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Columbia University Press Media in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisExamines digital innovations and their positive and negative implications. This book explains that professional journalism and media will be able to hold on to their role as the vital information lifeline of a successful democracy by embracing technologies.Trade ReviewThis book is probably the closest thing around to a satellite view of that fast-changing landscape. -- Justine Johnstone MetapsychologyTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Digital Delivery Media 2. Devices to Access Digital Media 3. Audiences or Users of Digital Media 4. Producers of Digital Media 5. Content in the Digital Age 6. Distributors of Digital Media 7. Financers and Owners of Digital Media 8. Regulation and Law of Digital Media 9. Production and Protection of Digital Media 10. Inventors and Innovators of Digital Media 11. Ethical Considerations in the Digital Age 12. Children and Digital Media Epilogue Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
£79.80
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Columbia University Press Men to Boys
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Cary Grant (mature) to Hugh Grant (not)--and then tells us what it means. -- Dan Zak Washington Post [A] thoughtful journey through the male-strom of modern masculinity. -- Kay Hymowitz Wall Street Journal An interesting take on the history and development of boy-men... Highly recommended. Library Journal A thought-provoking read for men and women of all walks of life. Futurist Cross contributes important lessons to gender and masculinity studies in this roller coaster ride through an intersection of biography and history... Essential. Choice [This] copiously researched, subtly argued, and lucidly written account of modern immaturity... serves as a needed hair shirt for the regressive adult. -- Christopher Benson Weekly Standard An important contribution to our understanding of major shifts in cultural values in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Lisa Jacobson H-Childhood [E]xtremely readable, informative The Family in AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Where Have All the Men Gone? 1. When Fathers Knew Best (or Did They?) 2. Living Fast, by (Sometimes) Dying Young 3. Talking About My Generation 4. My Generation Becomes the Pepsi Generation 5. New Stories, by New Rebels 6. Endless Thrills 7. Life Beyond Pleasure Island Acknowledgments Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Men to Boys
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Cary Grant (mature) to Hugh Grant (not)--and then tells us what it means. -- Dan Zak Washington Post [A] thoughtful journey through the male-strom of modern masculinity. -- Kay Hymowitz Wall Street Journal An interesting take on the history and development of boy-men... Highly recommended. Library Journal A thought-provoking read for men and women of all walks of life. Futurist Cross contributes important lessons to gender and masculinity studies in this roller coaster ride through an intersection of biography and history... Essential. Choice [This] copiously researched, subtly argued, and lucidly written account of modern immaturity... serves as a needed hair shirt for the regressive adult. -- Christopher Benson Weekly Standard An important contribution to our understanding of major shifts in cultural values in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Lisa Jacobson H-Childhood [E]xtremely readable, informative The Family in AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Where Have All the Men Gone? 1. When Fathers Knew Best (or Did They?) 2. Living Fast, by (Sometimes) Dying Young 3. Talking About My Generation 4. My Generation Becomes the Pepsi Generation 5. New Stories, by New Rebels 6. Endless Thrills 7. Life Beyond Pleasure Island Acknowledgments Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Late Age of Print
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection of historical and commercial analysis should fascinate those seriously involved with book culture and/or the industry. Publishers Weekly Forget the premature obituaries for books and reading. Striphas insists that books remain a vital presence in the twenty-first century. Booklist The Late Age of Print is an important history of the book and their impact on (mostly) American culture. Sacramento Book Review It is rare to say of a university press hardcover that it is a "must-read," but for those interested in the confluence of culture and economics as it relates to books, that is what The Late Age of Print is. -- Richard Nash Critical Flame This book is a gold mine of information and thought about book culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. -- Gwen M. Gregory Information Today A solid work of scholarship that fills in several significant gaps... Highly Recommended. Choice A magnificent achievement that makes a compelling series of arguments about the continuing importance of books and book publishing. Publishing Research Quarterly Striphas does an excellent job. -- Alan Jacobs Books and Culture What is it that you purchase when you buy a book? In describing the answer, [Striphas]is admirably clear about the choices publishers or booksellers made, and why. Technology and CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Late Age of Print 1. E-books and the Digital Future 2. The Big-Box Bookstore Blues 3. Bringing Bookland Online 4. Literature as Life on Oprah's Book Club 5. Harry Potter and the Culture of the Copy Conclusion: From Consumerism to Control Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Pretty
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRemarkably wide-ranging and engagingly intricate. Rosalind Galt's argument is bold, its mode of argumentation sure and convincing. This very original take on culturally received and culturally determining ideas and emotions surrounding visual pleasure is long overdue. Galt's book is a necessary contribution to the study of the image in film and visuality studies. -- Brigitte Peucker, author of The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film and Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts One of the most attractive features of Galt's book is her ability to corral so many different iterations of art and film criticism and provide so many examples from world cinema, effecting in the end a general theory of world cinema, of a pretty world cinema. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California Brilliantly engaging and absolutely knowledgeable. This is a key work... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Pretty as Troublesome Image 1. From Aesthetics to Film Aesthetics: Or, Beauty and Truth Redux 2. Colors: Derek Jarman and Queer Aesthetics 3. Ornament and Modernity: From Decorative Art to Cultural Criticism 4. Objects: Oriental Style and the Arabesques of Moulin Rouge! 5. At the Crossroads: Iconoclasm and the Anti-aesthetic in Postwar Film and Theory 6. Forms: Soy Cuba and Revolutionary Beauty 7. Perverse Prettiness: Sexuality, Gender, and Aesthetic Exclusion 8. Bodies: The Sumptuous Charms of Ulrike Ottinger Postscript: Toward a Worldly Image Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Screening Torture
Book SynopsisTrade Review...adds breath and freshness to the analysis of media representations of state terror and political violence. -- Dr Ruth Kitchen DigitalIcons Thoughtful, insightful, and compelling... Flynn and Salek have gathered together a collection of essays that will have wide appeal to communication scholars, film scholars and graduate students. -- Marita Gronnvoll European Journal of Communication This book is a compelling critique of our dominant political and media discourses. The European LegacyTable of ContentsScreening Torture: An Introduction Part I. Torture and the Implications of Masculinity 1. Countering the Jack Bauer Effect: An Examination of How to Limit the Influence of TV's Most Popular, and Most Brutal, Hero 2. Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes: From the Symbolic Function of Blood to Spectacles of Pain 3. It's a Perfect World: Torture, Confession, and Sacrifice Part II. Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse 4. Lust, Caution: Torture, Sex, and Passion in Chinese Cinema 5. The Art of Photogenic Torture 6. Beyond Susan Sontag: The Seduction of Psychological Torture 7. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture Part III. Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror 8. "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema 9. Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre Part IV. Torture and the Shortcomings of Film 10. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths 11. Torture at the Limit of Politics 12. Doing Torture in Film: Confronting Ambiguity and Ambivalence 13. Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion List of Contributors Index
£83.60
Columbia University Press The Watchdog That Didnt Bark
Book SynopsisHow mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.Trade ReviewThe Watchdog That Didn't Bark, given its in-depth analysis across the landscape, steeped in history, and Starkman's keen understanding of the business of journalism, can stand as a potentially enduring case study of what went wrong and why. -- Alec Klein, director of the Medill Justice Project and award-winning investigative reporter formerly with the Washington Post Starkman is literally a reporter's reporter. As such, he gets to the bottom of the story of how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years until it was too late, and he does so with prose that is intelligent, engaging, and erudite. I recommend The Watchdog without reservation. -- Eric Alterman, Brooklyn College, and media columnist, The Nation Here is the missing piece in the financial-crisis mystery: how did our vaunted business-journalism sector manage to miss the problem with mortgage-backed investments? The answer, as Dean Starkman shows us in this amazing autopsy, is that the business outweighs the journalism and that it is getting worse, not better, as we go forward. -- Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right Journalism was complicit in the predation and corruption that brought down world financial markets and wrecked the lives of millions. Obsessed with shallow scoops, giddy from the laughing gas of access, financial journalists abjectly failed to connect dots, and left abusive, reckless, and criminal corporations free to drag the global economy into the abyss. Dean Starkman is the author we have been waiting for to tell this story. He not only puts forward a keen, subtle, and fair account of the journalistic default, he names names. -- Todd Gitlin, author of Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives With American journalism at sea, here comes a navigator who really knows its mission, the riptides it is facing, and the ports it must reach. Starkman tells it all with the heart, clarity, and dry wit that redeem business journalism even while showing how it lost its anchor and compass. -- Jim Sleeper, former editor and columnist at Newsday and the New York Daily News Journalists did not miss the subprime lending that spun into the devastating financial collapse of 2008. Excellent reporting was available, from the Financial Times to the Los Angeles Times to a small alternative publication, Southern Exposure. Yet Dean Starkman shows that even reporters who were on top of things buried the lead: the story was not new financial instruments, risky investments, or high-pressured Wall Street. The story was corruption. There were old-fashioned, greedy villains. Old-fashioned moralizing was called for. It would have had the advantage of being both true and fascinating. So how did so many fine journalists miss the big story? Read Starkman's powerful and disturbing analysis of how business journalism came to write for an audience of investors, not citizens. You may not share his every judgment, but this account has the advantage of being both true and fascinating. -- Michael Schudson, Columbia Journalism School, author of The Power of News As fair and balanced as a solar-plexus punch can be. Kirkus Reviews Starkman provides keen analysis of how the media failed in its mission at a crucial time for the U.S. economy. Booklist Compelling... Starkman offers an excellent and clear theoretical explanation for some of the problems with watchdog journalism generally. International Journal of Communication Detailed and fully satisfying... Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books The Watchdog That Didn't Bark adds greatly to our understanding of business journalism and the country's most recent financial meltdown. Starkman writes that it is intended for lay readers, but journalism students and historians will find much value here as well. H-NetTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Access and Accountability 1. Ida Tarbell, Muckraking, and the Rise of Accountability Reporting 2. Access and Messenger Boys: The Roots of Business News and the Birth of the Wall Street Journal 3. Kilgore's Revolution at the Wall Street Journal: Rise of the Great Story 4. Muckraking Goes Mainstream: Democratizing Financial and Technical Knowledge 5. CNBCization: Insiders, Access, and the Return of the Messenger Boy 6. Subprime Rises in the 1990s: Journalism and Regulation Fight Back 7. Muckraking the Banks, 2000-2003: A Last Gasp for Journalism and Regulation 8. Three Journalism Outsiders Unearth the Looming Mortgage Crisis 9. The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Disappearance of Accountability Reporting and the Mortgage Frenzy, 2004-2006 10. Digitism, Corporatism, and the Future of Journalism: As the Hamster Wheel Turns Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The New Censorship
Book SynopsisDrawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Joel Simon calls for a global freedom-of-expression agenda. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the world's news.Trade ReviewFrom his vantage point as director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon has worked tirelessly to get kidnapped or imprisoned reporters freed. He's campaigned globally for justice in cases of murdered journalists. In The New Censorship, he warns us of new threats - like the insidious information management techniques of "democratators" Vladimir Putin and Recip Tayyip Erdogan. Simon's prescriptions for how to counter these new challenges are wise and insightful. He offers hope to all who care about maintaining the free flow of information in a world full of would-be censors. -- Ann Cooper, Columbia Journalism School Joel Simon is a warrior for press freedom and the place of journalists in every culture and country. Here he writes with characteristic passion and insight on the importance of fighting press censorship around the world, reminding us that we have new tools but old demons remain. -- Tom Brokaw, NBC News Fascinating and comprehensive, The New Censorship should become a bible for anyone seeking an honest, up-to-date grasp of the global state of press freedom. Well written and lucidly argued, this is a must-read. -- Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Simon's assessment of what it means to be a journalist and his call to action at book's end are moving and practical. A must-read. Booklist (starred review) Simon makes a persuasive case that the global trend is toward less, not greater, freedom of the press. New Yorker A case for why the goal of upholding 'press freedom' needs to expand, in the digital age, to defending 'freedom of information.' -- David Greenberg The American ProspectTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Murder in Pakistan 1. Informing the Global Citizen 2. The Democratators 3. The Terror Dynamic 4. Hostage to the News 5. Web Wars 6. Under Surveillance 7. Murder Central 8. Journalists by Definition 9. News of the Future (and the Future of News) Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£58.77
