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Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks
ISBN: PB: 9781947602847, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful poli...
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£31,00
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Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9781649590084, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
513 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 colour plates, 5 halftones, 42 figures
In the humanities, the field of "social knowledge creation" has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and pe...
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£64,00
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Scripted Culture Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere
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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£30,00
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Server A Media History from the Present to the Baroque
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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£40,00
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Social Media – New Masses
ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones
Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...
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£48,00
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Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....
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£16,99
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£21,00
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Sensing the Future Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
ISBN: HB: 9783037784334, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 80 illus.
Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...
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£28,00
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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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£24,00
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£73,00
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Science on American Television A History
ISBN: HB: 9780226921990, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 23 halftones
As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas – both factu...
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£39,00
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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones
We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...
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£19,50
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£61,00
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