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Air Wars: Television Advertising In Election Campaigns 1952-2004by Darrell M. WestISBN 1568029330 (1-56802-933-0)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns, 1952-1996by Darrell M. WestISBN 1568025807 (1-56802-580-7)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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Alcohol and the Mass Mediaby Marjatta Montonen, Juha PartanenISBN 9289012749 (92-890-1274-9)
Hardcover, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil PostmanISBN 014303653X (0-14-303653-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business'Book summary:A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World. [via]
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Softcover, Viking Pr - Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business: ISBN 0670804541 (0-670-80454-1)
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Lawby Associated PressISBN 0465004881 (0-465-00488-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STYLEBOOK AND BRIEFING ON MEDIA LAw'Book summary:Whether you're a student struggling through Composition 101 or a professional writer on a quest for perfection, The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is always ready to fill the role of trusted advisor to your creative genius. Revised and updated in 2000, this version contains a 40-page section on media law, guides for punctuation and bibliographies, and specialized glossaries for business and sports writing, all in addition to its 280-page generalized stylebook.
Within each section, entries are alphabetized, and searching for an answer is a fairly simple process. Tricky words--those that can be hyphenated (know-how) or not (jukebox), homonyms, nonstandard spellings (mo-ped)--are given their own short entries. Larger categories, such as religions, military titles, the Internet, and datelines, have multiple pages devoted to their explanations, but detail and clarity are brought nicely together in each listing. Many entries concern brand names and trademarks--never again will you question whetherpingpong or Ping-Pong should be used in the flier for your table-tennis tournament.
While a few sections of this book--the ones concerning media law, photo captions, filing the wire, and proofreading marks--will most likely be used by professional and student journalists and editors, the majority of this book is an excellent tool for anyone who ever has to write for the public. Whether it's a newsletter for your badminton league, a training manual for your employees, or a press release detailing your company's quarterly earnings, this stylebook will help you turn out well-written copy that gains the approval of every English teacher you've ever had. --Jill Lightner [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossaryby Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0738207403 (0-7382-0740-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossary'Book summary:More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and more writers --over 1,750,000--have bought The AP Stylebook than any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage, spelling, and grammar for editors. There are separate sections for journalists specializing in sports and business, and complete guidelines for how to write photo captions, proofread text, file copy over the wire, handle copyrights, and avoid libel. This new edition of the Stylebook has been fully updated with fifty new entries and revisions to more than one hundred others in order to keep pace with world events, common usage, and Associated Press procedures. More than 1.7 million copies sold[via]More editions of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossary:
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manualby Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201627043 (0-201-62704-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual'Book summary:The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright. [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manualby Associated Press, the Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201339854 (0-201-33985-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual'Book summary:The world is divided into two types of people: those who wince when they see the words Canadian geese in print, and those who don't. If you are the former, or if you are the latter working for the former, the The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual provides invaluable assistance when you need to get your Canada geese all in a row. Countless newspapers and other publications base their style guides on this manual. The entries are arranged alphabetically and include issues of spelling, punctuation (there is no period in Dr Pepper), grammar, abbreviation, capitalization (Popsicle and Dumpster are, tollhouse cookies aren't), hyphenation (none, surprisingly, in ball point pen), and frequently misused words. There are also longer discussions of things such as Arabic names, chess notation, weather terms, and religious movements. Plus you'll find separate sections on sports writing, business writing, libel, and copyright. [via]
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Associated Press Stylebook: And Libel Manual 1998by Associated PressISBN 0917360168 (0-917360-16-8)
Softcover, Associated Pr
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: Including Guidelines on Photo Captions, Filing the Wire, Proofreaders' Marks, Copyrightby Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0201407175 (0-201-40717-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: With Appendixes on Photo Captions Filing the Wireby Christopher W. FrenchISBN 0440206014 (0-440-20601-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda, Including the Doublespeak Dictionaryby Edward S. Herman, Matt WuerkerISBN 1895431484 (1-895431-48-4)
Softcover, Black Rose Books
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the Newsby Bernard GoldbergISBN 0060520841 (0-06-052084-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Blaming Children: Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the Politics of Hateby Bernard SchisselISBN 1895686830 (1-895686-83-0)
Softcover, Fernwood Books Ltd
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Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracyby James FallowsISBN 0679758569 (0-679-75856-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy'Book summary:A lot of big-shot journalists didn't like this book, a systematic jeremiad about the current sad state of American political journalism. For instance, both the New York Times op-ed page and the New Yorker took pains to excoriate the book and its author--pretty good hints that Fallows is onto something. His point is that greed and intellectual sloth have fostered a political media elite that increasingly focuses on spin and ignores substance at the very time when solving the country's real problems requires all possible nuance. [via]
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Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feelby Jean Kilbourne, Mary PipherISBN 0684866005 (0-684-86600-5)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel'Book summary:"When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?" -- An ad for sneakers
"You can love it without getting your heart broken."
