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Media, Politics and the Network Society
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 203.00The suffusion of the economy, culture, and society with digital interconnectivity is known as the network society. In this innovative book, Robert Hassan unpacks the dynamics of this new information order and shows how media and politics have been affected. Drawing on ideas from media theory, cultural studies, and the politics of the newly evolving... more...
The Persistence of Whiteness
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this... more...
Baseball and the Media
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 24.95Chronicles the decline of baseball reporting and shows in practical terms how ill-served sports followers are by those they trust for the straight story. Charting the path of a veteran sports reporter's career, this book traces the changes in baseball coverage. more...
Advertising in Modern and Postmodern Times
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 40.00This richly illustrated, incisive text produces the most complete critical introduction to advertising culture. Filling a critical gap in the literature, Advertising in Modern and Postmodern Times examines the forms of consumer subjectivity resulting from of postmodern disruptions in time and space and the significance of advertising for the identity... more...
The Mirror Effect
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In the eye-opening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and behavior specialist and producer/host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, Dr. Drew Pinsky takes a hard look at the profound changes blogging, tweeting, tabloids, and reality TV are having on the American way of life. An important wake up call... more...
The Wikipedia Revolution
Hyperion 2009; US$ 18.95"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." --Jimmy Wales With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California , written by an army of volunteer contributors, Wikipedia is the #8 site on the... more...
And Then There's This
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 15.00"An odd but happy marriage of sociological observation and Gonzo- style adventure." - Wired Journalist and new media provocateur Bill Wasik journeys to the edge of our churning and rambunctious viral culture to illuminate how anyone with a computer can initiate a small ripple of a story that can turn into a tsunami. While exploring this fascinating... more...
Pulitzer
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 15.99This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.? ?Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher ?James McGrath Morris has given us everything we could... more...
The Film Editing Room Handbook
Pearson Education 2009; US$ 31.99The assistant film editor has many more responsibilities than simply helping to edit the picture. He or she must work with all the numerous members of the filmmaking team, juggle the demands of copious amounts of footage from various sources, keep notes during the shoot?s dailies screenings, process sound, oversee the creation of optical effects and... more...
Beyond Belief
Touchstone 1993; US$ 24.95This most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a twelve-year period. more...