Columbia University Press Engaging the Past
Book SynopsisExamines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewersTrade ReviewAlison Landsberg skillfully penetrates one of the most interesting yet elusive questions about popular representations of the past. What kinds of knowledge of the past do they offer? In elegant and precise analyses of selected texts, she demonstrates how they engage affect and emotion through experiential modes of communication. Contrary to many assumptions about such forms, Landsberg brilliantly argues that these reenactments have the potential to provoke self-conscious historical thinking much sought after by more conventional historical modes of communication. -- Ann Gray, emerita professor of cultural studies, University of Lincoln The book is carefully structured, sensitively expressed, and the analysis of thevarious media a contribution to thinking differently about cinematic uses ofpast. Critical InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing Affective Engagement in the Historical Film 2. Waking the Past: The Historically Conscious Television Drama 3. Encountering Contradiction: Reality History TV 4. Digital Translations of the Past: Virtual History Exhibits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Engaging the Past Mass Culture and the
Book SynopsisExamines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewersTrade ReviewAlison Landsberg skillfully penetrates one of the most interesting yet elusive questions about popular representations of the past. What kinds of knowledge of the past do they offer? In elegant and precise analyses of selected texts, she demonstrates how they engage affect and emotion through experiential modes of communication. Contrary to many assumptions about such forms, Landsberg brilliantly argues that these reenactments have the potential to provoke self-conscious historical thinking much sought after by more conventional historical modes of communication. -- Ann Gray, emerita professor of cultural studies, University of Lincoln The book is carefully structured, sensitively expressed, and the analysis of thevarious media a contribution to thinking differently about cinematic uses ofpast. Critical InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing Affective Engagement in the Historical Film 2. Waking the Past: The Historically Conscious Television Drama 3. Encountering Contradiction: Reality History TV 4. Digital Translations of the Past: Virtual History Exhibits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Engaged Journalism
Book SynopsisExplores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers.Trade ReviewEngaged Journalism is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussion over how to define audience engagement, identify the best practices, and determine their effectiveness with regard to audience loyalty and revenue. The coverage and writing style are impeccable and engaging. -- Dan Kennedy, author of The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age In an era where the definition of being a journalist must expand to include the responsibility of getting more audiences to find and engage with your journalism, Batsell makes a compelling case, with great case studies, for why engagement matters, and how newsrooms can transform from being gatekeepers to a limited few into gate-openers for millions more. -- Raju Narisetti, senior vice president of strategy, News Corp., and former managing editor of the Washington Post This important and timely book is a must-read for journalism practitioners and students who need to understand the fundamental transformation of news from a one-way transmission of information to a conversation. As Batsell persuasively argues, 'engagement' isn't merely an industry buzzword. Listening to and building deeper relationships with audiences is not only key to building trust and loyalty, but is also a critical part of financial sustainability for news organizations. Batsell provides numerous examples from some of the most innovative news organizations on how they have approached engaging with their communities and what they have learned, offering a number of practical ideas and principles that can inform journalists' daily work. -- Carrie Brown, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism This book is stuffed with concrete examples, bringing the often-nebulous concept of audience engagement into the practical world. Batsell answers the 'why' of the strategies he discusses, not just the 'what' and the 'who,' and the book will be interesting to optimists invested in the future of news. -- Joy Mayer, Missouri School of Journalism, and director of community outreach, Columbia Missourian A must-read... Any thoughtful news consumer will appreciate the solid, first-hand reporting that Batsell shares on this important topic. Communications at Syracuse Blog Batsell's book is well researched and well written. It should be required reading for every journalist and every journalism student. Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword, by Mark Briggs Preface Acknowledgments List of Interviews Introduction: Why Engagement Matters 1. Face-to-Face Engagement: How News Organizations Build Digital Loyalty and Generate Revenue Through the "Original Platform" 2. News as Conversation: Not Just Informing but Involving the Audience 3. Mining Niche Communities: Serving Topical and Hyperlocal Audiences Through Digital and Mobile Platforms 4. Search, Explore, Play: Drawing Readers into Journalism Through Interactive Experiences 5. Sustaining Engaged Journalism: Measuring and Monetizing the Audience Relationship Conclusion Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Journalism Under Fire Protecting the Future of
Book SynopsisStephen Gillers proposes a bold set of legal and policy changes to strengthen the freedom of the press and support the free press as a public good, including protecting news gathering and confidential sources. Journalism Under Fire weaves together practice, law, and policy into a program that can ensure a future for investigative reporting.Trade ReviewJournalism Under Fire issues an extraordinarily timely five-alarm warning. It is a forceful response to those who today—and in the future—would demean and disparage the essential importance of a free press to American democracy. One of America’s leading ethicists and legal scholars, Stephen Gillers also reminds us why supporting and protecting investigative reporting is an essential antidote to corporate and government abuse of power and threats to democratic institutions. This book is for any citizen who wants to better understand what is at stake and who seeks bold ideas for how to keep our democracy and press free and strong in the Trump era—and beyond. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The NationGillers expertly weaves together legal texts, public policy, and normative theory to shed new light on the Press Clause, which, as the work makes clear, has been largely abandoned by the Supreme Court in recent years. The book develops a persuasive and coherent Press Clause theory and outlines its practical implications. -- Jonathan Peters, University of GeorgiaUsing a careful and subtle reading of the Constitution and recent legal examples to buttress its case, this work provides an important, sustained argument about the Press Clause of the First Amendment. A timely, significant book by a leading legal thinker. -- Tom Goldstein, University of California, BerkeleyPenetrating and essential... -- Bruce Shapiro * The Nation *Gillers is under no illusions that his program will be adopted anytime soon, but his superb examination of where we are and where we should be headed is immensely valuable, nevertheless. * Technical Communication *Gillers’s book is the antidote for those infected with wealth and power that seek to exploit, cover-up or otherwise demean the freedom of the Press to use investigative journalism as a tool for the greater good along with the proper policy, practice, and legal changes that can ensure a future for investigative reporting in a thriving democracy. -- Adrienne A. Wallace, Grand Valley State University * Journalism & Mass Communicators Educator *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Does the Press Clause Mean?2. What and Who Is “The Press”?3. What Does the Press Clause Demand of the Press?4. Protection of Confidential Information5. Press Clause Protection for Newsgathering6. Three Legislative Changes to Safeguard Investigative ReportingIn Conclusion: Potter Stewart’s TruthNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Coming to Our Senses
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Columbia University Press Presidential Debates Risky Business on the
Book SynopsisSecond only to the Super Bowl in viewers, presidential debates are must-see TV, yet their conception and execution largely remain a mystery to the public—even to journalists. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the 2008 and 2012 presidential debates and the role of social media and news outlets in shaping their design and reception.Trade ReviewSchroeder reaches beyond the political junkie and occasional academic with Presidential Debates. Packed with illustrative stories and enough intrigue to be an 'insider's' view, this book not only can be read as a history of presidential debates, but, more importantly, brings alive the dynamic and evolutionary nature of political debates. -- Allan Louden, Wake Forest University Schroeder's savvy analysis and candid, behind-the-scenes tales of candidate tension and campaign brinksmanship show why presidential debates have become television's most consequential events. -- Ted Johnson, Senior editor, Variety Throughout it all -- from questions about Richard Nixon's makeup to the size of Donald Trump's appendages, from Ronald Reagan's one-liners to Marco Rubio's same-liners -- presidential debates have helped decide primaries and elections since 1960. Alan Schroeder has compiled a comprehensive and masterful overview of these encounters. Sometimes dull, sometimes comical, always informative, they are the quadrennial Super Bowls for political junkies. We can't take our eyes off them. And nobody understands them better, or can add the precise historical perspective, than Schroeder. -- Ken RudinTable of ContentsIntroduction: The First Presidential Debate Part I. Anticipation 1. The Predebate Debate 2. Predebate Strategy 3. Candidate Preparation 4. Predebate News Coverage Part II. Execution 5. The Debaters 6. The Questioners 7. The Productions Part III. Reaction 8. Social Media and Real-Time Reactions 9. Postdebate News Coverage 10. Debates and Voters Conclusion: The Globalization of an American Tradition Schedule of Televised Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates, 1960-2012 Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The End of Cinema
Book SynopsisA positive look at cinema’s ongoing digital revolution that reaffirms its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscapeTrade ReviewAnyone involved in the debates surrounding the shift from 35mm film stock to digital production practices and exhibition formats will need to confront Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's arguments. A provocative and timely book, the authors remind viewers that the 'cinema' has never been a static technology. -- Richard Neupert, University of Georgia Gaudreault and Marion make a nuanced argument for rethinking the very nature and impact of the digital revolution on cinema. Their book is an unusually thorough and balanced analysis. It should be required reading. -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan Readable and refreshingly entertaining.Times Higher Education -- Philip Kemp Times Higher Education This thought-provoking volume... will appeal mostly to scholars and serious students of film. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The End of Cinema? 1. Cinema Is Not What It Used to Be 2. Digitalizing Cinema from Top to Bottom 3. A Brief Phenomenology of "Digitalized" Cinema 4. From Shooting to Filming: The Aufhebung Effect 5. A Medium Is Always Born Twice... 6. New Variants of the Moving Image 7. "Animage" and the New Visual Culture Conclusion: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age Notes Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Impersonal Enunciation or the Place of Film Film
Book SynopsisThe late work of an avant-garde theorist adds clarity to the phenomenology of new media.Trade ReviewMetz's generous personality is captured well here, something that no other English translation has accomplished. It is both an extension of Metz's path-breaking work in bringing the concepts and methods of linguistics and psychoanalysis to the study of film, and the articulation of fundamentally new directions in his thought. -- D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago At long last, Christian Metz's final book, Impersonal Enunciation, is available in English, expertly translated by Cormac Deane. Metz's non-deictic, reflexive theory of enunciation, in which the film text continually references itself, constitutes the culmination of his lifelong semiotic analysis of the cinema. -- Warren Buckland, author of The Cognitive Semiotics of Film In this splendid new translation... Metz shines through, avoiding jargon, using richly illustrative examples, and writing with a persuasive voice.Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Metz returns to and develops the question of what speaks in the moving image: code, or something else. In meticulous and enlightening readings of films, television shows, and changing ways of watching them, Metz's posthumous text is a true ghost in the machine, a revenant who reopens many of the arguments we thought were closed and makes audiovisual media matter, once more, in every sense of the word -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London The moments of poetry, wit, and charming cinephilia scattered throughout make this work as engaging as it is enlightening... Essential. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator's Introduction Part I: Humanoid Enunciation 1. Humanoid Enunciation Part II: Some Landscapes of Enunciation (A Guided Tour) 2. The Voice of Address in the Image: The Look to Camera 3. The Voice of Address Outside the Image: Related Sounds 4. Written Modes of Address 5. Secondary Screens, or Squaring the Rectangle 6. Mirrors 7. "Exposing the Apparatus" 8. Film(s) Within Film 9. Subjective Images, Subjective Sounds, "Point of View" 10. The I-voice and Related Sounds 11. The Oriented Objective System: Enunciation and Style 12. "Neutral" (?) Images and Sounds Part III: A Walk in the Clouds (Taking Theoretical Flight) 13. (Taking Theoretical Flight) Afterword, by Dana Polan Notes On the Shelf: Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Words on Screen
