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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mary beth ray”
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  • Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity

    The Adolescentia Project

    Edited by Mary Beth Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes in the United States significantly changed. The collectionadvances our understanding of music ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Digital Connectivity and Music Culture

    Artists and Accomplices

    by Mary Beth Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group interviewing, and discourse analysis, this study demonstrates how digital technology has created a closer, more collaborative, fluid ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Rock Brands

    Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture

    by Jeremy V. Adolphson, Bob Batchelor, Charles Conaway, Daniel Cochece Davis, Bryan P. Delaney, Heidi M. Kettler, Jordan McClain, Mary Nash-Wood, Staci Parks, Heather Pinson, Dave Robinson, Alison F. Slade, Deborah Clark Vance, Hazel James Cole, Michael Bertrand, Dedria Givens-Carroll, Jacqueline Lambiase, Mary Beth Ray ...
    Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today.The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands, the authors examine how established mainstream artists/bands are continuing to market themselves in ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • The Virtual Self

    How the casual information you create virtually is changing the physical world around you

    by Nora Young ...
    The host of CBC Radio's Spark explores the very real impact of the virtual information we generate about ourselves -- on our own lives, our communities, and our government.We generate enormous amounts of online data about our habits: where we go, what we do, and how we feel. Some of that is stuff we choose to report; some of it is the offhand data trails we leave behind. The Virtual Self looks at ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • It's Complicated

    The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    by Danah Boyd ...
    A youth and technology expert offers original research on teens' use of social media, the myths frightening adults, and how young people form communities.What is new about how teenagers communicate through services like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technically Wrong

    Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

    by Sara Wachter-Boettcher ...
    “An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” —Tim Wu, author of The Master SwitchBuying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

    Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

    by Christopher Emdin ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **A New York Times Best Seller"Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To AmericaAn award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Selfie Generation

    How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

    by Alicia Eler ...
    Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?Millennial Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Facebook and Philosophy

    What's on Your Mind?

    Edited by D. E. Wittkower ...
    Series Book 50 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Facebook and Philosophy is an entertaining, multi-faceted exploration of what Facebook means for us and for our relationships. With discussions ranging from the nature of friendship and its relationship to "friending," to the (debatable) efficacy of "online activism," this book is the most extensive and systematic attempt to understand Facebook yet. And with plenty of new perspectives on Twitter ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Quantified Self

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Exposed

    Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

    by Bernard E. Harcourt ...
    Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the ... Read more

    $30.29 USD