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Media Studies
It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Boyd Danah
ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...
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Media Studies
Culture Studies
Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
Marwick Alice
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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Architecture
City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980
Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg
ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...
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Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu
ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...
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Culture Studies
Long March of Pop Art, Music, and Design, 1930-1995
Crow Thomas
ISBN: HB: 9780300203974, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 160 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of...
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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
Gardner Howard, Davis Katie
ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...
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Culture Studies
Buddha in the Machine Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West
Williams R. John
ISBN: HB: 9780300194470, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 121 colour images, 147 black&white illus.
The famous 1893 Chicago World's Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world's largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet...
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Culture Studies
Through a Screen Darkly Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad
Bayles Martha
ISBN: HB: 9780300123388, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods – but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the...
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Gender Studies
Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish
Smith Marquard
ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...
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Culture Studies
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Carlyle Thomas, Kinser Brent E.
ISBN: PB: 9780300148602, Yale University Press, June 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm
Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History" considers how heroes are created and conveys his ideas on the importance of heroic leadership. Carlyle explored a wide range of her...
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