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  • The Spectacle of Online Life

    Edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Christopher T. Conner, Matthew N. Hannah ...
    Series series The Frankfurt School in New Times
    The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age's most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance.Edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Christopher T. Conner, and Matthew N. Hannah, this volume assembles a diverse array of scholars to critically examine how online technologies shape, reflect, and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Conspiracy Theories and Extremism in New Times

    by Christopher T. Conner, Matthew N. Hannah, Nicholas J. MacMurray, Liv Agar, Michael Barkun, Randall Blazak, Sean Doody, Katherine M. FitzGerald0, Matthew Hayes1, Stephanie Halmhofer2, Heidi Ippolito3, Parker Krieg4, Timothy W. Luke5, George Lundskow6, Robert Parker7, Saverio Roscigno8, Reed Van Schenck9, Lukas Szrot0, Marc Tuters1, Lisa K. Waldner2 ...
    Series series The Frankfurt School in New Times
    Conspiracy Theories and Extremism in New Times outlines a cadre of alt-right groups, conspiracy theories, and other forms of stigmatized knowledge threatening our society. In an era dominated by the pervasive influence of social media, the scholarly gaze has often overlooked the ways far-right factions leverage these platforms to propagate anti-democratic ideologies. From the denial of the moon ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Electronic Dance Music

    From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry

    by Christopher T. Conner, David R. Dickens ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
    Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture’s emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Gayborhood

    From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle

    by Christopher T. Conner, Daniel Okamura, Adriana Brodyn, Jeffrey Escoffier, Amin Ghaziani, Theo Greene, Aliraza Javaid, Jonathan Jimenez, Greggor Mattson0, Étienne Meunier1, Jason Orne2, Vanessa Panfil3, Thomas Penney4, Magdalena Wojciechowska5, C.J. Janovy6, Omar Ali Mushtaq7 ...
    The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. Gay urban enclaves, known colloquially as gayborhoods, illustrate the evolution of LGBT+ political capacity building. Since their emergence after World War II, gayborhoods have homogenized at the expense of women, transgender, and nonwhite persons due ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists

    by Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, David R. Dickens, Eugene Halton, Mary Jo Deegan, Stacy L. Smith, Christine Bucior, Diane M. Rodgers0, Harvey A. Farberman1, Lukas Szrot2, Shing-Ling S. Chen3, Alan Sica4, Lawrence T. Nichols5, Michael A. Katovich6, Thaddeus Müller7 ...
    This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Subcultures

    Edited by Christopher T. Conner ...
    Series Book 54 - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
    Subcultures have long captured the imagination of sociologists and the public alike. Making an important contribution to sociology, Subcultures is delightful reading for those who are interested in groups at the fringes of society such as Dead heads, members of the LGBTQ culture, gamers, and even subcultural elements of some alt-right groups.Illustrating the diverse application of the 'subculture' ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

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  • True Story

    What Reality TV Says About Us

    by Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD ...
    Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexualityWhat do we see when we watch reality television?In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV-lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the ... Read more

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • The Ordinal Society

    by Marion Fourcade, Kieran Healy ...
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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
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  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
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    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

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