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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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Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...
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£19,00
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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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£21,00
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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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£11,50
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£42,00
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Critical Terms for Media Studies
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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£76,00
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