Book SynopsisA poetic investigation into the many ways that the written word is used in cinemaTrade ReviewWords On Screen offers a radically new understanding of cinema. By concentrating on the written word in a very wide variety of films, Chion turns what in the past has always been no more than a passing concern into a full-fledged reading strategy, applicable to films of all periods and types. I never could have imagined that Chion would once again create an entirely new approach to cinema. -- Rick Altman, author of A Theory of Narrative We tend to take the appearance of written words in movies for granted. In this book, the great film critic Michel Chion compiles an inventory of textual effects, and shows us just how strange, powerful, and surprising words on screen can be. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University We too often think of the film as a purely visual medium and the text as a purely verbal one. In his highly original and incisive study, Michel Chion illuminates the overt yet overlooked presence of the fusion of visual and verbal that is writing on the screen. The results are revelatory. Chion tracks the whole panoply of inscriptions in film and makes clear how our understanding of film depends on the force of these inscriptions. You will never again look at or read the titles, intertitles, subtitles, signage, or hand-written letters on screen in quite the same way. -- Ian Balfour, York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part I: An Infinite Inventory 1. The Name on Screen 2. Nondiegetic Writing 3. Diegetic Writing as Athorybos Part II: Writing, Reading 4. Fingers, Tablets, and Machines Writing 5. From Books Undone, Films 6. Half-Reading 7. Hearing One Language and Reading Another Part III: Writing in Film Space 8. Writing in the Land of Three Dimensions 9. Anagrams and Clinamen 10. Excription Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Words on Screen
Book SynopsisA poetic investigation into the many ways that the written word is used in cinemaTrade ReviewWords On Screen offers a radically new understanding of cinema. By concentrating on the written word in a very wide variety of films, Chion turns what in the past has always been no more than a passing concern into a full-fledged reading strategy, applicable to films of all periods and types. I never could have imagined that Chion would once again create an entirely new approach to cinema. -- Rick Altman, author of A Theory of Narrative We tend to take the appearance of written words in movies for granted. In this book, the great film critic Michel Chion compiles an inventory of textual effects, and shows us just how strange, powerful, and surprising words on screen can be. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University We too often think of the film as a purely visual medium and the text as a purely verbal one. In his highly original and incisive study, Michel Chion illuminates the overt yet overlooked presence of the fusion of visual and verbal that is writing on the screen. The results are revelatory. Chion tracks the whole panoply of inscriptions in film and makes clear how our understanding of film depends on the force of these inscriptions. You will never again look at or read the titles, intertitles, subtitles, signage, or hand-written letters on screen in quite the same way. -- Ian Balfour, York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part I: An Infinite Inventory 1. The Name on Screen 2. Nondiegetic Writing 3. Diegetic Writing as Athorybos Part II: Writing, Reading 4. Fingers, Tablets, and Machines Writing 5. From Books Undone, Films 6. Half-Reading 7. Hearing One Language and Reading Another Part III: Writing in Film Space 8. Writing in the Land of Three Dimensions 9. Anagrams and Clinamen 10. Excription Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sociophobia
Book SynopsisCésar Rendueles argues that technology has caused us to lower our expectations for personal relationships and political action. Sociophobia questions the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into inflating the virtues of our passive relationship with technology in an ambitious reassessment of political theory.Trade ReviewThe enthralling Sociophobia urges us to critically rethink certain fundamental terms of our times, such as cooperation, compromise, community, and participation, and it reminds us of the extent to which we are only partially rational beings-fragile, and wholly codependent. -- Lucia del Moral Espin Revista Redes Rendueles's book transcends the national context in which it was written, and, without exaggeration, goes to the heart of the contemporary problem of political organization, as it concerns radical protest and resistance movements. The refreshing aspect of Sociophobia is its sober approach to the role of new media in fomenting alternative political structures. -- Michael Marder, IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and professor at large in the Humanities Institute at the University of Diego Portales Sociophobia is already a landmark book in the Spanish-language world. With his contrarian perspective on the emancipatory capability of social networks, copyleft, and other forms of activism in the digital era, Rendueles will have a major impact on global debates about technology and postcapitalism. -- Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. LouisTable of ContentsForeword: Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture, by Roberto Simanowski Ground Zero: Sociophobia 1. Digital Utopia 2. After Capitalism Coda: 1989 Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Sociophobia
Book SynopsisCésar Rendueles argues that technology has caused us to lower our expectations for personal relationships and political action. Sociophobia questions the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into inflating the virtues of our passive relationship with technology in an ambitious reassessment of political theory.Trade ReviewThe enthralling Sociophobia urges us to critically rethink certain fundamental terms of our times, such as cooperation, compromise, community, and participation, and it reminds us of the extent to which we are only partially rational beings-fragile, and wholly codependent. -- Lucia del Moral Espin Revista Redes Rendueles's book transcends the national context in which it was written, and, without exaggeration, goes to the heart of the contemporary problem of political organization, as it concerns radical protest and resistance movements. The refreshing aspect of Sociophobia is its sober approach to the role of new media in fomenting alternative political structures. -- Michael Marder, IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and professor at large in the Humanities Institute at the University of Diego Portales Sociophobia is already a landmark book in the Spanish-language world. With his contrarian perspective on the emancipatory capability of social networks, copyleft, and other forms of activism in the digital era, Rendueles will have a major impact on global debates about technology and postcapitalism. -- Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. LouisTable of ContentsForeword: Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture, by Roberto Simanowski Ground Zero: Sociophobia 1. Digital Utopia 2. After Capitalism Coda: 1989 Notes Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Videophilosophy
Book SynopsisThe Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass media. This book discloses the conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato’s thought as a whole for a time when his writings have become increasingly influential.Trade ReviewLike his comrade Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato has dedicated himself to exploring the less-traveled paths of modern thought in search of alternatives to capitalist modernity. In Videophilosophy, that exploration produces stunning results. Drawing on Bergson, Nietzsche, Vertov, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viola, Lazzarato constructs an innovative and compelling sequel to two of the most revolutionary texts in media studies: Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.' -- Timothy Murphy, author of Antonio Negri: Modernity and the MultitudeThis elegant translation makes available to Maurizio Lazzarato's growing English readership the theoretical cornerstone of his intellectual project, and puts into context his collaborative practice in video art. Videophilosophy makes an indispensable contribution to the philosophy of time and technology amidst and against the proliferation of contemporary capitalist subjectivities. -- Gary Genosko, author of When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for AutonomyHow can time become crystallized in machines? From the cinematic image to the computational image of digital technologies, the artificial dilatation and construction of time has become equivalent to processes of thought. Videophilosophy takes you on a journey across these machinic syntheses of time, inaugurating a much-awaited media theory binding together materiality and technology in an unprecedented fashion. -- Luciana Parisi, author of Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics, and SpaceTable of ContentsLazzarato’s Political Onto- aesthetics, by Jay HetrickIntroduction1. The War Machine of the Kino-Eye and the Kinoki Against the Spectacle2. Bergson and Machines That Crystallize Time3. Video, Flows, and Real Time4. Bergson and Synthetic Images5. Nietzsche and Technologies of Simulation6. The Economy of Affective Forces7. The Concept of Collective PerceptionAfterword: Videophilosophy Now—an Interview with Maurizio LazzaratoNotesIndex
£83.60
Columbia University Press Videophilosophy
Book SynopsisThe Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass media. This book discloses the conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato’s thought as a whole for a time when his writings have become increasingly influential.Trade ReviewLike his comrade Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato has dedicated himself to exploring the less-traveled paths of modern thought in search of alternatives to capitalist modernity. In Videophilosophy, that exploration produces stunning results. Drawing on Bergson, Nietzsche, Vertov, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viola, Lazzarato constructs an innovative and compelling sequel to two of the most revolutionary texts in media studies: Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.' -- Timothy Murphy, author of Antonio Negri: Modernity and the MultitudeThis elegant translation makes available to Maurizio Lazzarato's growing English readership the theoretical cornerstone of his intellectual project, and puts into context his collaborative practice in video art. Videophilosophy makes an indispensable contribution to the philosophy of time and technology amidst and against the proliferation of contemporary capitalist subjectivities. -- Gary Genosko, author of When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for AutonomyHow can time become crystallized in machines? From the cinematic image to the computational image of digital technologies, the artificial dilatation and construction of time has become equivalent to processes of thought. Videophilosophy takes you on a journey across these machinic syntheses of time, inaugurating a much-awaited media theory binding together materiality and technology in an unprecedented fashion. -- Luciana Parisi, author of Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics, and SpaceTable of ContentsLazzarato’s Political Onto- aesthetics, by Jay HetrickIntroduction1. The War Machine of the Kino-Eye and the Kinoki Against the Spectacle2. Bergson and Machines That Crystallize Time3. Video, Flows, and Real Time4. Bergson and Synthetic Images5. Nietzsche and Technologies of Simulation6. The Economy of Affective Forces7. The Concept of Collective PerceptionAfterword: Videophilosophy Now—an Interview with Maurizio LazzaratoNotesIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Journalism After Snowden
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the implications of the Snowden affair for journalism and the role of the profession as a watchdog for the public good. Integrating discussions of media, law, surveillance, technology, and national security, Journalism After Snowden offers a much-needed assessment of the promises and perils for journalism in the digital age.Trade ReviewFree and irreverent journalism is one of the few defenses that democracy has against corrosive encroachment by the logic of national security under an indefinite state of emergency. This rich collection offers an indispensable overview of the challenges such journalism faces under pervasive electronic surveillance, and some of the technological and organizational strategies that may yet enable us to maintain an independent watchdog function despite these challenges. -- Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard University Law School Edward Snowden's whistle-blowing has sparked one of the most contentious debates in recent memory. Making sense of its profound implications, this landmark collection assembles incisive perspectives on the changing nature of the press, communication technologies, and state surveillance - and how these shifts affect our daily lives. Anyone concerned about the future of democracy should read this important book. -- Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania This is a fascinating and provocative collection of essays that throws into sharp relief the challenge that mass surveillance presents to journalism, to engaged citizenship, and even to democracy. Anyone who wants to understand the significance of the Snowden disclosures should start here. -- Jameel Jaffer, Founding Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and former Deputy Legal Director, ACLU Journalism After Snowden brings together a remarkable group of contributors to reflect on the prospects for investigative reporting and democratic discourse in an age of ubiquitous electronic surveillance. I can think of no better or broader introduction to these critical issues. -- David Pozen, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School There is a new normal for journalism in the age of the surveillance state-a new normal hastened, if not created, by the Snowden leaks. This work contributes to those discussions by tapping the ideas of some of the world's top journalists, editors, and scholars. Together, they provide a rich and intellectually diverse set of perspectives on the implications of surveillance for journalism practice and for the role of journalism in democratic society. -- Jonathan Peters, William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, the University of Kansas A provocative compendium of issues confronting journalism as new technologies pose an array of threats to independent reporting. Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword, by Lee C. Bollinger Acknowledgments Introduction, by Emily Bell, Taylor Owen, and Smitha Khorana Part I. The Story and the Source 1. Journalism After Snowden, by Alan Rusbridger 2. In Defense of Leaks, by Jill Abramson 3. The Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald 4. A Conversation with Edward Snowden, by Edward Snowden and Emily Bell Part II. Journalists and Sources 5. Source Protection in the Age of Surveillance, by Steve Coll 6. Rescuing a Reporter's Right to Protect the Confidentiality of Sources, by David A. Schulz and Valerie Belair-Gagnon 7. Digital Security for Journalists, by Julia Angwin 8. Beyond PGP: How News Organizations Can and Must Protect Reporters and Sources at an Institutional Level, by Trevor Timm 9. Freedom of Information and Information Asymmetry, by Nabiha Syed Part III. Governing Surveillance 10. Political Journalism in a Networked Age, by Clay Shirky 11. National Security and the "New Yellow Press", by Steven G. Bradbury 12. A New Age of Cyberwarfare, by David E. Sanger 13. The Snowden Effect on the NSA and Reporting, by Siobhan Gorman 14. Edward Snowden, His Passport, and the Legal Identity of Americans, by Patrick Weil 15. Surveillance Policy as Risk Management, by Cass R. Sunstein Part IV. Communications Networks and New Media 16. Silicon Valley and Journalism, by Emily Bell 17. Digital Threats Against Journalists, by Ron Deibert 18. Fiber and Open Communications Networks, by Susan Crawford 19. Free Thought, Free Media, by Eben Moglen 20. Should Journalism Be a Surveillance-Safe Space?, by Ethan Zuckerman Postscript: Journalism After Snowden, by Jonathan Zittrain Contributors Index
£22.00
Columbia University Press Data Love The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital
Book SynopsisData Love considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of our selves.Trade ReviewDigital interactive space is not only a technical condition: it mobilizes larger ecologies of meaning that cannot be captured by an exclusive focus on those technical features. Roberto Simanowski gives us a brilliant exploration of one such ecology, an ironic and critical take on contemporary society's ambivalent relationship with data. -- Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions With the advent of the Web, digital technologies seem to contain alternatives to the consumerist models implemented by the culture industry as described by Adorno and Hockheimer. Simanowski shows how data economy turns this dream into a nightmare of hyperconsumption founded on hypercontrol. -- Bernard Stiegler, author of States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century With this book, Simanowski joins Evgeny Morozov as an indispensable critic of our obsession with big data. What sets Data Love apart from other accounts is its determined shift of attention away from the sinister machinations of government agencies to the impact of seemingly harmless commercial data-service providers, as well as its informed historical focus, which ties modern data mining to the venerable project of enlightenment. Seek and you will find, a famous text promised two millennia ago. Search engines such as Google have renewed the pledge, but Simanowski leaves no doubt that the digital platform supporting this promise is turning it into a threat: Seek and you will be found. -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of Kittler and the Media Simanowski proffers a much more profound history and theoretical basis to the debate, a contribution unparalleled in its findings and with conclusions that are neither too radical nor too conservative. Without question, Data Love is the most comprehensive and philosophically rich contribution on this subject that I have read. -- Creston Davis, Global Center for Advanced Studies Compelling... Simanowski makes an excellent case that the most essential struggle is not with the NSA or Facebook but with ourselves. -- Jennifer Howard Times Literary Supplement Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Beyond the NSA Debate 1. Intelligence Agency Logic 2. Double Indifference 3. Self-Tracking and Smart Things 4. Ecological Data Disaster 5. Cold Civil War Part II. Paradigm Change 6. Data-Mining Business 7. Social Engineers Without a Cause 8. Silent Revolution 9. Algorithms 10. Absence of Theory Part III. The Joy of Numbers 11. Compulsive Measuring 12. The Phenomenology of the Numerable 13. Digital Humanities 14. Lessing's Rejoinder Part IV. Resistances 15. God's Eye 16. Data Hacks 17. On the Right Life in the Wrong One Epilogue Postface Notes Index
£49.60
Columbia University Press Reforming the City The Contested Origins of
Book SynopsisThe advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a cinephile. Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the content and impermanence of cinematic images.Trade ReviewAnxious Cinephilia is a remarkably balanced and inclusive take on our affection for images and related apprehensions. -- Jeff Heinzl * Spectrum Culture *Anxious Cinephilia gives us the most far-reaching theorization of cinephilia yet. This exploration of desire and anxiety as twin impulses unearths novel connections across film cultures, affective states, and moments of technological change, from early cinema to cinematic spectacle in the digital era. Keller produces a fascinating remapping of the shifting relationship between the spectator and the beloved object and refashions cinephilia for our anxious times. -- Belén Vidal, author of Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and RepresentationThis quietly incendiary book makes a crucial intervention in the study of cinephilia by showing how the love of cinema has always been intertwined with anxiety. In embracing an expansive and historicized sense of cinephilia, it stands as an important corrective to previous scholarship that has far too often privileged French postwar auteurist film culture. A brilliant and ambitious work that will help spark a thousand cinema conversations. -- Girish Shambu, author of The New CinephiliaIf the x-axis of cinephile is love, then the y-axis—as Sarah Keller convincingly shows—is anxiety, fear, worry. With an acute sensitivity to the historical, phenomenological, technological, and generic ways in which this love/anxiety gets triggered, Keller provocatively deepens our understanding of the powerful, mysterious, multifaceted phenomenon we call cinephilia—and, importantly, she convincingly shows that cinephilia is not just a thing of the past but is still very much with us. Every cinephile will read this book with layers of emotional recognition. -- Christian Keathley, author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the TreesAnxious Cinephilia is a meta-textual job well-done. * Senses of Cinema *Anxious Cinephilia provides a great departure point for readers to formulate their own cinephilic inquiries. * Cineaste *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ardor and Anxiety: The History of Cinephilia2. Enchanting Images3. Cinephilia and Technology: Anxieties and Obsolescence4. The Exquisite ApocalypseConclusion: Anxious Times, Anxious CinemaNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£76.00
Columbia University Press Barriers Down
Book SynopsisBarriers Down reveals the unexpected origins of freedom of information in political, economic, and cultural battles in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.Trade ReviewBarriers Down refutes the cliché that "information wants to be free." Instead, Lemberg details how the notion of barrier-free flow of information was contested in the late twentieth century and how a group of predominantly American diplomats, business leaders, and scholars secured its freedom. It is both timely and historically wise. -- David Engerman, author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in IndiaHistorians of U.S. global power have been curiously disinterested in the history of the media. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking book, Diana Lemberg steps into the breach, reminding us just how many intellectuals, politicians, and diplomats spent the Cold War arguing about the future of global communications. -- Sam Lebovic, author of Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in AmericaLemberg offers us an innovative discussion of how the United States actively sought to remove obstacles to global media after 1945. Barriers Down ties the deeply political question of media openness to key issues during the postwar period: international development, the Cold War, national sovereignty, decolonization, and the collapse of empire. It provides a valuable and fresh perspective on central topics in international affairs. -- David Ekbladh, author of The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World OrderIn the 1940s and 1950s, the “free flow of information” became an American watchword. But this “flow” was neither free nor flowing nor even necessarily informational. Historian Diana Lemberg presents a critical biography of the famous phrase, whose leading advocates assumed information would move from the United States to the rest of the world and not the other way around. Barriers Down recovers long-forgotten debates that are more relevant than ever. -- Michael Schudson, author of The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975Historians of technology will find this book useful in evaluating international political disagreements over the appropriate uses of radio, television, satellite, and digital communications technologies. * Technology and Culture *A rigorous and readable study at the intersection of media and politics, from which both media and international affairs scholars can profit. * Choice *Barriers down is a well-timed work of great relevance to historians, political scientists and policy-makers aiming to understand the connection between information infrastructure and geopolitics. Lemberg’s study represents a rigorous, interdisciplinary approach to a critical, ongoing policy discussion and will endure as perhaps the go-to tale of how truly global media came to be. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Liberalizing Missions1. Freedom for Every Medium, Everywhere: Information Politics in the 1940s United States2. Quantifying and Qualifying Freedom of Information During the Early Cold War3. Information Flows and the Conundrum of Multilingualism4. Capacity as Freedom During the Development Decade5. Satellites and the End of Sovereignty6. Cultural Turns in the International Arena7. “A Global First Amendment War”: Freedom of Information on the Verge of the Neoliberal EraEpilogue: Free Flow Bytes Back?AcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press Media Persuasion in the Islamic State
Book SynopsisDrawing upon research in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology, Neil Krishan Aggarwal investigates how the Islamic State has convinced people to engage in violence. Aggarwal offers a definitive analysis of how culture is created, debated, and disseminated within militant organizations like the Islamic State.Trade ReviewAggarwal creates a complete and engaging analysis of the material, providing a wealth of diverse academic theory and making a series of innovative and intriguing links between the functioning of terrorist organizations and nonterroristic counterparts. He brings a unique perspective to the area and expertise that allows him to understand and investigate the role that the materials play in a nuanced and theoretical manner. -- John Voll, Georgetown UniversityHow do jihadis persuade faraway followers to kill in their name? Aggarwal provides a detailed exploration of jihadi discourse to explain how adherents disrupt their audience's thoughts and emotions to promote violence. A definitive analysis of terrorists' psychology of persuasion. -- Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants KillRarely does a body of scholarship navigate the academic, practitioner, and current conversation on transnational terrorism. With careful and meticulous content analysis using primary sources, Aggarwal offers insights utilizing his professional expertise as a clinical psychiatrist and his deep understanding of terrorist movements. Readers will be rewarded with an intellectual journey that offers fresh perspectives and insights that will aid policy observers in this field globally. -- Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, executive director, Quilliam FoundationAggarwal’s book fills a major gap in our understanding of the Islamic State and its appeal. His exploration of media from IS's predecessor groups from a cultural and psychological approach provides an important distillation that highlights how it has also evolved and changed over time, helping better contextualize where the group is today. -- Aaron Y. Zelin, Richard Borow Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East PolicyThere is no doubt that the media in its broadest form plays a role in informing, educating, and teaching us about ‘the other’—and at times pandering to our prejudices. Neil Aggarwal analyzes the way media can be and is often used and manipulated, while highlighting cultural factors that play a major role in a number of ways. He has begun a dialogue in careful, thought-provoking style. -- Dinesh Bhugra, emeritus professor, King’s College LondonResearchers in any field who seek to understand ISIS’s substantial propaganda output, as well as those seeking an insight into their inner group dynamics, would find this book very useful. -- Sean Looney * Media, War, and Conflict *Media Persuasion in the Islamic State illustrates the ways in which new media can be used to induce barbarianism, even to the level of suicidal behaviour, using a single powerful religion rather than physical territory as a base. -- Martin Guha * International Journal of Social Psychiatry *Aggarwal’s study forcefully brings to light new intricate and significant observations regarding the psychological techniques pursued by militant jihadist media. * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Studying Islamic State Discourse as Mediated Disorder2. The Organization of Monotheism and Jihad: Constructing a Militant Cultural Identity3. Al Qaeda in Iraq: OMJ, Al Qaeda, and Militant Acculturation4. The Assembly of the Mujahideen Council: Common Group Identity Formation5. The Islamic State of Iraq, 2006–2013: A Shift in Militant Identity6. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: Militant Cultural Diffusion7. The Islamic State: The Transmission of Militancy in Families8. Toward a Science, Policy, and Practice of Militant Counter-MessagingNotesReferencesIndex
£52.70
Columbia University Press Facebook Society
Book SynopsisRoberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.Trade ReviewFacebook Society arrives at the moment when the idea that 'Facebook is us' is front page news. Just in time, Roberto Simanowski gives us a theory as to how it is that Facebook produces the very subjects who cannot feel shortchanged by what it offers. But he delivers more. Here is the crucial test of the philosophy of history and Frankfurt School critical theory brought to bear on the phenomenon defining the sociality of our time. -- Jane M. Gaines, author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?Facebook Society is a wonderfully rich and deeply thought extended essay on a symptomatic social medium of our day. With his focus on autobiography, friendship, memory, and narrative Simanowski outlines ways in which digital media have the power to change human perception and social relations. A broad historical, literary, and critical perspective on social media such as Simanowski’s is very much needed both in the humanities and in the social sciences. -- Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of AmnesiaWho says Facebook can only lead to a flattening of intellectual life and political discourse? In a series of intriguing readings, Simanowski offers a compelling assessment of Zuckerberg’s empire without capitulating before its celebration of ceaseless connectivity and frenzied interaction. Whether it draws on Schopenhauer, Kracauer, or Nancy, Facebook Society brilliantly exemplifies why thought and theory remain essential to gauge the impact of social media on our imagination, our sense of self and community, and our ability to engage the past as a medium to shape different futures. -- Lutz Koepnick, author of On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the ContemporaryFrom Pascal to Butler, Goethe to Baudrillard, Facebook Society offers a rich philosophical engagement with one of the most important platforms of our time. Simanowski's skillful text demonstrates how the mundane nature of Facebook includes a long media ecology of issues which bind us to others as communities and through friendship while defining what we are as subjects. This book offers coordinates to nothing less than the transformation of this political field. -- Jussi Parikka, author of Digital Contagions and A Geology of MediaVery readable book, I am sure that you will find it very captivating and absolutely informative. I just can tell you that I read it in a few hours. Highly recommended. -- Anna Maria Polidori, freelance journalist * Storie, racconti, recensioni Blog by Anna Maria Polidori *Table of ContentsPreface1. Stranger Friends2. Automatic Autobiography3. Digital NationAfterwordEpilogue to the English EditionNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Becoming the News
