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Digital Formations eBook Series

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  • The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age

    Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media

    Edited by Lee McGuigan, Vincent Manzerolle ...
    Series Book 94 - Digital Formations
    This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the «audience commodity» as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of media/communication, culture, society, economics, and technology – a theory that has underpinned critical media studies for more than ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Costs of Connection

    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

    by Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    by John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, John Banks, Jason Potts, Terry Flew ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Design after Capitalism

    Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

    by Matthew Wizinsky ...
    How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In Design after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Labor in the Global Digital Economy

    The Cybertariat Comes of Age

    by Ursula Huws ...
    For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect.Ursula ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Stakeholder Theory

    The State of the Art

    by R. Edward Freeman, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Andrew C. Wicks, Bidhan L. Parmar, Simone de Colle ...
    In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published his landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, a work that set the agenda for what we now call stakeholder theory. In the intervening years, the literature on stakeholder theory has become vast and diverse. This book examines this body of research and assesses its relevance for our understanding of modern business. Beginning with a discussion ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Discreet Power

    How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas

    by Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sörbom ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate the WEF within an emerging system of "discretionary governance," in which actors craft ideas and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Emerging Media

    Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology

    Edited by PhD Bruce E. Drushel, PhD Kathleen German ...
    The Ethics of Emerging Media engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. This collection provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe.Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Remaking the News

    Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age

    Edited by Pablo J. Boczkowski, C. W. Anderson ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable part of their enterprise, scholars of journalism have shifted their focus to the role of technology. In ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Facebook Democracy

    The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life

    by José Marichal ...
    In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little ... Read more

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