Usc Annenberg Press imprint: 10 books

Academic Labor

The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies

by Jonathan Sterne, Thomas A. Discenna, Toby Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

USC Annenberg Press has published The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies, edited by Jonathan Stere. This collection features the work of 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. Twenty-one authors take on difficult questions...

Internet Governance

The NETmundial Roadmap

by William J. Drake, Joana Varon Ferraz, Markus Kummer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014

“Following up on the promise of the NETMundial meeting, this timely and useful book explores the challenges of implementing its roadmap for the future of Internet governance.” — Milton L. Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, USAInternet Governance: The NETmundial...

Echoes of Gabriel Tarde

What We Know Better or Different 100 Years Later

by Elihu Katz, Elihu Katz, Christopher Ali
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

Originally published in 1898, Gabriel Tarde’s essay “Opinion and Conversation” can be read as a series of propositions about the interaction of press, conversation, opinion and action, anticipating today’s “deliberative democracy.” Exploring these themes in a hyper-text “dialogue” with...

Thinking Together

An E-Mail Exchange and All That Jazz

by Howard S. Becker, Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences—Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action—describing how musicians who didn’t know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music....

Transmedia Branding

Engage Your Audience

by Burghardt Tenderich, Jerried Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

You’re either fully engaged with your audience or you’re irrelevant. The choice is yours.What do Chipotle and The Matrix and Intel and Old Spice and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles know that you don’t? How have disruptive economics, consumerism, and spreadable media evolved the relationship between...

Breaking Boundaries

In Political Entertainment Studies

by Dannagal G. Young, Dannagal G. Young, Jonathan Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

This book brings together a collection of scholars whose work is leading the field of political entertainment studies, and yet it crosses methodological divides to do so, with quantitative and critical/cultural perspectives both represented. Indeed, each author worked as a part of a pair, addressing...

Mixed Race 3.0

Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

by Ulli K. Ryder, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Herman S. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...

WARNING! Graphic Content

Political Cartoons, Comix and the Uncensored Artistic Mind

by Mr. Fish, Larry Gross
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

Have your IDs ready and your intolerance for incendiary pictures and controversial ideas checked at the door for it’s time to step into the head of the unabashedly liberal, award-winning cartoonist and writer Dwayne Booth (aka “Mr. Fish”), where inflammatory ideas meet deep insights and something...
by Larry Gross
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013

One of the central figures in the development of the study of visual communication, Sol Worth (1922-1977) was a filmmaker and painter before he turned to academic pursuits. He began with the question of how film could be understood and studied as medium of communication, and from there, he moved on to...

WikiLeaks

From Popular Culture to Political Economy

by Christian Christensen, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, William Uricchio
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014

“Little did I know that I was getting involved with WikiLeaks at the time of the biggest leaks in human history.” — Birgitta JónsdóttirWithin a relatively short period of time, WikiLeaks became the best-known whistle-blowing organization in the world. Due in large part to the release of massive...
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