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Give Me a Breakby John Stossel
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America , John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then he realized what the real problem was. In Give Me a Break , Stossel takes on the regulators, lawyers, and politicians who thrive on our hysteria about risk and deceive the public in the name of safety. Drawing on his vast professional experience (as well as some personal ones), Stossel presents an engaging, witty, and thought-provoking argument about the beneficial powers of the free market and free speech. more...
Creative Industriesby John Hartley
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005; US$ 48.95Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts to demonstrate that content still drives a value-neutral, knowledge economy. Chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world Draws together, in one accessible volume, seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts Explores the subjects that have come to define the creative industries – including learning services, knowledge... more...
Understanding the Global TV Formatby Albert Moran
Intellect 2006; US$ 10.00This volume presents a series of papers concerned with the interrelations between the postmodern and the present state of art and design education. Spanning a range of thematic concerns, the book reflects upon existing practice and articulates revolutionary prospects potentially viable through a shift in educative thinking. more...
Everything Bad is Good for Youby Steven Johnson
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99Forget everything you've read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today's mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture we soak in every day-from The Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons -has been growing more and more sophisticated and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are making our minds measurably sharper. You will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. more...
Perfect Spyby Larry Berman
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdalenot to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, "We are now in the U.S. war room." For more than twenty years, An lived a dangerous lieand no one knew it because he was a master of both his jobs. After the war, An was named a Hero of the... more...
Sex in Advertisingby Tom Reichert; Jacqueline Lambiase
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 54.95Sex in Advertising: Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal is the first book to thoroughly tackle important issues about sex in advertising. What is it? Does it work? How does it affect individuals and society? Well-respected scholars and popular writer more...
Handbook of Sports and Mediaby Arthur A. Raney; Jennings Bryant
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 92.35Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship. For scholars/researchers/students in media entertainment, media psych, mass media/mass comm, sports mktg/mgmt, popular comm, popular culture & cultural studies. more...
Amusing Ourselves to Deathby Neil Postman; Andrew Postman
Penguin Group Inc. 2005; US$ 12.99Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman?s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media?from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs?it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining controlof our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. more...
Media Research Methodsby Barrie Gunter
Sage Publications Ltd. 1999; US$ 61.00In this book, Barrie Gunter provides a broad overview of the methodological perspectives adopted by media researchers in their attempt to derive a better understanding of the nature, role and impact of media in society. By tracing the epistemological and theoretical roots of the major methodological perspectives, Gunter identifies the various schools of social scientific research that have determined the major perspectives in the area. Drawing a distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods, he discusses the relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and examines recent trends that signal a convergence of approaches and their associated forms of research. The unique strength of this book is that it discusses the theoretical... more...
The Master Switchby Tim Wu
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.99In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”? That is the big question of Tim Wu’s pathbreaking book. As Wu’s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century—radio, telephone,... more...









