Media Studies category: 113 books
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open
A Free Press for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly...
The Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age
Whose Property?
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
This book tells a series of living stories about a domain of social activity, “the work and play of the mind,” in a particular historical epoch: the “information age.” The stories concern political processes and movements as varied as the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects...
Infotopia
How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy and cyber security, and examines socio-political...
Orienting Hollywood
A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic relationship between Hollywood and Bollywood.
With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional...
Speaking Our Minds
Conversations With the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Tinker. R.A.V. Ollman. Hustler-Falwell. Reno-ACLU. Nebraska Press Association. These names are synonymous with contemporary First Amendment litigation. To explore these landmark cases more deeply, author Joseph Russomanno interviewed the people at the core of these and other influential First Amendment...
To Deprave and Corrupt
Obscenity Battles in British Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Thousands have run afoul of Britain’s Obscene Publications Act—from Victorian erotica presses to 21st-century dominatrices. At a time when the internet has made sexually explicit material ubiquitous, why are British traditional media still regulated by a vaguely worded law from 1857? This comprehensive...
Commodity Activism
Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS.
Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to
support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All
these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary
culture: the...
Dragon Soul
30 Years of Dragon Ball Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
With a foreword from Christopher Sabat and Sean Schemmel, Dragon Soul: 30 Years of Dragon Ball Fandom is a grand celebration of the world's greatest anime and manga and it's momentous 30th Anniversary.
Join me on a global adventure in search of the 7 dragon balls, as we head west toward Japan,...
by Derek Padula
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Dragon Ball, creado por Akira Toriyama, es la serie manga y anime más reconocida de todo el mundo que destaca por haber entretenido a millones de fans de todo el globo. La rivalidad legendaria de los dos últimos Saiya-jins de sangre pura, Goku y Vegeta, es el ejemplo emblemático de un conflicto...
by Catherine Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only...
by Gaveglia Luca Luciano
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Una interpretazione di parodia dei vangeli, con tutti i suoi personaggi principali
rivisti in chiave "spiritosa". Riferimenti all'attualità. In 131 strisce a fumetti.
The Beginning of the American Fall
A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Can a cartoonist and millions of random strangers change the world? The initial stages of their attempt are chronicled in this book of comics-journalism and written observations.
Stephanie McMillan, long-time activist and cartoonist, has waited her entire life for the American people to rise up....
by Karl Marx
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 20, 2018
La extraordinaria adaptación a la novela gráfica de uno de los ensayos más famosos de todos los tiempos.
Semilla, raíz y síntesis de una de las filosofías socioeconómicas más influyentes del mundo, el Manifiesto del Partido Comunista es quizá el tratado político más célebre de...