-- An ad for a car
"Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke."
-- A woman in a cigarette ad
Many advertisements these days make us feel as if we have an intimate, even passionate relationship with a product. But as Jean Kilbourne points out in this fascinating and shocking exposé, the dreamlike promise of advertising always leaves us hungry for more. We can never be satisfied, because the products we love cannot love us back.
Drawing upon her knowledge of psychology, media, and women's issues, Kilbourne offers nothing less than a new understanding of a ubiquitous phenomenon in our culture. The average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements a day and watches three years' worth of television ads over the course of a lifetime. Kilbourne paints a gripping portrait of how this barrage of advertising drastically affects young people, especially girls, by offering false promises of rebellion, connection, and control. She also offers a surprising analysis of the way advertising creates and then feeds an addictive mentality that often continues throughout adulthood. [via]
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Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousnessby Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth EwenISBN 0816618909 (0-8166-1890-9)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill - Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness: ISBN 0070198500 (0-07-019850-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness: ISBN 0816618909 (0-8166-1890-9)
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Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertisingby Jean KilbourneISBN 0684865998 (0-684-86599-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising'Book summary:Jean Kilbourne first gained prominence in the 1970s as the maker of Killing Us Softly, a documentary that detailed how the images of women in advertising were destructive for women in real life. In the years since, her thesis hasn't changed much, but the evidence supporting it has accumulated at an overwhelming rate. One of the first points that Kilbourne makes clear in Deadly Persuasion is that advertising does influence people, which is why newspapers and magazines engage in cutthroat competition to convince corporations to place ads in their publications, on the principle that their readership consists of the most valuable demographic. What appear in those ads, though, are images that equate emotional well-being with material acquisition; encourage women--beginning in their teenage years--to work at preserving the one "right" look; and associate rebellion and independence with the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.
Kilbourne is militant on these issues, and some readers may find her positions a bit too extreme, as when she lambastes ads that employ surre alism for imitating a drugged state of altered consciousness or when she declares that most sexual imagery in advertising is "pornographic," elaborating in such a way as to denigrate the very idea of casual sex. And, despite several attempts at grim sarcasm, Deadly Persuasion is ultimately rather humorless. Kilbourne's heart, though, is definitely in the right place, and her demonstration of the extent to which we allow corporations to shape our desires is truly eye-opening. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywoodby Peter BiskindISBN 0684857081 (0-684-85708-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood'Book summary:Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls : The Generation That Transformed Hollywoodby Peter BiskindISBN 0684809966 (0-684-80996-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls : The Generation That Transformed Hollywood'Book summary:Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Essential Mcluhanby Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan, Frank ZingroneISBN 0465019951 (0-465-01995-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Mcluhan'Book summary:Given the profound influence that the writings and teachings of Marshall McLuhan have had in the Information Age, it is surprising how few people have read anything more than context-free excerpts printed in indecipherable day-glo fonts over a background guaranteed to induce vertigo. But once you actually get around to reading McLuhan's ideas about the Global Village, the history of print, and the rise of digital media, you realize that behind the hype he did indeed make many substantive and influential contributions.
