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  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    by Craig Aaron, Eric Alterman, C. Edwin Baker, Yochai Benkler, Michael J. Copps, Michael Schudson, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, Chris Hedges, Janine Jackson, Pamela Newkirk, John Nichols, Clay Shirkey, David Simon, Paul Starr, Leonard Downie ...
    Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." — Library JournalThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a ... Read more

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  • After Net Neutrality

    A New Deal for the Digital Age

    by Victor Pickard ...
    Series series The Future Series
    A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communicationThis short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a commodity but as a public good necessary for sustaining democratic ... Read more

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  • Antidemocracy in America

    Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

    by Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen, Alina Das, Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Richard Sennett, Pedro Noguera, Fred Turner, Craig Calhoun, Margaret Levi, Shamus Khan, Gretchen Blake, Patrick Sharkey, Linda Gordon, Richard Shrum, Philip Gorski, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Ashley Farmer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven Lukes, Michelle Jackson, David B. Grusky, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont, Jack Halberstam, Jefferson Cowie, William Julius Wilson, Harel Shapira ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • America's Battle for Media Democracy

    The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform

    by Victor Pickard ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Democracy without Journalism?

    Confronting the Misinformation Society

    by Victor Pickard ...
    As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media outlets--from Facebook to Fox News--play in the spread of misinformation have exposed deep pathologies in American communication systems. Despite these threats to democracy, policy responses have been ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Media Activism in the Digital Age

    Edited by Victor Pickard, Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to this vibrant and evolving field of research.Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Future of Internet Policy

    Edited by Peter Decherney, Victor Pickard ...
    All of the short essays in this volume look past the rhetoric of technological determinism and reliance on the natural logic of the market to consider the power of law and policy to steer new media in one direction or another. Many of the essays look backwards through history or outwards across national borders. They all look forward to how today’s policies will shape the future of the internet ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

    by John Joseph Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse ...
    Series series Best American
    Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, ... Read more

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  • The Misinformation Age

    How False Beliefs Spread

    by Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall ...
    "Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy." — Kirkus ReviewsEditors' choice, The New York Times Book ReviewRecommended reading, Scientific AmericanWhy should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequenc... ... Read more

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  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy

    Communication Politics in Dubious Times

    by Robert W. McChesney ...
    An updated edition of the "penetrating study" examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky).What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since ... Read more

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  • Hacking ISIS

    How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad

    by Malcolm Nance, Chris Sampson ...
    This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson is the terrorism media and cyber warfare expert for the Terror Asymmetric Project and has spent 15 ... Read more

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  • Unspeakable

    by Chris Hedges ...
    Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.The War on Terror is a profitable crusade against convenient enemies. Muslim rage” is an understandable response to US state terror. Rising oligarchy in America has made democracy a sham and turned the electoral process into an increasingly absurd circus. Police violence against minorities is part of a systematic effort to crush ... Read more

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