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  • Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media

    Edited by James E. Katz, Kate K. Mays ...
    Truth qualities of journalism are under intense scrutiny in today's world. Journalistic scandals have eroded public confidence in mainstream media while pioneering news media compete to satisfy the public's appetite for news. Still worse is the specter of "fake news" that looms over media and political systems that underpin everything from social stability to global governance. This volume aims to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Machines That Become Us

    The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology

    by James E. Katz ...
    Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future. But how are people in the twenty-first century actually reacting to the ever-expanding array of gadgets and networks at their disposal? Is computer anxiety a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Connections

    Social and Cultural Studies of the Telephone in American Life

    by James E. Katz ...
    Perhaps no other technology has done so much to so many, but been studied by so few, as the telephone. Even as its physical size diminishes, the telephone is becoming more important. In Connections, now available in paperback, James E. Katz gives greater visibility to this important element in modern life.Katz examines how the telephone reveals gender relations in a way not predicted by feminist ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Mobile Communication

    Dimensions of Social Policy

    by James E. Katz ...
    In the few short decades since their commercial deployment, 5 billion people—about three-quarters of all humanity, including children—have become mobile phone users. No technology has even approached the mobile phone's wildfire success. Effects of this success are apparent everywhere, ranging from accident scenes and earthquake rescue efforts to demeanor in the classroom and at dinner tables. No ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Emerging Media

    Understanding, Appreciation, Application

    Edited by Juliet Floyd, James E. Katz ...
    The term "emerging media" responds to the "big data" now available as a result of the larger role digital media play in everyday life, as well as the notion of "emergence" that has grown across the architecture of science and technology over the last two decades with increasing imbrication. The permeation of everyday life by emerging media is evident, ubiquitous, and destined to accelerate. No ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Magic in the Air

    Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life

    Edited by James E. Katz ...
    In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new mobile telecommunications affect daily life both in the United States and around the world. Magic in the Air is the most wide-ranging analysis of mobile communication to date. Katz investigates the spectrum of social aspects of the cell phone's impact on society and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Crisis Communications

    Lessons from September 11

    by Peter Clarke, James Alleman, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Menahem Blondheim, James William Carey, John Carey, Elisia Cohen, William H. Dutton, Joachim W. H. Haes, Joo-Young Jung, James E. Katz, Yong-Chan Kim, Jonathan Liebenau, Tamar Liebes, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Patrick Martin, Fiona McNee, Mitchell L. Moss, Frank Nainoa, A Michael Noll, Sean Phelan, Paul N. Rappoport, René-Jean Ravault, Ronald E. Rice, Everett M. Rogers, Anthony Townsend, Pille Vengerfeldt ...
    On September 11, 2001, AT&T's traffic was 40 percent greater than its previous busiest day. Wireless calls were made from the besieged airplanes and buildings, with the human voice having a calming influence. E-mail was used to overcome distance and time zones. And storytelling played an important role both in conveying information and in coping with the disaster. Building on such events and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Mediating the Human Body

    Technology, Communication, and Fashion

    Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini ...
    The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century. In Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Media and Me

    A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People

    by Ben Boyington, Allison T. Butler, Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth ...
    **From foundations in critical thinking skills to practical tools and real-life perspectives, this book empowers young adult readers to be independent media users.The Media and Me is a joint production of The Censored Press and Triangle Square Books for Young Readers.**During the recent presidential election, “media literacy” became a buzzword that signified the threat media manipulation posed to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beyond Data

    Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

    by Elizabeth M. Renieris ...
    Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • To Save Everything, Click Here

    The Folly of Technological Solutionism

    by Evgeny Morozov ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
    The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice isweave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights ... Read more

    $12.99 USD