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This Program is Brought to You by... Distributing Television News Online
ISBN: PB: 9780300197501, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Journalism, television, cable, and online media are all evolving rapidly. At the nexus of these volatile industries is a growing group of individuals and firms whose job it is to develop and maintain online distribution channels for television news p...
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£30,00
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Reading Sounds Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226312781, ISBN: HB: 9780226312644, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 18 tables
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henc...
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£30,00
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£96,00
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Practical Photojournalism A Professional Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781781451175, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2015
260 pp., 24.3x19 cm, photos
Press photography is not just a career – it's a way of life – and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. This book explains how to capitalise on that ringside seat. Written by an expert in the field, "Practical Photojournalism...
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Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones
We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...
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£17,00
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£26,00
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Revisions Zen for Film
ISBN: PB: 9781941792049, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, September 2015
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 22 halftones
How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media affect what an artwork is and can become? And how can c...
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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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Pax Technica How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
ISBN: HB: 9780300199475, Yale University Press, May 2015
344 pp., 21x14 cm
Should we fear or welcome the internet's evolution? The "internet of things" is the rapidly growing network of everyday objects-eyeglasses, cars, thermostats-made smart with sensors and internet addresses. Soon we will live in a pervasive yet invisib...
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£16,99
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Invention of News How the World Came to Know About Itself
ISBN: PB: 9780300212761, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons and pr...
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Devil's Long Tail Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace
ISBN: HB: 9781849043434, Hurst Publishers, February 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media – and not all are as harmless as the...
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