Surprisingly, most of McLuhan's seminal books are still out of print (as of 1996). Luckily, this collection of articles and excerpts from his most important books is a comprehensive and accessible overview of the musings of the "Patron Saint of the Digerati". It includes substantial passages from my favorite McLuhan book The Gutenberg Galaxy (a brilliantly provocative academic treatise about the history and consequences of writing and printing), as well as many articles and interviews you wouldn't find in any of his previously published books anyway.
The main weaknesses of this volume are that it does not include excerpts from the hyper-kinetic and image-packed "The Medium is the Massage" -- his main contribution to pop culture of the late '60s -- and that the sources of each passage are noted only in an appendix. It would have been nice if sources were noted at the beginning or end of each linear text, and I hope this is addressed in future editions. Other than these minor editorial quibbles, this book is highly recommended. [via]
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Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, the Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Iconsby David DarkISBN 158743055X (1-58743-055-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, the Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons'Book summary:The term "apocalypse" usually evokes images of mass destruction-burning buildings and nuclear fallout, or even rapture and tribulation. Often, our attempts to interpret the imagery of the book of Revelation seem to carry us far away from our day-to-day existence.
David Dark challenges this narrow understanding in Everyday Apocalypse, calling his readers back to the root of the word, which is "revelation." Through readings of Flannery O'Connor stories and savvy discussion of The Matrix themes, Dark calls us to imagine the apocalypse as a more watchful way of being in the world. He draws on the sometimes unlikely wisdom of popular culture-including The Simpsons and films like The Truman Show-to highlight how the imagination can expose our moral condition. Ultimately, Dark presents apocalypse as honest self-assessment and other-centeredness in the here and now.
This engaging book holds enormous appeal for readers interested in the pursuit of everyday spirituality. It will delight lovers of literature, popular music, and movies, as well as anyone concerned with a Christian response to popular culture. [via]More editions of Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, the Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons:
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 1594200068 (1-59420-006-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity'Book summary:From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" ("The New Yorker"), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. [via]More editions of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity:
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The Hidden Persuadersby Vance Packard, Mark Crispin MillerISBN 097884310X (0-9788431-0-X)
Softcover, Ig Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Persuaders'Book summary:[via]"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon
"Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review
"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy, give or vote at their command--The New Yorker
Originally published in 1957 and now back in print to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packards pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to "persuade" us to buy the products they are selling.
A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, The Hidden Persuaders was the first book to expose the hidden world of motivation research, the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control our actions as consumers. Through analysis of products, political campaigns and television programs of the 1950s, Packard shows how the insidious manipulation practices that have come to dominate todays corporate-driven world began. Featuring an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, The Hidden Persuaders has sold over one million copies, and forever changed the way we look at the world of advertising.
Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Status Seekers, which described American social stratification and behavior, The Waste Makers, which criticizes planned obsolescence, and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.
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Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-Thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Ageby Kathleen McDonnellISBN 1896764371 (1-896764-37-1)
Softcover, Second Story Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-Thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age'Book summary:PARENT ALERT--"Honey, We Lost the Kids is a funny, eye-opening report from the front lines of the revolution in modern childhood. Many parents and experts believe that kids today are growing up too quickly, and that a toxic combination of TV and films, video games and the Internet is robbing them of childhood. In this straight-talking, mind-bending book, Kathleen McDonnell warns us that we can't go back to the time when grown-ups and kids knew their place. [via]
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Information Anxietyby Richard Saul WurmanISBN 0553348566 (0-553-34856-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Information Anxiety 2by Richard S. Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume, Karen WhitehouseISBN 0789724103 (0-7897-2410-3)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Anxiety 2'Book summary:Information might want to be free, but why should we free it? We've got enough troubles keeping track of all the petabits running around untethered already, and we risk a computer counterrevolution if we let the situation get much crazier. Information architect Richard Saul Wurman swept the field clear in 1989 with his groundbreaking book foreseeing the problems of data clutter and proposing a radical new means of organising and presenting knowledge humanistically; he has substantially revised it for the new century as Information Anxiety 2.
This volume is sparklingly clear and readable and offers insight not only to designers, educators and content developers, but also to anyone who needs to communicate effectively through dense clouds of facts. If Wurman occasionally indulges in new-agey pop psychology, his analysis is never muddy and the more hard-headed reader will forgive him soon enough. The discussion alternates between describing the deeply stressful task of absorbing poorly organised data and exploring solutions that require a bit of rethinking but reward such an investment with improved understanding and, maybe, a state change from information to wisdom. We could do worse, and if we don't pay attention to Wurman and his colleagues, we almost certainly will. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Cultureby Stanley J. BaranISBN 1559349603 (1-55934-960-3)
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A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Ageby Barry SandersISBN 0679742859 (0-679-74285-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Is for Ox : Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Wordby Barry SandersISBN 0679417117 (0-679-41711-7)
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Issues in Mass Media and Societyby Alison Alexander, Jarice HansonISBN 1561341207 (1-56134-120-7)
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Kidnapped: How Irresponsible Marketers Are Stealing The Minds Of Your Childrenby Robert H. Reiher, Daniel S. AcuffISBN 1419505033 (1-4195-0503-3)
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Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Rightby Al FrankenISBN 1594130388 (1-59413-038-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right'Book summary:Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill OReilly, and scores of other conservatives whom, he says, are playing loose with the facts. It's a lot of ground to cover, as evidenced by the 43 chapters in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, but the results are often entertaining and insightful. Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator. This unique and vaguely lonely position lends a charming quixotic quality to adventures such as a tense encounter with the Fox News staff at the National Press Club, a challenge to fisticuffs with National Review Editor Rich Lowry, and an oddly sweet admissions visit to ultra-conservative Bob Jones University (with a young research assistant posing as his son when Franken's real-life son refuses to participate in the charade). Less useful are comic book dramatizations of "Supply Side Jesus" and a fictitious Vietnam War story featuring the numerous righties who, Franken intimates, improperly avoided service. And Franken's criticisms of conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity, OReilly, and columnist Coulter, while admirable in their attention to detail, fail to shed much new light on people who have built careers on broad arguments and relentless self-aggrandizement. But Franken is at his best, and most compellingly readable, when he backs off the wackiness and the personal grudges and writes about more personal matters such as the political circus surrounding the memorial service of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. But even on these more serious topics, Franken's wit is still present and, in fact, grows sharper. In a time when much political discourse is composed of rage and shouting, it's refreshing that Al Franken is able to shout in a witty manner. --John Moe [via]
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Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defenceby Mark AchbarISBN 1551640023 (1-55164-002-3)
Softcover, Black Rose Books
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A complete transcript of the film is complemented by key excerpts from the writings, interviews and correspondence. Also included are exchanges between Chomsky and his critics, historical and biographical material, filmmakers' notes, a resource guide, more than 270 stills from the film and 18 "Philosopher All-Stars" Trading Cards!
Mark Achbar has applied a wide range of creative abilities and technical skills to over 50 films, videos, and books. He has worked as editor, researcher and production coordinator.
