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Book Synopsis***NOW IN PAPERBACK***School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a series of readings of school shooting episodes in the United States as well as similar cases in Finland, Germany, and Norway, among others and their relatedness.The book expands the author's central premise from her earlier book Failure to Hold, which explores the hidden curriculum of American culture that is rooted in perceived inequality and the shame, rage, and violence that it provokes. In doing so, it goes further to explore the United States'' outdated perceptual apparatus based on a reflective liberal ideology and presents a new argument about proprioception: the combined effect of a sustained lack of thought (non-cognitive) in action that is engendered by diTrade Review“Beyond Columbine provides a fresh theoretical reading to the expanding corpus on school shootings. It deconstructs previous literature and goes beyond existing knowledge in order to understand virtual violence today. This is very timely book for anyone wishing to understand the phenomenon of mass violence.”—Atte Oksanen, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Tampere, FinlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis – Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» – The Many Tropes of Columbine – Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility – The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract – Of Rogues and Fans – Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration – Conclusion – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook examines the Internet as a communication system the single most pervasive, involving, and global communication system ever created by human beings, with a host of political, economic, cognitive, and sociocultural implications. The Internet crosses all cultural boundaries and is the fastest growing global communication system ever witnessed. The text explores the ways in which the technology of the Internet, beyond its specific content, possesses its own message-generating capabilities that dramatically and decisively affect its users. Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. The concepts, processes, functions, and outcomes of the Internet as a global communication technology are used as a way of testing the validity and reliability of media theories, and media theories are used as a way of identifying the powers and limitations of the Internet as a communicatiTable of ContentsContents: Power and Meanings of the Internet as a Communication System – Traditional Media and the Rise of Digital Communication Technologies – The Past - The Development and Evolution of Digital Technologies – The Future - Predicting the Future of the Digital Revolution – Can or Should a Purpose Be Attributed to Digital Technologies Such as the Internet? – Business of the Internet: Marketing – Internet as a Knowledge and Information Generating System – Social Networking Sites – Connecting on the Internet: Pornography and Dating – Transcending Space, Time, and Class: Video Sharing, Video Gaming, and Praying Online – The Pragmatics of Communication - The Internet as a Coherent and Complete Societal System – The Internet and United States Politics – Privacy, Transparency, and the Internet in America – International, Corporate, and Radical Politics – The Future of the Internet and Web Reconsidered: Back to the Future With Tim Berners-Lee.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook examines the Internet as a communication system the single most pervasive, involving, and global communication system ever created by human beings, with a host of political, economic, cognitive, and sociocultural implications. The Internet crosses all cultural boundaries and is the fastest growing global communication system ever witnessed. The text explores the ways in which the technology of the Internet, beyond its specific content, possesses its own message-generating capabilities that dramatically and decisively affect its users. Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. The concepts, processes, functions, and outcomes of the Internet as a global communication technology are used as a way of testing the validity and reliability of media theories, and media theories are used as a way of identifying the powers and limitations of the Internet as a communicatiTable of ContentsContents: Power and Meanings of the Internet as a Communication System – Traditional Media and the Rise of Digital Communication Technologies – The Past - The Development and Evolution of Digital Technologies – The Future - Predicting the Future of the Digital Revolution – Can or Should a Purpose Be Attributed to Digital Technologies Such as the Internet? – Business of the Internet: Marketing – Internet as a Knowledge and Information Generating System – Social Networking Sites – Connecting on the Internet: Pornography and Dating – Transcending Space, Time, and Class: Video Sharing, Video Gaming, and Praying Online – The Pragmatics of Communication - The Internet as a Coherent and Complete Societal System – The Internet and United States Politics – Privacy, Transparency, and the Internet in America – International, Corporate, and Radical Politics – The Future of the Internet and Web Reconsidered: Back to the Future With Tim Berners-Lee.

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Book SynopsisProminent media scholars have argued that the dissemination of propaganda is an important function of the news media. Yet, despite public controversies about fake news' and misinformation', there has been very little discussion on techniques of propaganda. Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of the military operations in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Egypt. The book demonstrates how humanitarian intervention' and R2P' are only evoked in the news media if so called enemy' countries of Western states are the perpetrators of human rights violations. Zollmann's work evidences that the news media plays a crucial propaganda role in facilitating a selective process of shaming during the build-up towards military interventions. This pTrade Review«Florian Zollmann’s Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention presents a thorough, amply documented extension of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s original Propaganda Model (PM) of the British and German press while also adding findings for the American press. Not only does Zollmann extend the PM geographically, he also updates it with detailed examination of double standards in elite newspaper reporting of recent atrocities in Syria, Libya and Egypt, as well as less recent ones in Kosovo and Iraq.» (Tabe Bergman, European Journal of Communication 33(2) 2018) «[...] I would strongly recommend peace activists get hold of a copy of Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention as it is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the media’s propagandistic role in the West’s often deadly and counterproductive foreign policy.» (Ian Sinclair, Peace News June-July 2018) Full reviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – List of Illustrations – Richard Lance Keeble: Foreword – Introduction: Propaganda, New Militarism and Intervention – Liberal, Hegemonic and Gatekeeper Theories: A Reassessment – The Propaganda Model of Media Performance – Method of Research and Case Selection – The Politics of Intervention – The Politics of Atrocities Management – Conclusion: Media, Propaganda and Intervention – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

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Book SynopsisProminent media scholars have argued that the dissemination of propaganda is an important function of the news media. Yet, despite public controversies about fake news' and misinformation', there has been very little discussion on techniques of propaganda. Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of the military operations in Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Egypt. The book demonstrates how humanitarian intervention' and R2P' are only evoked in the news media if so called enemy' countries of Western states are the perpetrators of human rights violations. Zollmann's work evidences that the news media plays a crucial propaganda role in facilitating a selective process of shaming during the build-up towards military interventions. This pTrade Review«Florian Zollmann’s Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention presents a thorough, amply documented extension of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s original Propaganda Model (PM) of the British and German press while also adding findings for the American press. Not only does Zollmann extend the PM geographically, he also updates it with detailed examination of double standards in elite newspaper reporting of recent atrocities in Syria, Libya and Egypt, as well as less recent ones in Kosovo and Iraq.» (Tabe Bergman, European Journal of Communication 33(2) 2018) «[...] I would strongly recommend peace activists get hold of a copy of Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention as it is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the media’s propagandistic role in the West’s often deadly and counterproductive foreign policy.» (Ian Sinclair, Peace News June-July 2018) Full reviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – List of Illustrations – Richard Lance Keeble: Foreword – Introduction: Propaganda, New Militarism and Intervention – Liberal, Hegemonic and Gatekeeper Theories: A Reassessment – The Propaganda Model of Media Performance – Method of Research and Case Selection – The Politics of Intervention – The Politics of Atrocities Management – Conclusion: Media, Propaganda and Intervention – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book equips students and practicing journalists with information on why and how to implement a course of action for Peace Journalism. Secondary literature and primary examples are used within all chapters to offer a personal examination of the importance of applying concepts of Peace Journalism in the field as journalists cover conflict. Peace Through Media also identifies how journalism and political science are merging in areas related to conflict resolution. By understanding how both the journalists and the political scientists think about Peace Journalism, collaboration may follow and the benefits of finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts may be a possibility.Table of ContentsPreface: Why Peace and Why Media – Acknowledgments – Search for Peace: Why Peace Journalism Is Needed Today – Peace Journalism: Definition and History – Peace Journalism: Theoretical Approaches – Populations Affected by Conflict – Violence: Nature of Contemporary Warfare and Media’s Contribution to Covering Violence – Journalists Learn to Work with Citizen Journalists – How to Search for Truth When There Are Lies, Bias, and Propaganda – Activism and Social Media – How Governments Use Media During Conflict – Action Plan: Teaching Peace Journalism – The Future: Dialogue – Appendix.

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. Conditions of Mediation brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media researchfrom social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies.The new orthodoxy in media studies emphasizes the experience of mediawhether as forms, texts, technics or protocolsmarking a departure from traditional approaches preoccupied with media content or its structural contexts. But phenomenologically informed approaches go beyond merely asking what people do with media. They ask a more profound question: what constitutes the conditions of mediated experience in the first place?Beginning with an accessible introduction, this book invites readers to explore a wide range of phenomenological persTable of ContentsList of Figures – Tim Markham/Scott Rodgers: Introduction: Theorizing Media Phenomenologically – Graham Harman: McLuhan and Phenomenology – Lisa Parks: Signal Territories: Broadcast Infrastructure, Google Earth, and Phenomenology – Paddy Scannell: To the Things Themselves: Thoughts on the Phenomenology of Media – Shaun Moores: Digital Orientations: Movement, Dwelling, and Media Use – Nick Couldry: Phenomenology and Critique: Why We Need a Phenomenology of the Digital World – David M. Berry: Phenomenological Approaches to the Computal: Some Reflections on Computation – Shane Denson: Chapter One: Techno-Phenomenology, Medium as Interface, and the Metaphysics of Change – Eve Forrest: What Does the Body know of Photography? – Ingrid Richardson/Rowan Wilken: Mobile Media and Mediation: The Relational Ontology of Google Glass – Tim Barker: Media In and Out of Time: German Media Science and the Concept of Time – Daniel M . Sutko: Conducting Medial Wills to Power: A Phenomenological Critique of Intellectual Property – Joel McKim: Structures of Experience: Media, Phenomenology, Architecture – Zlatan Krajina: From Non-Place to Place: A Phenomenological Geography of Everyday Living in Media Cities – Eyal Lavi: Mediated Orientation: Phenomenology and the Ambivalence of Everyday (Diasporic) Space – Kenzie Burchell: Finding Time for Goffman: When Absence Is More Telling Than Presence – Brenton J . Malin: Chickens that Like Pink Floyd: Media Physicalism and the Experience of New Technology – Roy Bendor: Interactive World Disclosure (or, an Interface Is Not a Hammer) – Catalin Brylla: Mediating Subjectivity Through Materiality in Documentary Practice .– Matthew F . Jordan: Becoming Quiet: On Mediation, Noise Cancellation, and Commodity Quietness – Contributor Biographies – Index.

