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Media Studies

Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media

Hansen Mark B. N.

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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Media Studies

Journalism and Technological Change Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends

Schreiber Martin, Zimmermann Clemens

ISBN: PB: 9783593501048, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
250 pp., 22x14 cm

Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. New technologies, however, only develop their specific potential within the cultural and social contexts in which they are created and...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation

Galloway Alexander R., Thacker Eugene, Wark McKenzie

ISBN: PB: 9780226925226, ISBN: HB: 9780226925219, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables

Always connect – that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself – those messages t...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why

Hart Roderick P., Childers Jay P., Lind Colene J.

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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Political Science

Media Studies

How Partisan Media Polarize America

Levendusky Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226069012, ISBN: HB: 9780226068961, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 18 tables

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Making the News Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting

Boydstun Amber E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065571, ISBN: HB: 9780226065434, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 line drawings, 14 tables

Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is...

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Literary Criticism

Media Studies

Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226103488, ISBN: HB: 9780226669786, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
208 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 40 halftones

Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book a...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Post-Ethical Society The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular

Porpora Douglas V., Nikolaev Alexander, Hagemann May Julia, Jenkins Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226062495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables

We've all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interroga...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Mitchell W. J. T., Harcourt Bernard E., Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226042749, ISBN: HB: 9780226042602, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
152 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

"Mic check! Mic check!" Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take...

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Women Studies

Media Studies

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917

Soderlund Gretchen

ISBN: PB: 9780226021539, ISBN: HB: 9780226021362, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 line illus.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this repre...

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