Book SynopsisBecoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of “making” the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists’ attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.Trade ReviewBecoming the News examines the seemingly mundane experience of having been mentioned in the news-an important social phenomenon that scholars have ignored and one that changes how huge numbers of Americans think not only about the news media but about themselves. Palmer weaves a compelling tapestry of classic social theory, modern scholarship, and outstanding interviews. Built on thoughtful and sensitive research and brimming with insight, Becoming the News is a breakthrough contribution to the fields of sociology and journalism studies. -- David Pritchard, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Victims of the Press? 2. What's in It for Them? Weighing the Pros and Cons of Becoming a News Subject 3. The Interview Stage Part 1: Encountering Journalists 4. The Interview Stage Part 2: From Interaction to Story 5. Truth (Perceptions) and Consequences: How News Subjects Judge Accuracy and Error 6. That's Me! ... But It's Not Me: Aesthetic, Emotional, and Existential Effects of Confronting Our News Selves 7. Celebration, Condemnation, Reputation: Audience Feedback as an Indicator of Status and Stigma 8. Making the News in a Digital World 9. Lessons for Subjects and Journalists Note on Method Notes Bibliography Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press Transpacific Attachments Sex Work Media Networks
Book SynopsisLily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade ReviewI find this book engaging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. The book’s greatest accomplishments are its transpacific perspective, the focus on the subject of the sex worker, and its various theoretical approaches to lesser-known works across a broad historical span. . . . [Transpacific Attachments] is destined to be an important resource and reference. -- Sijia Yao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This book should be welcomed by scholars in the field of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. * China Review International *Transpacific Attachments effectively infuses Sinophone studies with new theoretical energy by addressing questions of cultural identity and Chineseness through the lens of affect and sexuality. -- Andrea Bachner, Cornell UniversityAn important contribution to transpacific studies, Asian-American studies, and Chinese studies, as well as to scholarship on literature, film, and new media, Transpacific Attachments insightfully sheds new light on how the prostitute figure has worked as a symbolic medium that both produces and problematizes configurations of sexual citizenship and social mobility. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityTranspacific Attachments marshals a dazzling range of literary and audiovisual texts to unpack the figure of the Chinese sex worker and the affective politics this figure refracts. The result is a powerfully refreshing understanding of "Chineseness" as a shifting "affective structure" that defies identity politics with its familiar attachments to nation, ethnicity, and language. -- Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa CruzTranspacific Attachments elegantly and deftly traces structures of affect and sociality across the Pacific through the figure of the “Chinese” sex worker throughout the twentieth century. It offers one of the most nuanced discussions of “Chineseness” in English-language scholarship to date, registering its permutations and transformations by linking the two sides of the Pacific in their affective entanglements and disentanglements. It makes an important contribution to the interrelated fields of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TranslationIntroduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of AffectPart I. Pacific Crossings in the Early Twentieth Century1. Desiring Across the Pacific: Transnational Contact in Early Twentieth-Century Asian/American Literature2. Over My Dead Body: Melodramatic Crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan LingyuPart II. Sinophonic Liaisons During the Cold War3. Erotic Liaisons: Sinophonic Queering of the Shaw Brothers’ Chinese Dream 4. Offense to the Ear: Hearing the Sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe’s Rose, Rose, I Love YouPart III. Dwelling Desires and the Neoliberal Order5. Dwelling: Affective Labor and Reordered Kinships in The Fourth Portrait and Seeking Asian FemaleCoda: What DwellsNotesBibliographyIndex
£55.00
Columbia University Press Transpacific Attachments
Book SynopsisLily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade ReviewI find this book engaging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. The book’s greatest accomplishments are its transpacific perspective, the focus on the subject of the sex worker, and its various theoretical approaches to lesser-known works across a broad historical span. . . . [Transpacific Attachments] is destined to be an important resource and reference. -- Sijia Yao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This book should be welcomed by scholars in the field of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. * China Review International *Transpacific Attachments effectively infuses Sinophone studies with new theoretical energy by addressing questions of cultural identity and Chineseness through the lens of affect and sexuality. -- Andrea Bachner, Cornell UniversityAn important contribution to transpacific studies, Asian-American studies, and Chinese studies, as well as to scholarship on literature, film, and new media, Transpacific Attachments insightfully sheds new light on how the prostitute figure has worked as a symbolic medium that both produces and problematizes configurations of sexual citizenship and social mobility. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityTranspacific Attachments marshals a dazzling range of literary and audiovisual texts to unpack the figure of the Chinese sex worker and the affective politics this figure refracts. The result is a powerfully refreshing understanding of "Chineseness" as a shifting "affective structure" that defies identity politics with its familiar attachments to nation, ethnicity, and language. -- Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa CruzTranspacific Attachments elegantly and deftly traces structures of affect and sociality across the Pacific through the figure of the “Chinese” sex worker throughout the twentieth century. It offers one of the most nuanced discussions of “Chineseness” in English-language scholarship to date, registering its permutations and transformations by linking the two sides of the Pacific in their affective entanglements and disentanglements. It makes an important contribution to the interrelated fields of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TranslationIntroduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of AffectPart I. Pacific Crossings in the Early Twentieth Century1. Desiring Across the Pacific: Transnational Contact in Early Twentieth-Century Asian/American Literature2. Over My Dead Body: Melodramatic Crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan LingyuPart II. Sinophonic Liaisons During the Cold War3. Erotic Liaisons: Sinophonic Queering of the Shaw Brothers’ Chinese Dream 4. Offense to the Ear: Hearing the Sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe’s Rose, Rose, I Love YouPart III. Dwelling Desires and the Neoliberal Order5. Dwelling: Affective Labor and Reordered Kinships in The Fourth Portrait and Seeking Asian FemaleCoda: What DwellsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.80
Columbia University Press Contesting Cyberspace in China Online Expression
Book SynopsisRongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for Chinaâs survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power.Trade ReviewIf you are looking for that long-awaited book on China’s Internet censorship, look no further. Rongbin Han’s Contesting Cyberspace in China illuminates the labyrinths of that proverbial cat-and-mouse game with clarity and sophistication. It will be a thought-provoking and rewarding read. -- Guobin Yang, University of PennsylvaniaHow has the Internet changed state-society relations in China? How have social groups engaged in a “guerrilla war” with the authorities over cyberspace? And how is the Internet remaking China? In this empirically rich work, Rongbin Han has provided us with a vivid analysis of the interactions between the state and society in China’s cyberspace. Those who are interested in cyber affairs must read this brilliant book. -- Zheng Yongnian, National University of SingaporeContesting Cyberspace in China goes beyond the typical fascination with Chinese censorship and internet controls. It investigates the ways in which social media and online expression are pluralizing political debate in China, giving ample room for fiery nationalists and indignant leftists to attack the regime’s liberal critics. The book is an excellent study of the diversity, drama, and defiance of China’s netizens. -- Mary E. Gallagher, University of MichiganHan provides a well-written and comprehensive study on Internet censorship and online discourse in China and breaks down the assumption that the Internet is inherently regime challenging. -- John James Kennedy * Journal of Asian Studies *An excellent addition to the burgeoning literature on the political consequences of the internet in China. * Contemporary Sociology *Well-written, nuanced and full of insightful analysis. * East Asian Journal of Popular Culture *Makes significant theoretic and empirical contributions to the literatures on authoritarianism and Chinese politics. * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Pluralism and Cyberpolitics in China2. Harmonizing the Internet: State Control Over Online Expression3. To Comply or to Resist? The Intermediaries’ Dilemma4. Pop Activism: Playful Netizens in Cyberpolitics5. Trolling for the Party: State-Sponsored Internet Commentators6. Manufacturing Distrust: Online Political Opposition and Its Backlash7. Defending the Regime: The “Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army”8. Authoritarian Resilience Online: Mismatched Capacity, Miscalculated ThreatAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Contesting Cyberspace in China
Book SynopsisRongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China’s survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power.Trade ReviewIf you are looking for that long-awaited book on China’s Internet censorship, look no further. Rongbin Han’s Contesting Cyberspace in China illuminates the labyrinths of that proverbial cat-and-mouse game with clarity and sophistication. It will be a thought-provoking and rewarding read. -- Guobin Yang, University of PennsylvaniaHow has the Internet changed state-society relations in China? How have social groups engaged in a “guerrilla war” with the authorities over cyberspace? And how is the Internet remaking China? In this empirically rich work, Rongbin Han has provided us with a vivid analysis of the interactions between the state and society in China’s cyberspace. Those who are interested in cyber affairs must read this brilliant book. -- Zheng Yongnian, National University of SingaporeContesting Cyberspace in China goes beyond the typical fascination with Chinese censorship and internet controls. It investigates the ways in which social media and online expression are pluralizing political debate in China, giving ample room for fiery nationalists and indignant leftists to attack the regime’s liberal critics. The book is an excellent study of the diversity, drama, and defiance of China’s netizens. -- Mary E. Gallagher, University of MichiganHan provides a well-written and comprehensive study on Internet censorship and online discourse in China and breaks down the assumption that the Internet is inherently regime challenging. -- John James Kennedy * Journal of Asian Studies *An excellent addition to the burgeoning literature on the political consequences of the internet in China. * Contemporary Sociology *Well-written, nuanced and full of insightful analysis. * East Asian Journal of Popular Culture *Makes significant theoretic and empirical contributions to the literatures on authoritarianism and Chinese politics. * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Pluralism and Cyberpolitics in China2. Harmonizing the Internet: State Control Over Online Expression3. To Comply or to Resist? The Intermediaries’ Dilemma4. Pop Activism: Playful Netizens in Cyberpolitics5. Trolling for the Party: State-Sponsored Internet Commentators6. Manufacturing Distrust: Online Political Opposition and Its Backlash7. Defending the Regime: The “Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army”8. Authoritarian Resilience Online: Mismatched Capacity, Miscalculated ThreatAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press NGOs as Newsmakers
Book SynopsisMatthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.Trade ReviewPowers provides a rich analysis of the role of NGOs in shaping international news, taking a useful institutional—“on-the-ground”—perspective to supplement the more celebratory analysis by many communication scholars of digitally enabled social movements, including the Arab Spring and related online phenomena. -- Stephen Reese, University of Texas, AustinPowers offers a sharp dissection and a comprehensive analysis of the news-making strategies of global NGOs. Grounded in smart interpretations of institutional theories, the book shows the ambiguities of NGOs as news makers - the innovations as well as the limitations to broaden the content of regular news cycles. The cases discussed amply demonstrate that NGOs make decisions in fields of news shaped by multiple factors. Powers convincingly argues that NGOs do not make news as they please, but they do so under institutional circumstances existing already in a world saturated with information. -- Silvio Waisbord, George Washington UniversityMatthew Powers' NGOs as Newsmakers combines rich empirical observation, gained through interviews and field work at the Syrian-Turkish border, with sophisticated causal analysis. He compellingly shows how the dwindling resources for international coverage on the one hand and humanitarian NGOs' move toward newsmaking on the other reinforce rather than sideline professional news norms. A must read for anybody interested in the fate of cosmopolitan journalism and humanitarian aid. -- Hartmut Wessler, University of MannheimPowers has produced a landmark study of one of the complex high-stakes dynamics shaping the future of journalism. NGOs as Newsmakers is a work of theoretical nuance and empirical rigor that spotlights the ways NGOs are fueling important and original reporting while also nourishing stereotypes and power dynamics inherent to traditional news practices that have hemmed in reporting. -- Adrienne Russell, University of WashingtonScholars, editors, journalists, NGO practitioners, and policy experts would benefit from reading NGOs as Newsmakers to better understand the current state of affairs between NGOs and newsmakers. In particular, by applying the field variant of institutional theory to illuminate how journalists and NGOs vie for attention in an age of information overload. -- Allison J. Steinke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * Digital Journalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A New Era of NGO-Driven News?2. The Changing Faces of NGO Communication Work3. The Partially Opening News Gates4. The Strategic Advocate in the Digital Storm5. Publicity’s Ends6. Explaining the Endurance of News Norms7. The Possibilities and Limitations of NGO CommunicationMethods AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£79.20
Columbia University Press NGOs as Newsmakers