"A juicily subversive biographical/philosophical documentary bristling and buzzing with ideas."Washington Post
"You will see the whole sweep of the most challenging critic in modern political thought."Boston Globe
"One of our real geniuses, an excellent introduction."Village Voice
"An intellectually challenging crash course in the man's cooly contentious analysis, laying out his thoughts in a package that is clever and accessible."Los Angeles Times
Contents:
The Man. Early Influences. Vietnam A Turning Point. On His Role. The Media. Thought Control in Democratic Societies. A Propaganda Model. The Gulf "War". A Case Study Cambodia & East Timor. Concision A Structural Constraint. "Sports Rap with Noam Chomsky." A Cabal of Anti-Conspiricists. Media in Media, Pennsylvania. Alternative Media. The Linguist. Basic Premises. Nim Chimsky: Chimpanzee. And the Elusive Connection to his Politics. The Social Order. On Education. Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism. Resistance & Critical Analysis. The Critics (Media-Based). William F. Buckley, Jr. "Firing Line". David Frum Journalist, Washington Post. Jeff Greenfield Producer, "Nightline". Karl E. Meyer Editorial Writer, The New York Times. Peter Worthington Editor, The Ottawa Sun. The Critics (Other Elites). Fritz Bolkestein Former Dutch Minister of Defense. Michel Foucault Philosopher. Yossi Olmert Tel Aviv University. John SilberMore editions of Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media : A Primer in Intellectual Self-Defence:
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyISBN 0679720340 (0-679-72034-0)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Noam Chomsky, Edward S. HermanISBN 0375714499 (0-375-71449-9)
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Mass Media and American Politicsby Doris A. GraberISBN 1568029179 (1-56802-917-9)
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propagandaby Noam ChomskyISBN 1583225366 (1-58322-536-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda'Book summary:Noam Chomskys backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracyone in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilsons Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmanns theory of "spectator democracy," in which the public is seen as a "bewildered herd" that needs to be directed, not empowered; and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on "controlling the public mind," and not on informing it. Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies. [via]
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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effectsby Jerome Agel, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 188886902X (1-888869-02-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects'Book summary:The medium used to be the message. But in the "collide-oscopic" barrage of image and text that resulted from Marshall McLuhan's 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the medium becomes the massage. The basic premise of this playful popularization of McLuhan's theories of the electronic revolution will be familiar to readers of his other works: "Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." But more than McLuhan's other work, The Medium Is the Massage also reflects the tumultuous decade in which it was produced, the 60s. It was a time when existentialism, the theatrr of the absurd, "happenings," and Eastern religions were all the rage in academic circles. Massage adds to that mix traces of utopianism ("We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art"; a hint of radicalism (of electronic circuitry McLuhan says: "Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable."); and a bracing pinch of paranoia ("Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance" have brought us "to a point where remedial control, born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must be exerted."). True to its observation that "information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously," McLuhan and Fiore shower us with photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines, backwards and upside-down writing, and other graphical innovations. The book is also packed with quotations from a motley collection of savants (in addition to McLuhan himself, of course): Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Lao Tsu, John Dewey, John Cage, and Bob Dylan. The book's design and content aptly, and palpably, demonstrate the insights that have caused many highly stimulated readers to pronounce McLuhan a visionary, a veritable "oracle of the electronic age." --Russell Prather [via]
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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effectsby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 1584230703 (1-58423-070-3)
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The Medium Is the Messageby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 0671689975 (0-671-68997-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Nail 'Em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities & Businessesby Eric DezenhallISBN 1591020476 (1-59102-047-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Nanaby Chuk PalahniukISBN 8497935136 (84-9793-513-6)
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societiesby Noam ChomskyISBN 0887845746 (0-88784-574-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies'Book summary:This is an essential introduction to the "propaganda model" of media analysis. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us that resistance is possible, necessary and effective.[via]More editions of Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies:
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On Televisionby Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst FergusonISBN 1565845129 (1-56584-512-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Television'Book summary:Television permeates our culture like no other medium. Sitcoms, sports, murder trials, fast-food commercials, and distant wars are beamed into our homes in an endless stream. Given its pervasiveness, and the ways in which it shapes our view of the world outside our homes, it is vital that a rigorous critical apparatus exists to help us understand what all this TV means. On Television is a transcript of two lectures given by French critic Pierre Bourdieu, in which he expresses his concern that television in its current form is "a threat to political life and to democracy itself." He argues that television provides only the illusion of freedom, and that almost every image that reaches the screen is thoroughly mediated by corporate and political interests. The desire for larger audiences results in a medium that caters to the shortest attention span, and the news is reduced to a series of prepackaged sound bites and sensational video footage. On the networks, if it bleeds it leads.
