Private Is Political
Networked Privacy and Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300229622,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality.
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on ind...
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£20.00
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Sensing the Future
Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9783037787465,
ISBN: HB: 9783037784334,
Lars Muller Publishers,
July 2023
192 pp., 29,7x21,0 cm, 420 colour illus.
192 pp., 29,7x21,0 cm, 420 colour illus.
Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...
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£46.00
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£28.00
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Age of Guilt
The Super-Ego in the Online World
ISBN: HB: 9780300265811,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age.
Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum...
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£18.99
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Manufacturing Consensus
Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity
ISBN: HB: 9780300251234,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
216 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
216 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda.
Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samue...
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£30.00
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Modem World
A Prehistory of Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300248142,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future.
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer network...
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£22.00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 43
Ignorance
ISBN: PB: 9781787388185,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2022
236 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
236 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
We pay a great deal of attention to pursuit of knowledge, but overlook its constant companion: ignorance. Where our world is inundated with information, from 24-hour news and social media and the internet of things, what we do...
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£14.99
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Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
Deception, Disinformation and Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9781787384798,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2022
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
A probing study of how the Gulf's authoritarian regimes hoodwink citizens across the world in digital propaganda wars.
You are being lied to by people who don't even exist.
Digital deception is the new face of information wa...
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£30.00
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: PB: 9780300264753,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work.
Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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£17.99
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Newspaper Axis
Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
ISBN: HB: 9780300256420,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
328 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II.
As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The med...
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£25.00
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Behind the Screen
Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
ISBN: PB: 9780300261479,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 9 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, over 100,000 commercial content mo...
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£17.99
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