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Media Studies

Freudian Robot Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious

Liu Lydia H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226486833, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 26 halftones

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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Media Studies

General

Starring Mandela and Cosby Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

Krabill Ron

ISBN: PB: 9780226451893, ISBN: HB: 9780226451886, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa – among both Black and White South Africans – was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and th...

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News at Work Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance

Boczkowski Pablo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226062808, ISBN: HB: 9780226062792, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 12 tables, 7 halftones

Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustome...

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Biography & Memoires

Media Studies

Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago

Royko Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226730776, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
232 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution – in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time".Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

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Metaphysics of Media Toward an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality

Fallon Peter K.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662025, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, May 2010
275 pp., 23x15 cm

In "The Metaphysics of Media", award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported – and even to some extent created – different conceptions of reality. To do so, h...

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Biography & Memoires

John Fuller and the Sycamore Press A Bibliographic History

Roberts Ryan

ISBN: HB: 9781851243235, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to publishing established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, t...

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Reference

Critical Terms for Media Studies

Mitchell W. J. T., Hansen Mark B. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532554, ISBN: HB: 9780226532547, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 6 line illus.

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive".Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and...

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Media Studies

Spinning Intelligence Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence

Goodman Michael S., Dover Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781850659945, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Throughout the twentieth century, especially during wartime and the Cold War, intelligence agents routinely used the media to publish and broadcast material that would deceive external enemies, thwart domestic subversion or sim...

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Media Studies

Articles of Faith Graham Greene's Collected Tablet Journalism, 1936-19

Greene Graham

ISBN: HB: 9781904955160, Signal Books, October 2006
164 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic journa...

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