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Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226925226, ISBN: HB: 9780226925219, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables
Always connect – that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself – those messages t...
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Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why
ISBN: PB: 9780226023151, ISBN: HB: 9780226023014, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 53 line illus.
It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusiv...
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£25,00
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£65,50
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How Partisan Media Polarize America
ISBN: PB: 9780226069012, ISBN: HB: 9780226068961, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 18 tables
Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable...
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Making the News Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting
ISBN: PB: 9780226065571, ISBN: HB: 9780226065434, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 line drawings, 14 tables
Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is...
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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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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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Reporting Disasters Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
ISBN: PB: 9781849042888, Hurst Publishers, August 2013
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action...
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£35,00
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Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience
ISBN: PB: 9780226042749, ISBN: HB: 9780226042602, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
152 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones
"Mic check! Mic check!" Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take...
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£42,00
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Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917
ISBN: PB: 9780226021539, ISBN: HB: 9780226021362, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 line illus.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this repre...
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£73,00
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Power to the People The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780226424354, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
264 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 700 colour illus.
Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and...
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