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What Philosophy Wants from Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...
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£19,00
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What Is Happening to News The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226005027, ISBN: HB: 9780226268989, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm
Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked Web outlets like the "Huffington Post" thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with...
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£12,00
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£20,00
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What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.
The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency
ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm
It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...
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£9,99
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