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£12,99
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Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times
ISBN: PB: 9780226103488, ISBN: HB: 9780226669786, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
208 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 40 halftones
Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book a...
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£12,00
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£18,00
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Post-Ethical Society The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular
ISBN: HB: 9780226062495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables
We've all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interroga...
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£39,00
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