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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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That's the Way It Is A History of Television News in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226421520, ISBN: HB: 9780226472454, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charl...
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News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...
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£26,50
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Network Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226346519, ISBN: HB: 9780226346489, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain".Network Aesthetics", in exploring how popular culture...
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£72,00
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Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9783037345504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
160 pp., 18.4x11.9 cm
Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series "Mad Men" has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner's iconic charact...
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£15,00
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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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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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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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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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