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  • Infoglut

    How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know

    by Mark Andrejevic ...
    Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"—making ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Facial Recognition

    by Mark Andrejevic, Neil Selwyn ...
    Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated into many areas of society – from airports to shopping malls, classrooms to casinos. Despite the promise of security and efficiency, fears are growing that this technology is inherently biased, ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • iSpy

    Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era

    by Mark Andrejevic ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Choice Outstanding TitleWhether you’re purchasing groceries with your Safeway “club card” or casting a vote on American Idol, that data is being collected. From Amazon to iTunes, cell phones to GPS devices, Google to TiVo—all of these products and services give us an expansive sense of choice, access, and participation. But, in an era now marked by large-scale NSA operations that secretly monitor ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $15.89 USD

  • Media Backends

    Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations

    by Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, Sander de Ridder, Mark Andrejevic, Philippe Bouquillion, Jonathan Cohn, Faithe Day, Fatima Gaw0, Christine Ithurbide1, Anne Kaun2, Amanda Lagerkvist3, Alexis Logsdon4, Stine Lomborg5, Tim Markham6, Vicki Mayer7, Rahul Mukherjee8, Kaarina Nikunen9, Vibodh Parthasarathi0, Philipp Seuferling1, Ranjit Singh2, Jacek Smolicki3, Fredrik Stiernstedt4, Matilda Tudor5, Zala Volcic6 ...
    Series series Geopolitics of Information
    Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systemsMedia backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Automated Media

    by Mark Andrejevic ...
    In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences.This book explores the cascading logic of automation, which develops from the information collection process through to data processing and, finally, automated decision making. It argues that pervasive ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Commercial Nationalism

    Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

    Edited by Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • What's Become of Australian Cultural Studies?

    The Legacies of Graeme Turner

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Mark Andrejevic, Melissa Gregg, Anna Pertierra ...
    Cultural studies face a complicated yet rich future, proving both flexible and resilient in many countries. Against this backdrop, this book offers a fresh perspective on the state of the field of cultural studies, via an evaluation of the work of one of its key thinkers – Graeme Turner – and the traditions of Australian cultural studies which have been influential on the formation of the field ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Reality TV

    The Work of Being Watched

    by Mark Andrejevic ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Life in Media

    A Global Introduction to Media Studies

    by Mark Deuze ...
    A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world.From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The War on Learning

    Gaining Ground in the Digital University

    by Elizabeth Losh ...
    An examination of technology-based education initiatives—from MOOCs to virtual worlds—that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process.Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD