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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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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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£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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It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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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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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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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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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£67,00
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Sensing the Future Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
ISBN: HB: 9783037784334, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 80 illus.
Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...
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