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Nomadic cinema
Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.
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Not exactly lying
From fibs about royal incest in America’s first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not—and why that matters for democracy.
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Npr
The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution from virtu...
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Of elephants and toothaches
A multi- and interdisciplinary collection of essays addressing ethical, political and aesthetic questions raised in the ten-film cycle Decalogue (1989) by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski.
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On desire
Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence, while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships t...
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On making fiction
Friederike Danebrock shows how texts insist that we take them seriously as agents and interlocutors in our world- and culture-making activities.
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On the margin
These essays are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley’s intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms.
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On the pulse of time
This book brings together, for the first time, the bilingual collection of journalistic writings on India by the Nobel Prize-awarded Guatemalan-Spanish writer, Miguel Ángel Asturias.
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Online hate and extremism
This book contains two Open Access chapters. In an era where the digital landscape is increasingly marred by online hate, this groundbreaking book delves into this multifaceted world, offering an in-depth exploration of the origins, evolution, and impact of online hate material over the past decade.
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Online/offline
This volume raises provocative questions about the status of words and literature in contemporary culture. It argues that words and images are equal and that the vast number of text messages, e-mails, tweets, comments, blogs, and daily social network posts confirms textuality's central role in ne...
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Oprah winfrey and the glamour of misery
Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standa...
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Our broad present
An internationally acclaimed theorist examines the consequences of our changing relationship to time and space.
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Pandemic protagonists
The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions.
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Paratextualizing games
This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?
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Parental grief and photographic remembrance
Felicity Hamer explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices propelled by a desire to commemorate the death of a child.
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Passing and posing between black and white
Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the postclassical cinema of the turn of the millennium.
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Pens and swords
As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with...
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Performing the digital
How is performativity shaped by digital technologies – and how do performative practices reflect and alter techno-social formations? "Performing the Digital" explores, maps and theorizes the conditions and effects of performativity in digital cultures. Bringing together scholars from performance ...
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Pictorial appearing
The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'.Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis ...
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Picturing the (un)dead in beirut
Hauntings of the past and future that have effects on the present: Contemporary artistic reflections on the figure of the martyr in Lebanon.
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Platform governance and social justice
Identifying four traditional approaches that have underpinned hate speech regulation in the contemporary digital landscape, Paloma Viejo Otero proposes a fifth approach called the Social Justice Approach (SJA), an original contribution to the field of research.
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Platforms and the planet
Developing a critical understanding of environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms, Platforms and the Planet focuses on the environmental responsibility of the so-called Big Tech, their digital media platforms and their role in the sustainability transition as a discursiv...
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Playing dystopia
Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player’s aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own offline environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and politi...
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Playing utopia
While dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, games feature utopias much less frequently. This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios ...
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Podcast journalism
David O. Dowling critically examines how podcasting and its evolving conventions are transforming reporting—and even reshaping journalism’s core functions and identity.
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Podcast studies
Offers an array of scholars' self-reflective journeys into podcasting, illustrating how the academic world is shaped by the adoption of this audio medium. It delves into the transformative effects on pedagogy, research dissemination, and the fabric of academic communication as podcasting evolves ...
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Poetic resurrection
This study of the Bronx in American popular culture traces a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina Nitzsche argues that popular culture functioned as a poetic resurrection of the Bronx, which preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough and inspired oth...
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Poetry unbound
Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’s...
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Political participation in the digital age
This book explores the potential of the internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. With an ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, it offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike ...
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Portraits of automated facial recognition
This book offers an analysis of automated facial recognition algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. It traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision and addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology.
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Post-digital cultures of the far right
This volume presents a critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols, and platforms that are used by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and North America. Featuring short, accessible analyses, the book explains how and why the Internet has been crucial to emboldening extremism a...
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Postprint
N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she identifies as the postprint condition, exploring how the interweaving of print and digital technologies has changed not only books but also language, authorship, and what it means to be human.
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Practices of speculation
This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe shapes public discourse. Its chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of shaping the present through investments in the future, while also looking at speculative practices that reveal transformativ...
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Practicing religion in the age of the media
Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture—in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of ...
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Practicing sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy making, and they describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.
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Presence, process, and the pictorial real
Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.
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Presidential debates
Second only to the Super Bowl in viewers, presidential debates are must-see TV, yet their conception and execution largely remain a mystery to the public—even to journalists. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the 2008 and 2012 presidential debates and the role of social media and news ou...
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Pretty
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias a...
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Programming the future
Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castl...
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Projecting race
Projecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil rights.
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Protest technologies and media revolutions
Contains an Open Access chapter. With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic...
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Proximity and distance in northern landscape photography
Northern landscapes are both real places and representations—notions that are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists examine the interpretation, experience, and appropriation of landscape in northern Europe, Canada, northern Eng...
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Pulitzer's gold
Published to coincide with the 2016 centennial celebration of the Pulitzer Prize, a new edition of the “stories behind the stories” that won American journalism’s most coveted award.
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Questioning technology
Written from an equitable data perspective, Questioning Technology translates the pressing challenges within data collection, data categorization and data commercialisation to enable researchers, SMEs, and practitioners to better question why and how they use data.
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Racializing media policy
Racializing Media Policy contributes to a wider understanding of the role of policy work in the media systems, examining the ways that race is embedded within those structures. It is an important read for scholars across the Sociology and Media Studies fields, in addition to providing critical co...
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Radio as art
Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as an apparatus-based structure as w...
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Radio empire
Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.
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Radio explorations
Rooted in experimental design and data feminism, Radio Explorations presents innovative tools for navigating data by spanning media theory, information studies, and feminist new materialism.
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Radio for the millions
Radio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for st...
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