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. Conditions of Mediation brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media researchfrom social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies.The new orthodoxy in media studies emphasizes the experience of mediawhether as forms, texts, technics or protocolsmarking a departure from traditional approaches preoccupied with media content or its structural contexts. But phenomenologically informed approaches go beyond merely asking what people do with media. They ask a more profound question: what constitutes the conditions of mediated experience in the first place?Beginning with an accessible introduction, this book invites readers to explore a wide range of phenomenological persTable of ContentsList of Figures – Tim Markham/Scott Rodgers: Introduction: Theorizing Media Phenomenologically – Graham Harman: McLuhan and Phenomenology – Lisa Parks: Signal Territories: Broadcast Infrastructure, Google Earth, and Phenomenology – Paddy Scannell: To the Things Themselves: Thoughts on the Phenomenology of Media – Shaun Moores: Digital Orientations: Movement, Dwelling, and Media Use – Nick Couldry: Phenomenology and Critique: Why We Need a Phenomenology of the Digital World – David M. Berry: Phenomenological Approaches to the Computal: Some Reflections on Computation – Shane Denson: Chapter One: Techno-Phenomenology, Medium as Interface, and the Metaphysics of Change – Eve Forrest: What Does the Body know of Photography? – Ingrid Richardson/Rowan Wilken: Mobile Media and Mediation: The Relational Ontology of Google Glass – Tim Barker: Media In and Out of Time: German Media Science and the Concept of Time – Daniel M . Sutko: Conducting Medial Wills to Power: A Phenomenological Critique of Intellectual Property – Joel McKim: Structures of Experience: Media, Phenomenology, Architecture – Zlatan Krajina: From Non-Place to Place: A Phenomenological Geography of Everyday Living in Media Cities – Eyal Lavi: Mediated Orientation: Phenomenology and the Ambivalence of Everyday (Diasporic) Space – Kenzie Burchell: Finding Time for Goffman: When Absence Is More Telling Than Presence – Brenton J . Malin: Chickens that Like Pink Floyd: Media Physicalism and the Experience of New Technology – Roy Bendor: Interactive World Disclosure (or, an Interface Is Not a Hammer) – Catalin Brylla: Mediating Subjectivity Through Materiality in Documentary Practice .– Matthew F . Jordan: Becoming Quiet: On Mediation, Noise Cancellation, and Commodity Quietness – Contributor Biographies – Index.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores ways to better understand the rhetorical workings of political executives, especially the United States president. Scholars of the presidency, rhetorical theorists and critics, and various authors examine the ways in which presidents use the institution, the media, and popular culture to instantiate, expand, and wield executive power.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Stephen J. Heidt: Introduction: The Study of Presidential Rhetoric in Uncertain Times: Thoughts on Theory and Praxis – Section One: Reading the President through Institutions – Timothy Barney: Cartographer-in-Chief: Maps in Televisual Addresses and the Cold War President as Geographic Educator – Allison M. Prasch: Reading the Presidency In Situ: Obama in Cuba and the Significance of Place in U.S. Presidential Public Address – Milene Ortega/Mary E. Stuckey: The Other Presidential Rhetoric: Rhetorical Mobilization within the White House – Ryan Neville-Shepard: Genre-Busting: Campaign Speech Genres and the Rhetoric of Political Outsiders – Jay P. Childers/Cassandra C. Bird: The Rise of Comforter-in-Chief: Presidential Responses to Violence Since Reagan – Section Two: Reading the Presidency through Interactions – Ronald Walter Greene/Jay Alexander Frank: Obama’s Command: Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Global Duties of a Rhetorical Presidency – Blake Abbott: Unpresidented: Articulating the Presidency in the Age of Trump – Stephen J. Heidt/Damien Smith Pfister: Trump, Twitter, and the Microdiatribe: The Short Circuits of Networked Presidential Public Address – Leah Ceccarelli: Pioneers, Prophets, and Profligates: George W. Bush’s Presidential Interaction with Science – Belinda A. Stillion Southard: Negotiating the Limits of a Multiparty Democracy: Michelle Bachelet’s Rhetoric of Commitment – Section Three: Reading the Presidency through Interruptions – Paul Johnson: The Debt Ceiling Debacle: Presidentialism as Cruel Optimism – Joel M. Lemuel: The Discursive Antecedents to Richard Nixon’s War on Drugs – Leslie J. Harris: Home-Making, Nation-Making: American Womanhood in Progressive Era Presidential Rhetoric – Lisa Corrigan: White “Honky” Liberals, Rhetorical Disidentification, and Black Power during the Johnson Administration – David Zarefsky: Afterword: Reflections on Rhetoric and the Presidency – About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisAvatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatarsnot as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like graphics and glitches. Each chapter accounts for the empirical, theoretical, technical, and popular understandings of these avatar components60 in totalaltogether offering a nuanced explication of avatars-as-assemblages as they matter in contemporary society and in individual experience. The volume is a crossover piece in that, while it delves into complex ideas, it is written in a way that will be accessible and interesting to students, researchers, designers, and practitioners alike.Trade Review“Much like the multiple customization options many games offer to videogame players, Avatar, Assembled offers the reader multiple fascinating angles from which to understand game avatars. Covering the social and technical aspects that make up our digital representations, the book draws on specific game examples, highlights well-known avatars, and brings in classic as well as cutting-edge theory about how and why these representations come to matter to us so much. For games scholars and interested players, this volume is not to be missed.” —Mia Consalvo Professor, Communication Studies Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Jaime Banks: Introduction: (Dis)Assembling the Avatar – Teresa Lynch/Nicholas L. Matthews: Life & Death: The Meaning of (Digital) Existence – James M. Falin/Jorge Peña: Shape & Size: The Body Electric – Kristine L. Nowak: Race & Otherness: The Utopian Promise and Divided Reality – Jesse Fox: Boobs & Butts: The Babes Get the Gaze – Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn: Face & Hair: Looks That Change Behaviors – Hanna Wirman/Rhys Jones: Voice & Sound: Player Contributions to Speech – Sita Popat: Gesture & Movement: Indices of Presence – Mark R. Johnson: Names & Labels: Strategic (De)Identification – William Robinson/David Calvo: Gear & Weaponry: Market Ideologies of Functional and Cosmetic Items – Rabindra A. Ratan: Companions & Vehicles: Permutations of Digital Entities – Kristine Ask/Mark Chen: Alignments & Alliances: Associations of Value – Matthew Grizzard/Changhyun Ahn: Morality & Personality: Perfect and Deviant Selves – Nicholas David Bowman: Relationships & Reputation: Part of the Main(frame) – John Carter McKnight: Headcanon & Lore: Owning the Narrative – Nicolle Lamerichs: Cosplay & Conventions: Exporting the Digital – Andy Boyan/Jaime Banks: Rules & Mechanics: Parameters for Interactivity – John A. Velez: Achievements & Levels: Building Affirmational Resources – Christopher A. Paul: Spells & Statistics: Inside the Black Box – Oskar Milik: Class & Role: Frameworks for (Inter)Action – Isaac Knowles: Resources & Inventories: Useful Fictions – Peter Kudenov: Code & Logic: Procedural Desire – Mark R. Johnson: Glitches & Lag: Unanticipated Variables: Roger Altizer, Jr.: Pixels & Polygons: The Stuff of Light-Beings – Dominic Kao/D. Fox Harrell: Embellishment & Effects: Seduction by Style – Ryan Bown/Gabe Olson: Perspective & Physics: Frames for Play – Edward Downs: Mobility & Context: Of Being and Being There – Casey O’Donnell: Engines & Platforms: Functional Entanglements – Nathan Stevens/Anthony Limperos: Interfaces & Mods: Customizing the Gateway – Daniel Roth, Jean-Luc Lugrin/Sebastian von Mammen/Marc Erich Latoschik: Controllers & Inputs: Masters of Puppets – Tyler T. Ochoa/Jaime Banks: Licensing & Law: Who Owns an Avatar? – Contributors – Ludography – Index.

