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  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." — Library JournalThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a ... Read more

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  • After Net Neutrality

    A New Deal for the Digital Age

    Series series The Future Series
    A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communicationThis short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a commodity but as a public good necessary for sustaining democratic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antidemocracy in America

    Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

    Series series Public Books Series
    On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the ... Read more

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  • America's Battle for Media Democracy

    The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform

    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Democracy without Journalism?

    Confronting the Misinformation Society

    As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media outlets--from Facebook to Fox News--play in the spread of misinformation have exposed deep pathologies in American communication systems. Despite these threats to democracy, policy responses have been ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Media Activism in the Digital Age

    Edited by Victor Pickard, Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an invaluable guide to this vibrant and evolving field of research.Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions during different historical periods and at local, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Future of Internet Policy

    All of the short essays in this volume look past the rhetoric of technological determinism and reliance on the natural logic of the market to consider the power of law and policy to steer new media in one direction or another. Many of the essays look backwards through history or outwards across national borders. They all look forward to how today’s policies will shape the future of the internet ... Read more

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    Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, ... Read more

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  • The Drone Memos

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    by Jameel Jaffer ...
    "A trenchant summation" and analysis of the legal rationales behind the US drone policy of targeted killing of suspected terrorists, including US citizens ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of "targeted killing"—the extrajudicial execution of suspected terrorists and militants, typically via drones. A ... Read more

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  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    Translated by Lys Ann Weiss ...
    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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  • Contending Economic Theories

    Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian

    A systematic comparison of the 3 major economic theories—neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian—showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its ... Read more

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