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Lie Machines How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
ISBN: HB: 9780300250206, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies...
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£20,00
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Political Spectrum The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
ISBN: HB: 9780300210507, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government's regulation of the airwaves. Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broad...
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£25,00
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Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create Digital Institutions
ISBN: HB: 9780226438214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool – it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis...
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£30,00
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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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£19,00
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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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Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
ISBN: PB: 9780226199726, ISBN: HB: 9780226199696, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In "Feed-Forward", Mark B. N. Hansen sho...
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£20,50
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£67,00
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Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why
ISBN: PB: 9780226023151, ISBN: HB: 9780226023014, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 53 line illus.
It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusiv...
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£25,00
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£65,50
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How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
ISBN: PB: 9780226321424, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones
"How do we think?" N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition h...
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£24,00
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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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No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones
In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...
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£22,50
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