Book SynopsisMatthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.Trade ReviewPowers provides a rich analysis of the role of NGOs in shaping international news, taking a useful institutional—“on-the-ground”—perspective to supplement the more celebratory analysis by many communication scholars of digitally enabled social movements, including the Arab Spring and related online phenomena. -- Stephen Reese, University of Texas, AustinPowers offers a sharp dissection and a comprehensive analysis of the news-making strategies of global NGOs. Grounded in smart interpretations of institutional theories, the book shows the ambiguities of NGOs as news makers - the innovations as well as the limitations to broaden the content of regular news cycles. The cases discussed amply demonstrate that NGOs make decisions in fields of news shaped by multiple factors. Powers convincingly argues that NGOs do not make news as they please, but they do so under institutional circumstances existing already in a world saturated with information. -- Silvio Waisbord, George Washington UniversityMatthew Powers' NGOs as Newsmakers combines rich empirical observation, gained through interviews and field work at the Syrian-Turkish border, with sophisticated causal analysis. He compellingly shows how the dwindling resources for international coverage on the one hand and humanitarian NGOs' move toward newsmaking on the other reinforce rather than sideline professional news norms. A must read for anybody interested in the fate of cosmopolitan journalism and humanitarian aid. -- Hartmut Wessler, University of MannheimPowers has produced a landmark study of one of the complex high-stakes dynamics shaping the future of journalism. NGOs as Newsmakers is a work of theoretical nuance and empirical rigor that spotlights the ways NGOs are fueling important and original reporting while also nourishing stereotypes and power dynamics inherent to traditional news practices that have hemmed in reporting. -- Adrienne Russell, University of WashingtonScholars, editors, journalists, NGO practitioners, and policy experts would benefit from reading NGOs as Newsmakers to better understand the current state of affairs between NGOs and newsmakers. In particular, by applying the field variant of institutional theory to illuminate how journalists and NGOs vie for attention in an age of information overload. -- Allison J. Steinke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * Digital Journalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A New Era of NGO-Driven News?2. The Changing Faces of NGO Communication Work3. The Partially Opening News Gates4. The Strategic Advocate in the Digital Storm5. Publicity’s Ends6. Explaining the Endurance of News Norms7. The Possibilities and Limitations of NGO CommunicationMethods AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Information A Reader
Book SynopsisInformation: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it.Trade ReviewInformation: A Reader is a compelling read both for those familiar with the concept of information and those new to the field. Keen editorial intelligence suffuses each section and selection of the anthology, along with generous, insightful commentaries that reframe our understandings of these foundational texts. I found myself reading the book from cover to cover, revising my understanding of what I thought were familiar writings and happily surprised by textual juxtapositions that manifest the secret history of information. -- Jack W. Chen, coeditor of Literary Information in China: A History"Information" has famously been defined as something that "makes a difference." This book, assembling critical readings from across numerous academic frontiers into a unified corpus, undoubtedly will make a significant difference, supporting innovative and important humanistic research around the topic of information for many years to come. -- Paul Duguid, coeditor of Information: A Historical CompanionSuperbly compiled, the reader brings together several clusters of important primary sources from diverse disciplinary perspectives including communication theory, philosophy, political science, media studies, and literary criticism. A number of unexpected juxtapositions emerge as a result, amounting to a remarkably coherent commentary—a master class—on the concept of information in the humanities. -- Dennis Yi Tenen, author of Plain Text: The Poetics of ComputationA superb compilation whether one is familiar with or totally new to writings about information and society. * Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology *Table of ContentsAn IntroductionThe Shannon Knot1. Claude Shannon, from A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)2. Norbert Wiener, from Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)3. Harold Garfinkel, from Toward a Sociological Theory of Information (1952)4. Donald MacKay, from “The Place of ‘Meaning’ in the Theory of Information” (1955)5. Claude Shannon, “The Bandwagon” (1956)6. Gregory Bateson, from “The Cybernetics of ‘Self ’: A Theory of Alcoholism” (1972)7. John Durham Peters, from “Information: Notes Toward a Critical History” (1988)8. N. Katherine Hayles, from “Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics” (1999)9. Peter Janich, from What Is Information? (2006)10. Matthieu Triclot, from The Cybernetic Moment (2008)Order, Number1. Michel Foucault, from The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966)2. Mary Poovey, from A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1998)3. Ian Hacking, from The Taming of Chance (1990)4. Thomas Richards, from The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire (1994)5. Friedrich Hayek, from “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945)6. Claude Lévi-Strauss, from “The Mathematics of Man” (1954)7. Lily Kay, from Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code (2000)The Work of Art1. Martin Heidegger, from “The Origin of the Work of Art” (1950)2. Walter Benjamin, from “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov” (1936)3. Yuri M. Lotman, “The Future for Structural Poetics” (1979)4. Abraham Moles, from Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (1958)5. Haroldo De Campos, from “The Informational Temperature of the Text” (1960)6. Umberto Eco, from The Open Work (1962)7. William R. Paulson, from The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information (1988)Media Ecologies1. Frances Yates, from The Art of Memory (1966)2. Mary J. Carruthers, from “Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory” (2009)3. Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, from Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (1998)4. Walter Ong, from Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982)5. Sigmund Freud, from “A Note Upon the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’ ” (1925)6. Vannevar Bush, from “As We May Think” (1945)7. Marshall McLuhan, from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)8. Friedrich Kittler, from “There Is No Software” (1993)9. Vilém Flusser, from Form and Material (1993) and Recoding (1987)10. Lisa Gitelman, from Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (2014)Informed Society1. James Beniger, from The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society (1986)2. Yoneji Masuda, from The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society (1981)3 Paul Virilio, from The Information Bomb (1999)4. C. A. Bayly, from Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 (1996)5. Mary Elizabeth Berry, from Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (2006)6. Ann Blair, from Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (2010)7. Elias Muhanna, from “Why Was the Fourteenth Century a Century of Arabic Encyclopaedism?” (2013)8. Steven Marks, from The Information Nexus: Global Capitalism from the Renaissance to the Present (2016)AcknowledgmentsIndex
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Columbia University Press Not Exactly Lying
Book SynopsisFrom fibs about royal incest in America’s first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not—and why that matters for democracy.Trade ReviewIn this artfully written account, Andie Tucher offers a sweeping history of misinformation and the American press. Most strikingly, Not Exactly Lying reveals that the present panic surrounding so-called “fake news” has missed the point: It’s the modern profusion of “fake journalism”—the appropriation of journalistic standards to serve up puffery, propaganda, and hyperpartisan fare—that is more concerning for the future of media and public life. -- Seth C. Lewis, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media at the University of OregonNot Exactly Lying provides a beautifully written and deeply researched history of “fake news” and “fake journalism” in the United States, offering deep context for understanding our contemporary democratic crisis and the role of journalism in that crisis. Tucher takes on one of the most urgent issues of our day. -- Kathy Roberts Forde, coeditor of Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New AmericaIn exploring the various ways that fakes and falsehoods have made their way to the public as “journalism” and “news,” Tucher follows a number of trends: the evolving internal conventions of and boundaries around journalism, the introduction of new media technologies, the waxing and waning of partisan influence on and control over key news outlets, and changing public appetites for news. Not Exactly Lying shows that the enemy of good journalism is not slant but untruth. -- Michael Stamm, author of Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North AmericaTucher’s expansive history of fake journalism and fake news makes a compelling read and a powerful argument for the importance of truth in news. * American Journalism *An illuminating and extremely timely exposé. * H-Journalism History *Professional journalists and historians would be well-served to explore Not Exactly Lying to gain a greater understanding of the origins, role, and impact of fake news on the past and present. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “False Reports, Maliciously Made”2. “Important If True”3. “Not Exactly Lying”4. “I Believe in Faking”5. “We Did Not Call It Propaganda”6. “Nothing That Is Not Interesting Is News”7. “Why Don’t You Guys Tell the Truth Once in a While?”8. “So Goddamn Objective”9. “The Bastards Are Making It Up!”10. “Fake but Accurate”Conclusion: “A Degenerate and Perverted Monstrosity”NotesBibliographyIndex
£85.50
Columbia University Press Not Exactly Lying
Book SynopsisFrom fibs about royal incest in America’s first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not—and why that matters for democracy.Trade ReviewIn this artfully written account, Andie Tucher offers a sweeping history of misinformation and the American press. Most strikingly, Not Exactly Lying reveals that the present panic surrounding so-called “fake news” has missed the point: It’s the modern profusion of “fake journalism”—the appropriation of journalistic standards to serve up puffery, propaganda, and hyperpartisan fare—that is more concerning for the future of media and public life. -- Seth C. Lewis, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media at the University of OregonNot Exactly Lying provides a beautifully written and deeply researched history of “fake news” and “fake journalism” in the United States, offering deep context for understanding our contemporary democratic crisis and the role of journalism in that crisis. Tucher takes on one of the most urgent issues of our day. -- Kathy Roberts Forde, coeditor of Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New AmericaIn exploring the various ways that fakes and falsehoods have made their way to the public as “journalism” and “news,” Tucher follows a number of trends: the evolving internal conventions of and boundaries around journalism, the introduction of new media technologies, the waxing and waning of partisan influence on and control over key news outlets, and changing public appetites for news. Not Exactly Lying shows that the enemy of good journalism is not slant but untruth. -- Michael Stamm, author of Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North AmericaTucher’s expansive history of fake journalism and fake news makes a compelling read and a powerful argument for the importance of truth in news. * American Journalism *An illuminating and extremely timely exposé. * H-Journalism History *Professional journalists and historians would be well-served to explore Not Exactly Lying to gain a greater understanding of the origins, role, and impact of fake news on the past and present. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “False Reports, Maliciously Made”2. “Important If True”3. “Not Exactly Lying”4. “I Believe in Faking”5. “We Did Not Call It Propaganda”6. “Nothing That Is Not Interesting Is News”7. “Why Don’t You Guys Tell the Truth Once in a While?”8. “So Goddamn Objective”9. “The Bastards Are Making It Up!”10. “Fake but Accurate”Conclusion: “A Degenerate and Perverted Monstrosity”NotesBibliographyIndex
£22.00
Columbia University Press Worlds of Journalism Journalistic Cultures Around
Book SynopsisBased on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work.Trade ReviewThis will be a touchstone work for decades to come. It is not an overstatement to say that this book is entirely unique; it’s special because of the detailed discussion of national and regional contexts. Worlds of Journalism contributes to the truly global and international perspective of journalism, avoiding normativity and emphasizing diversity using a unique and comprehensive dataset. -- Henrik Örnebring, author of Newsworkers: A Comparative European PerspectiveThis book provides a kaleidoscopic overview of journalism around the world. Its organization and execution provides a model for comparative research, and its findings raise important questions that are sure to orient future scholarship. Already well-regarded by colleagues, this publication solidifies the Worlds of Journalism project as a leading effort to make sense of the complex realities that journalists around the world confront today. -- Matthew Powers, University of WashingtonOne of the key elements of this anthology is an effort to make journalism studies truly global and comparative. This book succeeds on multiple fronts: it provides a comprehensive analysis of the various and competing strands of research in journalism studies, empirically covers the vast geography of journalism practices, and gives us a blueprint of how to analyze and understand such practices. I recommend this book for its scope and theoretical execution. It is a must-read for all journalism scholars. -- Shakuntala Rao, author of Indian Journalism in a New EraWorlds of Journalism is ample proof of the diversity of journalistic cultures around the globe and an excellent example of a truly collaborative study. It provides fascinating insights into the attitudes and values of media personnel beyond the western world. The book is a must-read in journalism research. -- Barbara Pfetsch, editor of Political Communication Cultures in Western Europe: Attitudes of Political Actors and Journalists in Nine Countries[An] exceptionally fine book. -- Jay G. Blulmer, University of Leeds * Journal of Mass Communication *A tactfully coherent discussion of its findings, drawing on an extensive amount of data to question normative expectations of journalism culture and highlight rich differences in perspectives from around the world. * International Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Exploring the Worlds of Journalism: An Introduction, by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer2. Journalistic Culture in a Global Context: A Conceptual Roadmap, by Thomas Hanitzsch, Laura Ahva, Martin Oller Alonso, Jesus Arroyave, Liesbeth Hermans, Jan Fredrik Hovden, Sallie Hughes, Beate Josephi, Jyotika Ramaprasad, Ivor Shapiro, and Tim Vos3. Surveying Journalists Around the World: A Methodological Framework, by Corinna Lauerer and Thomas Hanitzsch4. Profiles of Journalists: Demographic and Employment Patterns, by Beate Josephi, Folker Hanusch, Martin Oller Alonso, Ivor Shapiro, Kenneth Andresen, Arnold de Beer, Abit Hoxha, Sonia Virgínia Moreira, Kevin Rafter, Terje Skjerdal, Sergio Splendore, and Edson C. Tandoc, Jr.5. Perceived Influences: Journalists’ Awareness of Pressures on Their Work, by Thomas Hanitzsch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, Jesus Arroyave, Rosa Berganza, Liesbeth Hermans, Jan Fredrik Hovden, Filip Lab, Corinna Lauerer, Alice Tejkalová, and Tim P. Vos6. Editorial Autonomy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Freedom, by Basyouni Hamada, Sallie Hughes, Thomas Hanitzsch, James Hollings, Corinna Lauerer, Jesus Arroyave, Verica Rupar, and Sergio Splendore7. Role Orientations: Journalists’ Views on Their Place in Society, by Thomas Hanitzsch, Tim Vos, Olivier Standaert, Folker Hanusch, Jan Fredrik Hovden, Liesbeth Hermans, and Jyotika Ramaprasad8. Ethical Considerations: Journalists’ Perceptions of Professional Practice, by Jyotika Ramaprasad, Thomas Hanitzsch, Epp Lauk, Halliki Harro-Loit, Jan Fredrik Hovden, Jari Väliverronen, and Stephanie Craft9. Trust: Journalists’ Confidence in Public Institutions, by Arjen van Dalen, Rosa Berganza, Thomas Hanitzsch, Adriana Amado, Beatriz Herrero, Beate Josephi, Sonja Seizova, Morten Skovsgaard, and Nina Steindl10. Transformations: Journalists’ Reflections on Changes in News Work, by Folker Hanusch, Edson C. Tandoc, Jr., Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Nurhaya Muchtar, Kevin Rafter, Mireya Márquez Ramírez, Verica Rupar, and Vittoria Sacco11. Modeling Journalistic Cultures: A Global Approach, by Folker Hanusch and Thomas HanitzschAppendix 1: Additional TablesAppendix 2: QuestionnaireAppendix 3: Institutions Funding the StudyReferencesEditors and ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Duchamp Is My Lawyer The Polemics Pragmatics and
