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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Description
In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
10) Culture warrior
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Examines the cultural war in America between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to transform America into a "secular-progressive" nation, discussing such topics as the media, the War on Terror, religion, and self-interest.
11) The copycat effect: how the media and popular culture trigger the mayhem in tomorrow's headlines
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Publisher
Paraview Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2004
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In this remarkable and strikingly original examination of America post-9/11, Susan Faludi shines a light on the psychological response to the attacks. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why did Americans respond to an assault against their global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore 'traditional' manhood, marriage, and...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it on our computes, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. Here, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"With medical developments, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe to billions, the dissemination of information during the coronavirus pandemic has radically altered social and political landscapes around the world. In this clear-eyed essay, renowned French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Lévy examines the various meanings we have assigned to the coronavirus pandemic, interrogating what...
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power through entertainment. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular...
