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“whitney phillips”

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  • This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

    by Whitney Phillips ...
    Why the internet troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today’s media landscape.Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ambivalent Internet

    Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
    This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play.Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Grove

    by Brooks Whitney Phillips ...
    **In this tender coming-of-age novel set in the socioeconomic tinderbox of the 1960s, two sisters in a struggling and damaged family only have each other to rely on . . . until an ugly secret tears them apart and threatens the cause of justice in their small town.YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS SELECTION**Fifteen-year-old Pip and seventeen-year-old Sissy aren't just sisters, they're best ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • You Are Here

    A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
    How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Shadow Gospel

    How Anti-liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics

    by Whitney Phillips, Mark Brockway ...
    A novel account of the culture wars and Evangelical influence in the United States that traces the 80-year rise of a quasi-religious anti-liberal demonology.When people talk about the chaotic, increasingly precarious political landscape in the United States, they often blame polarization and the culture wars. In The Shadow Gospel, Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway tell a very different story. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Share Better and Stress Less

    A Guide to Thinking Ecologically about Social Media

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan Milner ...
    Two media experts offer a witty, warm, and relatable take on how information pollution affects our online networks—and our well-being—and how to maximize a positive impact.We know that pollution damages our physical environments—but what about the digital landscape? Touching on everything from goat memes gone wrong to conflict in group chats to the sometimes unexpected side effects of online ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Grove

    by Brooks Whitney Phillips ...
    Narrated by Kira Fixx ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    **In this tender coming-of-age novel set in the socioeconomic tinderbox of the 1960s, two sisters in a struggling and damaged family only have each other to rely on . . . until an ugly secret tears them apart and threatens the cause of justice in their small town.YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS SELECTION**Fifteen-year-old Pip and seventeen-year-old Sissy aren't just sisters, they're best ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Share Better and Stress Less

    A Guide to Thinking Ecologically about Social Media

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan Milner ...
    Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    Two media experts offer a witty, warm, and relatable take on how information pollution affects our online networks—and our well-being—and how to maximize a positive impact.We know that pollution damages our physical environments—but what about the digital landscape? Touching on everything from goat memes gone wrong to conflict in group chats to the sometimes unexpected side effects of online ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    You Are Here

    A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
    Narrated by Amanda Ronconi ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

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  • Family Reins

    The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty

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    The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written—for the first time—by a Busch heir.As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America’s oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company was formed almost 150 years ago, the Busch family, their beer, the famous Clydesdales in their advertising, and even their ... Read more

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  • Tesla: Wizard at War

    The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power

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    In this revelatory new book, the author of the award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking ideas and astonishing mind of one of the greatest geniuses of modern times . . .“In a few years hence, it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible to the destructive action and ... Read more

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