Book SynopsisIn 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation.Trade ReviewNamed a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 * PopMatters *UbuWeb is one of the great avant-garde projects of our times. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith takes us through the aesthetic, legal, economic, and social aspects of the whole project. Through it, we see how the avant-garde had to shift gears to move from the era of analog media to that of digital, or database media. It is an essential document on the theory and practice of experimental media art. -- McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker ManifestoKenneth Goldsmith’s Duchamp Is My Lawyer details the story of UbuWeb, a free-source library for visual, audio and written art. He cites many extraordinary items – from masterpieces to flukes, oddities and trifles – that will send us rushing to the site to see, but the discussion is equally about the weighty issues of freedom vs ownership of culture. Goldsmith takes a stand – with Duchamp grinning wryly over his shoulder – for availability, access and the accumulation of knowledge. He’s holding the cultural back door open and letting in all the outcasts, misfits and oddballs that would never get past the velvet ropes up front. -- Lee Ranaldo, Sonic YouthDuchamp Is My Lawyer reads like an upbeat mediactivist manifesto—providing all at once an alternative political economy of open access, a humorous introduction to legal poetics, a joyful survey of artistic resistance, and an empowering toolbox to keep the web as free as we care for it to be. -- Yves Citton, author of MediarchyIn 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith sat down at his computer and initiated a website he appropriately called UbuWeb—a site soon consisting of “thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts,” and unlike any of its peers in being entirely free and open to all: no sponsors, no fees, no memberships or passwords required. Over the decades, it has become clear that UbuWeb, although an unmatchable scholarly resource, is itself the avant-garde artwork we have been waiting for—a giant collage of appropriated materials, chosen, juxtaposed, and framed so as to constitute perhaps the best single available history of its subject, and one entirely created by a single author—Goldsmith himself. The artist’s lively, entertaining, and revelatory account of how this uniquely democratic site was created and maintained, how he resolved vexing copyright issues, and how UBU has helped us reconsider movements from Concrete Poetry to the feminist punk of Angry Women—is nothing short of inspiring. This should be required reading for all those who wonder whether it still possible, in 2020, to speak of the avant-garde. -- Marjorie Perloff, author of Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New CenturyUbuWeb is an anomaly of the internets. The irony is that it completely functions the way we envisioned the everything would, in the beginning of internets history. Kenneth Goldsmith kept UbuWeb true to the core values of the network: humanity, collectiveness, and borderless openness. In a world where data is synonymous with control and value is synonymous with price, UbuWeb functions as an oasis. -- Peter Sunde, founder of The Pirate BayWith an unshakable belief that art belongs more in the public sphere than behind closed walls, physical or digital, Kenneth Goldsmith originated the first open source platform for those who revere culture. This invigorating and timely book surveys why brilliant ideas, images, and sounds are important to both preserve and proliferate as freely as ever. -- Naomi Beckwith, senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoDuchamp Is My Lawyer is the in-depth secret history of one of Goldsmith's most expansive and long running projects—the renegade website UbuWeb. At once manifesto, memoir, treatise, exposition, critique, and gossip column, it presents an essential history of renegade underground creative activity in the past 100 or so years. Brilliantly structured and filled with wit, wisdom, and Goldsmith's provocations, it is also an inspiring and hilarious read. -- John Zorn, composer and performerOne of the smartest manifestos on art and internet politics that I've seen. * The Wire *This book, although written in the first person singular, is an example of collective enunciation, the 'I' of Kenneth Goldsmith being a cooperative person representing all those eager to rely on the creative and communicative possibilities of the net to build a collaborative framework that does not dissolve but offers new promises to all individuals as well. In that sense, Duchamp Is My Lawyer perfectly qualifies as what Deleuze and Guattari call 'minor literature,' . . .the noncanonical use of a 'major' system to serve the needs and expectations of those at the margins. * Leonardo Reviews *A remarkably fluid and engaging read. . . When I finished Duchamp Is My Lawyer, I had the pleasure of sitting in natural silence for a brief while, pondering how much I had learnt, how entertainingly the book had conveyed its message of openness, what a gift it is to have such a light touch. * PopMatters *Duchamp is My Lawyer is an approachable and even-handed discussion of UbuWeb and issues regarding copyright in the digital age. It also provides an insight into the evolution of the counter culture in the internet age and the practical, legal and financial issues of producing and consuming art today. Well worth seeking out. * Alexander Adams Art *This is a book for lovers of art’s revolutionary import and those interested in the interface between art and the law. Recommended. * Choice *UbuWeb is portrayed as a small utopia in the middle of the commercial Internet, built on the principles of freedom, equality and cultural progress, but also subversiveness . . . between the lines, [Goldsmith] persuades us to create other such utopian places online, to try to transform the Internet and reclaim its vision of the future. * 3/4 Magazine *Duchamp Is My Lawyer displays Goldsmith fulfilling an ethics of caring about others who care about conserving odd things. Caring is at the heart of this tender homage to eccentric collectors who have put themselves at legal risk to share their obsessions. * William Carlos Williams Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Back DoorPart I: PolemicsPart II: Pragmatics 1. Folk Law2. From Panorama to Postage Stamp: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Internet3. The Work of Video Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction4. Shadow Libraries and Preserving the Memory of the WorldPart III: Poetics5. Dirty Concrete6. From Ursonate to Re-Sonate7. People Like Us8. Aspen: A “Multimedia Magazine in a Box”9. Street Poets and Visionaries10. An Anthology of AnthologiesCoda: The Ghost in the AlgorithmAppendix: 101 Things on UbuWeb That You Don’t Know About but Should NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
£72.00
Columbia University Press Aggregating the News
Book SynopsisMark Coddington gives a vivid account of the work of aggregation—how such content is produced, what its values are, and how it fits into today’s changing journalistic profession. Aggregating the News explores how aggregators weigh sources, reshape news narratives, and manage life on the fringes of journalism.Trade ReviewCoddington weaves a masterful tale of ‘second-order newswork’ and ‘knockoff knowledge’ as well as aggregation’s undermining of journalistic authority. Aggregating the News is impeccably researched from within news organizations and offers the definitive statement on information aggregation in all its complexities and contexts. Analyzing news aggregation’s 250-year-old history, its emergent values, and evolving constraints, this book is a critical read for all who care about journalism. -- Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesIs all digital aggregation just, as Fleetwood Mac might put it, "secondhand news"? Is public knowledge enhanced or debased by the practice of rewriting, recombining, or recontextualizing pieces of journalism? What are the professional and legal issues at stake? In this absorbing volume, Mark Coddington takes us deep into a professional community that has always been controversial but also always fascinating. -- C. W. Anderson, author of Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of DoubtCoddington dispels the tired argument that news aggregation by lazy online news outlets has destroyed good journalism as we know it and instead shows how aggregation is at once a historical practice as old as journalism itself while also a key element of news innovation. -- Nikki Usher, author of Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and CodeProvides timely insights and information about news aggregation services...A valuable resource for those studying journalism, mass media, and social media. * Choice *A valuable text for journalists as well as public relations professionals who are often tasked with creating news. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Well written and informative; it would be a valuable resource for graduate students and scholars who want to understand how specific journalistic actors work and contribute to the journalism field. * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Aggregation in Context1. Gathering Evidence of Evidence: Aggregation as Second-Order Newswork2. Making News by Managing Uncertainty3. Inferiority and Identity: Aggregators and the Journalistic Profession4. Clickbait, Analytics, and Gut Feelings: How Aggregators Understand Their Audiences5. Atomization and the Breakdown (and Rebuilding) of News Narrative6. Conclusion: Aggregation, Authority, and UncertaintyNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£83.60
Columbia University Press Aggregating the News
Book SynopsisMark Coddington gives a vivid account of the work of aggregation—how such content is produced, what its values are, and how it fits into today’s changing journalistic profession. Aggregating the News explores how aggregators weigh sources, reshape news narratives, and manage life on the fringes of journalism.Trade ReviewCoddington weaves a masterful tale of ‘second-order newswork’ and ‘knockoff knowledge’ as well as aggregation’s undermining of journalistic authority. Aggregating the News is impeccably researched from within news organizations and offers the definitive statement on information aggregation in all its complexities and contexts. Analyzing news aggregation’s 250-year-old history, its emergent values, and evolving constraints, this book is a critical read for all who care about journalism. -- Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesIs all digital aggregation just, as Fleetwood Mac might put it, "secondhand news"? Is public knowledge enhanced or debased by the practice of rewriting, recombining, or recontextualizing pieces of journalism? What are the professional and legal issues at stake? In this absorbing volume, Mark Coddington takes us deep into a professional community that has always been controversial but also always fascinating. -- C. W. Anderson, author of Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of DoubtCoddington dispels the tired argument that news aggregation by lazy online news outlets has destroyed good journalism as we know it and instead shows how aggregation is at once a historical practice as old as journalism itself while also a key element of news innovation. -- Nikki Usher, author of Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and CodeProvides timely insights and information about news aggregation services...A valuable resource for those studying journalism, mass media, and social media. * Choice *A valuable text for journalists as well as public relations professionals who are often tasked with creating news. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Well written and informative; it would be a valuable resource for graduate students and scholars who want to understand how specific journalistic actors work and contribute to the journalism field. * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Aggregation in Context1. Gathering Evidence of Evidence: Aggregation as Second-Order Newswork2. Making News by Managing Uncertainty3. Inferiority and Identity: Aggregators and the Journalistic Profession4. Clickbait, Analytics, and Gut Feelings: How Aggregators Understand Their Audiences5. Atomization and the Breakdown (and Rebuilding) of News Narrative6. Conclusion: Aggregation, Authority, and UncertaintyNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Media Capture
