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Follow Me, Akhi The Online World of British Muslims
ISBN: PB: 9781787381254, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and what your views on religious extremists are. But as all ou...
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£12,99
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Friending the Past The Sense of History in the Digital Age
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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£25,00
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£83,00
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Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions
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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£30,00
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From Voice to Influence Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226262260, ISBN: HB: 9780226262123, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 7 figures
How have online protests – like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood – changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around curr...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
ISBN: PB: 9780226199726, ISBN: HB: 9780226199696, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In "Feed-Forward", Mark B. N. Hansen sho...
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£67,00
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Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300158649, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's ident...
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£29,00
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Field Guide to a New Meta-Field Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
ISBN: PB: 9780226770550, ISBN: HB: 9780226770543, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 80 halftones
Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Freudian Robot Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious
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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