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  • How Media Ownership Matters

    by Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, Julie Sedel ...
    Does it matter who owns and funds the media? As journalists and management consultants set off in search of new business models, there's a pressing need to understand anew the economic underpinnings of journalism and its role in democratic societies. How Media Ownership Matters provides a fresh approach to understanding news media power, moving beyond the typical emphasis on market concentration ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shaping Immigration News

    A French-American Comparison

    by Rodney Benson ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Contesting Media Power

    Alternative Media in a Networked World

    by James Curran, Chris Atton, Lance Bennett, Rodney Benson, John Downing, Larry Gross, Chin-Chuan Lee, Tamar Liebes, Merlyna Lim, Sharon Ling0, Michael Meadows1, Christine Morris2, Andrea Press3, Terhi Rantanen4, Clemencia Rodriguez5, Keyan Tomaselli6, Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli7, Elena Vartanova8, Lennart Weibull9, Yuezhi Zhao0 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    How Media Ownership Matters

    by Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, Julie Sedel ...
    Narrated by Christopher P. Brown ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    Does it matter who owns and funds the media? As journalists and management consultants set off in search of new business models, there's a pressing need to understand anew the economic underpinnings of journalism and its role in democratic societies.How Media Ownership Matters provides a fresh approach to understanding news media power, moving beyond the typical emphasis on market concentration or ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Mapping an emerging field

    Edited by Julia Hoffmann, Virgil Hawkins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation.From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, communication and the media are widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although there ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Twilight of the Elites

    Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

    by Christophe Guilluy ...
    A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apartChristophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old ... Read more

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  • The Big Con

    How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

    by Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington ...
    A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about itThere is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

    Edited by Miriam Smith ...
    Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD

  • Canada Lives Here

    The Case for Public Broadcasting

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment devoted to profit-making, arguing that the ideals of public service broadcasting are more ... Read more

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  • Digital Empires

    The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

    by Anu Bradford ...
    Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative ... Read more

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  • A World to Win

    Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony

    Edited by William K. Carroll, Kanchan Sarker ...
    In this time of economic, ecological and social crises, a diverse array of collective movements carry the possibilities of deep democratization and alternative futures. A World to Win brings these movements alive as agents of history-in-the-making. It situates Quebec student strikers, Indigenous resistance and resurgence, Occupy, workers, migrant, feminist and queer movements and many others in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD