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  • The Politics of Media Scarcity

    by Greg Elmer, Stephen J. Neville ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies
    This book questions the predominance of “media abundance” as a guiding concept for contemporary mediated politics. The authors argue that media abundance is not a universal condition, and that certain individuals, communities, and even nations can more accurately be referred to as media scarce – where access to media technologies and content is limited, highly controlled, or surveilled.Through ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Compromised Data

    From Social Media to Big Data

    Edited by Dr. Greg Elmer, Dr. Ganaele Langlois, Dr. Joanna Redden ...
    There has been a data rush in the past decade brought about by online communication and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, among others), which promises a new age of digital enlightenment. But social data is compromised: it is being seized by specific economic interests, it leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between research and the public good, and it fosters ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Contracting Out Hollywood

    Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

    by Greg Elmer, Marcus Breen, Susan Christopherson, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Ben Goldsmith, Nitan Govil, Sara Matheson, Tom O'Regan, Barbara Selznick0 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Locating Migrating Media

    by Tamara L. Falicov, Janice Kaye, Barry King, Albert Moran, Tom O'Regan, Jennifer VanderBurgh, Susan Ward, Ben Goldsmith ...
    Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

    by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Virtue Hoarders

    The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

    by Catherine Liu ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroismProfessional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic ... Read more

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  • The Mouse that Roared

    Disney and the End of Innocence

    by Henry A. Giroux, Grace Pollock ...
    How are children-and their parents-affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A World Without Work

    Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

    by Daniel Susskind ...
    A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mediated Society

    by John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen, Yon Hsu ...
    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

    $24.19 USD

  • Four Futures

    Life After Capitalism

    by Peter Frase ...
    Series series Jacobin
    An “invigorating” vision of four post-capitalist futures that consider the intersections of technology, the environment, and modern politics (The Guardian)Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Mass Media in Canada

    Fourth Edition

    by Mary Vipond ...
    Canada has one of the most advanced mass-media systems in the world, which allows Canadians more access to American culture via television, the movies, and the Internet than ever before. At the same time, governments support the production and distribution of Canadian content to Canadians.In this fully updated fourth edition, Mary Vipond traces the rise of the traditional mass media in Canada, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Breaking Things at Work

    The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

    by Gavin Mueller ...
    An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the futureIn the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The ... Read more

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