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Antisocial media : how facebook disconnects US and undermines democracy
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ISBN: 9780190841164 0190841168 9780190056544 0190056541 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press,

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If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems. And it's an indictment of how "social media" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of Trump's election to the exploitation of the platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines. Facebook grew out of an ideological commitment to data-driven decision making and logical thinking. Its culture is explicitly tolerant of difference and dissent. Both its market orientation and its labor force are global. It preaches the power of connectivity to change lives for the better. Indeed, no company better represents the dream of a fully connected planet "sharing" words, ideas, and images, and no company has better leveraged those ideas into wealth and influence. Yet no company has contributed more to the global collapse of basic tenets of deliberation and democracy. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong.


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50 feminist art manifestos
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ISBN: 9780992693466 0992693462 Year: 2022 Publisher: London KT Press

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"This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feminist protests. Introductory essay by Katy Deepwell, with notes on each manifesto. What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional mission statement, nor religious dogma; neither a poem, nor a book. As a form of literature, manifestos occupy a specific place in the history of public discourse as a means to communicate radical ideas. Distributed as often ephemeral documents, as leaflets or pamphlets in political campaigns or as announcements of the formation of new parties or new avant-gardes, manifestos above all declare what its authors are for and against, and ask people who read them to join them, to understand, to share these ideas. The feminist art manifestos in this anthology do all of these things as they explore the potential and possibilities of women's cultural production as visual artists"-- Publisher's website.

Communication and class struggle
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ISBN: 0884770184 0884770117 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): International general

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communicatiesociologie --- populaire cultuur --- -Communication and traffic --- -#SBIB:309H1013 --- Communications industries --- Traffic --- Communication and traffic. --- Communication in the social sciences. --- 316.77 --- 323.4 --- Communication --- Communication in politics --- Communication in the social sciences --- Mass media --- #SBIB:309H1015 --- #SBIB:309H1016 --- #SBIB:309H1012 --- #SBIB:309H02 --- Political communication --- Mass communication --- Communication, Primitive --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Communicatiesociologie --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- 323.4 Klassenstrijd--(sociaal politieke aspecten) --- Klassenstrijd--(sociaal politieke aspecten) --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Media algemeen: bedrijfseconomische aspecten, productie- en distributiestructuren --- Media: politieke, juridische, ethische, ideologische aspecten (incl. privacy) --- Media: socio-culturele aspecten (massamedia en maatschappij, met inbegrip van cultuurhistorische werken en werken over de maatschappelijke en politieke effecten van de (diverse) media) --- Media: communicatiepolitieke aspecten / mediabeleid (nationaal en internationaal) --- Communicatiewetenschap: algemeen --- Communication and traffic --- #SBIB:309H1013 --- Social sciences --- Political science --- Transportation --- Communication and culture --- sociale klassen --- socialisme --- imperialisme --- communicatie --- liberalisme --- Mass communications --- kapitalisme --- Communication in politics. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Information, Théorie de l'. --- Mass media Political aspects

Perspectives on global culture.
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ISBN: 0335205704 0335205690 9780335205691 9780335205707 9780335225682 0335225683 1280953950 9781280953958 9786610953950 6610953953 Year: 2006 Publisher: Maidenhead Open university press

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David Morley, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths College, UK. '"Rawaswami Harindranath's lively book provides us with a comprehensive and engaging overview of the views from the margins in the global debate about globalisation and culture. Written with admirable clarity, this book fills in the blind spots of much Western theorising of the 'underside' of globalisation and makes a forceful argument for a truly critical and non-Eurocentric cosmopolitanism."' Professor Ien Ang, ARC Professorial Fellow, University of Western Sydney This book explores significant aspects of the cultural and social impact of globalization on the developing world by examining intellectual contributions and cultural expression in Latin America, Africa, and South and South East Asia. How do we understand and conceptualize the & underside' of globalization? How can voices from the margins challenge dominant discourses? In what ways do & culture wars' contribute to the politics of nationalism, indigeneity, and & race'? The book surveys key debates on the politics of representation and cultural difference, paying particular attention to issues such as subalternity, cultural nationalism, third cinema, multiculturalism, and indigenous communities. It offers an original synthesis of ideas on these topics, and traces the lines of connection between national cultural and political projects during anti-colonial struggles and more contemporary forms of national and transnational cinema and television. Harindranath invites us to consider non-metropolitan cultural forms in the context of contemporary issues relating to the politics of difference. 'Perspectives on Global Culture' is important reading for students and researchers in media and cultural studies and sociology, as well as for those interested in debates on 'race' and ethnicity.


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Image politics in the Middle East : the role of the visual in political struggle
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ISBN: 9781848852822 9781848852815 1848852827 1848852819 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; : I.B. Tauris,

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"Politics in the Middle East is now seen and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region {u2013} and particularly with the politics of the image, its power as a political tool."--From the publisher's website.


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Dead lines : oorlog, media en propaganda in de 20ste eeuw
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ISBN: 9055444014 9789055444014 Year: 2002 Publisher: Gent Amsterdam Ludion

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