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Book SynopsisAvatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatarsnot as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like graphics and glitches. Each chapter accounts for the empirical, theoretical, technical, and popular understandings of these avatar components60 in totalaltogether offering a nuanced explication of avatars-as-assemblages as they matter in contemporary society and in individual experience. The volume is a crossover piece in that, while it delves into complex ideas, it is written in a way that will be accessible and interesting to students, researchers, designers, and practitioners alike.Trade Review“Much like the multiple customization options many games offer to videogame players, Avatar, Assembled offers the reader multiple fascinating angles from which to understand game avatars. Covering the social and technical aspects that make up our digital representations, the book draws on specific game examples, highlights well-known avatars, and brings in classic as well as cutting-edge theory about how and why these representations come to matter to us so much. For games scholars and interested players, this volume is not to be missed.” —Mia Consalvo Professor, Communication Studies Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Jaime Banks: Introduction: (Dis)Assembling the Avatar – Teresa Lynch/Nicholas L. Matthews: Life & Death: The Meaning of (Digital) Existence – James M. Falin/Jorge Peña: Shape & Size: The Body Electric – Kristine L. Nowak: Race & Otherness: The Utopian Promise and Divided Reality – Jesse Fox: Boobs & Butts: The Babes Get the Gaze – Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn: Face & Hair: Looks That Change Behaviors – Hanna Wirman/Rhys Jones: Voice & Sound: Player Contributions to Speech – Sita Popat: Gesture & Movement: Indices of Presence – Mark R. Johnson: Names & Labels: Strategic (De)Identification – William Robinson/David Calvo: Gear & Weaponry: Market Ideologies of Functional and Cosmetic Items – Rabindra A. Ratan: Companions & Vehicles: Permutations of Digital Entities – Kristine Ask/Mark Chen: Alignments & Alliances: Associations of Value – Matthew Grizzard/Changhyun Ahn: Morality & Personality: Perfect and Deviant Selves – Nicholas David Bowman: Relationships & Reputation: Part of the Main(frame) – John Carter McKnight: Headcanon & Lore: Owning the Narrative – Nicolle Lamerichs: Cosplay & Conventions: Exporting the Digital – Andy Boyan/Jaime Banks: Rules & Mechanics: Parameters for Interactivity – John A. Velez: Achievements & Levels: Building Affirmational Resources – Christopher A. Paul: Spells & Statistics: Inside the Black Box – Oskar Milik: Class & Role: Frameworks for (Inter)Action – Isaac Knowles: Resources & Inventories: Useful Fictions – Peter Kudenov: Code & Logic: Procedural Desire – Mark R. Johnson: Glitches & Lag: Unanticipated Variables: Roger Altizer, Jr.: Pixels & Polygons: The Stuff of Light-Beings – Dominic Kao/D. Fox Harrell: Embellishment & Effects: Seduction by Style – Ryan Bown/Gabe Olson: Perspective & Physics: Frames for Play – Edward Downs: Mobility & Context: Of Being and Being There – Casey O’Donnell: Engines & Platforms: Functional Entanglements – Nathan Stevens/Anthony Limperos: Interfaces & Mods: Customizing the Gateway – Daniel Roth, Jean-Luc Lugrin/Sebastian von Mammen/Marc Erich Latoschik: Controllers & Inputs: Masters of Puppets – Tyler T. Ochoa/Jaime Banks: Licensing & Law: Who Owns an Avatar? – Contributors – Ludography – Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom virtual assistants to social robots, people are increasingly interacting with intelligent and highly communicative technologies throughout their daily lives. This shift from communicating with people to communicating with people and machines challenges how scholars have theorized and studied communication. Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, and Ourselves addresses this transition in how people communicate and who, or what, they communicate with and the implications of this evolution for communication research. Geared toward scholars interested in people's interactions with technology, this book serves as an introduction to human-machine communication (HMC) as a specific area of study within communication (encompassing human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, and human-agent interaction) and to the research possibilities of HMC. This collection includes papers presented as part of a scholarly conference on HMC, along with inviteTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Preface – Acknowledgments – Andrea L. Guzman: Introduction: "What Is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" – Autumn P. Edwards: Animals, Humans, and Machines: Interactive Implications of Ontological Classification – Eleanor Sandry: Aliveness and the Off-Switch in Human-Robot Relations – Leslie M. Fritz: Child or Product? The Rhetoric of Social Robots – Chad Edwards/Brett Stoll/Autumn P. Edwards/Patric R. Spence/Andrew Gambino: "I’ll Present to the Human": Effects of a Robot Evaluator on Anticipatory Public Speaking Anxiety – Matthew Lombard: Presence Past and Future: Reflections on 25 Years of Presence Technology, Scholarship, and Community – S. Austin Lee/Yuhua (Jake) Liang: Theorizing Verbally Persuasive Robots – Christoph Lutz/Aurelia Tamò: Communicating With Robots: ANTalyzing the Interaction Between Healthcare Robots and Humans With Regards to Privacy – Terje Colbjørnsen: My Algorithm: User Perceptions of Algorithmic Recommendations in Cultural Contexts – Patric R. Spence/David Westerman/Xialing Lin: A Robot Will Take Your Job. How Does That Make You Feel? Examining Perceptions of Robots in the Workplace – Sakari Taipale/Leopoldina Fortunati: Communicating With Machines: Robots as the Next New Media – David J. Gunkel: Ars Ex Machina: Rethinking Responsibility in the Age of Creative Machines – Charles Ess: Ethics in HMC: Recent Developments and Case Studies – Volume Editor – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom virtual assistants to social robots, people are increasingly interacting with intelligent and highly communicative technologies throughout their daily lives. This shift from communicating with people to communicating with people and machines challenges how scholars have theorized and studied communication. Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, and Ourselves addresses this transition in how people communicate and who, or what, they communicate with and the implications of this evolution for communication research. Geared toward scholars interested in people's interactions with technology, this book serves as an introduction to human-machine communication (HMC) as a specific area of study within communication (encompassing human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, and human-agent interaction) and to the research possibilities of HMC. This collection includes papers presented as part of a scholarly conference on HMC, along with inviteTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Preface – Acknowledgments – Andrea L. Guzman: Introduction: "What Is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" – Autumn P. Edwards: Animals, Humans, and Machines: Interactive Implications of Ontological Classification – Eleanor Sandry: Aliveness and the Off-Switch in Human-Robot Relations – Leslie M. Fritz: Child or Product? The Rhetoric of Social Robots – Chad Edwards/Brett Stoll/Autumn P. Edwards/Patric R. Spence/Andrew Gambino: "I’ll Present to the Human": Effects of a Robot Evaluator on Anticipatory Public Speaking Anxiety – Matthew Lombard: Presence Past and Future: Reflections on 25 Years of Presence Technology, Scholarship, and Community – S. Austin Lee/Yuhua (Jake) Liang: Theorizing Verbally Persuasive Robots – Christoph Lutz/Aurelia Tamò: Communicating With Robots: ANTalyzing the Interaction Between Healthcare Robots and Humans With Regards to Privacy – Terje Colbjørnsen: My Algorithm: User Perceptions of Algorithmic Recommendations in Cultural Contexts – Patric R. Spence/David Westerman/Xialing Lin: A Robot Will Take Your Job. How Does That Make You Feel? Examining Perceptions of Robots in the Workplace – Sakari Taipale/Leopoldina Fortunati: Communicating With Machines: Robots as the Next New Media – David J. Gunkel: Ars Ex Machina: Rethinking Responsibility in the Age of Creative Machines – Charles Ess: Ethics in HMC: Recent Developments and Case Studies – Volume Editor – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe continuous evolution of internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities, and interactions. However, those using the internet and social media for research and those tasked with facilitating and monitoring ethical research such as ethical review boards are confronted with a continuously expanding set of ethical dilemmas. Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts directly engages with these discussions and debates, and stimulates new ways to think about and work towards resolving the novel ethical dilemmas we face as internet and social media-based research continues to evolve. The chapters in this book from an esteemed collection of global scholars and researchers offer extensive reflection about currenTrade Review«All in all, this is an excellent collection of chapters on Internet research ethics, which would be of interest to both students and researchers in the field.» (European Journal of Communication, 33/4 2018)Table of ContentsCharles Ess: Foreword: Grounding Internet Research Ethics 3.0: A View from (the) AoIR Introductory Material – Michael Zimmer/Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda: Introduction – Elizabeth Buchanan: Internet Research Ethics: Twenty Years Later – Part One: Challenges – Conceptual Challenges – Anna Lauren Hoffmann/Anne Jonas: Recasting Justice for Internet and Online Industry Research Ethics – Céline Ehrwein Niha: Reaction – Mary Elizabeth Luka/ Mélanie Millette/Jacqueline Wallace: A Feminist Perspective on Ethical Digital Methods – Annette N. Markham: Reaction – .Tobias Matzner/Carsten Ochs: Sorting Things Out Ethically: Privacy as a Research Issue beyond the Individual – Céline Ehrwein Nihan: Reaction – Christian Pentzold: Reaction – D. E. Wittkower: Reaction – Jonathon Hutchinson/Fiona Martin/Aim Sinpeng: Chasing ISIS: Network Power, Distributed Ethics and Responsible Social Media Research – Katleen Gabriels: Reaction – Christian Pentzold: Reaction – Data Challenges – Rebekah Tromble/Daniela Stockmann: Lost Umbrellas: Bias and the Right to Be Forgotten in Social Media Research – Zoetanya Sujon: Reaction – Arvind Narayanan: Reaction – Cornelius Puschmann: Bad Judgment, Bad Ethics? Validity in Computational Social Media Research – Nicholas Proferes: Reaction – Katrin Weller/Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda: To Share or Not to Share? Ethical Challenges in Sharing Social Media-based Research Data – Alex Halavais: Reaction – Bonnie Tijerina: Reaction – Applied Challenges – Yukari Seko/Stephen P. Lewis: “We Tend to Err on the Side of Caution”: Ethical Challenges Facing Canadian Research Ethics Boards When Overseeing Internet Research – Michelle C. Forelle/Sarah Myers West: Reaction – Katleen Gabriels: Reaction – Soraj Hongladarom: Internet Research Ethics in a Non-Western Context – Zoetanya Sujon: Reaction – Part Two: Cases – Philipp Schaer: Living Labs – An Ethical Challenge for Researchers and Platform Operators – Matthew Pittman/Kim Sheehan: Ethics of Using Online Commercial Crowdsourcing Sites for Academic Research: The Case of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – Natalia Grincheva: Museum Ethnography in the Digital Age: Ethical Considerations – James Robson: Participant Anonymity and Participant Observations: Situating the Researcher within Digital Ethnography – Ishani Mukherjee: The Social Age of “It’s Not a Private Problem”: Case Study of Ethical and Privacy Concerns in a Digital Ethnography of South Asian Blogs against Intimate Partner Violence – Ylva Hård af Segerstad/Dick Kasperowski/Christopher Kullenberg/Christine Howes: Studying Closed Communities On-line: Digital Methods and Ethical Considerations beyond Informed Consent and Anonymity – Amaia Eskisabel-Azpiazu/Rebeca Cerezo-Menéndez/Daniel Gayo-Avello: An Ethical Inquiry into Youth Suicide Prevention Using Social Media Mining – Lisbeth Klastrup: Death, Affect and the Ethical Challenges of Outing a Griefsquatter – Lee Humphreys: Locating Locational Data in Mobile and Social Media – David Moats/Jessamy Perriam: How Does It Feel to Be Visualized?: Redistributing Ethics – Part Three: Contexts – Robert Douglas Ferguson: Negotiating Consent, Compensation, and Privacy in Internet Research: PatientsLikeMe.com as a Case Study – Nathaniel Poor: The Ethics of Using Hacked Data: Patreon’s Data Hack and Academic Data Standards – Jeff Shuter/Benjamin Burroughs: The Ethics of Sensory Ethnography: Virtual Reality Fieldwork in Zones of Conflict – Patrick Sweeney: Images of Faces Gleaned from Social Media in Social Psychological Research on Sexual Orientation – Martina Wengenmeir: Twitter Research in the Disaster Context – Ethical Concerns for Working with Historical Datasets – Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda/Michael Zimmer: Epilogue: Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age – Contributor Biographies.

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Book SynopsisThe continuous evolution of internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities, and interactions. However, those using the internet and social media for research and those tasked with facilitating and monitoring ethical research such as ethical review boards are confronted with a continuously expanding set of ethical dilemmas. Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts directly engages with these discussions and debates, and stimulates new ways to think about and work towards resolving the novel ethical dilemmas we face as internet and social media-based research continues to evolve. The chapters in this book from an esteemed collection of global scholars and researchers offer extensive reflection about currenTrade Review«All in all, this is an excellent collection of chapters on Internet research ethics, which would be of interest to both students and researchers in the field.» (European Journal of Communication, 33/4 2018)Table of ContentsCharles Ess: Foreword: Grounding Internet Research Ethics 3.0: A View from (the) AoIR Introductory Material – Michael Zimmer/Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda: Introduction – Elizabeth Buchanan: Internet Research Ethics: Twenty Years Later – Part One: Challenges – Conceptual Challenges – Anna Lauren Hoffmann/Anne Jonas: Recasting Justice for Internet and Online Industry Research Ethics – Céline Ehrwein Niha: Reaction – Mary Elizabeth Luka/ Mélanie Millette/Jacqueline Wallace: A Feminist Perspective on Ethical Digital Methods – Annette N. Markham: Reaction – .Tobias Matzner/Carsten Ochs: Sorting Things Out Ethically: Privacy as a Research Issue beyond the Individual – Céline Ehrwein Nihan: Reaction – Christian Pentzold: Reaction – D. E. Wittkower: Reaction – Jonathon Hutchinson/Fiona Martin/Aim Sinpeng: Chasing ISIS: Network Power, Distributed Ethics and Responsible Social Media Research – Katleen Gabriels: Reaction – Christian Pentzold: Reaction – Data Challenges – Rebekah Tromble/Daniela Stockmann: Lost Umbrellas: Bias and the Right to Be Forgotten in Social Media Research – Zoetanya Sujon: Reaction – Arvind Narayanan: Reaction – Cornelius Puschmann: Bad Judgment, Bad Ethics? Validity in Computational Social Media Research – Nicholas Proferes: Reaction – Katrin Weller/Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda: To Share or Not to Share? Ethical Challenges in Sharing Social Media-based Research Data – Alex Halavais: Reaction – Bonnie Tijerina: Reaction – Applied Challenges – Yukari Seko/Stephen P. Lewis: “We Tend to Err on the Side of Caution”: Ethical Challenges Facing Canadian Research Ethics Boards When Overseeing Internet Research – Michelle C. Forelle/Sarah Myers West: Reaction – Katleen Gabriels: Reaction – Soraj Hongladarom: Internet Research Ethics in a Non-Western Context – Zoetanya Sujon: Reaction – Part Two: Cases – Philipp Schaer: Living Labs – An Ethical Challenge for Researchers and Platform Operators – Matthew Pittman/Kim Sheehan: Ethics of Using Online Commercial Crowdsourcing Sites for Academic Research: The Case of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – Natalia Grincheva: Museum Ethnography in the Digital Age: Ethical Considerations – James Robson: Participant Anonymity and Participant Observations: Situating the Researcher within Digital Ethnography – Ishani Mukherjee: The Social Age of “It’s Not a Private Problem”: Case Study of Ethical and Privacy Concerns in a Digital Ethnography of South Asian Blogs against Intimate Partner Violence – Ylva Hård af Segerstad/Dick Kasperowski/Christopher Kullenberg/Christine Howes: Studying Closed Communities On-line: Digital Methods and Ethical Considerations beyond Informed Consent and Anonymity – Amaia Eskisabel-Azpiazu/Rebeca Cerezo-Menéndez/Daniel Gayo-Avello: An Ethical Inquiry into Youth Suicide Prevention Using Social Media Mining – Lisbeth Klastrup: Death, Affect and the Ethical Challenges of Outing a Griefsquatter – Lee Humphreys: Locating Locational Data in Mobile and Social Media – David Moats/Jessamy Perriam: How Does It Feel to Be Visualized?: Redistributing Ethics – Part Three: Contexts – Robert Douglas Ferguson: Negotiating Consent, Compensation, and Privacy in Internet Research: PatientsLikeMe.com as a Case Study – Nathaniel Poor: The Ethics of Using Hacked Data: Patreon’s Data Hack and Academic Data Standards – Jeff Shuter/Benjamin Burroughs: The Ethics of Sensory Ethnography: Virtual Reality Fieldwork in Zones of Conflict – Patrick Sweeney: Images of Faces Gleaned from Social Media in Social Psychological Research on Sexual Orientation – Martina Wengenmeir: Twitter Research in the Disaster Context – Ethical Concerns for Working with Historical Datasets – Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda/Michael Zimmer: Epilogue: Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age – Contributor Biographies.

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Book SynopsisNew Media, Communication, and Society is a fast, straightforward examination of key topics which will be useful and engaging for both students and professors. It connects students to wide-ranging resources and challenges them to develop their own opinions. Moreover, it encourages students to develop media literacy so they can speak up and make a difference in the world. Short chapters with lots of illustrations encourage reading and provide a springboard for conversation inside and outside of the classroom. Wide-ranging topics spark interest. Chapters include suggestions for additional exploration, a media literacy exercise, and a point that is just for fun. Every chapter includes thought leaders, ranging from leading researchers to business leaders to entrepreneurs, from Socrates to Doug Rushkoff and Lance Strate to Bill Gates.Trade Review“New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming.”—Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut“Finally! A textbook that’s up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here’s an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos.”—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like“Here at last is a textbook with the student’s world in mind. Recently I’ve completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes ‘meeting the students where they are.’ Rather than being centered in the ‘old media’ as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I’m delighted to find a chapter on the ‘dark side’ of the Internet. But the book is far larger than that—30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come.”—Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts“We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the Internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the twenty-first century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide.”—Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human ConditionTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Mary Ann Allison/Cheryl A. Casey: Welcome and How to Use This Book – Mary Ann Allison: You, Media, and the Global Brain – Mary Ann Allison: Commoners Become Media Kings – Cheryl A. Casey: People of the Word – Mary Ann Allison: Networks: A Wealth of Stories – Cheryl A. Casey: Network Structure – Cheryl A. Casey: Big News Power – Cheryl A. Casey: The Dark Side of the Internet – Cheryl A. Casey/Mary Ann Allison: The Physical Side of the Internet – Mary Ann Allison: Hearing and Seeing Different Societies – Cheryl A. Casey: The Medium Is the Message – Cheryl A. Casey: Rewiring Our Social, Political, and Intellectual Lives – Mary Ann Allison: Staying Alive on Facebook – Cheryl A. Casey: Mobiles – Cheryl A. Casey: Digital Gaming – Cheryl A. Casey: Bloggers – Cheryl A. Casey: Information Literacy – Mary Ann Allison: Wikipedia: Not Just Wow! But How? – Mary Ann Allison: Participatory Media – Cheryl A. Casey: Social Media and Mindful Multitasking – Mary Ann Allison: Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed – Mary Ann Allison: Skilled Conversation Is a New Medium – Mary Ann Allison: You Have a Choice – Mary Ann Allison: Does Your Life Depend on Being Connected? – Cheryl A. Casey: New Media Reshapes Governments – Cheryl A. Casey: New Media Reshapes Economics and Jobs – Cheryl A. Casey: Big Data – Cheryl A. Casey: Spotlights: Arab Spring and Chinese Reality TV – Mary Ann Allison: Will ICT-Supported Technology Create Abundance? – Mary Ann Allison: Hyper-Connected Risks: A Global Picture – Mary Ann Allison: A Media Dashboard for Humanity – Mary Ann Allison/Cheryl A. Casey: An End and a Beginning: Seeing Ourselves as Our Global Brain Might See Us – Index.

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Book SynopsisMight it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital media are understood as manual media?Has the academic field of media studies tended to focus too much on media, and not enough on the practices and experiences of daily living that help to give media their meaningfulness? What if media researchers were to pay more attention to knowledge-in-movement or to matters of orientation and habitation, and rather less to those of symbolic representation and cognitive interpretation?Digital Orientations is a bold call for non-media-centric media studies (and ultimately for everyday-life studies) with a non-representational theoretical emphasis. The author engages here with a broad range of work from across the humanities and social sciences, drawing on Merleau-PontTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements – Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice – Conceptualising Place in a World of Flows – Media Uses and Everyday Environmental Experiences: A Positive Critique of Phenomenological Geography – That Familiarity with the World Born of Habit: On Merleau-Ponty and Everyday Media Use – On the Environmental Experiences of Trans-European Migrants: Knowing How to Get Around (with Monika Metykova) – We Find Our Way About Everyday Media Use and Inhabitant Knowledge – Non-Media-Centric Media Studies: A Cross-Generational Conversation (with Zlatan Krajina and David Morley) – Digital Orientations: Ways of the Hand and Practical – Knowing in Media Uses and Other Manual Activities – About the Author – Index.

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Book SynopsisMight it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital media are understood as manual media?Has the academic field of media studies tended to focus too much on media, and not enough on the practices and experiences of daily living that help to give media their meaningfulness? What if media researchers were to pay more attention to knowledge-in-movement or to matters of orientation and habitation, and rather less to those of symbolic representation and cognitive interpretation?Digital Orientations is a bold call for non-media-centric media studies (and ultimately for everyday-life studies) with a non-representational theoretical emphasis. The author engages here with a broad range of work from across the humanities and social sciences, drawing on Merleau-PontTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements – Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice – Conceptualising Place in a World of Flows – Media Uses and Everyday Environmental Experiences: A Positive Critique of Phenomenological Geography – That Familiarity with the World Born of Habit: On Merleau-Ponty and Everyday Media Use – On the Environmental Experiences of Trans-European Migrants: Knowing How to Get Around (with Monika Metykova) – We Find Our Way About Everyday Media Use and Inhabitant Knowledge – Non-Media-Centric Media Studies: A Cross-Generational Conversation (with Zlatan Krajina and David Morley) – Digital Orientations: Ways of the Hand and Practical – Knowing in Media Uses and Other Manual Activities – About the Author – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Culture of Mean is the first book-length feminist critical exploration of representations of youth bullying in media. Bringing into conversation scholarship on feminism, media, new communication technologies, surveillance, gender, race, sexuality, and class, Emily D. Ryalls critically examines the explosion of discourse about youth bullying that has occurred in the United States during the last two decades. Countering the monolithic and extreme cultural reaction to narratives about bullying, Ryalls argues that, while it seems common sense to view bullying as always wrong and dangerous, not all aggression is bullying and it is problematic to assume so, because it becomes very difficult to differentiate between healthy conflict and unhealthy (potentially violent) torment. Moreover, since the label bullying often does not differentiate between teasing, conflict, sexual harassment, and violence, increasingly the most common way to deal with young people accused of bullying Trade Review“The Culture of Mean offers a sea change, asking us to reconsider everything we think we know about bullying. Through careful analysis of both public policy and media myths about bullying—that relational bullying is carried out only by girls and that it is more damaging than physically violent bullying, that bullying and suicide are inextricable, that youth inevitably use new communication technologies to cyberbully—Emily D. Ryalls makes clear that our current cultural response to bullying not only is ineffectual but also perpetuates troubling sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. A cutting-edge and unwavering media analysis useful for media scholars, policy makers, parents, and the countless of us who have both been bullies and bullied.”—Sarah Projansky, University of UtahTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Mean Girls, Cyberbullying, and Bullycide: An Introduction to Bullying Culture – Empowering Ophelia: Postfeminist Empowerment in the Mean Girl Discourse – Bullies in the News: The Tyler Clementi and Phoebe Prince Suicides – "I Can Be a Bitch When I Wanna Be": Queering "Mean Boys" Through Social Aggression – The Hierarchy of Victimhood in Bully – "Beware of Young Girls": Millennial Mean Girls in Scream Queens – Prepping the Queen Bee: Mean Girls and Bad Wannabes on Gossip Girl – Trumping the Myths of Bullying – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Culture of Mean is the first book-length feminist critical exploration of representations of youth bullying in media. Bringing into conversation scholarship on feminism, media, new communication technologies, surveillance, gender, race, sexuality, and class, Emily D. Ryalls critically examines the explosion of discourse about youth bullying that has occurred in the United States during the last two decades. Countering the monolithic and extreme cultural reaction to narratives about bullying, Ryalls argues that, while it seems common sense to view bullying as always wrong and dangerous, not all aggression is bullying and it is problematic to assume so, because it becomes very difficult to differentiate between healthy conflict and unhealthy (potentially violent) torment. Moreover, since the label bullying often does not differentiate between teasing, conflict, sexual harassment, and violence, increasingly the most common way to deal with young people accused of bullying Trade Review“The Culture of Mean offers a sea change, asking us to reconsider everything we think we know about bullying. Through careful analysis of both public policy and media myths about bullying—that relational bullying is carried out only by girls and that it is more damaging than physically violent bullying, that bullying and suicide are inextricable, that youth inevitably use new communication technologies to cyberbully—Emily D. Ryalls makes clear that our current cultural response to bullying not only is ineffectual but also perpetuates troubling sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. A cutting-edge and unwavering media analysis useful for media scholars, policy makers, parents, and the countless of us who have both been bullies and bullied.”—Sarah Projansky, University of UtahTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Mean Girls, Cyberbullying, and Bullycide: An Introduction to Bullying Culture – Empowering Ophelia: Postfeminist Empowerment in the Mean Girl Discourse – Bullies in the News: The Tyler Clementi and Phoebe Prince Suicides – "I Can Be a Bitch When I Wanna Be": Queering "Mean Boys" Through Social Aggression – The Hierarchy of Victimhood in Bully – "Beware of Young Girls": Millennial Mean Girls in Scream Queens – Prepping the Queen Bee: Mean Girls and Bad Wannabes on Gossip Girl – Trumping the Myths of Bullying – Index.

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Book SynopsisMedia Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. Her body of work, spanning four decades, has included groundbreaking conceptual and methodological advances, particularly in the areas of gatekeeping, survey research and content analysis. The chapters in this collection build upon her legacy in both theory and method, and particularly in the area of news research. At the heart of the book are chapters that apply concepts found in Shoemaker's earliest work, such as deviance and newsworthiness, and extend theories such as gatekeeping and agenda-setting into the digital era. Empirical analyses on topics such as international and political news provide insights into journalism in these transitional times. Additional chapters explore digital media and the mediated method. The closing section, Reflections on the Transitional Age, includes two chapters that pay homage to ShoemaTable of ContentsFigures – Tables – Acknowledgements – Michael Roloff: Foreword – Tim P.　Vos and Carol M.　Liebler: Introduction: Examining Media in a Transitional Age – Theorizing the Transitional Age – Hyunjin Seo: Social Change in the Networked Information Age – Gina Masullo Chen: Online Incivility and Public Deliberation – Gang (Kevin) Han and Josh Shear: Influences of Audience Feedback on News Content in Traditional and New Media: A Theoretical Evaluation – Marcos Paulo da Silva: Journalism, Rationality and Common Sense: A Theoretical Model for Relations Between News Selection and Cultural Construction of Everyday Regularity – Suman Lee: Deviance, Social Significance, and International Public Relations: A Synthesized View of Influencing Factors on National Image in News – Dominic L.　Lasorsa: Communication Research as a "Great Crossroads": Bridging Fields of Social Science – Elena Vartanova: Mediating the Digital Message: Agenda-Setting Theory in Modern Russian Media – The Empirical Landscape in a Transitional Age – Maxwell McCombs, Pei Zheng, and Paro Pain: The World through the Eyes of the New York Times and People’s Daily: A Network Agenda-Setting Analysis of Psychological Geography – Di Zhang, Shuya Pan, and Xiuli Wang: Geographical Difference in Media Effects on Political Discussion in China: Economy, Cultural Characteristics and Social Trust – Akiba A.　Cohen: Israelis and Foreign News: A 25-year Follow-up on Interest and Perceived Functions – Jong Hyuk Lee and Yun Jung Choi: Network Analyses of Attention to Deviance and Social Significance Based on Gene and Culture Co-Evolution Theory – Nick Michael and Tim P.　Vos: From Gatekeeping to Bridge-Keeping: Gatekeeping Theory through the Lens of Micro-Documentary – Elizabeth A.　Skewes: Stuck in the Second Tier: News Coverage of the Non-Frontrunners in the 2012 Presidential Campaign – John Wolf: The Psychometry of Sexting: Non-Normative Psychic Desire as a Predictor of Sexual Text Message Engagement – The "Mediated" Method – Erica Scharrer: Documenting the "Mediated Message": The Art and Science of Content Analysis Research – Michael J.　Breen: Just the Facts, Ma’am: Merging Media Content Analysis with Survey Research – Carol M.　Liebler: Content Analysis and Social Justice: Mediated Erasure and News Coverage of Missing Children – Reflections on the Transitional Age – Guido H.　Stempel III: Sixty Years of Challenging Dubious Conclusions – Brenda J.　Wrigley: Queen Bees, Beekeepers, Hives and Ecosystems: The Social Forces Influencing Gender and Diversity in Public Relations and Communication Management – Stephen D.　Reese: The Intellectual Craftsman in a Digital World – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisMedia Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. Her body of work, spanning four decades, has included groundbreaking conceptual and methodological advances, particularly in the areas of gatekeeping, survey research and content analysis. The chapters in this collection build upon her legacy in both theory and method, and particularly in the area of news research. At the heart of the book are chapters that apply concepts found in Shoemaker's earliest work, such as deviance and newsworthiness, and extend theories such as gatekeeping and agenda-setting into the digital era. Empirical analyses on topics such as international and political news provide insights into journalism in these transitional times. Additional chapters explore digital media and the mediated method. The closing section, Reflections on the Transitional Age, includes two chapters that pay homage to ShoemaTable of ContentsFigures – Tables – Acknowledgements – Michael Roloff: Foreword – Tim P.　Vos and Carol M.　Liebler: Introduction: Examining Media in a Transitional Age – Theorizing the Transitional Age – Hyunjin Seo: Social Change in the Networked Information Age – Gina Masullo Chen: Online Incivility and Public Deliberation – Gang (Kevin) Han and Josh Shear: Influences of Audience Feedback on News Content in Traditional and New Media: A Theoretical Evaluation – Marcos Paulo da Silva: Journalism, Rationality and Common Sense: A Theoretical Model for Relations Between News Selection and Cultural Construction of Everyday Regularity – Suman Lee: Deviance, Social Significance, and International Public Relations: A Synthesized View of Influencing Factors on National Image in News – Dominic L.　Lasorsa: Communication Research as a "Great Crossroads": Bridging Fields of Social Science – Elena Vartanova: Mediating the Digital Message: Agenda-Setting Theory in Modern Russian Media – The Empirical Landscape in a Transitional Age – Maxwell McCombs, Pei Zheng, and Paro Pain: The World through the Eyes of the New York Times and People’s Daily: A Network Agenda-Setting Analysis of Psychological Geography – Di Zhang, Shuya Pan, and Xiuli Wang: Geographical Difference in Media Effects on Political Discussion in China: Economy, Cultural Characteristics and Social Trust – Akiba A.　Cohen: Israelis and Foreign News: A 25-year Follow-up on Interest and Perceived Functions – Jong Hyuk Lee and Yun Jung Choi: Network Analyses of Attention to Deviance and Social Significance Based on Gene and Culture Co-Evolution Theory – Nick Michael and Tim P.　Vos: From Gatekeeping to Bridge-Keeping: Gatekeeping Theory through the Lens of Micro-Documentary – Elizabeth A.　Skewes: Stuck in the Second Tier: News Coverage of the Non-Frontrunners in the 2012 Presidential Campaign – John Wolf: The Psychometry of Sexting: Non-Normative Psychic Desire as a Predictor of Sexual Text Message Engagement – The "Mediated" Method – Erica Scharrer: Documenting the "Mediated Message": The Art and Science of Content Analysis Research – Michael J.　Breen: Just the Facts, Ma’am: Merging Media Content Analysis with Survey Research – Carol M.　Liebler: Content Analysis and Social Justice: Mediated Erasure and News Coverage of Missing Children – Reflections on the Transitional Age – Guido H.　Stempel III: Sixty Years of Challenging Dubious Conclusions – Brenda J.　Wrigley: Queen Bees, Beekeepers, Hives and Ecosystems: The Social Forces Influencing Gender and Diversity in Public Relations and Communication Management – Stephen D.　Reese: The Intellectual Craftsman in a Digital World – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Dark Side of Media and Technology: A 21st Century Guide to Media and Technological Literacy is Herculean in its effort to survey for landmines in a rapidly changing media landscape. The book identifies four dark outcomes related to media and technology use in the 21st century, and balances the dark side with four points of light that are the keys to taking ownership of a media- and technology-saturated world. The text contains an impressive list of multi-disciplinary experts and cutting-edge researchers who approach 25 separate dark side issues with concise, highly readable chapters, replete with unique recommendations for navigating our mediated present and future. The Dark Side of Media and Technology is grounded in theory and current research, but possesses an appeal similar to a page-turning dystopian novel; as a result, this volume should be of interest to scholars, students, and curious lay-readers alike. It should be the go-to text for anyone who isTable of ContentsFigures – Preface – Acknowledgements – Edward Downs/Aaron R. Boyson: Dark Matters – Michael William Pfau/David Charles Gore: Propaganda’s Dark Shadow in History, Rhetoric, and Media – Nicholas David Bowman/Elizabeth L. Cohen: Technologies of Mass Deception? War of the Worlds, Twitter, and a History of Fake and Misleading News in the United States–Anthony M. Limperos/Will R. Silberman: Agenda-Setting in the Age of Emergent Online Media and Social Networks: Exploring the Dangers of a News Agenda Influenced by Subversive and Fake Information – Matthew P. McAllister/Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: Understanding Corrosive Elements in the Political Economy of Media – Kalen M. A. Churcher: Paparazzi, Drones, and Privacy – Meghan S. Sanders/Stephanie L. Whitenack: The Role of Media in Perpetuating Stereotypes – Jennifer Stevens Aubrey/Lindsay Roberts: The Dark-Side Gateway of Self-Objectification: Examining the Media’s Role in the Development of Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders – Mary Beth Oliver/Arienne Ferchaud: The Bad Guys: Evil and Immorality in Media Entertainment – Aaron R. Boyson: Copycat Murder: Specious Mimesis or Natural Nemesis? – Jesse Fox/Guanjin Zhang/Jessica Frampton: The Dark Side of Social Networking Sites – Catalina L. Toma/Irene G. Sarmiento: Love and Lies: Deception in Online Dating – Amy Adele Hasinoff: Image-Based Sexual Abuse: It’s Not Revenge and It’s Not Porn – Loreen N. Olson/Roy Schwartzman: Child Sexual Predators’ Luring Communication Goes Online: Reflections and Future Directions – Matthew W. Savage/Douglas M. Deiss: Cyberbullying: Consequences and Coping – Jonathan A. Obar/Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch: Without Consent: The Dark Side of Ignoring the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of Social Media Services – S. Shyam Sundar/Andrew Gambino/Jinyoung Kim: Smart but Nosy: Gratifications of Ubiquitous Media That Threaten Our Privacy – T. Franklin Waddell/James D. Ivory: Dark Shadows in Video Game Effects: Concerns about Violence, Character Portrayals, and Toxic Behavior in Digital Games – Rebecca J. Gilbertson/Kayla M. Walton: Internet Gaming Disorder: Considering Problematic Internet Use as an Addiction – Edward Downs/Jacquelyn Harvey: Mobile Devices, Multitasking, Distraction, and Compulsive Tech Use – Edward Downs/Cheryl Campanella Bracken: Dark Side of Augmented and Virtual Reality – Peter A. H. Peterson/Charern Lee: Leaks Are Forever: Information Security and Cybercrime – Patric R. Spence/Autumn P. Edwards/Chad Edwards/David Nemer/Kenneth A. Lachlan: Rage Against the Machine: Negative Reactions and Antisocial Interactions with Social Bots and Social Robots – David J. Gunkel: The Killer App: Drones and Autonomous Machines – Edward Downs: A Light in the Dark: How Literacy Illuminates the Dark Side – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Dark Side of Media and Technology: A 21st Century Guide to Media and Technological Literacy is Herculean in its effort to survey for landmines in a rapidly changing media landscape. The book identifies four dark outcomes related to media and technology use in the 21st century, and balances the dark side with four points of light that are the keys to taking ownership of a media- and technology-saturated world. The text contains an impressive list of multi-disciplinary experts and cutting-edge researchers who approach 25 separate dark side issues with concise, highly readable chapters, replete with unique recommendations for navigating our mediated present and future. The Dark Side of Media and Technology is grounded in theory and current research, but possesses an appeal similar to a page-turning dystopian novel; as a result, this volume should be of interest to scholars, students, and curious lay-readers alike. It should be the go-to text for anyone who isTable of ContentsFigures – Preface – Acknowledgements – Edward Downs/Aaron R. Boyson: Dark Matters – Michael William Pfau/David Charles Gore: Propaganda’s Dark Shadow in History, Rhetoric, and Media – Nicholas David Bowman/Elizabeth L. Cohen: Technologies of Mass Deception? War of the Worlds, Twitter, and a History of Fake and Misleading News in the United States–Anthony M. Limperos/Will R. Silberman: Agenda-Setting in the Age of Emergent Online Media and Social Networks: Exploring the Dangers of a News Agenda Influenced by Subversive and Fake Information – Matthew P. McAllister/Lars Stoltzfus-Brown: Understanding Corrosive Elements in the Political Economy of Media – Kalen M. A. Churcher: Paparazzi, Drones, and Privacy – Meghan S. Sanders/Stephanie L. Whitenack: The Role of Media in Perpetuating Stereotypes – Jennifer Stevens Aubrey/Lindsay Roberts: The Dark-Side Gateway of Self-Objectification: Examining the Media’s Role in the Development of Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders – Mary Beth Oliver/Arienne Ferchaud: The Bad Guys: Evil and Immorality in Media Entertainment – Aaron R. Boyson: Copycat Murder: Specious Mimesis or Natural Nemesis? – Jesse Fox/Guanjin Zhang/Jessica Frampton: The Dark Side of Social Networking Sites – Catalina L. Toma/Irene G. Sarmiento: Love and Lies: Deception in Online Dating – Amy Adele Hasinoff: Image-Based Sexual Abuse: It’s Not Revenge and It’s Not Porn – Loreen N. Olson/Roy Schwartzman: Child Sexual Predators’ Luring Communication Goes Online: Reflections and Future Directions – Matthew W. Savage/Douglas M. Deiss: Cyberbullying: Consequences and Coping – Jonathan A. Obar/Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch: Without Consent: The Dark Side of Ignoring the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of Social Media Services – S. Shyam Sundar/Andrew Gambino/Jinyoung Kim: Smart but Nosy: Gratifications of Ubiquitous Media That Threaten Our Privacy – T. Franklin Waddell/James D. Ivory: Dark Shadows in Video Game Effects: Concerns about Violence, Character Portrayals, and Toxic Behavior in Digital Games – Rebecca J. Gilbertson/Kayla M. Walton: Internet Gaming Disorder: Considering Problematic Internet Use as an Addiction – Edward Downs/Jacquelyn Harvey: Mobile Devices, Multitasking, Distraction, and Compulsive Tech Use – Edward Downs/Cheryl Campanella Bracken: Dark Side of Augmented and Virtual Reality – Peter A. H. Peterson/Charern Lee: Leaks Are Forever: Information Security and Cybercrime – Patric R. Spence/Autumn P. Edwards/Chad Edwards/David Nemer/Kenneth A. Lachlan: Rage Against the Machine: Negative Reactions and Antisocial Interactions with Social Bots and Social Robots – David J. Gunkel: The Killer App: Drones and Autonomous Machines – Edward Downs: A Light in the Dark: How Literacy Illuminates the Dark Side – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisFranklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. Kennedy was dubbed the first TV president. Ronald Reagan, the so-called Great Communicator, had a conversational way of speaking to the common man. Bill Clinton left his mark on media industries by championing and signing the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. Barack Obama was the first social media presidential campaigner and president. And now there is President Donald J. Trump.Because so much of what has made Donald Trump's candidacy and presidency unconventional has been about communicationhow he has used Twitter to convey his political messages and how the news media and voters have interpreted and responded to his public words and persona21 communication and media scholars examine the Trump phenomenon in Communication in the Age of Trump. This collection of essays and studies, suitable for communication Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Arthur S. Hayes: Introduction – Part I. Blurred Lines: When Reality TV Becomes Political Reality – June Deery: American Idol: Trump’s Administration and Reality TV – Sara S. Hansen/She-Yueh Lee: Young Viewers Turned Voters—How "Wishing to Be Trump" and Other Parasocial Effects From Watching The Apprentice Predict Likeability, Trust, and Support for a Celebrity President – Part II: Campaign and Presidential Rhetoric – Mira Sotirovic/Christopher Benson: Donald Trump "Tells You What He Thinks" – Jason Turcotte: "Enemies of the people": Elites, Attacks, and News Trust in the Era of Trump – Part III: Assessing News Media Performance – Victor Pickard: American Media and the Rise of Trump – Mitchell T. Bard: From Fox News to Fake News: An Anatomy of the Top 20 Fake News Stories on Facebook Before the 2016 Election – Laurel Leff: We’ve Got Mail (But Probably Shouldn’t): The Press, WikiLeaks, and Democratic Disclosures in the 2016 Election – Dianne Bystrom/Kimberly Nelson: The Media Was the Message: Gendered Coverage of Hillary Clinton’s Historic 2016 Campaign for U.S. President – Melissa A. Johnson/Héctor Rendón: Goodbye Neighbor: Mexican News Coverage of the Trump Wall and U.S. Immigration Proposals – Nataliya Roman/John H. Parmelee: A "Political Novice" vs. the "Queen of War": How State-Sponsored Media Framed the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign – Beth Knobel: "Judicious Skepticism": Fact-Checking Trump – Arthur S. Hayes: Trump, the Press Critic: Unethical and Ineffective – Part IV: Why Twitter and Facebook May Never Be The Same – Flora Khoo/William Brown: Tweeting the Election: Comparative Uses of Twitter by Trump and Clinton in the 2016 Election – Jeffrey Delbert: The Commander in Tweets: President Trump’s Use of Twitter to Defend – Tao Fu/ William A. Babcock: Are Algorithms Media Ethics Watchdogs? An Examination of Social Media Data for News – Arthur S. Hayes: Emerging Free Speech and Social Media Law and Policy in the Age of Trump – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisFranklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. Kennedy was dubbed the first TV president. Ronald Reagan, the so-called Great Communicator, had a conversational way of speaking to the common man. Bill Clinton left his mark on media industries by championing and signing the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. Barack Obama was the first social media presidential campaigner and president. And now there is President Donald J. Trump.Because so much of what has made Donald Trump's candidacy and presidency unconventional has been about communicationhow he has used Twitter to convey his political messages and how the news media and voters have interpreted and responded to his public words and persona21 communication and media scholars examine the Trump phenomenon in Communication in the Age of Trump. This collection of essays and studies, suitable for communication Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Arthur S. Hayes: Introduction – Part I. Blurred Lines: When Reality TV Becomes Political Reality – June Deery: American Idol: Trump’s Administration and Reality TV – Sara S. Hansen/She-Yueh Lee: Young Viewers Turned Voters—How "Wishing to Be Trump" and Other Parasocial Effects From Watching The Apprentice Predict Likeability, Trust, and Support for a Celebrity President – Part II: Campaign and Presidential Rhetoric – Mira Sotirovic/Christopher Benson: Donald Trump "Tells You What He Thinks" – Jason Turcotte: "Enemies of the people": Elites, Attacks, and News Trust in the Era of Trump – Part III: Assessing News Media Performance – Victor Pickard: American Media and the Rise of Trump – Mitchell T. Bard: From Fox News to Fake News: An Anatomy of the Top 20 Fake News Stories on Facebook Before the 2016 Election – Laurel Leff: We’ve Got Mail (But Probably Shouldn’t): The Press, WikiLeaks, and Democratic Disclosures in the 2016 Election – Dianne Bystrom/Kimberly Nelson: The Media Was the Message: Gendered Coverage of Hillary Clinton’s Historic 2016 Campaign for U.S. President – Melissa A. Johnson/Héctor Rendón: Goodbye Neighbor: Mexican News Coverage of the Trump Wall and U.S. Immigration Proposals – Nataliya Roman/John H. Parmelee: A "Political Novice" vs. the "Queen of War": How State-Sponsored Media Framed the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign – Beth Knobel: "Judicious Skepticism": Fact-Checking Trump – Arthur S. Hayes: Trump, the Press Critic: Unethical and Ineffective – Part IV: Why Twitter and Facebook May Never Be The Same – Flora Khoo/William Brown: Tweeting the Election: Comparative Uses of Twitter by Trump and Clinton in the 2016 Election – Jeffrey Delbert: The Commander in Tweets: President Trump’s Use of Twitter to Defend – Tao Fu/ William A. Babcock: Are Algorithms Media Ethics Watchdogs? An Examination of Social Media Data for News – Arthur S. Hayes: Emerging Free Speech and Social Media Law and Policy in the Age of Trump – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the fieldboth researchers and practitionersto reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and development. But that mission faces considerable challenges. Media development paradigms are still too frequently associated with Western prejudices, or out of touch with the digital age. As we move past Western blueprints and into an uncertain digital future, what does media development mean? If we are to act meaningfully to shape the future of our increasingly mediated societies, we must answer this question.Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Nicholas Benequista/Susan Abbott/Paul Rothman/Winston Mano: Introduction – Marc Raboy: Global Media: New Issues, Old Story – Monroe E. Price: Media Development and the Market for Loyalties – Mark M. Nelson: Redefining Media Development: A Demand-Driven Approach – Susan Abbott: Evaluating Success: What Should We Be Measuring? – Silvio Waisbord: A Sketch of Media Development: From Meeting Point to Field? – Nicole Stremlau: Media Development and the Political Marketplace – Douglas Griffin: Fake News and Disinformation: Promoting Facts with Press Freedoms – Carolyn M. Byerly: Gender, Research, and Media Development: A Feminist Perspective on Media Structures – Marius Dragomir: Media Capture: Media Ownership, Oligarchs, and the Challenge of Developing Independent Media – Shanthi Kalathil: The New Normal: Transnational Authoritarian Threats to Independent Media – Winston Mano: Refocusing Media Development in Africa – María Soledad Segura: The Impact of Foreign Aid on the Development of Media and Communication in Latin America – Savyasaachi Jain: India’s Media Development Seesaw: Advancement and Vulnerability in the World’s Largest Democracy – Gillian McCormack: The State of Media Development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics – James Deane: How the Fault-lines in Media Development Assistance Make Us Ill-Prepared for the Future: A Densely Potted Historical Analysis – Tatjana Ljubic: Media Literacy in the Context of Media Development: Framework, Interventions, and Assessment – Michelle Betz: Local News: A Shift to Hyperlocal? – Tom Jacobson: Solutions Journalism and a Normative Model for Media Development – Drew Sullivan: The Enduring Place of Investigative Journalism in Media Development – Minna Aslama Horowitz/Davor Marko: Public Service Broadcasting and Media Development – Des Freedman/Jonathan A. Obar: Media Development and Media Reform: Time for Change – Daniel O’Maley: Digital Convergence and Its Implications for Media Development – Michelle J. Foster: The Revenue Paradox of Digital News Media – Tara Susman-Peña: Media Development in the Digital Age – Guy Berger: How Scholarship on Media Development Can Make a Difference – About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the fieldboth researchers and practitionersto reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and development. But that mission faces considerable challenges. Media development paradigms are still too frequently associated with Western prejudices, or out of touch with the digital age. As we move past Western blueprints and into an uncertain digital future, what does media development mean? If we are to act meaningfully to shape the future of our increasingly mediated societies, we must answer this question.Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Nicholas Benequista/Susan Abbott/Paul Rothman/Winston Mano: Introduction – Marc Raboy: Global Media: New Issues, Old Story – Monroe E. Price: Media Development and the Market for Loyalties – Mark M. Nelson: Redefining Media Development: A Demand-Driven Approach – Susan Abbott: Evaluating Success: What Should We Be Measuring? – Silvio Waisbord: A Sketch of Media Development: From Meeting Point to Field? – Nicole Stremlau: Media Development and the Political Marketplace – Douglas Griffin: Fake News and Disinformation: Promoting Facts with Press Freedoms – Carolyn M. Byerly: Gender, Research, and Media Development: A Feminist Perspective on Media Structures – Marius Dragomir: Media Capture: Media Ownership, Oligarchs, and the Challenge of Developing Independent Media – Shanthi Kalathil: The New Normal: Transnational Authoritarian Threats to Independent Media – Winston Mano: Refocusing Media Development in Africa – María Soledad Segura: The Impact of Foreign Aid on the Development of Media and Communication in Latin America – Savyasaachi Jain: India’s Media Development Seesaw: Advancement and Vulnerability in the World’s Largest Democracy – Gillian McCormack: The State of Media Development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics – James Deane: How the Fault-lines in Media Development Assistance Make Us Ill-Prepared for the Future: A Densely Potted Historical Analysis – Tatjana Ljubic: Media Literacy in the Context of Media Development: Framework, Interventions, and Assessment – Michelle Betz: Local News: A Shift to Hyperlocal? – Tom Jacobson: Solutions Journalism and a Normative Model for Media Development – Drew Sullivan: The Enduring Place of Investigative Journalism in Media Development – Minna Aslama Horowitz/Davor Marko: Public Service Broadcasting and Media Development – Des Freedman/Jonathan A. Obar: Media Development and Media Reform: Time for Change – Daniel O’Maley: Digital Convergence and Its Implications for Media Development – Michelle J. Foster: The Revenue Paradox of Digital News Media – Tara Susman-Peña: Media Development in the Digital Age – Guy Berger: How Scholarship on Media Development Can Make a Difference – About the Contributors.

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Book Synopsis***NOW IN PAPERBACK***School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a series of readings of school shooting episodes in the United States as well as similar cases in Finland, Germany, and Norway, among others and their relatedness.The book expands the author's central premise from her earlier book Failure to Hold, which explores the hidden curriculum of American culture that is rooted in perceived inequality and the shame, rage, and violence that it provokes. In doing so, it goes further to explore the United States'' outdated perceptual apparatus based on a reflective liberal ideology and presents a new argument about proprioception: the combined effect of a sustained lack of thought (non-cognitive) in action that is engendered by diTrade Review“Beyond Columbine provides a fresh theoretical reading to the expanding corpus on school shootings. It deconstructs previous literature and goes beyond existing knowledge in order to understand virtual violence today. This is very timely book for anyone wishing to understand the phenomenon of mass violence.”—Atte Oksanen, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Tampere, FinlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis – Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» – The Many Tropes of Columbine – Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility – The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract – Of Rogues and Fans – Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration – Conclusion – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this dizzying post-truth, post-fact, fake news era, the onslaught and speed of potentially untrue, incorrect, or fabricated information (some crafted and weaponized, some carelessly shared) can cause a loss of our intellectual bearings. If we fail to have a common truthful basis for discussions of opinion and policy, the integrity of our democracy is at risk.This up-to-date anthology is designed to provide a survey of technological, ethical, and legal issues raised by falsehoods, particularly social media misinformation. The volume explores visual and data dissemination, business practices, international perspectives, and case studies. With misinformation and misleading information being propagated using a variety of media such as memes, data, charts, photos, tweets, posts, and articles, an understanding of the theory, mechanisms, and changing communication landscape is essential to move in the right direction with academic, industry, and government initiatives to inoculatTable of ContentsList of Figures – Acknowledgments – Angharad N. Valdivia: Foreword: Citification, Mediatization, Theme Park-ification of the Contemporary US Midwest University – Cameron McCarthy/Koeli Moitra Goel/Ergin Bulut/Warren Crichlow/Brenda Nyandiko Sanya/Bryce Henson: Introduction: Understanding the Spaces of New Colonialism: The City, the School, and the Museum – Saskia Sassen: The City: Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory – Cameron McCarthy/Brenda Sanya/Koeli Moitra Goel: Trading in Multiculture: The City and the University in the Age of Globalization – Bryce Henson: Stage of Exception: Carnaval, Political Violence, and Black Life – Ergin Bulut/Başak Can/Nurçin İleri: Cementing Hegemony in New Turkey: The Construction Spectacle of Istanbul and the Rise of Right-Wing Masculine Populism – Koeli Moitra Goel: The "Megacity" as the Face of 21st-Century India: Rethinking Urban Life Beyond the Binaries of Globalism – Koeli Moitra Goel/Cameron McCarthy/Susan Akello Ogwal: The Right to the City: Pauline Lipman Interview, University of Illinois-Chicago, November 5, 2018 – Koeli Moitra Goel/Cameron McCarthy: Colonial Pasts and Global Presence in Citadels of Education: Crafting "World-Class" Futures by Digitalizing Traditions – Nubras Samayeen: A Tale of Two Cities: Dhaka’s Urban Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century – Chamee Yang: Seeing the Future in the Mirror of the Past: Technologies of Cultural Governance and the Reclamation of Creative History in Seoul – Stuart Hall: Museums of Modern Art and the End of History – Durell M. Callier: Blackqueer Pedagogy: (Un)making Memory, Citizenship, and Education – Brenda Nyandiko Sanya/Malathi M. Iyengar: Rural Global City: The US Midwestern Land-Grant University as a Palimpsest of Colonialisms – Karla Palma: The Territory as an Extractive Network: A Reading from the Mining Museum – Brad Evans: Landscapes of Violence: Brad Evans’ Interview of John Akomfrah in the Histories of Violence Series – Natalie Fenton: Afterword: Seeking Resources of Hope for a Different Type of Emancipatory Future? – List of Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this dizzying post-truth, post-fact, fake news era, the onslaught and speed of potentially untrue, incorrect, or fabricated information (some crafted and weaponized, some carelessly shared) can cause a loss of our intellectual bearings. If we fail to have a common truthful basis for discussions of opinion and policy, the integrity of our democracy is at risk.This up-to-date anthology is designed to provide a survey of technological, ethical, and legal issues raised by falsehoods, particularly social media misinformation. The volume explores visual and data dissemination, business practices, international perspectives, and case studies. With misinformation and misleading information being propagated using a variety of media such as memes, data, charts, photos, tweets, posts, and articles, an understanding of the theory, mechanisms, and changing communication landscape is essential to move in the right direction with academic, industry, and government initiatives to inoculatTable of ContentsList of Figures – Acknowledgments – Angharad N. Valdivia: Foreword: Citification, Mediatization, Theme Park-ification of the Contemporary US Midwest University – Cameron McCarthy/Koeli Moitra Goel/Ergin Bulut/Warren Crichlow/Brenda Nyandiko Sanya/Bryce Henson: Introduction: Understanding the Spaces of New Colonialism: The City, the School, and the Museum – Saskia Sassen: The City: Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory – Cameron McCarthy/Brenda Sanya/Koeli Moitra Goel: Trading in Multiculture: The City and the University in the Age of Globalization – Bryce Henson: Stage of Exception: Carnaval, Political Violence, and Black Life – Ergin Bulut/Başak Can/Nurçin İleri: Cementing Hegemony in New Turkey: The Construction Spectacle of Istanbul and the Rise of Right-Wing Masculine Populism – Koeli Moitra Goel: The "Megacity" as the Face of 21st-Century India: Rethinking Urban Life Beyond the Binaries of Globalism – Koeli Moitra Goel/Cameron McCarthy/Susan Akello Ogwal: The Right to the City: Pauline Lipman Interview, University of Illinois-Chicago, November 5, 2018 – Koeli Moitra Goel/Cameron McCarthy: Colonial Pasts and Global Presence in Citadels of Education: Crafting "World-Class" Futures by Digitalizing Traditions – Nubras Samayeen: A Tale of Two Cities: Dhaka’s Urban Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century – Chamee Yang: Seeing the Future in the Mirror of the Past: Technologies of Cultural Governance and the Reclamation of Creative History in Seoul – Stuart Hall: Museums of Modern Art and the End of History – Durell M. Callier: Blackqueer Pedagogy: (Un)making Memory, Citizenship, and Education – Brenda Nyandiko Sanya/Malathi M. Iyengar: Rural Global City: The US Midwestern Land-Grant University as a Palimpsest of Colonialisms – Karla Palma: The Territory as an Extractive Network: A Reading from the Mining Museum – Brad Evans: Landscapes of Violence: Brad Evans’ Interview of John Akomfrah in the Histories of Violence Series – Natalie Fenton: Afterword: Seeking Resources of Hope for a Different Type of Emancipatory Future? – List of Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisAs demonstrated by the 2016 presidential election, memes have become the suasory tactic par excellence for the promotional and recruitment efforts of the Alt-right. Memes are not simply humorous shorthands or pithy assertions, but play a significant role in the machinations of politics and how the public comes to understand and respond to their government and compatriots. Using the tools of rhetorical criticism, the authors detail how memetic persuasion operates, with a particular focus on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. Make America Meme Again reveals the rhetorical principles used to design Alt-right memes, outlining the myriad ways memes lure mainstream audiences to a number of extremist claims. In particular, this book argues that Alt-right memes impact the culture of digital boards and broader public culture by stultifying discourse, thereby shaping how publics congeal. The authors demonstrate that memes are a mechanism that proliferate white nationalism and exclusTrade Review"Make America Meme Again should be of interest to anyone concerned with how internet culture and tactics of persuasion are being deployed by the extreme Right moving into the 2020 election." —New Books Network"Woods and Hahner provide a blueprint for how the Alt-right has been able to transform memes into the dominant tool for their political agenda; subsequent scholars and activists can use this blueprint to work to change the current conjuncture to one more favorable to Leftist politics." —Michael Mario Albrecht, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 8.2 (Fall 2019)Table of ContentsFigures – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Alt-Right Memes and Networks of Public Discourse – The Origins of Alt-Right Memes and Their Proliferation – Pepe the Frog and Iconic Assemblages – Lulz: White Nationalism for the Digital Age – How the Alt-Right Moves: Memes as Tactical Circulation – Silencing the Opposition: Memes as Warfare – Conclusion: The Coming Meme Battles – Index.

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Book SynopsisNetflix's meteoric rise as an online content provider has been well documented and much debated in the popular press and in academic circles as an industry disrupter, while also blamed for ending TV's Golden Age. For academic researchers, Netflix exists at the nexus of multiple fields: internet research, information studies, media studies, and television and has an impact on the creation of culture and how individuals relate to the media they consume. Netflix at the Nexus examines Netflix's broad impact on technology and television from multiple perspectives, including the interface, the content, and user experiences. Chapters by leading international scholars in television and internet studies provide a transnational perspective on Netflix's changing role in the media landscape. As a whole, this collection provides a comprehensive consideration of the impact of streaming television.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables – Acknowledgments – Amber M. Buck/Theo Plothe: Introduction: Netflix at the Nexus – Jana Zündel: TV IV’s New Audience: Netflix’s Business Model and Model Spectators – Annette Markham/Simona Stavrova/Max Schlüter: Netflix, Imagined Affordances, and the Illusion of Control – Luis F. Alvarez León: The Emergence of Netflix and the New Digital Economic Geography of Hollywood – Gabriele Prosperi: Lovemarked Distribution and Consumers’ Behavior: Netflix Communities Versus Piracy Users’ Conduct – Ana Cabral Martins: Netflix and TV-as-Film: A Case Study of Stranger Things and The OA – Jessica Ford: At the Fringes of TV: Liminality and Privilege in Netflix’s Original Scripted Dramedy Series – Jason A. Smith/Briana L. Pocratsky/Marissa Kiss/Christian Rafael Suero: Programming Gendered Content: Industry, Post-feminism, and Netflix’s Serialized Exposition of Jessica Jones – Kimberly Fain: Netflix: Culturally Transformative and Equally Accessible – Oranit Klein Shagrir: From ViKi to Netflix: Crossing Borders and Meshing Cultures – Sheri Chinen Biesen: Transforming Media Production in an Era of "Binge-Watching": Netflix’s Cinematic Long-Form Serial Programming and Reception – Fabio Giglietto/Chiara Checcaglini/Giada Marino/Lella Mazzoli: Binge-Watching the Algorithmic Catalog: Making Sense of Netflix in the Aftermath of the Italian Launch – Daniela Varela Martínez/Anne Kaun: The Netflix Experience: A User-focused Approach to the Netflix Recommendation Algorithm – Theo Plothe/Amber M. Buck: Do Spoilers Matter?: Asynchronous Viewing Habits on Netflix and Twitter – Vanessa Amália D. Valiati: "Are You Still Watching?": Audiovisual Consumption on Digital Platforms and Practices Related to the Routines of Netflix Users – Contributors.

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Book SynopsisPublic Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis dissects crisis communication case studies from both the journalists' and the public relations professionals' perspectives. The authors, Andrea Miller, a former journalist, and Jinx Coleman Broussard, a former public relations professional, interviewed dozens of journalists and PR professionals involved in some of the most visible crises of the last few years: Hurricane Katrina, Ebola in America, the Blue Bell Ice Cream recall, Susan G. Komen vs. Planned Parenthood, race relations in Ferguson, Missouri, and at the University of Missouri, the great flood of Baton Rouge in 2016, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Hundreds of press releases and press stories were also reviewed. The authors provide practical strategies for working journalists and public relations practitioners to enhance the flow of information in a crisis so that audiences and stakeholders can make educated, rational decisions to protect their famiTrade Review“Public Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis is a must-read for journalists, practi-tioners and students—and a fascinating exploration for anyone with interest in a peek behind the curtain at some of our culture’s most pivotal moments. The authors break new ground in bringing together the convergent perspectives of crises from those who experience them, those who man-age them, those who report on them and the social media that engage and sometimes exacerbate them. While crisis prevention, management and mitigation have been the central part of my career and the focus of my writing, presenting and teaching, after just the introduction I came away with a better understanding of crisis and how to best understand and manage them. Far more than just cataloguing elements of a crisis or contrasting the differences among these various inter-ests and perspectives, Miller and Broussard chart a course for a better future for management and coverage of crises. There is no richer text for a unique, thorough, thoughtful study of crisis through differing perspectives and so many recent examples and case studies.” John Deveney, APR, ABC, PRSA Fellow; President and CEO, Deveney Communications“The analysis of actions and interactions on both sides of the aisle (journalism and public rela-tions) in Public Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis offers an opportunity to learn and grow for both public relations professionals and journalists, in addition to students. As a former journalist who became a press secretary and then an academic, I see the tremendous bene-fit in reading about and understanding these case studies for all three groups. Too often, profes-sionals give short shrift to after-action reviews. Miller and Broussard’s book provides insight into pitfalls to avoid and best practices to implement ahead of the crush of a crisis—the first to exam-ine the issue from both perspectives.” Cleo Joffrion Allen, Ph.D., APR, Dillard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Andrea Miller/Jinx Coleman Broussard: Introduction – Andrea Miller: Panic and Outrage: Ebola in America – Jinx Coleman Broussard: Water, Water Everywhere…Again: Hurricane Katrina and the Baton Rouge Great Flood – Andrea Miller: Death and Brand Loyalty: The Sticky Case of Blue Bell Ice Cream – Jinx Coleman Broussard: A Movement in the Heartland, Part I: Ferguson, Missouri – Jinx Coleman Broussard/Shaniece Bickham: A Movement in the Heartland, Part II: Racial Tension at Mizzou – Andrea Miller: Divisive Issue: Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood – Andrea Miller: A National Day of Mourning: Sandy Hook Elementary – Andrea Miller/Jinx Coleman Broussard: Conclusion – Contributor Biography – Index.

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Book SynopsisPublic Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis dissects crisis communication case studies from both the journalists' and the public relations professionals' perspectives. The authors, Andrea Miller, a former journalist, and Jinx Coleman Broussard, a former public relations professional, interviewed dozens of journalists and PR professionals involved in some of the most visible crises of the last few years: Hurricane Katrina, Ebola in America, the Blue Bell Ice Cream recall, Susan G. Komen vs. Planned Parenthood, race relations in Ferguson, Missouri, and at the University of Missouri, the great flood of Baton Rouge in 2016, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Hundreds of press releases and press stories were also reviewed. The authors provide practical strategies for working journalists and public relations practitioners to enhance the flow of information in a crisis so that audiences and stakeholders can make educated, rational decisions to protect their famiTrade Review“Public Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis is a must-read for journalists, practi-tioners and students—and a fascinating exploration for anyone with interest in a peek behind the curtain at some of our culture’s most pivotal moments. The authors break new ground in bringing together the convergent perspectives of crises from those who experience them, those who man-age them, those who report on them and the social media that engage and sometimes exacerbate them. While crisis prevention, management and mitigation have been the central part of my career and the focus of my writing, presenting and teaching, after just the introduction I came away with a better understanding of crisis and how to best understand and manage them. Far more than just cataloguing elements of a crisis or contrasting the differences among these various inter-ests and perspectives, Miller and Broussard chart a course for a better future for management and coverage of crises. There is no richer text for a unique, thorough, thoughtful study of crisis through differing perspectives and so many recent examples and case studies.” John Deveney, APR, ABC, PRSA Fellow; President and CEO, Deveney Communications“The analysis of actions and interactions on both sides of the aisle (journalism and public rela-tions) in Public Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis offers an opportunity to learn and grow for both public relations professionals and journalists, in addition to students. As a former journalist who became a press secretary and then an academic, I see the tremendous bene-fit in reading about and understanding these case studies for all three groups. Too often, profes-sionals give short shrift to after-action reviews. Miller and Broussard’s book provides insight into pitfalls to avoid and best practices to implement ahead of the crush of a crisis—the first to exam-ine the issue from both perspectives.” Cleo Joffrion Allen, Ph.D., APR, Dillard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Andrea Miller/Jinx Coleman Broussard: Introduction – Andrea Miller: Panic and Outrage: Ebola in America – Jinx Coleman Broussard: Water, Water Everywhere…Again: Hurricane Katrina and the Baton Rouge Great Flood – Andrea Miller: Death and Brand Loyalty: The Sticky Case of Blue Bell Ice Cream – Jinx Coleman Broussard: A Movement in the Heartland, Part I: Ferguson, Missouri – Jinx Coleman Broussard/Shaniece Bickham: A Movement in the Heartland, Part II: Racial Tension at Mizzou – Andrea Miller: Divisive Issue: Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood – Andrea Miller: A National Day of Mourning: Sandy Hook Elementary – Andrea Miller/Jinx Coleman Broussard: Conclusion – Contributor Biography – Index.

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Book SynopsisMass communication theories were largely built when we had mass media audiences. The number of television, print, film or other forms of media audiences were largely finite, concentrating people on many of the same core content offerings, whether that be the nightly news or a popular television show. What happens when those audiences splinter? The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication surveys the aftermath of exactly that, noting that very few modern media products have audiences above 12% of the population at any one time. Advancing a new media balkanization theory, Benoit and Billings neither lament nor embrace the new media landscape, opting instead to pinpoint how we must consider mass communication theories and applications in an era of ubiquitous choice.Table of ContentsList of Tables – List of Figures – Preface – Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication – When ‘Mass’ Meant ‘Massive’: Cohesive Audiences and Heavy Impact – Partisan, Hostile, Fake, or Real: The Fragmentation of News – Not ‘Must See’ for Me: The Balkanization of Entertainment – The Customization of America: My Reality Is Not Yours – The Illusion of Modern Mass Media: False Cultural Barometers and Why Nothing Truly ‘Breaks the Internet’ – "Don’t Tell Me; I’m Not Caught Up!": Death of the Watercooler – Media Balkanization Theory: Axioms and Implications – Index.

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Book SynopsisSocial Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social justice media we need to understand their connections to a venerable print culture of dissent. This cultural history seeks to deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist journalism by training the lens of social movement theory back on the nearly forgotten role of eight twentieth-century American social justice journals in effecting significant social change. The book deliberately conflates social movement media with newer and broader conceptions of social justice journalism to highlight changing definitions of journalism in the digital era. It uses framing theory, social movement theory, and theories about the power of facts and emotion in storytelling to show how social movement media practice journalism to mobilize collective action for their cause. After tracing the evolutTrade Review“Ever since Linda J. Lumsden’s incisive biography of Inez Milholland, I have been reading everything she writes. Social Justice Journalism is no exception. Lumsden draws a clear, straight line from the social justice journals of the early twentieth century to the digital social movement advocacy of today that, like its print predecessors, often meets the high journalistic standard of verification.” —Brooke Kroeger, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote; Nellie Bly; and Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception“From the abolitionist press and woman’s suffrage press to the online Resistance media against POTUS45, Linda J. Lumsden brings to life in these pages the energizing history of America’s social justice media. Against often daunting odds for labor, for environmentalists, for civil rights movements, for disabled activists, and others, media activism has been the heart and mind of pressure for progressive change.” —John D. H. Downing, author of Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social MovementsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction: Abolition Editors, Digital Activists, and Social Justice Journalism – Just the Facts? From the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter to William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator – Strike: The New York Call and Socialist Print Culture – Trailblazer: The Sierra Club Bulletin Helps Build the Environmental Movement – Suffragist: Reframing Agitator: The Arkansas State Press Makes Black Lives Matter in 1942 – Bad Boys: El Malcriado and the Making of the United Farm Workers – Ms.: The First Feminist Mass Media Magazine – "Crips" and "Gimps": Creating a Disability Culture in the Disability Rag – FTM Newsletter: Louis Sullivan Finds Himself and Fosters a Movement – Conclusion: Social Media and Social Justice Journalism – Bibliography – Index.

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Book SynopsisSocial Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social justice media we need to understand their connections to a venerable print culture of dissent. This cultural history seeks to deepen and contextualize knowledge about digital activist journalism by training the lens of social movement theory back on the nearly forgotten role of eight twentieth-century American social justice journals in effecting significant social change. The book deliberately conflates "social movement media" with newer and broader conceptions of "social justice journalism" to highlight changing definitions of journalism in the digital era. It uses framing theory, social movement theory, and theories about the power of facts and emotion in storytelling to show how social movement media practice journalism to mobilize collective action for their cause. After tracing the evTrade Review“Ever since Linda J. Lumsden’s incisive biography of Inez Milholland, I have been reading everything she writes. Social Justice Journalism is no exception. Lumsden draws a clear, straight line from the social justice journals of the early twentieth century to the digital social movement advocacy of today that, like its print predecessors, often meets the high journalistic standard of verification.” —Brooke Kroeger, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote; Nellie Bly; and Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception“From the abolitionist press and woman’s suffrage press to the online Resistance media against POTUS45, Linda J. Lumsden brings to life in these pages the energizing history of America’s social justice media. Against often daunting odds for labor, for environmentalists, for civil rights movements, for disabled activists, and others, media activism has been the heart and mind of pressure for progressive change.” —John D. H. Downing, author of Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social MovementsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction: Abolition Editors, Digital Activists, and Social Justice Journalism – Just the Facts? From the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter to William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator – Strike: The New York Call and Socialist Print Culture – Trailblazer: The Sierra Club Bulletin Helps Build the Environmental Movement – Suffragist: Reframing Agitator: The Arkansas State Press Makes Black Lives Matter in 1942 – Bad Boys: El Malcriado and the Making of the United Farm Workers – Ms.: The First Feminist Mass Media Magazine – "Crips" and "Gimps": Creating a Disability Culture in the Disability Rag – FTM Newsletter: Louis Sullivan Finds Himself and Fosters a Movement – Conclusion: Social Media and Social Justice Journalism – Bibliography – Index.

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Book SynopsisPensar el estudio de la comunicación como una guerra implica reconocer que este no es un campo de estudio delimitado por una sola disciplina o una estricta definición del concepto comunicación. Exige, también, identificar diversas tradiciones de investigación, así como explorar los principales dilemas que han guiado varias disciplinas en distintas épocas históricas y latitudes del mundo. Esta colección de tres volúmenes propone, entonces, analizar la comunicación y los medios desde muy diversas trincheras. Estos diversos panoramas, enfoques, tradiciones, épocas, escuelas, autores y sus preocupaciones dialogan entre sí. No hay consensos definitivos; pero tampoco perdedores o ganadores en el debate. La guerra consiste pues, en identificar lo que está en juego; reconocer la diversidad de opiniones e intereses, y; considerar el vasto arsenal disponible para resolver los grandes dilemas de la comunicación.Volumen I. Enfoques disciplinariosEste primer volumen de La

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Book SynopsisPensar el estudio de la comunicación como una guerra implica reconocer que este no es un campo de estudio delimitado por una sola disciplina o una estricta definición del concepto comunicación. Exige, también, identificar diversas tradiciones de investigación, así como explorar los principales dilemas que han guiado varias disciplinas en distintas épocas históricas y latitudes del mundo. Esta colección de tres volúmenes propone, entonces, analizar la comunicación y los medios desde diversas trincheras. Estos diversos panoramas, enfoques, tradiciones, épocas, escuelas, autores y sus preocupaciones dialogan entre sí. No hay consensos definitivos; pero tampoco perdedores o ganadores en el debate. La guerra consiste, entonces, en identificar lo que está en juego, en reconocer la diversidad de opiniones e intereses y en considerar el vasto arsenal disponible para resolver los grandes dilemas de la comunicación.Volumen II. Tradiciones de pensamiento y escuelas<

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Book SynopsisPensar el estudio de la comunicación como una guerra implica reconocer que este no es un campo de estudio delimitado por una sola disciplina o una estricta definición del concepto comunicación. Exige, también, identificar diversas tradiciones de investigación, así como explorar los principales dilemas que han guiado varias disciplinas en distintas épocas históricas y latitudes del mundo. Esta colección de tres volúmenes propone, entonces, analizar la comunicación y los medios desde diversas trincheras. Estos diversos panoramas, enfoques, tradiciones, épocas, escuelas, autores y sus preocupaciones dialogan entre sí. No hay consensos definitivos; pero tampoco perdedores o ganadores en el debate. La guerra consiste, entonces, en identificar lo que está en juego, en reconocer la diversidad de opiniones e intereses y en considerar el vasto arsenal disponible para resolver los grandes dilemas de la comunicación.Volumen II. Tradiciones de pensamiento y escuelas<

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Book SynopsisSurfing the Anthropocene shows how the big tension between the speed and scale of digital media characterizes affective life on the public screen today. An innovative look launched in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, Eric S. Jenkins illustrates how the big tension is reflected in how we feel and talk about digital media. Exploring a variety of modes from following news on Twitter to discussion on Facebook, activism to witnessing police shooting videos, the book demonstrates how responses to the big tension make political activity more like videogames, with an immeditative temporality and attentional spatiality contrasted with meditative and tending modes such as gardening. As a near-monoculture of immeditative, attentional modes emerge, consumerism and affect privilege become reinforced in ways that make addressing the problems of the Anthropocene especially draining and difficult.Original concepts throughout the book, including the big tension but alsoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – Making Sense: New Materialism and Affect Theory – The Time and Space of Gaming, Gardening, and Global Warming – The Digital Atmosphere: Of Love and Smartphones – The Digital Hydrosphere: On Twitter’s Billowing, Prodigious Flood – The Digital Lumisphere: On Surveillance and the Ethics of Witnessing – The Digital Climate: Hot Facebook Meets Cool Democracy – Lessons from the Garden: Ameliorating the Big Tension – Index.

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Book SynopsisSurfing the Anthropocene shows how the big tension between the speed and scale of digital media characterizes affective life on the public screen today. An innovative look launched in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, Eric S. Jenkins illustrates how the big tension is reflected in how we feel and talk about digital media. Exploring a variety of modes from following news on Twitter to discussion on Facebook, activism to witnessing police shooting videos, the book demonstrates how responses to the big tension make political activity more like videogames, with an immeditative temporality and attentional spatiality contrasted with meditative and tending modes such as gardening. As a near-monoculture of immeditative, attentional modes emerge, consumerism and affect privilege become reinforced in ways that make addressing the problems of the Anthropocene especially draining and difficult.Original concepts throughout the book, including the big tension but alsoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – Making Sense: New Materialism and Affect Theory – The Time and Space of Gaming, Gardening, and Global Warming – The Digital Atmosphere: Of Love and Smartphones – The Digital Hydrosphere: On Twitter’s Billowing, Prodigious Flood – The Digital Lumisphere: On Surveillance and the Ethics of Witnessing – The Digital Climate: Hot Facebook Meets Cool Democracy – Lessons from the Garden: Ameliorating the Big Tension – Index.

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