Bourdieu's critique may be dismissed by some as excessively pessimistic, and he offers few solutions to the problems that he describes. Yet although the end may not be as nigh as Bourdieu imagines, the influence of television continues to grow, and this is a fascinating contribution to an increasingly important debate.--Simon Leake [via]
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Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Humanby Gloria Degaetano, Diane DreherISBN 1932181121 (1-932181-12-1)
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Regarding the Pain of Othersby Susan SontagISBN 0312422199 (0-312-42219-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regarding the Pain of Others'Book summary:A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects[via]
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock?
In her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001.
As John Berger wrote when On Photography was first published, "All future discussions or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book." Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will be equally essential. It will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.More editions of Regarding the Pain of Others:
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Timesby Robert Waterman McChesneyISBN 1565846346 (1-56584-634-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times'Book summary:Robert McChesney makes no bones about it: he is a democrat with a small "d," and in this book, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, that spells leftist. As a media scholar (McChesney is a communications professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), he is primarily concerned with "the contradiction," as he puts it, "between a for-profit, highly concentrated, advertising-saturated, corporate media system and the communication requirements of a democratic society." As a citizen, he favors resolving this contradiction through measures that would make your average CEO's skin crawl: massive government subsidies for nonprofit journalism, vigorous antitrust litigation aimed at media conglomerates, and robust regulation of corporate broadcasters.
If your politics lie anywhere to the right of Ralph Nader's, in other words, don't come to this book looking for validation. But for a stimulating, nuanced, and rigorously researched presentation of the case for overhauling the current media regime, look no further. McChesney displays a sure grasp of today's fast-evolving, high-tech mediascape, and his arguments about how to shape its future evolution (especially his critique of the now-prevalent idea that corporations deserve First Amendment rights) unfold with an often-startling common sense. Whether or not you agree with his prescriptions in the end, McChesney's sweepingly expansive notions of democracy--and of the importance of media within it--demand to be reckoned with. --Julian Dibbell [via]
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Space and the American Imaginationby Howard E. McCurdyISBN 1560984457 (1-56098-445-7)
Softcover, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Space and the American Imagination'Book summary:Examining popular images that have helped motivate the most ambitious civil space program in the world, McCurdy argues that the spacefaring dream tapped into several of America's most deeply rooted cultural ideals. He also explains how space advocates, playing on the public's Cold War fears, convinced politicians that control of space meant control of the earth.He also contends that the gaps between expectations and reality led to public policy obligated to entertain as well as inform. 43 photos. [via]
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Spy TVby David BurkeISBN 1899866256 (1-899866-25-6)
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Stylebook 2005by Norm GoldsteinISBN 0917360249 (0-917360-24-9)
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Sustaining Democracy?: Journalism and the Politics of Objectivityby Robert A. Hackett, Yuezhi ZhaoISBN 1551930137 (1-55193-013-7)
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Television and the Teaching of Englishby Neil PostmanISBN 0891974458 (0-89197-445-8)
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0262631598 (0-262-63159-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'Book summary:Though he was once proclaimed "the oracle of the electronic age," perhaps the world was not quite ready for Marshall McLuhan when he came to prominence in the 1960s. With the advent of digital technology, the Internet, and the global economy, however, there can be little doubt that he is relevant now. Understanding Media is one of McLuhan's most popular books, offering some of his more pungent and provocative insights on our need to adapt from a relatively slow, fragmented mechanical age to a high-speed, highly integrated electronic one. McLuhan's formidable intelligence and imagination make it both enlightening and fun to read. Northrop Frye, McLuhan's colleague at the University of Toronto, once identified "the use of paradox and the pretence of naïveté" as the two primary tactics of teaching. From his own bag of tricks McLuhan adds obscurity ("Our world has become compressional by dramatic reversal"); hyperbole ("We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time"); tautology ("TV is environmental and imperceptible, like all environments"); and the occasional dash of absurdist whimsy ("As extension of man the chair is a specialist ablation of the posterior, a sort of ablative absolute of backside, whereas the couch extends the integral being"). McLuhan also has a flare for the catchy phrase, and in Understanding Media the reader will find his famous dictum "the medium is the message" as well as the distinction between "hot" and "cool" media discussed at length.
After setting forth a few general principles, Understanding Media conjures a fly's-eye view of late-20th-century culture, with short sections on writing, speech, comics, telephones, television, money, movies, weapons, and much more. And while the discussion is rippling with uncanny, sometimes visionary, insight, its author remains an earnest humanist at heart. "The aspiration of our time for wholeness, empathy and depth of awareness," McLuhan says, "is a natural adjunct of electronic technology.& There is a deep faith to be found in this new attitude." --Russell Prather [via]
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Understanding Media; The Extension of Manby Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence GordonISBN 1584230738 (1-58423-073-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Critical Edition'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracyby Don Hazen, Julie WinokurISBN 1565843800 (1-56584-380-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy'Book summary:Filled with up-to-the-minute facts, figures, and commentary, the book features over 100 of the leading journalists, media critics, and experts in the country on: who owns and controls the media; how the rapidly expanding empires of Disney, Time Warner, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, and other media conglomerates affect what you see, hear and read; how political considerations and the radical right influence what gets on the air and who gets left out of the picture; and how advertising pervades virtually every second of your life. We the Media also highlights the alternatives - organizations, leaders, and the media makers who are successfully fighting the conglomerates and demanding that media and democracy go together. Our media system has been transformed and our lives will be changed in ways we don't even know yet. But we can do something about it. We the Media is a survival guide to navigating the brave new media landscape. [via]
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Welcome to the Desert of the Realby Slavoj ZizekISBN 1888301961 (1-888301-96-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Welcome to the Desert of the Real'Book summary:Alain Badiou identified as the key feature of the XXth century the "passion of the Real (la passion du réel)": in contrast to the XIXth century of the utopian or scientific projects and ideals, plans about the future, the XXth century aimed at delivering the thing itself, at directly realizing the longer - for New Order. The ultimate and defining experience of the XXth century was the direct experience of the Real as opposed to the everyday social reality - the Real in its extreme violence as the price to be paid for peeling off the deceiving layers of reality.
So, if the passion of the Real ends up with the pure semblance of the political theater, then, in an exact inversion, the postmodern passion of the semblance of the Last Men ends up in a kind of Real. [via]
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Datesby Slavoj ZizekISBN 1859844219 (1-85984-421-9)
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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Mediaby Susan J. DouglasISBN 0812925300 (0-8129-2530-0)
Softcover, Times Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media'Book summary:An insightful, witty, and well-written analysis of the effects of mass-media on women in late 20th-century American culture. Douglas cuts through the fluff that spews from the tube with a finely-honed sense of the absurd that can forever change (or minimally, inform) how you perceive the changing portrayals of women by the media. The only book I know of that has been given highest recommendations by Gloria Steinem, The McLaughlin Group, and Amazon.com. [via]
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You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Mythsby Russell KickISBN 0966410076 (0-9664100-7-6)
Softcover, Disinformation Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths'Book summary:You Are Being Lied To is a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society in general. No one is spared, and all sacred cows are candidates for the grinder.
Do you believe any of the following?
- Alcoholics Anonymous is effective.
- Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation.
- There's a hidden code in the Bible.
- The Big Bang is an airtight fact.
- Thousands of species have gone extinct because of deforestation.
- Licking certain toads will get you high.
- Most terrorists are Middle Eastern.
Wake up! You're being lied to.
This book acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths, and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment, and others who want to keep the truth from us. An unprecedented group of researchers--investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars--paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.
Among the revelations inside:
- Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg on John McCain's efforts to conceal information on POW/MIAs
- Howard Bloom on liars in the media
- Riane Eisler on the realities of human nature
- James Ridgeway on tainted blood and more
- Jim Marrs on missing evidence in important cases
- Greenpeace cofounder Peter Moore on environmental myths
- Michael Parenti on atrocities in Kosovo
- Douglas Rushkoff on the information arms race
- Gary Webb on the gutless corporate media
- Howard Zinn on Columbus
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Apocalipticos E Integradosby Umberto EcoISBN 8472238695 (84-7223-869-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier Y Clay/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 8497932951 (84-9793-295-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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La Condicion Postmoderna/ Postmodern Conditionby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 8437604664 (84-376-0466-4)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Las Ideologias En El Periodismoby Octavio AguileraISBN 8428317356 (84-283-1735-6)
Hardcover, Paraninfo
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El Imperio De Lo Efimeroby LipovetskyISBN 843391328X (84-339-1328-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Manipulacion De La Informacion Televisivaby Lorenzo VilchesISBN 8475095151 (84-7509-515-1)
Hardcover, Ediciones Paidos
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El Medio Es El Masaje/ The Media is the Massage: Un Inventario De Efectos/ an Inventory of Effectsby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 847509015X (84-7509-015-X)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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La Condition Postmoderne: Rapport Sur Le Savoirby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 2707302767 (2-7073-0276-7)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Condition Postmoderne: Rapport Sur Le Savoir'Book summary:La crise de l'université, l'apparition d'une nouvelle classe sociale - les cadres - l'incidence des transformations technologiques sur le savoir scientifique, la traduction de la connaissance en quantité d'information, tout cela concourre à se poser la question du statut du savoir dans les sociétés post-industrielles, autrement dit à se demander si l'informatisation ne nous conduit pas à reconsidérer certains aspects de la transformation du savoir ainsi que ses conséquences politiques, sur la société et l'État. Examinant la représentation de la société contemporaine telle qu'elle apparaît aux technocrates ou aux marxistes, l'auteur pose la question du savoir par rapport au pouvoir :" Qui décide ce qu'est savoir et qui sait ce qu'il convient de décider. " À l'âge de l'informatique, la question du savoir est plus que jamais celle du gouvernement et elle ne peut se réduire à l'alternative d'un savoir, soit " technologique ", soit " critique ". La remise en question du savoir est un problème de société qui ne peut se limiter au seul savoir scientifique, à la connaissance, ou à la valeur d'un énoncé. Pour s'interroger sur le savoir scientifique, il faut le confronter au savoir narratif dont le récit est la forme par excellence, et qui a toujours existé dans les sociétés précédentes. Mais, le savoir postmoderne n'est pas seulement l'instrument des pouvoirs : il raffine notre sensibilité aux différences et renforce notre capacité de supporter l'incommensurable. Lui-même ne trouve pas sa raison dans l'homologie des experts, mais dans la paralogie des inventeurs. [via]
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La Guerre Des Reves: Exercices D'ethno-Fictionby Marc AugeISBN 2020195062 (2-02-019506-2)
Hardcover, Seuil
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Sur La Television: Suivi De L'emprise Du Journalismeby Pierre BourdieuISBN 2912107008 (2-912107-00-8)
Hardcover, Liber editions
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A Sociedade Do Sonho: Comunicacao, Cultura E Consumoby Everardo P. Guimaraes RochaISBN 8585756055 (85-85756-05-5)
Hardcover, Mauad
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Justica, Comunicacao Social E Poderby Antonio Nunes, Carla SilveiraISBN 9722411004 (972-24-1100-4)
Hardcover, Livros Horizonte
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Die Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum: Oder, Wie Gewalt Entstehen Und Wohin Sie Fuhren Kann Erzahlungby Heinrich BollISBN 3462010336 (3-462-01033-6)
Hardcover, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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