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  • Media's Investments in Untruths

    Gender in Business Fraud Stories

    by Micky Lee ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the gendered nature of business fraud by examining media representations of four entrepreneurs (Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Bernie Madoff, and Anna Sorokin) who swindled money from wealthy investors and everyday people. From a feminist political economic perspective, the book asks how the intersections between gender, age, socioeconomic background, and the country of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia

    Critical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas

    Media technologies for play have become major industries in Japan and South Korea. Even in North Korea, citizens bypass the state to enjoy popular culture. At the same time, corporations and governments encourage people to produce economic values through play.The first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas, this book illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Information

    by Micky Lee ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
    This book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introductory guide to information, offering students the critical tools they need to shift their positioning from consumers and users to creators and critics.Searching, accessing, and using information are central to most daily lives. Yet, many users are not able to define what information is, identify who controls information, and create ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Dis/ability in Media, Law and History

    Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Wong Kar-wai

    Interviews

    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only makes art for a few high-brow critics. However, Wong's interviews show this Hong Kong auteur is candid about the art of filmmaking, even surprising his interlocutors by suggesting his films are commercial ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Alphabet

    The Becoming of Google

    by Micky Lee ...
    Series series Global Media Giants
    Google is synonymous with searching, but in this innovative new research volume, Micky Lee explores how the Alphabet Corporation, now the parent company of Google, is more than just a search engine. Using a political economic approach, Lee draws on the concept of networks to investigate the growth of this key media player.The establishment of the parent company, Alphabet, shows the company is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age

    This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing on three main approaches – media economics, critical political economy, and production studies – the authors provide an empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures and culture, business ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

    Edited by Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay ...
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Castells and the Media

    Theory and Media

    Series series Theory and Media
    One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.Politicians can no longer run for office without a digital media strategy, new communication technologies are a fundamental infrastructure for the economy, and the internet has become an invaluable tool for ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Civic Media

    Technology, Design, Practice

    Edited by Eric Gordon, Paul Mihailidis ...
    Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation, coordinate disaster relief, campaign for policy change, and strengthen local advocacy groups. The world watched ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Global Information Society

    Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

    Series series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope. In this unique interdisciplinary text, three scholars at the forefront of this dynamic field provide a clear conceptual framework and interpretation of the global information society. They explain the three pillars of the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Misunderstanding the Internet

    Series series Communication and Society
    The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD