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Book SynopsisA contemporary analysis of mass media and modern democracyTrade ReviewAwarded the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for best research-based book on journalism/mass communication, 2010. "[The contributors] see four roles for the press: a monitor of events in the world, a facilitator of democratic decision making, a radical communicator free of any restraint, and a collaborator with those in power. Each of these four is explained in detail, with many excellent examples. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"A deeper and more satisfactory approach to tackling many of the issues first raised in Four Theories [of the Press]."--Australian Journalism Review"This long-awaited book by a group of the most distinguished scholars of journalism and the media will define the terms of discussion of normative theory for the next generation."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Beyond Four Theories of the Press; Part One: Normative Theory; Chapter 1. Evolution of Normative Traditions; Chapter 2. Characteristics of Normative Theory; Part Two: Democracy; Chapter 3. Principles and Practice of Democracy; Chapter 4. Roles of News Media in Democracy; Part Three: Roles; Chapter 5. Monitorial Role; Chapter 6. Facilitative Role; Chapter 7. Radical Role; Chapter 8. Collaborative Role; Prospects; Conclusion; References

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Book SynopsisPresents an inquiry into the history and the moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their communicative worlds, this title strives to refigure mass communication as a concept, and illuminate significant but overlooked rhetorical episodes in its history.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. "This book is particularly powerful because, like rhetoric itself, it is not limited to any one discipline. Simonson uses cultural studies and rhetoric as energizing points of departure for rehabilitating and reinforcing the idea and social form of mass communication."--Rosa A. Eberly, author of Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres"This volume of original thinking should prompt the same in its readers. Highly recommended."--Choice "An original and often intriguing way of defining mass communication over time."--Communication Research Trends

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Book SynopsisThe use of confidential sources during a tumultuous period in American history and journalismTrade Review"Carlson offers an interesting, well-written, and lucid cultural analysis of the ‘unique risks and rewards’ that occur ‘from the bargain struck’ between reporters and confidential sources."-- Journalism "Raises important issues related to sources and to the structural forces currently challenging the meaning of journalism in today's multimedia world."--Library Journal "Carlson’s book is a must-read for people trying to understand what direction journalism should take in redefining itself in the face of rising threats—technological, economic, political, and otherwise."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "Carlson offers sensible prescriptions for less reliance on anonymous sources and for more transparency when they are relied upon by journalists. His book injects calm reason and scholarly rigor into a debate that often arouses passions."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Contributes significantly to understanding not only the use of anonymous sources (the benefits and the dangers) but also journalism broadly. Recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Problems - and Promise - of Unnamed Sources; 1. Media Culpas: Prewar Reporting Mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post; 2. "Blogs 1, CBS 0": 60 Minutes and the Killian Memos Controversy; 3. Journalists Fight Back: Newsweek and the Koran Abuse Story; 4. Deep Throat and the Question of Motives; 5. "Journalism on Trial": Confidentiality and the Plame Leak Case; 6. Rethinking Anonymity: Problems and Solutions Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisDetails missed opportunity in the newspaper industry's diversity effortsTrade ReviewFrank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, 2013. "Gwyneth Mellinger's Chasing Newsroom Diversity: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action offers explanations for 'why an effort so promising failed so profoundly.' In explaining the failure, the book provides a meticulous documented view of the ASNE over a fifty-year span, beginning in the mid-1950s. The work provides an excellent foundation for further studies on newsroom diversity."--American Journalism "Using the insights of whiteness studies and a rich array of primary sources, Mellinger demonstrates how and why the American Society of Newspaper Editors failed to achieve its 1978 diversity initiative's hiring goals by the goal year of 2000. She persuasively argues that whiteness (and maleness) consistently operated as a professional norm within the ASNE across time, even as the organization's leaders attempted to diversify newsrooms across America. A compelling and provocative book."--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment“Provides a compelling explanation for how forward-thinking goals can be felled by institutional prejudice. . . . Anyone interested in the social movements of the twentieth century will find the book a worthwhile read.”—Journalism History "Chasing Newsroom Diversity provides a thoroughly reported account of the evolution of ASNE's approach to minority recruitment and the feeble implementation of that goal in the workplace."--Newspaper Research Journal"The work provides an excellent foundation for further studies on newsroom diversity. As a teaching tool, the book also would likely prompt lively classroom discussions."--American Journalism "Mellinger provides a very useful and most informative case study of how one professional organization addresses some deeply embedded, institutionalized norms with social, political and cultural implications over an extended period of time--50 years, with insight into the degree of difficulty it had in trying to dismantle them."--Gateway Journalism Review

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Book Synopsis In recent years, there has been an upsurge in interest in 'roots music' and 'world music,' popular forms that fuse contemporary sounds with traditional vernacular styles. In the 1950s and 1960s, the music industry characterized similar sounds simply as 'folk music.' Focusing on such music since the 1950s, The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance analyzes the intrinsic contradictions of a commercialized folk culture. Both Rounder Records and the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance have sought to make folk music widely available, while simultaneously respecting its defining traditions and unique community atmosphere. By tracing the histories of these organizations, Michael F. Scully examines the ongoing controversy surrounding the profitability of folk music. He explores the lively debates about the difficulty of making commercially accessible music, honoring tradition, and remaining artistically relevant, all without 'selling out.' InTrade Review "Thoughtful and insightful book. . . . Scully's important exploration of the folk music revival ... will only gain in significance as the opportunities for the transmission of folk music increase."--ARSC Journal "For those of us with a fondness for Rounder and all the offbeat music it has brought us throughout the years, this book . . . is a must-have."--Sing Out! “Scully explores many facets of the folk music revival. . . . Well written, well researched.”--Bluegrass Unlimited"With care and grace, Scully details the power struggles, the hirings and resignations, the handwringing and public denunciations that characterize any organization that tries to blend notions of cultural purity with commercial ambitions."--American Studies"A keenly insightful study."--Western Folklore"A clear, intelligent, insightful, and open-minded look into the world of folk music. This well-researched book details the conflicts inherent in a hard-to-define musical genre."--Tommy Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone)"Scully covers new territory in exploring the recent history of folk music in the United States by focusing on Rounder Records and the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance. This book is essential for anyone interested in recent developments in folk music and its role in the aftermath of the folk revival of the 1960s."--Ronald D. Cohen, author of Folk Music: The Basics"This well-researched book fills an important gap in the chronicle of the folk revival. Particularly impressive is Scully's recapitulation of the painful debates about Rounder's commercial survival and the nature of folklore and folk song."--Ed Cray, author of Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody GuthrieTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements / ix Introduction: Where Have All the Folkies Gone? / 1 1. Folklore, Fakelore, and Poplore: From the Creation of the Folk to the Great Boom and Beyond / 21 2. From Club 47 to Union Grove: The Birth of Rounder Records / 58 3. Surrealistic Banjos and Zydeco Rhythms: Rounder's Broad Aesthetic / 88 4. Toward an Authenticity of Self: Old-Time Music in the Modern World / 114 5. Like Politics in Chicago: The Folk Alliance Strives for Unity / 133 6. Consolidation Blues: Folk Music in Contemporary Markets / 167 Conclusion: Gone to the Internet, Everyone / 211 Notes / 219 Note on Citations / 243 Index / 247 Illustrations follow page 20.

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Book Synopsis Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss. In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey is Rooney''s kaleidoscopic first-hand account of more than five decades of success as a performer, concert promoter, songwriter, music publisher, engineer, and record producer.As witness to and participant in over a half century of music history, Rooney provides a sophisticated window into American vernacular music. Following his stint as a 'Hayloft Jamboree' hillbilly singer in the mid-1950s, Rooney managed Cambridge''s Club 47, a catalyst of the ‘60’s folk music boom. He soon moved to the Newport Folk Festival as talent coordinator and director where he had a front row seat to Dylan 'going electric.'In the 1970s RooTrade Review "I know how lucky I am to have connected with Jim all those years back when I was just starting out. He always had a way of lifting us all up out of the everyday. We never forgot that we were trying to make music that'd help people get THROUGH the everyday, but, ironically, you have to get on up out of it for awhile in order to do that. Jim always made that possible for me." --Iris DeMent "Without Jim Rooney's early encouragement, I would not have a career." --Nanci Griffith "Rooney is best known for producing records by people like John Prine, Townes Van Zandt and Nanci Griffith. . . . Fortunately for readers, he's also a gifted storyteller, with a humorous sense of perspective and wry self-awareness. Could you really ask for anything more from a musician's memoir?"--Nashville Scene"A love letter to friendship and music."--The Tennessean"Wonderful fellow with an interesting life equals great story."--John Prine"As a singer and entertainer, record producer and song publisher, Jim Rooney has been right smack in the middle of so much authentic American music for over 50 years. His guiding hand has helped launch and expand the careers of a host of great artists and I can't imagine the arc of my own success without the benefit of Jim's natural musical integrity and generous support."--Pat Alger, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame“If it were not for Jim Rooney, I could have never negotiated my way through the jungle that is Nashville. We made two wonderful records together and had a blast doing them.”--Robert Earl Keen

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Book SynopsisWhether it's the rule-defying lifer, the sharp-witted female newshound, or the irascible editor in chief, journalists in popular culture have shaped our views of the press and its role in a free society since mass culture arose over a century ago. Drawing on portrayals of journalists in television, film, radio, novels, comics, plays, and other media, Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman survey how popular media has depicted the profession across time. Their creative use of media artifacts provides thought-provoking forays into such fundamental issues as how pop culture mythologizes and demythologizes key events in journalism history and how it confronts issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation on the job. From Network to The Wire, from Lois Lane to Mikael Blomkvist, Heroes and Scoundrels reveals how portrayals of journalism's relationship to history, professionalism, power, image, and war influence our thinking and the very practice of democracy.Trade Review"A perceptive study of an enduring and tantalizing question: What do they think of us? Ehrlich and Saltzman craft a persuasive, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious montage of the omnipresence of journalists in popular culture. But the book does more than that. The authors work also tells us a great deal about the powerful and defining role of popular culture itself." --Richard Reeves, author of President Kennedy: Profile of Power"Authors Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman have done a painstakingly thorough job of marshaling, assembling, organizing, and setting down in print the vast amount of material that makes up our popular culture's representation of journalism and the men and women who commit it. . . . The subject matter holds plenty of interest for readers drawn to the popular media, and that's a lot of us; that's why it's cold the popular media."--The Santa Fe New Mexican "Authors Matthew Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman make a convincing case that fictional journalists are both ubiquitous and significant in pop culture-- in plays, movies, television, novels, short stories, comic strips, graphic novels, video games, and so on… With scores of examples and an extensive appendix of media sources, Heroes and Scoundrels is a terrific resource for courses in mass communication and society, contemporary issues in journalism, journalism ethics, media history, and related courses."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "Ultimately, anyone who studies media portrayals or public perceptions of journalists would benefit greatly from reading this book and incorporating it into their teaching and research."--Journalism and Mass Communication Educator"Stimulating and thought-provoking. . . . No other work comes close to covering the subject as broadly."--Maurine H. Beasley, author of Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence"The assumption behind Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture is that the audience's perception of the messenger shapes the message. That's hardly a new idea but, applied to journalism in a democracy, it's vastly significant. For example, it turns out that, while the media have been transformed by technology, archetypal images of journalists have persisted. Maybe everything hasn't changed all that much after all. That, along with other important insights gained from formidable research, will help both journalists and their audiences better understand the news of the future. Besides, it’s fun to read all those stories."--Warren Olney, Host and Executive Producer, "To the Point" and "Which Way, LA?", KCRW-FM"A great read that showcases depictions of journalists over the past century in popular culture. Its thoughtful analysis integrates cultural theory with media concepts and provides important historical context that will interest professionals and academics alike."--Bonnie Brennen, author of Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies"Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws on everything from language studies to cultural studies, Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman creatively and entertainingly address the history of the journalist’s image, 1890 to the present. Fascinating chapters focus on the images of photographers, war correspondents, gay and lesbian journalists, journalists of color, women journalists, and journalists of the sci fi future. The dueling myths of the journalist as hero and scoundrel, the book persuasively argues, raise questions about the enduring tension in society between the press as a force for freedom and a tool of oppression."--Loren Ghiglione, author of CBS's Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewInternational Communication Book Award, International Studies Association, 2017. "Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski’s seminal new book The Real Cyber War. . . . will help to inspire a change in course that will restore the internet to what it might become (and what many thought it was supposed to be): an engine for democracy and social and economic progress, justice, and equity.”--Boundary 2“Powers and Jablonski execute the close knitting that is the hallmark of careful political economy work — The Real Cyber War documents the interests at play in contemporary international communication and issues a clarion call to think otherwise about how the Internet might serve global interests rather than parochial ones.”--Journal of Communication"The Real Cyber War serves as an excellent analysis of where we are now and sets the agenda for the coming years."--Information, Communication & Society "Powers and Jablonski take a unique approach to the concept of cyber war, focusing on the very architecture of the internet itself. Recommended."--Choice"In their excellent book, The Real Cyberwar: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom, Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski describe Google’s unprecedented dominance of the contemporary data economy. Drawing attention to the irregular regulation of the global data trade, when compared to all other commodities, they note the power of the internet-freedom agenda to legitimise a particular set of economic practices.”--The Guardian"Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski's book will be of particular use to International Relations scholars and readers eager to place global digital issues and debates into their geopolitical and geo-economic contexts. . . . Bringing together these fields has proved particularly necessary since Edward Snowden's revelations, which have shown that the internet policy has far-reaching implications which go beyond merely technical issues. This is precisely what Powers and Jablonski intend to do in this meticulous book."--International Affairs"The Real Cyber War is an important work in the budding field of Internet government research. . . . Already The Real Cyber War has become an essential read within the fields of international relations, communication, political economy, and cyber security."--International Journal of Communication"The Real Cyber War says many things that need to be said. . . . Authors Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski closely examine concepts that guide American policy, such as Internet freedom and multistakeholderism. Rightly noted, the authors question if these ideas are based on outdated assumptions and cherished notions of politicos and technorati alike. . . . The Real Cyber War presents a new and valuable discussion of what can truly be called a geopolitical struggle and perhaps the most important war of our time."--Marine Corps University Journal "A knowing, wide-ranging, perceptive, important, and original book. Powers and Jablonski connect disparate and significant dots; weave history, technology, and law together; and explain interrelated complex concepts imaginatively. They tell a compelling story key for any student of transnational information flows."--Monroe Price, author of Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power "As governments, companies, civil society, and other stakeholders struggle towards a new global information and communication order in the post-Snowden world, this equally provocative and important book cuts through the Western rhetoric of 'Internet freedom' and draws a sobering picture of how policy-making in this space is ultimately a fight for control over information, which is largely driven by economic and geopolitical interests rather than democratic ideals and human rights."--Urs Gasser, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University "More comprehensive than most work on global internet politics because it incorporates perspectives from a wider range of interests around the world. The treatment of China is strong, as are the examples from emerging nations."--Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World

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Book SynopsisThe professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production--and unleashed both crisis and opportunity on journalistic institutions. Anthony Nadler charts a paradigm shift, from market research's reach into the editorial suite in the 1970s through contemporary experiments in collaborative filtering and social news sites like Reddit and Digg. As Nadler shows, the transition was and is a rocky one. It also goes back much further than many experts suppose. Idealized visions of demand-driven news face obstacles with each iteration. Furthermore, the post-professional philosophy fails to recognize how organizations mobilize interest in news and public life. Nadler argues that this civic function of news organizations has been neglected in debates on the future of journalism. Only with Trade Review"Recommended."--Choice "With Making the News Popular, Anthony Nadler offers a unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship trying to make sense of the fragmentation of journalism's high-modern paradigm and the democratic implications of the various models of news that have emerged in its stead."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This important book offers a penetrating and original analysis of how news audiences are mobilized. With his path-breaking contribution to media studies and journalism history, Nadler has woven a captivating account that reveals how media institutions--from traditional newspapers to cable news and social news sites--shape our preferences, and why this matters for democratic society. Making News Popular should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking a critical understanding of the economic and cultural imperatives that drive our news media."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"In this imaginative and original history, Tony Nadler shows how, since the 1970s, U.S. news institutions have embraced the principle that consumer preferences rather than editorial expertise should determine the news agenda. Along the way, he asks important questions about the consequences of this enduring approach for our own digital news era. How do the news media shape and constrain the very audience choices they claim to measure? What are the consequences for our public culture and democracy? How can we build a more participatory, inclusive, and democratic news media? An illuminating, challenging, and highly readable account."--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The future of interactive journalism will not depend on whether it can increase page views or session times, but whether it can deepen our readers' and viewers' engagement with complex issues. Nikki Usher's Interactive Journalism is a great introduction into this emerging field of journalism where the most collaborative and interdisciplinary team players will thrive."--Wolfgang Blau, Director of Digital Strategy, Chief Digital Officer, Condé Nast International"In Interactive Journalism, Nikki Usher skillfully answers three questions rarely addressed at the same time: how are newsrooms changing with their adoption of interactive journalism, what economic and cultural factors are driving this adoption, and why new ways of telling stories may affect the impact of journalism."--James T. Hamilton, author of All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News"For future scholars of journalism production, this book will provide an important look at how interactive journalism--a subfield that seems likely to expand and transform in the coming decades--was practiced in the second decade of the 21st century." --Newspaper Research Journal"Usher's book is an ambitious and foundational text for understanding this new subspecialty, and as such, it should beget a new generation of inquiry into the political economy and boundary issues it deftly raises." --New Media & Society"As the first sustained investigation of this new form of journalism, Usher's main argument is persuasive....Her book will certainly serve as a foundational text for scholars turning their attention to this growing journalistic practice." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"A thorough and multifaceted study of the evolution of journalism and what it means for both journalists, readers and communication in general." --European Journal of Communication"Walker-McWilliams has written a fascinating accessible biography of union organizer Rev. Addie Wyatt, whose life's work was at the intersection of organized labor, civil rights, women's rights, and the church." --Library Journal"Nikki Usher is once again on the frontline of the newsroom, with this vivid account of the rise of maker culture in online news. Expertly cutting through the techno-jargon, Usher provides the definitive portrait of interactive journalism--from its economic benefits and professional challenges to its potential to fundamentally transform how all of us see and engage with the world."--Rod Benson, New York University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anyone who has used a smartphone, tablet, laptop computer, e-reader, video game console, or smart speaker would do well to read Goodbye iSlave. In tight effective prose, Qiu presents a gripping portrait of the lives of Foxconn workers and this description is made more confrontational by the uncompromising language Qiu deploys."--boundary 2 "Qiu's grim and eloquent book traces parallels between the digital economy and Atlantic slavery--from Congo mines to Foxconn sweatshops to iPhone users' labor. Full of insights, Goodbye iSlave also offers hope, in new forms of social struggle."--Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science "Networking China is highly recommended for researchers or students in the area of media and communications, economics, political sciences and Chinese studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in communication sectors." --Information, Communication & Society"Outstanding and well-researched. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Readers from media and information studies, sociology, history and many other social sciences disciplines will find Goodbye iSlave illuminating." --The China Quarterly"Qiu's book brings attention to the hidden and deeply exploitative conditions of digital labor that make possible our world of new media and technologies." --PoLAR"This remarkable dissection of twenty-first century global iSlavery, rooted in Qiu's on-the-ground and comparative historical research, gives a high-voltage jolt to complacent iCitizens--and examples of what to do next."--John D.H. Downing, editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A bold and wide-ranging overview of seven decades of media, telecommunications, and information sector developments in China. Professor Hong manages both to stay engaged with the minutiae of this complex story, but also to identify the critical trends and themes that animated its unfolding. This is no mean achievement, and marks out Professor Hong as a notable scholar of information technology studies as well as a perspicacious observer of China."--Journal of Information Policy"This is one of the most enlightening pieces of writing on the evolution of the information and communications technology sector in China."--Chinese Journal of Communication"Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy provides a much needed critical assessment of China's engagement with ICTs, telecommunications and media. . . . The book represents the most well-articulated discussion of the imminent rise of techno-nationalism and economic development in China."--Asian Communication Research"Recommended."--Choice"Yu Hong's book Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy is an important contribution to the increasing body of literature on Chinese digital media and communication. . . . The book is well written and exemplary in research."--China Quarterly"Hong shines a bright light on the high cost and precarious prospects of making telecoms, the internet, ICTs and media the center of a nation's economic development strategy. It's a must-read for all who want to understand China's embrace of digital capitalism and the political economy of communication therein."--Mass Communication and Society"In great detail and with the careful reflection of a seasoned scholar, Yu Hong describes the astounding growth of digital technology in China and its complex and powerful ramifications at home and abroad."--Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"Yu Hong's book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the role China's cutting-edge information technology sector has played in the nation's unprecedentedly rapid economic development. She provides excellent insight into the nuances of state policies on key communications systems, and does so with a keen, discerning eye for the vital issues affecting the present and future course of China's networked economy."--Eric Harwit, author of China's Telecommunications Revolution

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well researched and readable. . . Recommended."--Choice"Vaillant's text is outstanding. The research and reporting are carefully and professionally done, the supporting data enlightening and the story interesting. . . . Across the Waves makes a significant contribution to international media scholarship."--American Journalism "Across the Waves is well argued, thoroughly researched, and culturally conversant." --The Journal of American HistoryThe book is broad in scope and significance and is well-researched and well-written." --European Journal of Communication"Across the Waves...informs radio history with a new and important contribution." --Journal of Communication"A historian at heart, Vaillant provides his readers with the cultural and political depth to better understand the necessary cross-border collaborations that led to the acceleration of cultural exchanges across the Atlantic throughout the twentieth century." --American Studies"Articulating different levels of perspectives and theoretical approaches, the various contributions enrich the understanding of the subject and suggest new horizons of research that are useful for future works, including beyond the scope of the anglophone academic field." --Radio Journal"A well-written piece of historical analysis, and the author manages to tie together an enjoyable writing style with scholarly rigour and a complex conceptual framework." --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television "The atmospheric way Vaillant brings radio to us in this book should be nothing short of highly commended." --EuropeNow "Derek Vaillant has written an invaluable account of the lively interactive relationship between French and American radio broadcasting. Its historical sweep, deep research, and illuminating conceptual framework make it à ne pas manquer for anyone interested in one of the twentieth century’s closest yet most tempestuous cultural relationships."--Michele Hilmes, author of Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting "Vaillant's stimulating analysis of a neglected dimension of transatlantic broadcasting brilliantly captures the dynamic interplay of international relations, technological change, and textual innovation, and sheds new light on the place of American radio in the global media landscape of the twentieth century."—Kate Lacey, author of Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media AgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: At the Border of U.S. - French Broadcasting PART I: THE RISE OF U.S.-FRENCH BROADCASTING, 1925-44 1 At the Speed of Sound: Techno-Aesthetic Paradigms in U.S. - French Broadcasting, 1925-39 2 We Won't Always Have Paris: U.S. Networks in France and Europe, 1932-41 3 Voices of the Occupation: U.S. Broadcasting to France during World War II PART II: SHAPING A U.S.-FRENCH RADIO IMAGINARY, 1945-74 4 Served on a Platter: How French Radio Cracked the U.S. Airwaves 5 The Air of Paris: Women's Talk Radio, Gender, and the Art of Self-Fashionin 6 The Drama of Broadcast History after May 1968 Afterword: Radios at the Heart of Nations Appendix: U.S.-French Radio Time Line Notes Selected Resources Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAEJMC History Division Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2018 "For those interested in black newspapers' complex navigation of the politics of the twentieth century and how those papers ultimately made a difference, Race News is worth a careful read." --The Journal of American History"Race News is an essential and thoughtful exploration of a crucial epoch, blending meticulous research into a compelling narrative. Students will be inspired by stories about long-neglected journalists and publishers, while historians will appreciate the complex portrait of a fulminating struggle at the heart of the African-American experience."--American Journalism "[A] wonderful book about the black press in the 21st century. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Race News reveals a new perspective that illuminates the ways in which alternative Black journalism informed the editorial practices of the commercial Black press and mainstream news media across the last century. A meticulously researched examination that contributes new insight to scholarship on Black journalism." --Communication Booknotes Quarterly"A fascinating and ambitious book, covering a wide range of important individuals and institutions across various eras of African American history." --The Journal of African American History"Carroll offers new insight in examining the ties between 'alternative' and 'commercial' outlets. Race News will also be of value as a comprehensive, readable introduction for those more broadly interested in African American history, journalism history and civil rights activism."--LSE Review of Books"An ambitious undertaking, one that covers decades of press data and a large body of scholarship. . . .Carroll captures the arc of his study with a provocative insight: commercial newspapers' 'business model. . . . carried the seeds of its own destruction'." --African American Review"A welcome addition to our understanding of both journalistic and African-American history . . . Race News is highly recommended."--People's World "Fred Carroll has made an important addition to the literature with Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century."...Carroll's book offers a lot to journalism history classes and mass communication students overall." --Journalism History "A rich and nuanced history of African American journalism in the last century. It is arguably the most thorough and substantive treatment of the subject." --American Historical Review "Fred Carroll examines the symbiotic yet contentious relationship between commercial and alternative black press in his insightful Race News. . . . This is a well-argued, thoroughly researched and important contribution to African American social history." --Journal of Social History "An incredibly insightful and well-written book that offers both a broad history of black journalism in the United States and a deeply nuanced investigation of black power politics in the newsroom. . . .Carroll offers the first scholarly monograph of the political and professional development of black journalism in the twentieth-century United States." --American Literature "Race News connects the dots along the line of the black press's development . . . the chapters on the new negro and popular front journalism show how labor and left politics were integral to the black community and interwoven into the popularity of black newspapers and their communication of the political culture of the New Deal." --Labor “A thorough, well-researched, lively, and accessible account of the role of the Black press in the twentieth century. Race News is a sympathetic and politically astute analysis of the paths navigated by black journalists, and the role played by them, in many of the key struggles for racial justice in U.S. history.”--Bill V. Mullen, author of Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946 "Unquestionably stimulating and enjoyable. The details about how the alternative black press affected the commercial black press in the 1930s and in the civil rights era is not well known or documented and is quite exciting. Carroll unquestionably adds important nuances to what other scholars have written in telling the history of the black press."--Patrick Washburn, author of The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is a wonder that nobody wrote this history earlier--and bravo to Prof. Schwoch for undertaking it. . . . Making good selective uses of archival resources, Schwoch provides the human touch by relating individual stories for all of his chapters in Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. . . . An enjoyable book offering considerable insight." --Communication Booknotes Quarterly"A fine example . . . Wired into Nature is an informative study wherein the author places the establishment of communication systems and their social/political practices central to the twenty-first-century in the development of telegraphy in the North American West in the last half of the nineteenth century.," --South Dakota History"Schwoch presents an engaging study that highlights the central role of western, and westward-looking, actors in shaping modern ideas about information gathering and the power offered by controlling rapid means of communication." --Western Historical Quarterly"The book is well-crafted and well-written, and it is wisely the right length for its scope. . . . This is an innovative original study and a welcome addition to western American history." --American Historical Review​"Drawing on both detailed historical scholarship and a refreshing geographical sensibility, Wired into Nature provides a unique and important perspective on the vast strategic, ecological, and cultural impact of North America's first electrical information network. James Schwoch brings important questions of environment, indigeneity, and surveillance back into the story of the telegraph, in a sweeping narrative that connects the mapping and exploitation of the American West to the development of the White House Situation Room. Schwoch reminds us that the story of communication infrastructure in American history involves not just the intensive development of urban technologies, consumers, and firms, but also the extensive reconfiguration of contested landscapes, involving both military and cultural struggles with nature, climate, and, most crucially, Native American peoples. This innovative work crosses the boundaries between military, political, technological, and environmental history, and is a must-read for students of our contemporary information society."--Gregory J. Downey, author of Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950"This text is a useful treatment of the subject, and will be a welcome addition to collections in the history of technology and western American history." --Choice"Wired into Nature is a rich and original exploration of the telegraph in the American West, grounded in meticulous archival research. It tells us a powerful story about the relationship between wires and nature, and unravels the hidden and formative connections between our communications systems and the environment, climate, and surveillance. James Schwoch brilliantly tracks the making and unmaking of the telegraph, from the draft animals that pulled its poles to the weaponized fires it ignited; from its disruption by Native Americans to the early development of network security; and from the weather reports it collected to its command in Washington. This book will transform our understanding of electronic communications networks, both past and present. If there is one history to read in the current moment, Wired into Nature is it.--Nicole Starosielski, coeditor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures"Wired into Nature opens up a new field of inquiry by examining the frontier expansion of the telegraph into the western U.S., with commendable attention both to how environmental factors shaped the story and to how the telegraph functioned as an instrument of state power and political control, especially through the military." --Technology and Culture "This book is not to be missed by serious students of information technology." --The Journal of American History "Wired into Nature, which includes many helpful illustrations, is based on enormous archival research but is not bogged down by unnecessary details. It is instead written in quite readable, often eloquent, prose. Wired into Nature deserves a wide readership." --Pacific Historical Review "Wired into Nature is full of intriguing insights drawn from a thoughtful engagement with a wide range of primary sources." --Journal of Arizona History "Wired into Nature is a carefully documented and compelling read." -- Annals of Iowa "Wired into Nature is a fresh take on the history of the telegraph in the United States, one that eschews the common eastern business history and recenters it on the role of the US government and military's development of the telegraph in the West." --H-Net Reviews "This book offers a fascinating perspective of the developing global telegraph system and how the growth of the telegraph involved a host of people, including white settlers, Native Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, Russians, and members of the American military." --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "Drawing on both detailed historical scholarship and a refreshing geographical sensibility, Wired into Nature provides a unique and important perspective on the vast strategic, ecological, and cultural impact of North America's first electrical information network. James Schwoch brings important questions of environment, indigeneity, and surveillance back into the story of the telegraph, in a sweeping narrative that connects the mapping and exploitation of the American West to the development of the White House Situation Room. Schwoch reminds us that the story of communication infrastructure in American history involves not just the intensive development of urban technologies, consumers, and firms, but also the extensive reconfiguration of contested landscapes, involving both military and cultural struggles with nature, climate, and, most crucially, Native American peoples. This innovative work crosses the boundaries between military, political, technological, and environmental history, and is a must-read for students of our contemporary information society." --Gregory J. Downey, author of Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950 "Wired into Nature is a rich and original exploration of the telegraph in the American West, grounded in meticulous archival research. It tells us a powerful story about the relationship between wires and nature, and unravels the hidden and formative connections between our communications systems and the environment, climate, and surveillance. James Schwoch brilliantly tracks the making and unmaking of the telegraph, from the draft animals that pulled its poles to the weaponized fires it ignited; from its disruption by Native Americans to the early development of network security; and from the weather reports it collected to its command in Washington. This book will transform our understanding of electronic communications networks, both past and present. If there is one history to read in the current moment, Wired into Nature is it."--Nicole Starosielski, coeditor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

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Book SynopsisYou furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural eventsobscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violencechanged the public's consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicateor challengepreTrade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 "This generously illustrated book delves into the period just before the end of the nineteenth century when America was beginning to take its place in the world. It would be useful to anyone teaching or researching that formative period. It is accessible and attractive. Ironically enough, its extensive use of graphic pictures from the period make it not only an informative but entertaining read." --American Journalism"This book—or a selection of chapters—would add depth to a multitude of journalism, sociology and history courses. The themes Frisken reveals using these 19th-century news narratives and illustrations resonate with our 21st-century news narratives about immigration, marginalized groups and the #MeToo movement." --Newspaper Research Journal"A comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of the role of sensationalism in visual news, Graphic News will be of particular value for scholars and students of late nineteenth-century visual culture, journalism history, communication, and American Studies." --Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications' reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era's gender, race, and class relations.”—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America”A worthy endeavor that engages major social and cultural issues and makes a significant contribution to the history of visual journalism in the United States.”—John Coward, author of Indians Illustrated: Images of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press"An intriguing analysis of the manner in which sensational pictorial representations altered US journalism during the final three decades of the 19th century... Well researched with an extensive reliance on primary documents." --Choice

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Book SynopsisAn essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization’s prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization’s ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chàvez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work. Trade Review“Denise Von Glahn’s intricately researched new book deftly explains and exposes the inner workings of a culturally influential old boy’s network--one we think we know, but of which we actually still know too little--and reveals the potential advantages and disadvantages that this set of circumstances brought about. Circle of Winners is a timely historical narrative within our current moment of cultural reckoning.”--Amy C. Beal, author of Johanna BeyerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Family The Foundation The Advisors The Network The College The Winners Conclusions Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“What happens in the backend, behind our screens, in the sociotechnical systems that constitute our media space? Parks, Velkova, and De Ridder have collected an impressive bouquet of enlightening articles, offering a wide scope of critical perspectives on what happens in the invisible parts of the internet, including its infrastructure. Reading through this collection, you start seeing the bigger picture of a media landscape in transformation and how this connects to global societal transformations. A true mind opener.”--José van Dijck, author of The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social MediaTable of ContentsIntroduction Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder Part I: Sensing, Automating, Mediating 1 Atmospheric Mediation: From Smart Dust to Customizable Governance Mark Andrejevic, and Zala Volcic 2 The Other Side of the Smart Phone: MEMS Sensors and the Tiny Matter of Mediation Lisa Parks 3 EugenicTech: Three Perspectives On the (B)anality of AI Jonathan Cohn 4 Coding and Encoding Streamed Media: The Cultural Infrastructure of the Netflix Recommender System Fatima Gaw 5 Engaging Opacity: Spotify and the Poesis of Algorithmic Backends Tim Markham Part II: Datafying, Serving, Distributing 6 The Social Mapping of Hyperscale Data Center Regions: Placemaking, Infrastructuring, Curating Vicki Mayer and Julia Velkova 7 Cross-sectoral Relations in VoD Markets: Frontend, Backend, and Deepend in India Vibodh Parthasarathi, Philippe Bouquillion, and Christine Ithurbide 8 Serving Machines and Heterotopias: Data Entry Work in Prisons and Refugee Camps in the US and Uganda Anne Kaun, Alexis Logsdon, Philipp Seuferling and Fredrik Stiernstedt 9 Mythical Media Backends: Human-Machine Communication’s Cruel Promises Sander De Ridder 10 The Black Living Data Booklet Faithe Day Part III: Subjecting, Humanizing, Repairing 11 Sonorous Surfaces, Biased Backends: The Gendered Voices of AI Assistants as Existential Media Amanda Lagerkvist, Jacek Smolicki, and Matilda Tudor 12 On Meaning and Exploitation: Everyday AI and Productivity Tracking in Denmark Stine Lomborg 13 The Backend Work of Data Subjects: Ordinary Challenges of Living with Data in India and the US Ranjit Singh 14 Repairing Algorithms, Rebuilding Data Paths: Digital Infrastructures, Public Service Media, and Material Solidarity in Europe Kaarina Nikunen Afterword Rahul Mukherjee Contributor Bios Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Flash!--SplashJake Johnson Part One: The Road to Vegas 1 On the Edge of the Desert Robert Fink 2 Reimagining the Popular on the Vegas Circuit: Helen Traubel, Diva Populism, and the Labor of Publicity Michael M. Reinhard 3 It Was Better When the Mob Ran the Town Janis McKay Part Two: Overheard 4 Music as Misdirection Jason Leddington 5 Presence, Absence, and Live Virtuality: Soundscapes in Cirque du Soleil on the Las Vegas Strip Lynda Paul 6 Pura Alegria: Young Adult Musicians Learning Mariachi in Schools and Participating in the Las Vegas Mariachi Scene Cassaundra Rodriguez and Celine Ayala Part Three: Second Chances 7 The Master and the Mob: Noël Coward’s Musical Identity in the Golden Age of Las Vegas Arianne Johnson Quinn 8 Elvis in Vegas: The King of Rock ’n’ Roll and the City of Second Chances Brian F. Wright 9 Celine Dion and Cher’s Vegas Residencies: The Envoiced and Embodied Spectacle of Feminine Aging on the Vegas Stage Jessica A. Holmes and Michael Kinney Part Four: Virtuoso Fantastique 10 Viva Viagra: Vegas, Elvis, and “A Little Blue Pill” James Deaville and Kirstin Bews 11 Shall We Go for It? The Hermeneutics of Celine Dion’s Las Vegas Show Sam Murray 12 Liberace’s Surfaces: Democratic Virtuosity, American Fantasies, and Vegas Pianism Pheaross Graham Part Five: Making Book 13 Comedy Tonight: Broadway Musicals on the Las Vegas Strip Arreanna Rostosky 14 “Trouble Is, We Don’t Make the Rules”: The Las Vegas Years of Jazz and Classical Violinist Ginger Smock Laura Risk 15 “For Adult Audiences Only”: A History of LGBTQ Performers on the Las Vegas Stage Louis Niebur Part Six: Leaving Vegas 16 The Real Deal: Impersonation and the American Dream in Branson and Vegas Joanna Dee Das and Maddie House-Tuck 17 Salaciously Family Friendly: The Unlikely Porousness of Sin City and the American Boob Tube Kelly Kessler 18 Representation and Value in Michael Daugherty’s Las Vegas Works Laura Dallman 19 Specters of Mine: Musicological Research in the Desert of the Opera Carlo Lanfossi Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This work shines light on a little known and understood chapter of the American Federation of Musicians’ Unions. It explores the creation by Black musicians, history of, and eventual collapse of dual unionism through the amalgamation of separate African American and white organizations. This was a complicated matter lasting some sixty-plus years and author Miller skillfully shows both the benefits and pitfalls of this development.”--David Keller, author of The Blue Note: Seattle’s Black Musicians’ Union, A Pictorial History, distributed by Washington State University PressTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Prelude Chapter 2. The Origins of the American Federation of Musicians and Its Place in the History of Organized Labor Chapter 3. The Formation of Black AFM Locals, 1897–1927 Chapter 4. Early Black Locals: Three Case Studies Chapter 5. From the Glories of the ’20s to the Despair of the ’30s Chapter 6. The 1940s: Change Is in the Wind Chapter 7. Leading the Pack: The 1953 Los Angeles Merger Chapter 8. Mergers from 1954 through 1966: State Labor Laws and the Battle of Chicago Chapter 9. After Chicago Chapter 10. Coda Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow fan passion and technology merged into a new subculture Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. Eleanor Patterson’s fascinating cultural history explores the distribution of radio and TV tapes from the 1960s through the 1980s. Looking at bootlegging against the backdrop of mass media’s formative years, Patterson delves into some of the major subcultures of the era. Old-time radio aficionados felt the impact of inexpensive audio recording equipment and the controversies surrounding programs like Amos ‘n’ Andy. Bootlegging communities devoted to buddy cop TV shows like Starsky and Hutch allowed women to articulate female pleasure and sexuality while Star Trek videos in Australia inspired a grassroots subculture built around community viewings of episoTrade Review“A highly valuable contribution to media and cultural history. Patterson goes in-depth about important and eclectic bootlegging practices, and in particular highlights how people have utilized these technologies and systems to generate their own cultures around the objects of their fandom and interests.”--Derek Kompare, coeditor of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment IndustriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Hacking Broadcast History Homemade Entertainment: The Prehistory of Bootlegging Radio Hello Again: The Old-time Radio Informal Economy Freeze Framing Queerness: Tape Trading in Buddy Cop Fan Cultures We Had to Do It the Hard Way: Bootlegging Star Trek in Australia Enough of that Garbage: Wrestling Observer and the Intelligent Wrestling Fan Community Conclusion Bootlegging After the Airwaves Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the first three months of 1972 a trial took place in the middle district of Pennsylvania: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA versus Eqbal Ahmad, Philip Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister, Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick, Joseph Wenderoth. The defendants stood accused of conspiring to raid federal offices, to bomb government property, and to kidnap presidential advisor Henry Kissinger. Six of those seven individuals are, or were, Roman Catholic clergypriests and nuns. Members of the new Catholic Left.' from the introduction When The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left was originally published in 1972, it remained on The New York Times Book Review New and Recommended list for six weeks and was selected as one of the Notable Books of the Year. Now, forty years later, William O'Rourke's book eloquently speaks to a new generation of readers interested in American history and the religious anti-war protest movements of the Vietnam era. O'RoTrade Review“O’Rourke’s book on the Harrisburg trial was a classic when it first appeared and remains a classic of trial reporting, an account even forty years later that is still pertinent to our contemporary situation. His new afterword is a gem of condensed history. It is a boon to journalists, historians, and political analysts to have this book back in print.” —David Black, author of The King of Fifth Avenue and The Extinction Event“O’Rourke’s book does indeed have something of the antique and curious about it, concerning as it does, a trial in which the federal government was arraigning seven fierce opponents of the Vietnam War for conspiring to raid government offices, bomb Washington’s infrastructures and kidnap President Richard Nixon’s advisor, Henry Kissinger . . . . It is worth noting that ‘The Harrisburg 7’ remained on the New York Times 1972 ‘new and recommended’ list for six weeks after its first publication.” —ND Works“The religious antiwar protests of the Vietnam War era form the background of this reprint, which brings to life the 1972 trial of seven anti-war activists who were accused of conspiring to raid the federal offices, bomb federal property and kidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. The 40th anniversary edition features a new afterword by the author . . . that includes a history of the new Catholic Left for the past four decades.” —Notre Dame Magazine“The 40th anniversary edition of this influential book, which includes a new afterword, speaks to readers interested in the religious antiwar protests of the Vietnam era.” —U.S. Catholic“O’Rourke excels at bringing Harrisburg into the story. His expansive accounts of jury selection in this conservative region show what the defense had to overcome. . . . Republication of The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left should help introduce a new generation to these important events and to refocus attention on how the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement affected the home front.” —Pennsylvania History“For the sociologist interested in religion and social movements this edition published 40 years later with an Afterword and index makes for a fascinating ethnographic read.” —Catholic Books Review

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Book SynopsisTowering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments I. The Times and the Man Introduction The Estienne Family II. Robert Estienne’s Glossary of Biblical Proper Names and the Polyglot Bibles The Complutensian Polyglot The Antwerp Polyglot The London Polyglot III. Estienne: Geneva Concordance, Minsheu’s Guide, Scripture Names Expounded The Geneva Concordance Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues Scripture Names Expounded IV. Estienne: Cruden’s Concordance V. Estienne: Peter Oliver’s The Scripture Lexicon VI. Proper Names in the Estienne Dictionaries VII. The Impact of Estienne’s Dictionaries in England Estienne’s Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum and Cooper’s Thesaurus Estienne’s Schoolboy Dictionaries in England Estienne’s French-Latin Texts and the Huloet Dictionaries Estienne’s Dictionaries and Baret’s Alvearie Estienne’s Proper-Name Dictionaries and English Authors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence and improve its public image. But do these reporters willingly serve formulated agendas or do they follow their own interests? And are they changing Chinese citizens' views of the world?Based on interviews and informal conversations with over seventy current and former correspondents, Reporting for China documents a diverse group of professionals who hold political views from nationalist to liberal, but are constrained in their ability to report on the world by China's media control, audience tastes, and the declining market for traditional media.Trade Review"Reporting for China is a fascinating and imaginatively conceived study of Chinese correspondents who work abroad. . . . Readers beleaguered by recent US sparring over fake news and alternative facts will find in this study a refreshingly concrete exploration of the tension, unblinkingly relayed by Nyíri. . . . The book offers, in a very accessible style, a nuanced and vivid account of a domain that has long been subject to overly facile assumptions about what freedom of speech actually entails and how it comes to be curtailed." -- Louisa Schein * American Ethnologist *"As the pioneering work in this field, Nyiri’s vibrant and important book opens up a lot of new questions about China’s global media expansion and soft power attempts. It spearheads an exciting new direction in the analysis of Chinese media and cultural studies." -- Maria Repnikova * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"The first extensive, systematic study of Chinese journalists who work as foreign correspondents for Chinese audiences. . . . A must-read for those interested in the machinations of Chinese politics and the Chinese state. . . . A fine example of how anthropologists study the media . . . valuable not just for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of media, communications, and journalism." -- Wanning Sun * The China Journal *"This is an original, nuanced, and informative study that deserves a wide audience." * Pacific Affairs *"Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World is a fascinating account of the expanding ways the Chinese are engaging with the world. . . . [and] is successful not only in revealing the hidden dynamics and tensions that compel Chinese foreign correspondents to report the way they do, but also in shedding light on the Chinese government’s intentions and influence as these pertain to the news media." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: China and the World 1. The Worldwide Expansion of China’s Media 2. How Stories are Made 3. How Correspondents Work 4. Finding the “China Peg” Epilogue: Cosmopolitan Professionals in the Service of the Nation

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Book SynopsisShelby Scates's thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the world's danger zones. Born in the rural South in the 1930s, Scates rejected the racism he saw there and in his late teens set out across the United States eventually to land in Seattle, attend the University of Washington, and launch himself into a world of work, travel, and adventure as a merchant seaman and soldier. He entered journalism as a wire-service reporter hired in Manhattan and assigned to the Dallas bureau. Reporting the political beat brought Scates to Baton Rouge and New Orleans to observe the remarkable performance and influence of Earl Long as governor of Louisiana; in 1957 to Little Rock, Arkansas, to witness a constitutional crisis, the early struggle to integrate the pubTrade Review"Too bad Ben Hecht never met Shelby Scates, a journalist’s journalist. His memoir is an enchanting crackle of political history (I especially loved the stories about Huey Long and JFK), war chronicles (in the Middle East and Cambodia), and other treacherous adventures, like his white-knuckle climb up the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. And it is all so elegantly written you’ll despair when you finish it, as I did. A real friend of a book." -- Lesley Stahl * 60 Minutes *"A fascinating look at the inner workings of journalism by a conscientious reporter." * Booklist *Table of ContentsObion Country The Makings of a Journalist: Blue Sky, Blue Water Politics Journalist Journalism Newsman Olympia 1968 More Happenstance The Six-Day War The Palestinians: The "War of Attrition" Cambodia and Us Mountains Hickman A Few Words about Sources Index Maps

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Book SynopsisThis work traces the major transformation of newspapers from a politically based press to a commercially based press in the 19th century. Gerald J. Baldasty argues that broad changes in American society, the national economy and the newspaper industry brought about this dramatic shift.

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Book SynopsisA collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts - onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street - and deploy methods from diverse disciplines.

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Book SynopsisHorace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses. This title draws on a remarkable array of surviving images of the Printing House, many of them newly discovered and previously unstudied.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“An essential primer and a great read. Highly recommended."—Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires"Pickard and Berman have written the best introduction to net neutrality and the broader policymaking surrounding the internet that I have ever read. It is perfect for students or citizens eager to understand some of the most important issues of our times. Must reading."—Robert W. McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"Want to know how the internet went from democracy's promise to democracy’s peril? It's all right here in an eminently readable and essential book. And a plan for action, too!"—Hon. Michael J. Copps, former FCC Commissioner

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Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of a banker, essayist and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian.Trade Review"The most perceptive and brilliant economic and political writer of his time deserves a biographer of equal literary merit. In James Grant, Walter Bagehot has found him." -- Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England and author of The End of Alchemy"James Grant [is] one of the most influential contemporary commentators on Wall Street... in Grant’s hands, Bagehot’s life and career provide a superb prism through which to observe the extraordinary revolution in the British economy during the 19th century." -- Simon Nixon - The Times"The book makes a convincing case that Bagehot deserves credit for being a progenitor of a wider political tradition…" -- Moneyweek"... engaging new biography of Bagehot... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating—and great—Victorian." -- Financial Times"... his [James Grant's] book is excellent—built on a lot of study (including time in the archives) and written in a gripping style. Mr Grant is at his best when writing about Bagehot’s financial journalism and indeed his career as a banker. His accounts of the collapse of Overend Gurney, supposedly the Rock of Gibraltar of Victorian finance, and of “Lombard Street”, Bagehot’s book about that debacle, are exemplary." -- The Economist

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Book SynopsisHow to take the lead with sustainable packaging design solutions With initiatives like the Wal-Mart Scorecard in the U.S. and the E.U. 's Packaging Directive, delivering sustainable packaging is now an integral part of today's global competitive market.Trade Review"Packaging Sustainability, a textbook that combines big picture systems thinking on the role designers play in our consumer culture with a practical how-to manual for creating sustainable packaging. Armed with the information and advice in Packaging Sustainability, designers will look at their next package design project as more than an assignment; they'll discover an invitation to innovate." (Communication Arts, Sep/Oct 2009)Table of ContentsIntroduction vii How To Use This Book ix The Making Of This Book x Giving Thanks xi Biographies xi Chapter 1 Taking the First Step 1 Consumption and Renewal 2 Choices, Choices, Choices 2 Underconsumption 4 Overconsumption 5 Restorative Consumption 6 Nearly All New Products Fail 8 What Does Change Look Like? 9 What Is Sustainability? 10 What Sustainability Is Not 10 Tearing Down the Tower of Babble 11 The Next Great Era of Design 12 How to Avoid Change 14 It’s the Other Guy’s Problem 16 Taking Responsibility and Thriving 17 Precautionary Principle 17 Hanover Principles 20 Kyosei 21 The Caux Round Table 22 The Triple Bottom Line 24 Transparency and Honesty 28 Ceres 28 A Taste of Things to Come 32 Making the Business Case 32 Packaging and Sustainability 34 Chapter 2 The Mechanics of Human Behavior 41 Chapter Themes 42 Sustainability 42 Attention 42 Zone of Acceptability 42 Expression of Individuality 42 Assumptions vs. Data 42 Inside the Consumer 43 What’s in Our Hearts (Or How We Don’t Think) 43 What’s in Our Minds (Or How We Do Think) 45 Other People (Or How Sensitive We Are to Social Cues) 50 Barriers to Action 55 The Nitty Gritty of Collecting Data 57 Wrapping It Up 58 Chapter 3 Marketing and Truth 61 The Consumer Relationship 62 Empowering the Consumer 62 Does the Selling Price Really Tell the Story? 63 Packaging Can Only Make Them Buy Once 64 Brand Loyalty 65 Ethics-Based Marketing and Business 65 Social Justice and Marketing 66 Co-op America’s Basics of Fair Trade 70 Package as Bridge or Barrier 71 What Is “Good” vs. “Great” Packaging? 71 Encouraging Consumer Choice 72 Thing or Service? 74 Eco-Labeling and Eco-Marketing Claims 74 Nutrition Facts Panel for a Healthier Planet 75 Carbon Labeling 77 Speaking the Truth, and Meaning It 78 TerraChoice: Six Sins of Greenwashing 82 FTC Green Guides 83 How to Get It Right 99 What Is “Need”? 99 Who Are the People Buying? 99 Moving Target 102 Timing Is Everything 103 The Package/Product Team 103 How to Create an Eco-Package in Three Easy Steps 104 Chapter 4 Laws and Economics 107 The Changing Landscape: Laws and Regulations 108 Producer Responsibility 108 Why Producer Responsibility for Packaging? 110 Producer Responsibility in the European Union 111 Regulations Around the Globe 112 Producer Responsibility in the United States 112 Producer Responsibility in Asia 112 Producer Responsibility in Canada 113 Producer Responsibility in Australia 114 A Path Forward 115 Unwrapping Global Packaging: Trade and Policy 116 The Scope of Globalization in Packaging 116 The Global Magnitude of Packaging 117 The Global Supply Chain and Materials Markets 117 The Global Purposes of Packaging 117 The Global Laws Affecting Packaging 118 The Scope of Global Trade in Packaging 119 Trade in Manufactured Packaging 119 Trade in Packaging Materials 123 Trade in Waste Materials 123 Summary of Facts on Packaging Trade 125 The Scope of Environmental Impact of Packaging 126 The Economics of Environmental Externalities 126 The Role of Government Policy 126 Optimal Policies 127 Looking Forward 129 Chapter 5 Systems Thinking 133 The Systems View 134 Universal Principles 135 Bridging the Gap with Systems 139 Systems Properties 140 Systems and Design 140 Package as a System 141 Adapt to the Environment 142 Properties of Systems 143 Boundary 143 Function 146 Feedback and Interchange 148 Levels 149 Taking Advantage of the Systems View 150 The Package/Product Team 151 Team Learning and Decision Making 151 Design Language 154 Using Systems Thinking in the Design Process 157 Biomimicry 158 Contain 158 Protect 161 Communicate 164 Mimicking Deep Principles 166 Go Outside! 168 Permaculture Principles in Design 169 Passive Permaculture Principles 170 Proactive Measures 172 Progressive Measures 174 Change Management 177 Technical Approaches 181 Industrial Ecology 181 Design Practice 183 ISO 14000 184 Life Is Cycles 185 The Eco-costs Approach 187 Systems Approaches 189 The Sustainable Packaging CoalitionSM 189 The SPC Approach 191 Definition of Sustainable Packaging 191 Design Guidelines from the SPC 192 The Natural Step Framework 197 The Next Level in the Picture 200 o2’s 5Rs of Great Design 201 The Wal-Mart 7Rs 204 Cradle to CradleSM 205 Product Design Perspectives 212 Your Nearest Advantage May Be Behind You 215 Innovation Heuristics 217 Design Rules 217 The Basics of Innovation 217 Ecological Design Principles 218 Design Mindfulness (Thackara) 219 Design Approaches 220 Chapter 6 Materials and Processes 223 Paper or Plastic? Neither! 224 What Are We Trashing? 226 Paper 229 Wood-Based Paper 229 Why What’s In Your Paper Matters 230 Alternative Papers 232 Plastics 235 Nonrenewable Plastics 235 Biobased/Renewable Plastics 237 Metals 243 Aluminum 243 Steel 243 If It Can’t Be Grown, It Must Be Mined 244 Glass 251 Energy Changes Everything 252 Understanding Energy 254 Carbon Accounting 255 Printing 257 The Wonderful World of Waste 261 The Economic and Environmental Benefits of Recycling 261 Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Waste 262 Chapter 7 Innovation Toolbox 267 Eco-Packaging In Three Easy Steps 268 Definition of Sustainable Packaging 268 Consumer’s Shopping List for Positive Change 269 Innovation Heuristics 269 Fair Trade Essentials 275 Overview of Environmental Marketing Claims 276 Eco Seals, Certifications, and Claims 277 Materials Choices at a Glance 283 Eco-Resources at a Glance 284 Glossary of Basic Packaging Terminology 288 Select Bibliography 320 Notes By Chapter 324 Index 336

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Book SynopsisA timely look at effective use of social network analysis within the telecommunications industry to boost customer relationships The key to any successful company is the relationship that it builds with its customers.Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Foundation of Social Network Analysis. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Social Network Analysis. Chapter 2: Formal Methods for Network Analysis. Chapter 3: Theoretical Foundation. Chapter 4: Measures of Power and Influence. Part II: Social Network Analysis Case Study. Chapter 5: Telecommunications Environment. Chapter 6: Social Network Modeling. Chapter 7: Assessing the Social Network Model. Chapter 8: Evaluating the Business Results. Chapter 9: Final Remarks for the Case Study. Part III: SAS Capabilities for Social Network Analysis. Chapter 10: Basic Statistics. Chapter 11: Overview of the Link Analysis Node. Chapter 12: Visualization Capabilities for Social Network Analysis. Chapter 13: A Note about OPTGRAPH. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this book have made an in depth study of the strategies and management practices of leading media companies and have identified the core competences media companies need to have to win in the new world. The book is strongly focused on applicability and combines long standing best practice principles with innovative approaches for staying ahead. It systematically discusses competences needed in each of the key functional areas in the media companies drawing on examples from all main media sectors.Table of ContentsAdvisory Board xi About The Authors xii Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Media: One or Many Industries? 1 Current State of the Industry 5 Focus and Scope of the Book 11 Chapter 2 Rebalancing the Media Value Chain 13 Current Practices Mostly Historically Grown 13 Fundamental Changes Still Ahead 20 Consequences for the Management of Media Companies 29 Is a Fundamental Rethink of Future Business Models Needed? 34 Key Takeaways 36 Case Study: The Welt Group: Creating New Business Models For News Provision 38 Case Study: Hubert Burda Media: In Search of New Digital Business Models 57 Case Study: Mediaset: From Focused Broadcaster to Value Chain Operator 69 Chapter 3 Creating and Leveraging Innovative Content 83 Future Role of (Blockbuster) Content 83 Should Content be Redefined? 89 Management of the Content Generation Process 92 Peer Production, User-generated Content and Co-creation 101 Key Takeaways 102 Case Study: Endemol: Diversifying the Content Portfolio 104 Case Study: OhmyNews: Creating a Sustainable Model for Content Co-creation 112 Chapter 4 The Fight for Customer Attention: Intelligent Mass Marketing and Cautious Niche Strategy 121 The Increasing Need to Understand Customers 121 Strategic Brand Management 128 Fine-Tune the Marketing Strategy to Revenue Model 133 Marketing Strategies for Subscription-based Players 136 Marketing Strategy for Niche and Thematic Offerings 141 Key Takeaways 143 Case Study: Canal+: Keeping Consumer Loyality in the Face of Platform Competition 144 Case Study: EMI: Developing New Marketing Models for the Digital Age 156 Case Study: Telenet: Leveraging Digital Segmentation 167 Chapter 5 End-to-end Supply Chain Management 179 Achieving Operational Excellence in Supply Chain Management 179 Enhancing the Effectiveness of Standardized Media Supply Chain Processes 181 Improvement Levers for Non-standardized Processes in the Media Industry 189 Managing the Transition to Digital Platforms 192 Key Takeaways 197 Case Study: RTL Group: Creating a Digital Value Chain 198 Chapter 6 Ways Out of the Advertising Commodity Trap 211 Traditional Advertising Under Increasing Pressure 211 The First Wave of Advertising Spending Shift: Direct Marketing and Below the Line 213 Digital Technology at the Core of the Second Wave 214 Reaching New Capabilities in Advertising 226 Key Takeaways 247 Case Study: Schibsted: Diversifying the Advertising Source 248 Chapter 7 Corporate Strategy in Media 259 Current Media Landscape 259 Future Portfolio Logic 266 Key Takeaways 276 Case Study: Liberty Global: Multichannel Portfolio Play 277 Case Study: Lagardere Active: Restoring Growth Through Operations 284 Case Study: Sanoma Group: Restructuring the Portfolio for Growth 293 Chapter 8 The Future Role of Online Media 303 Online Start 1995--2001: ‘Overestimate in the Short Term’ 303 Period of Consolidation 2002 to 2008: Building the Digital Platform 306 Online Media Business Models 312 Key Takeaways 321 Case Study: Second Life: Peer Production Through Co-creation 322 Case Study: YouTube: Building Social Media 330 Chapter 9 People Management in Media Companies: Creative Managers or Managed Creativity? 339 Current People Management Practices in the Media Industry 339 Current Challenge: Embrace ‘Creators’ Yet Do Not Understate ‘Transformers’ 341 Common Principles of People Management Processes for ‘Creators’ and ‘Transformers’ 342 Management of ‘Transformers’ 345 Management of ‘Creatives’ 346 People Management in the Digital Media Era 356 Outlook and Open Questions 364 Key Takeaways 364 Case Study: BBC: Adapting the Organization to the Digital World 366 Index 375

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Book SynopsisUMTS as a technology allows for exciting new applications of some of the best ideas of services in the fixed telecoms, cellular/mobile telecoms, and internet environments, with many revolutionary new possibilities which simply do not exist in the current media and communications vehicles.The current worldwide interest in UMTS/3G is driven partly by the iminent roll-out of the new infrastructure during 2002/3. The general consensus in the telecoms industry is that that services will be driving this new UMTS/3G industry, and with no historical reference points, a large worldwide demand exists for this type of book. ''m-Profits: Making Money from 3G Servives'' will discuss 3G services from the view of what is needed for the service to provide value to the user, which technical features of the 3G network will be used, what is the value proposition for the user, how will money be made out of delivering the service, and discussions on how revenue sharing propositions might work to benefit coTrade Review"...A visionary theory of the future of telecoms economics..." (www.Wap Insigt, 16 September 2002) "...a fresh attempt to throw light on how that unwired world will develop...a sound primer...a valuable guide to the coming revolution..." (Information Age. January 2003) "...fascinating...a must for anyone in the business..." (M2 Best Books, 30 September 2002)Table of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. Intro to m-Profits: Show Me the Money. Characteristics of Mobile Services: What Makes Them Different. Mobile Phone the Most Personal Device: Cannot Live Without It. Micro-payments: The Magical Key to Content Revenues. The 5 M's of 3G Services: Recipe for Killer Cocktails. The Profits of Movement Services: Escaping the Fixed Place. The Profits of Mobile Services: Expanding the Concept of Time. The Profits of 'Me' Services. The Profits of Money Services: Expending Financial Resources. The Profits of Machine Services: Empowering Gadgets and Devices. Money Patterns in Cellular Networks: The 'Hockey Stick' Curves. Tariffing: Just Below the Pain Threshold. Marketing 3G Services. Competition in 3G Services: More Competitors. Revenue Sharing and Partnering: When You Cannot Do It Alone. Business Case of 3G for the Operator: Revenues, Cost and Profitability. Money Migration: Know the Streams. 4G: What Next? Postscript: Final Thoughts. m-Dictionary. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Websites. Services Index. Index.

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Book SynopsisPricing is a very complex subject and in practice depends on many parameters of the actual market including amount of traffic, architecture of the network, technology, and cost. This book provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing multidimensional contracts. It also provides an overview of network services and contracts.Table of ContentsPreface. List of Acronyms. A: NETWORKS. Pricing and Communications Networks. Network Services and Contracts. Network Technology. Network Constraints and Effective Bandwidths. B: ECONOMICS. Basic Concepts. Competition Models. C: PRICING. Cost-based Pricing. Charging Guaranteed Services. Congestion. Charging Flexible Contracts. D: SPECIAL TOPICS. Multicasting. Interconnection. Regulation. Auctions. Appendix A: Lagrangian Methods for Constrained Optimization. Appendix B: Convergence of Tatonnement. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe futures of data, telecom and infocom industries in general are of great societal importance. The third generation wireless systems (3G) are on the verge of introduction and the industry as a whole is facing serious problems. This work takes a look at the scenario for this technology in 2015.Trade Review"The book provides good food for thought and should prove inspiring for anyone in the industry…"(IEE Communications Engineer, February 2004)Table of ContentsPreface xiii 1 Introduction 1 The Wireless Industry at a Crossroads 1 Be Prepared for 2015 4 Scenarios of the Wireless World in 2015 4 Challenges for the Future 6 Creating Scenarios 6 Guide to the Book 7 Part I Scenarios 9 2 Wireless Explosion—Creative Destruction 11 A Sunny Berlin Day in 2015 14 The Wireless Scene in 2015 16 Rapidly Growing Industry 16 Industry Fragmentation—Market Leaders Losing Hegemony 17 Debt-Burdened Operators Losing Market Dominance 18 Telco Equipment Vendors Lose to Datacom Attackers 19 Terminal Vendors Attacked from NICs and Datacom Industry Vendors 20 Active Users Driving Development and Undermining Copyright 21 A Mobile Lifestyle with Increasing Travel 22 An Explosion of Services and Applications 22 Spectrum—Abundant Release for Unlicensed Bands 24 No Real Problems with Integrity, Privacy, and Security 24 Fast Development in China and Other NICs 25 Batteries and Complexity Management No Showstoppers 25 Wireless Technology in 2015 26 A World with Many Different Wireless Systems 26 An Abundance of Services with Various QoS 28 Standardization Has Increased 28 3 Slow Motion 29 Ordinary Life in Stockholm and Business Life in Shanghai 32 A Day in the Life of an Ordinary Swede 32 A Business Day of a Mobile Professional in 2015 33 The Wireless Scene in 2015 35 Economic Recession and 3G Fiasco 35 Health Problems from Radiation 36 Security a Problem Still Waiting to Be Solved 37 The Mobile Lifestyle Loses Ground 38 No Service Explosion 39 Wireless Telecommunication Is a Mature Industry 40 The Big NICs Catching up after a Slow Start 42 Spectrum Shortage Not a Big Problem 43 Power Consumption and Complexity Management as Technical Limitations 44 Wireless Technology in 2015 45 Still Mostly Second-Generation Wireless Networks 45 Simple and Low-Radiating Terminals 46 Few and Basic Services 47 4 Rediscovering Harmony 49 A Weekday Morning in a Small Scandinavian Village 52 The Wireless Scene in 2015 54 A Sustainable Society in Balance with Itself 54 The Backlash for Marketing and Commercial Media 56 Market Segments Driving the Development 57 Less but More Travel 59 A Few Clouds in the Sky 60 The Industry Dilemma: Refocus or Die! 60 Peer-to-Peer Applications and Services a Hit 62 Content IPR Still Unresolved 64 Wireless Technology in 2015 64 Many Local and Few Global Wireless Systems 64 Simple Services 65 Standards 65 5 Big Moguls and Snoopy Governments 67 Early April Morning, Green Haven Gated Community, New York, US 70 The Wireless Scene in 2015 73 Moguls and Governments 73 Security Problems of the 2000s Solved 74 Moguls in Control 76 Slow Development in the NICs 77 Incumbent Telecom Players Keep Control of the Market 77 3G According to Plan 80 Applications and Services Focus on Convenience for the User 80 No Free Airwaves 81 Somewhat of a Complex World 81 Wireless Technology in 2015 82 Few Different Systems 82 Global Networks 82 Wireless and Wired Terminals 83 Quality of Service 83 Few Services but Sophisticated and Popular Services 83 Part II Drivers of Development and Technological Implications 85 6 Trends and Fundamental Drivers 87 Fourteen Trends Shaping the Scenarios 88 Scenario Abbreviations 88 Trend 1: Development Will Be More User Driven 88 Trend 2: User Mobility Will Increase 89 Trend 3: The Service and Application Market Will Grow 90 Trend 4: User Security, Integrity, and Privacy Will Become More Important 91 Trend 5: Real or Perceived Health Problems Due to Radiation Will Become More Important 92 Trend 6: Environmental Issues Will Become More Important 93 Trend 7: Spectrum Will Become an Increasingly Scarce Resource 94 Trend 8: The Wireless Industry Will Grow 95 Trend 9: The Big NICs Will Continue Their Positive Development 96 Trend 10: Market Concentration in the Wireless Industry Will Change 96 Trend 11: The Fight for Market Dominance in the Wireless Industry Will Intensify 97 Trend 12: Short Terminal Usage Time and Complexity Management Will Become Increasingly Important Problems 98 Trend 13: 3G Will Be Implemented 99 Trend 14: Protecting IPR on Content Will Become Increasingly Difficult 100 Fundamental Drivers 101 Technology Drivers 101 Socioeconomic and Political Drivers 104 Business and Industry Drivers 105 Users, Values, and Attitude Drivers 107 Theories Supporting Fundamental Drivers 108 Exponential Growth 108 Microprocessor and Other Growth Paths 109 Exponentially Falling Prices and the Experience Curve 110 Network Effects I (Metcalfe’s Law) 110 Network Effects II (Reed’s Law) 110 The S-curve and the Product Life Cycle 111 Technology and Market Forces Driving Industry Life Cycles 111 Disruptive Innovations 112 Architectural Shifts in IT and Other Industries 113 Empirical Support for Postmaterialistic Value Shift 114 7 Technological Conclusions from Scenarios 117 System Technology in 2015 118 The Wireless Infrastructure Will Be Heterogeneous 118 Efficient and Very High Rate Air Interfaces Will Exist 118 Traffic Will Be IP Based and Networks Will Be Transparent 119 Much of the Access Infrastructure Will Be Ad Hoc Deployed 119 Cost per Transmitted Bit Will Be Very Small 119 No Harmful Radiation from Base Stations 120 Decreased Power Consumption in the Wireless Systems 120 Mobile Terminals in 2015 120 Terminals Will Have a Wide Range of Shapes and Capabilities 120 Wireless Terminals Will Be Cheap, Very Small, and Modularized 121 Usage Time without Charging Batteries Will Be Very Long 121 User Interfaces Will Be Highly Developed and Advanced 121 M2M Will Be Everywhere 122 Wireless Devices Will Be Harmless to People and the Environment 122 Mobile Services in 2015 122 Wireless Services Will Become a Commodity 123 Services Will Be Independent of Infrastructure and Terminals 123 Telepresence and Emotional Communication Will Be Available 123 Content Will Be Personalized According to User Demand and Location 124 Global Roaming and Seamless Services Will Be Possible 124 Broadband Services Will Be Available for All Transportation Systems 124 The End User Will Be Always Best Connected 124 Powerful Computers Will Be Everywhere 125 Very High Levels of Security Will Be Provided 125 Part III Challenges for the Future 127 8 Challenges for Technical Research 129 Low-Cost Infrastructure and Services 129 Seamless Mobility 132 New and Advanced Services 134 Usability and Human–Machine Interface 135 Health and Environment 136 A Need for Cross-Disciplinary Research 137 9 Challenges for the Wireless Industry 139 Introduction 139 The Challenges 139 Threat from Disruptive Market Change 139 Speed up the Process of Spectrum Release 140 3G and the Telco Debt Threat 141 Complexity Management 141 Radiation a Problem, Real or Perceived 142 Better Batteries in Wireless Devices 142 Usability and the User in Focus 142 Cheaper Infrastructure and Viable Business Models 143 A Phone for Everyone 143 All Industries Mature 143 10 Challenges for Key Regions 145 US 146 An Immature Market for Mobile Services Waiting to Catch Up 146 Fragmented Operator Industry Being Consolidated 147 Multiple Cellular Network Standards 148 WLAN: A Market Growing Rapidly 148 Rather Weak Telco Vendor Industry 149 Poor Coverage 150 Lack of Spectrum Leading to Limited Capacity 150 The Threat of Terrorism and Crime 151 Europe 152 The GSM World Leader 152 Problems with Seamless Mobile Access 153 Telecom Debt Crisis 153 Strong in Telecom, Weak in Datacom 154 Health and the Environment Taken Seriously 154 Stagnation and Overregulated Economies 154 China 155 An Opaque and Overregulated Economy 156 Political Instability 156 Risks of Complacency 156 Challenges for the Chinese Wireless Industry 157 Risks and Opportunities with Chinese 3G Standard Wars 158 Japan and South Korea 158 Leading the Way into the Wireless Future 159 Oligopoly in the Operator Industry 160 Multiple Standards for 2.5G and 3G 160 A Slow Start for 3G 161 A Saturated Voice Market 161 3G Terminals Expensive to Subsidize 162 4G Already 162 No Major Infrastructure Vendors from Japan and Korea 162 The Japanese Recession 163 Political Uncertainty on the Korean Peninsula 163 Part IV Moving into the Future with Scenarios 165 11 Scenario Thinking and Scenario Making 167 Logics of Scenario Creation 167 Our Approach: Trends 168 Driving Forces: What Do We Care About? 169 Fundamental Drivers: What Do We Know? 169 Critical Uncertainties: What Do We Not Know? 170 Making Our Scenarios 170 Creating the Scenarios and Key Research Issues 171 Weak Signals and Provocative Questions 172 Information and Feedback 173 Commissioned Studies 174 Other Studies about the Future 174 The PCC Research Program 174 The WWRF Book of Visions 175 Swedish Technology Foresight 176 Beyond Mobile 177 Other Scenarios 177 12 Summary and Concluding Remarks 179 The Book in Brief 179 Wireless Explosion—Creative Destruction 180 Slow Motion 182 Rediscovering Harmony 184 Big Moguls and Snoopy Governments 187 Trends and Fundamental Drivers 189 Technological Conclusions from the Scenarios 191 Challenges for Research, Industry, and Key Regions 192 Moving into the Future 199 Dear Reader in 2015 201 Appendixes 203 Appendix A User Segments 205 Moklofs 205 Yupplots 206 Elders 207 Mobile Professionals 207 Industrial Users 208 Appendix B Wireless Foresight at Wireless@KTH 209 The Wireless Foresight Project 209 Wireless@KTH and the Vision-Driven Research Approach 210 Glossary 211 References 215 Author Biographies 219 Index 221

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Book SynopsisDue to the rapid leaps in communications technology spearheaded by the growth of the wireless industry, the move to optical networks, and the new areas opened up by the Internet, the 21st century will be a milestone for communications technology.Trade Review"...offers insight on the kinds of services to expect from wireless networks in the next century..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)Table of ContentsPreface. 1 Introduction (Mansoor Shaft, Shigeaki Ogose, and Keith Buttenvorth). 1.1 History of Mobile Radio Communications. 1.2 Telecommunication Needs for the 21st Century. 1.3 Data Rate Road Map to 3G. 1.4 Mobile Networks of Tomorrow. 1.5 4G Mobile Systems. 1.6 Handsets. 1.7 Mobility Management in an IP World. 1.8 Mobile IP. 1.9 Spectrum for Mobile Systems. 1.10 Organization of this Book. 1.11 Summary. Acronyms. References. PART 1: Visions of Wireless Communications Applications in the 21st Century. 2 Vision of Wireless Communications in the 21st Century (Raymond Steele). 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Current Scene in Wireless Communications. 2.3 3G Scene for the Beginning of the 21st Century. 2.4 Post-3G Systems. 2.5 Global Family of Ad Hoc Networks. 2.6 Peering Through the Future Haze. References. 3 Wireless Migration to Packet Network: U.S. Viewpoint (Chung Liu and Wayne Strom). 3.1 Future Wireless Network Vision. 3.2 Future Wireless Network Architecture. 3.3 Wireless Packet Network Evolution. 3.4 Migration of Wireless Radio Access to Packet Data Network (Including M-IP and GPRS). 3.5 Wireless Packet Network. 3.6 Summary. References. 4 Vision of Wireless Communications Applications in the 21st Century: A View from Japan (Mitsutoshi Hatori). 4.1 Introduction 57 4.2 Current Wireless Communications Systems. 4.3 Third-Generation Systems. 4.4 Fourth-Generation Systems. 4.5 Other Future Systems. 4.6 Summary. References. PART 2: Developments in International Standards. 5 Developments in International Standards (Jane Brownley, Fran O 'Brien, Maria Palamara, Derek Richards, and Lynne Sinclair). 5.1 Overview. 5.2 ITU's IMT-2000 Standardization Efforts. 5.3 3G Standardization Consortia. 5.4 Evolving Radio Standards. 5.5 Evolving Network Standards. 5.6 Related Standardization Efforts. 5.7 Summary. References. 6 Standardization on Broadband Wireless Access: Wireless ATM and IP (Masahiro Umehira). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Standardization Efforts Related to Broadband Wireless Access. 6.3 Standardization on Radio Access Layer. 6.4 Standardization on Mobile ATM. 6.5 Conclusions. References. PART 3: Propagation Issues. 7 Multipath Effects Observed for the Radio Channel (Hemy L. Bertoni). 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Measurement of Multipath Arrivals. 7.3 Multipath Phenomena for Narrowband Excitation. 7.4 Multipath Phenomena for Broadband Excitation. 7.5 Angular Spread for Space-Time Signal Processing. 7.6 Summary. References. 8 Indoor Propagation Modeling (Homayoun Hashemi). 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Types of Variations in the Channel. 8.3 Wideband Channel. 8.4 Large-Scale Path Losses. 8.5 rms Delay Spread. 8.6 Spatial Variations of the Channel. 8.7 Temporal Variations of the Channel. 8.8 Comparison Between Indoor and Outdoor Radio Channels. 8.9 Indoor Infrared Channel. 8.10 Conclusions. References. 9 Propagation Loss Prediction Models (Masaharu Hata). 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Empirical Models. 9.3 Analytical Models. 9.4 Deterministic Methods. 9.5 Summary. References. 10 Path-Loss Measurements for Wireless Mobile Systems (Dongsoo Ear and Howard H. Xia). 10.1 Overview. 10.2 Macrocellular Measurements. 10.3 Microcellular Measurements. 10.4 Indoor Measurements. 10.5 Summary. References. Part 4: Technologies. 11 Coding and Modulation for Power-Constrained Wireless Channels (Ezio Biglieri, Giuseppe Caire, and Giorgio Taricco). 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 Designing a C/M Scheme: The Gaussian Channel Perspective. 11.3 Wireless Channel: A New Perspective. 11.4 Flat Independent Fading Channel. 11.5 Block-Fading Channel. 11.6 Interference-Limited Channel. 11.7 Conclusions. References. 12 Modulation and Demodulation Techniques for Wireless Communication Systems (Seiichi Sampei). 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 Outline of Modulation and Demodulation Techniques. 12.3 GMSK. 12.4 QPSK. 12.5 Π/4-QPSK. 12.6 M-ary QAM. 12.7 Pilot Signal-Aided Fading Compensation Techniques. 12.8 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. 12.9 Adaptive Modulation. 12.10 Summary. References. 13 Fundamentals of Multiple Access Techniques (Fumiyuki Adachi). 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 Multiple Access Techniques. 13.3 Demand-Assign-Based Multiple Access. 13.4 Random Multiple Access. 13.5 Summary. References. 14 Spatial-Temporal Signal Processing for Broadband Wireless Systems (David Falconer). 14.1 Introduction: Motivation and Configurations for Space-Time Processing. 14.2 Channel Models for Multielement Arrays. 14.3 Receiver Space-Time Processing. 14.4 Recent Space-Time Wireless Communication Architectures. 14.5 Adaptation Issues. 14.6 Transmitter Space-Time Processing. 14.7 Conclusions and Future Applications. References. 15 Interference Cancellation and Multiuser Detection (Ryuji Kohno). 15.1 Introduction. 15.2 CDMA System Model. 15.3 Multiuser Detection for CDMA. 15.4 Co-Channel Interference Cancellation for DS/CDMA. 15.5 Co-Channel Interference Cancellation for FH/CDMA. 15.6 Concluding Remarks. References. PART 5: Wireless Systems and Applications. 16 EDGE: Enhanced Data Rates for GSM and TDMA/136 Evolution (Stefan Jäverbring). 16.1 Introduction. 16.2 Background. 16.3 Physical Layer. 16.4 Link Layer. 16.5 EGPRS Performance. 16.6 Conclusions. References 17 Continuing Evolution of CDMA into New and Improved Services (Andrew J. Viterbi). 17.1 Commercial CDMA: A Brief Condensed History. 17.2 System Features of Code Division Multiple Access. 17.3 Early CDMA Evolution for Data Services. 17.4 Improvement and Evolution to CDMA 2000. 17.5 Generational Evolution and Emphasis on Wider Band widths. 17.6 Alternate Implementation of Wider Band CDMA. 17.7 Reexamining the Goal: Wireless High-Speed Data Transmission. 17.8 CDMA/HDR for High-Speed Wireless Internet Access. 17.9 Implementation of CDMA/HDR. 17.10 Summary and Concluding Remarks. References. 18 WCDMA Radio Access Technology for Third-Generation Mobile Communication (Erik Dahlman, Fredrik Ovesjo, Per Beming, Christiaan Roobol, Magnus Persson, Jens Knutsson, and Joakim Sorelius). 18.1 Introduction. 18.2 Background to WCDMA. 18.3 UMTS/IMT-2000 System Overview. 18.4 WCDMA Radio Protocol Operation. 18.5 WCDMA Physical Layer. 18.6 WCDMA Radio Resource Management. 18.7 Performance-Enhancing Technologies. References. 19 New Systems for Personal Communications via Satellite (J. V Evans). 19.1 Introduction. 19.2 Mobile Satellite Services. 19.3 Proposed Global Satellite Phone System Designs. 19.4 Data and Multimedia Services. 19.5 Concluding Remarks. PART 6: Wireless ATM Networks. 20 Wireless ATM Networks (D. Raychaudhuri, P. Narasimhan, B. Rajagopalan, and D. Reininger). 20.1 Introduction. 20.2 Wireless ATM Architecture. 20.3 WATM Radio Access Layer. 20.4 Mobile ATM Network. 20.5 QoS Control in Wireless ATM. 20.6 Concluding Remarks. References. Index. 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Book SynopsisThe meteoric rise of Killer Diller Barry Diller has been a major player in the entertainment industry for more than thirty years. Always on the cutting edge, he revolutionized television with such groundbreaking concepts as the movie-of-the-week and the miniseries. He greenlighted the megahits Raiders of the Lost Ark, 48 Hours, and Terms of Endearment. Now, industry insider George Mair takes you behind the scenes for a perceptive, penetrating, and completely captivating look at both the public persona and the private life of a legendary media mogul. Learn the truth about: * The critical acclaim--and the controversy--behind The Simpsons and Married . . . With Children * The abortive CBS-QVC merger: what went wrong and why * Hardball and heartbreak on The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers * Wheeling and dealing with Hollywood heavyhitters Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, Marvin Davis, Michael Eisner, and many, many more! He taughtTable of ContentsAn Issue of Privacy. The Mailroom and Beyond. Reinventing the Wheel. At the Movies. The "Killer Dillers." Aboard the Twentieth-Century Express. Setting the House in Order. Creating the Fourth Network. Truth or Consequences. The Plots Thicken. "Don't Have a Cow, Man." In Development Hell. Saying Goodbye. The Odyssey. "What's the Idea?" Of Paramount Importance. Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Bid for Black Rock. Silver King. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisUsing the metaphor of fly fishing to stress the patient, long-term approach, Andrew Jaffe, industry veteran and Director of the Clio Awards, details important lessons on the management and growth of advertising agencies.Trade Review“…This is a very readable overview for those wanting a broader appreciation of the business reality…” (Marketing, 13 November 2003)Table of ContentsForeword by Neil French, Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising vii Introduction: The Call for a New, Smarter Agency Architecture 1 Part 1 Agency Architecture Chapter 1 Agency Architecture: Getting It Right from the Beginning 15 Chapter 2 The Pitch: Matching the Hatch and Deciding What Would Make the Client Bite Down on Your Lure 41 Chapter 3 Creative Department: How Long Can It Survive as Idea Central? 67 Chapter 4 Media Department: Can It Replace Creative as the Primary Source for Brand-Building Ideas? 83 Chapter 5 The Internet and the Agency 103 Chapter 6 Prioritizing Strategic Planning 119 Part 2 Management Lessons Chapter 7 Growing Your Agency 137 Chapter 8 Smart Ownership Principles 155 Chapter 9 Integrating and Refocusing the Agency Network 167 Chapter 10 The Future 187 Appendix A Advertising’s Invisible Values 205 Appendix B A Big Future for Big ideas 215 Appendix C The IDEO Difference 225 Notes 231 Acknowledgments 237 Index 239

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Book SynopsisHow to choose cellular service wisely and become an adept cellular user Keeping in touch via cellular is increasingly vital in today's fast--paced world. The technology now boasts over 50 million subscribers, and that figure is expected to double in the next five years.Table of ContentsAn Introduction to Cellular Phone Systems. Cellular Phone Equipment. The Business of Cellular Phones. Getting Cellular Service. The Bill, Please. Hello, Ma? It's Me! Roaming. Mobile and Transportable Phones. Options and Accessories. Dealing With Operational Difficulties. Safety and Security. Into the Future. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe most substantive survey available of the entire field of telecommunications and signal processing. Engineers have long required a comprehensive yet concise resource to turn to for reliable, up-to-date information on the continually evolving field of telecommunications.Trade Review"...contains a wealth of information treating all aspects of telecommunications...an excellent reference source...recommended." (Choice, Vol. 41, No. 1, September 2003)

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Book SynopsisAdvances in communications technology continue to accelerate.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Purpose and Scope of the Book. Introduction. Telecommunications Systems: An Overview. Some Common Interruptions. Basic Principles of Disaster Management. Designing for Disaster. Service Recovery. Options for Disaster Recovery. Telecommunications Systems and their Vulnerability. Safety Considerations. Legal Issues in Disaster Management. Case Studies. Conclusion. Appendix A: Troubleshooting Transistors. Appendix B: Troubleshooting Logic Circuits. Appendix C: Troubleshooting FETs and MOSFETs. Appendix D: How to Present Data for QoS Figures. Appendix E: Paralleling of Broadcasting Transmitters. Appendix F: Financial Turnaround at a TV Tube Maker. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores the social aspects of computerisation, using a range of case studies, analysed from a variety of conceptual viewpoints. This book is structured to be of use for academics and business audience - Part 1 is holistic and reflexive, while Parts 2 and 3 are written for the busy manager who can consider the key issues independently.Trade Review" ... an extremely stimulating, thoughtful, and engaging contribution ..." (Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol.18 2002) "…considerable strength…main value if the book lies in the numerous and wide-ranging case studies…" (Organization Studies, Vol.24, No.2.) "…a rich source of inspiration for further studies…" (Knowledge Management, July 2003)Table of ContentsSeries Preface. Preface. IT IN SOCIETY. Introduction. Contemporary Society. Computers at Work. CHANGING WAYS OF WORKING. Shifting Identity. Teaming Up. Reorganizing the Enterprise. Trust in Networks. DIFFERENT WORLDS. Culture as Context. Working Across Cultures. CONCLUSIONS. Designing for Diversity. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThe year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebration of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress cut off aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, and then abruptly reversed itself and approved humanitarian aid to support the guerrilla war in that country.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1 Introduction PART I Escalation and News Management, 1961-1965 CHAPTER 2 "A Legitimate Part of that Global Commitment," 1961-1963 CHAPTER 3 "It Does Not Imply Any Change of Policy Whatever," 1964-1965 PART II The War on Television, 196>1973 CHAPTER 4 The "Uncensored War," 1965-1967 CHAPTER 5 "We Are on Our Way Out," 1968-1973 CHAPTER 6 Conclusion NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX A: Abbreviations APPENDIX B: Code Book with Marginals for Some Variables INDEX

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Book SynopsisBlaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper Paris-Soir. This book records Cendrars' experiences on Hollywood's streets and at its studios and hottest clubs.

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