Book SynopsisThis book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture—how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide, many drawn from firsthand experience.Trade ReviewMedia capture is one of the most pressing problems facing democracies today. Bringing together the voices of scholars and reporters, this book provides a fascinating overview of the many ways in which this phenomenon is affecting political landscapes around the world. Importantly, it also proposes novel solutions for combating media capture and protecting journalists. A must-read! -- Julia Cagé, author of Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and DemocracyThis is a highly insightful collection showing how media capture has crept within a range of systems and institutions for the past two decades. It is also an important contribution to the literature on democratic backsliding. It is the great merit of Anya Schiffrin to highlight a major but understudied threat to democracy. -- Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, author of The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of CorruptionThis book is a remarkable achievement. For scholars and concerned citizens alike, it is a milestone in the ongoing debates about the uncertain future of news. At a moment when democratic institutions are under assault and journalism is withering away, the essays featured in Schiffrin’s wonderful volume are especially timely. Anyone who cares about the future of journalism—and democracy—should read this important book! -- Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation SocietyMuch of our lives as journalism, communication and media scholars and researchers are spent talking and writing about“them”—the journalists. With this book, we listen to them and are richer because of their insight. * Journalism *This is a collection around a theme of great importance which media scholars will find stimulating and original. * Australian Journalism Review *The book is a recommended read for both academics and the general audience, and strongly advised for policymakers who wish to help independent media. * European Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsPart I: OverviewIntroduction, by Anya Schiffrin1. How Silicon Valley Copied Wall Street’s Media Capture Playbook, by Rana Foroohar2. From Media Capture to Platform Capture, by Nikki Usher3. Media Capture and the Crisis in Local Journalism, by Philip M. Napoli4. Nobody Home, by Noam CohenPart II: Examples of Problems5. A Serf on Google’s Farm, by Josh Marshall6. The Rise and Fall of Blogging in the 2000s, by Felix Salmon7. Digital Payola: Policing the Open Contributor Network, by James Ledbetter8. Media Capture and the Corporate Education-Reform Philanthropies, by Andrea Gabor9. Using Old Media to Capture New in Turkey, by Andrew Finkel10. A Loud Silence, by Raju Narisetti11. The Capture of Britain’s Feral Beast, by Mary Fitzgerald, James Cusick, and Peter GeogheganPart III: Solutions12. A Global Strategy for Combating Media Capture, by Mark M. Nelson13. The Hamster Wheel, Triumphant: Commercial Models for Journalism Are Not Working; Let’s Try Something Else, by Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum14. Building Trust (and a Trust), by Andrew Sullivan15. Defending Vanguard Journalists, by Joel Simon16. Do Technology Companies Care About Journalism?, by Emily BellList of ContributorsIndex
£85.00
Columbia University Press Oath Keepers Patriotism and the Edge of Violence
Book SynopsisSam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its goals and actions. He explores how Oath Keepers draws on core American values and pivotal historical moments to cast its adherents as defenders of liberty.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking study of how antigovernment extremism is reaching new audiences with fear-based stories that call supporters to vigilante action. Oath Keepers is a must-read for anyone concerned with this growing threat to the foundations of democratic governance. -- Kathleen Blee, author of Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and ResearchJackson's meticulous research shines a much-needed light on Oath Keepers—a highly visible but little understood domestic extremist organization. Jackson delves into the complexities of the group’s rhetoric and activities, offering important insights into how extremists frame their appeal for wider audiences. An important text on the movement for years to come. -- J. M. Berger, author of ExtremismSam Jackson's Oath Keepers is a welcome addition to the sparse literature on right-wing antigovernment extremists in the United States. His concise but compelling examination of one of the major groups in the militia/patriot movement really adds to our understanding of how such groups conceptualize themselves and their cause and how their beliefs translate into action. -- Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation LeagueJackson’s prescient analysis of antigovernment extremism couldn’t be more timely or important. Oath Keepers is an essential contribution to our understanding of the growing appeal and violent potential of ever-evolving forms of domestic extremism. -- Cynthia Miller-Idriss, author of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far RightJackson provides the most detailed examination of Oath Keepers that we have, developing our understanding of how right-wing extremist groups rhetorically use the past to further their political interests in the present. -- D. J. Mulloy, author of Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to TrumpThis book demystifies an important topic. * Choice *A well-articulated, insightful book that is beneficial to not only scholars, policymakers and practitioners focused on far right extremists, but also general readers concerned about far right groups and 'militias.'...a must read. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Understanding Right-Wing Extremism in the United States2. Introducing Oath Keepers3. An Operational History of Oath Keepers4. The Ongoing Struggle Over Natural Rights5. The American Revolution Redux6. “No More Free Wacos”Conclusion: The Importance of Oath KeepersAcknowledgments Appendix 1: Data and MethodsAppendix 2: Declaration of OrdersNotesBibliographyIndex
£79.20
Columbia University Press Oath Keepers
Book SynopsisSam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its goals and actions. He explores how Oath Keepers draws on core American values and pivotal historical moments to cast its adherents as defenders of liberty.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking study of how antigovernment extremism is reaching new audiences with fear-based stories that call supporters to vigilante action. Oath Keepers is a must-read for anyone concerned with this growing threat to the foundations of democratic governance. -- Kathleen Blee, author of Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and ResearchJackson's meticulous research shines a much-needed light on Oath Keepers—a highly visible but little understood domestic extremist organization. Jackson delves into the complexities of the group’s rhetoric and activities, offering important insights into how extremists frame their appeal for wider audiences. An important text on the movement for years to come. -- J. M. Berger, author of ExtremismSam Jackson's Oath Keepers is a welcome addition to the sparse literature on right-wing antigovernment extremists in the United States. His concise but compelling examination of one of the major groups in the militia/patriot movement really adds to our understanding of how such groups conceptualize themselves and their cause and how their beliefs translate into action. -- Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation LeagueJackson’s prescient analysis of antigovernment extremism couldn’t be more timely or important. Oath Keepers is an essential contribution to our understanding of the growing appeal and violent potential of ever-evolving forms of domestic extremism. -- Cynthia Miller-Idriss, author of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far RightJackson provides the most detailed examination of Oath Keepers that we have, developing our understanding of how right-wing extremist groups rhetorically use the past to further their political interests in the present. -- D. J. Mulloy, author of Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to TrumpThis book demystifies an important topic. * Choice *A well-articulated, insightful book that is beneficial to not only scholars, policymakers and practitioners focused on far right extremists, but also general readers concerned about far right groups and 'militias.'...a must read. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Understanding Right-Wing Extremism in the United States2. Introducing Oath Keepers3. An Operational History of Oath Keepers4. The Ongoing Struggle Over Natural Rights5. The American Revolution Redux6. “No More Free Wacos”Conclusion: The Importance of Oath KeepersAcknowledgments Appendix 1: Data and MethodsAppendix 2: Declaration of OrdersNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.50
Columbia University Press The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left
Book SynopsisL. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left. He foregrounds the roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history.Trade ReviewAn invaluable genealogy of some of the major culture forces that gave rise to contemporary 'spiritual politics' in the U.S. * Reading Religion *Rolsky’s work is a useful guide to where we’ve been as well as where we might be going; it encourages us to think about what kind of consensus we may be building, and who we might be including and excluding, along the way. * Society for US Intellectual History Blog *Rise and Fall should garner a wide and varied audience, and it appears intentionally so. It is self-consciously and transparently situated, adeptly self-described in relation to a number of subfields, scholars, and paradigmatic shifts. -- CARA BURNIDGE * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Rolsky's study contributes immensely to our understanding of his work at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. -- David Mislin * Church History *For some who have taken a hiatus from politics and religion, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond by L. Benjamin Rolsky is a must read; a companion to the inevitable upheaval that is on the horizon. If there is one political book that you should read in 2020...it’s this one. -- Eraina Davis * Chicago Now *Although the religious right looms large in histories of the 1970s, the struggle over religion, politics and culture didn’t unfold only on the right. In this lively and engaging study, Rolsky shows how Norman Lear and People for the American Way advanced a strong spiritual vision of civic life from the left. -- Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian AmericaRolsky demonstrates how Norman Lear, the renowned television producer of classic shows like All in the Family, offers a window into the evolution of the religious left in the 1970s and its complex relationship with the moral majority. A fascinating and intriguing history of the intersection between popular culture, religion, and American politics. -- Julian E. Zelizer, coauthor of Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974L. Benjamin Rolsky intends to prod and provoke, and he does so through his sophisticated analysis of the effect of Lear’s work. This is a strong, important, and innovative work. The framing of Lear within the 'politics of religious liberalism,' the explanation of the creation and workings of a mainstream Protestantism that saw itself as a sort of caretaker of the nation, and the challenging and intellectually complex thesis pursued here all highly recommend this as an important work that should draw attention, discussion, and debate. -- Paul Harvey, author of Christianity and Race in the American South: A HistoryThis exceptional, vividly argued book revises the history of religion and politics in the U.S. Rolsky pushes us to see politics as mediated spiritual warfare in which the winner is the one who makes the most accessible entertainment from social outrage. Highly recommended. -- Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming ReligionA highly original examination of the role of television in the so-called culture wars of the 1970s . . . Rolsky’s great contribution is to turn our attention to media, especially television, as a site of religious and political contestation. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religious Liberalism, American Politics, and Public Life1. Norman Lear, the Christian Right, and the Spiritual Politics of the Religious Left2. All in the Family and the Spiritual Politicization of the American Sitcom3. Norman Lear, the FCC, and the Holy War Over American Television4. People for the American Way and Spiritual Politics in Late Twentieth-Century America5. Liberalism as Variety Show: I Love Liberty and the Decline of the Religious LeftConclusion: Religion, Politics, and the Public Square—2019NotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Labor of Reinvention
Book SynopsisLin Zhang explores how the everyday labor of entrepreneurial reinvention is remaking China. She tells the stories of people from diverse class, gender, and age backgrounds across rural, urban, and transnational settings in rich detail, vividly conveying how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China.Trade ReviewThe Labor of Reinvention makes a crucial and timely contribution to scholarship on global digital capitalism and platform studies in East Asia. Drawing on years of ethnographic work, communication, and political economy, Lin Zhang importantly contributes to our understanding of neoliberalism in China and the global creative industries; theorizing the concept of ‘entrepreneurial labor,’ Zhang offers readers a brilliant perspective on digital labor in the post-2008 economy of China. A must-read for anyone working in media and creative industries! -- Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular MisogynyChina’s economic and social restructuring following the 2008 global economic crisis was remarkable, and Zhang tells it with vividness, compassion, and intelligence. The Labor of Reinvention brings a multivalent bottom-up approach to understanding the labor involved in making digital capitalism work in this national context. A gifted storyteller, Zhang makes the experiences of worker families living in a ‘Taobao village’ come alive on the page. -- Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media CollideThe Labor of Reinvention provides a different and much-needed perspective on entrepreneurialism, studies of which have tended to prioritize a white Western subject, and in so doing essentialized others. Zhang insightfully examines the rupture between the promotion and lived experiences of entrepreneurship in the post-recession Chinese context, focusing on entrepreneurial reinvention—the labor of reworking oneself as an entrepreneur—and considers how this reinvention is involved in broader Chinese national economic and social projects. -- Alice E. Marwick, author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media AgeBased on long-term ethnographic research, Lin Zhang’s The Labor of Reinvention vividly delineates the lives and work of urban, rural, and transnational entrepreneurial laborers in post-2008 China. In doing so, the book not only reveals the complex meanings of new entrepreneurial selves in China but also produces a powerful critique of the ideology of entrepreneurialism in global capitalism. A major contribution. -- Guobin Yang, author of The Wuhan Lockdown[A] granular, grass-roots, bottom-up view of the past couple of decades of the development of China’s digital landscape . . . it is a very good book. -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *I highly recommend this book to any scholar in social sciences interested in the Chinese development, and the related entrepreneurial environment, digital platforms, and technological innovation ecosystem. -- Han Chu * Eurasian Geography and Economics *The Labor of Reinvention will inspire research on digital entrepreneurialism and labour studies. -- Jenny Chan * The China Quarterly *Zhang’s book is an engaging read for people studying digital platforms and labor. -- Alberto Lusoli * International Journal of Communication *Zhang provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the new Chinese digital economy and the pivotal role played by entrepreneurship. It avoids a one-sided interpretation of Chinese phenomena from a Western perspective and transcends the grand historical narratives. -- Qianlu Sun * The Communication Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Cult of Entrepreneurialism1. The Labor of Entrepreneurial ReinventionPart I. City in Transition2. Navigating the Investor State: Elite and Grassroots Entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun3. From Science Park to Coworking: ZGC’s Contested Spaces of InnovationPart II. Back to the Countryside4. The Platformization of Family Production: Reinventing Rural Familism and Governance for the E-Commerce Era5. Moving Beyond Shanzhai? The Contradictions of Entrepreneurial Reinvention in Rural ChinaPart III. Transnational Encounters6. Between Individualization and Retraditionalization: Reinventing Self and Work Through Platform-Based DaigouEpilogue: Toward a China ParadigmNotesIndex
£80.00
