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The propaganda model today : filtering perception and awareness
"Thirty years after Chomsky and Herman elaborated the Propaganda Model this title aims to introduce a new generation of readers to it. It presents cutting-edge research demonstrating the model’s general validity as well as new attempts – in the light of digital media and 21st century politics – to critically update, expand, and refine it. International researchers thus analyse the continu…
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- 9781912656196
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- viii, 305p. : ill.
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- 303.375 PRO p
Politicizing digital space : theory, the Internet, and renewing democracy
"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less …
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- 9781911534433
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- vi, 147p. : ill
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- 324.7 SMI p
The media and communications study skills student guide
"All the tips, ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications, are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively. Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards …
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- 9781912656592
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- v, 176p. : ill.
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- 302.23 SPE m
Knowledge in the age of digital capitalism : an introduction to cognitive mat…
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an acc…
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- 9781911534273
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- ix, 261p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 ZUK k
Libraries driving access to knowledge
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss…
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- 9783110263121
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- 402p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- IFLA publications, 151
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- 021.2 LAU l
3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology
This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but not limited to, the work presented at the workshop which was dedicated to 3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology. The volume consists of contributions from …
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- 9783030036355
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- xii, 237p.: ill.
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- 930.102804 McC t
Mobilizing labour for the global cofee market
Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation…
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- 9789048527144
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- 413p.: ill.
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- 950 BRE m
Digital objects, digital subjects : interdisciplinary perspectives on capital…
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists a…
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- 9781912656103
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- iv, 242p. : ill.
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- 303.4834 DIG g
Cultural crowdfunding : platform capitalism, labour and globalization
"This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (an…
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- 9781912656417
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- vii, 118p. : ill.
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- 338.4730223 CUL c
Critical theory of communication : new readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, …
"This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of th…
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- 9781911534075
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- iv, 230p. : ill.
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- 301.01 FUC c
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