Our Media Not Theirs

Author : Robert W. McChesney,John Nichols
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609802820

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Our Media, Not Theirs by Robert W. McChesney,John Nichols Pdf

Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their immense political and economic power to saturate the population with commercial messages. Further, the authors provide an analysis of the burgeoning media reform activities in the United States, and outline ways we can structurally change the media system through coalition work and movement-building: the tools we need in order to battle for a better media.

Author : Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509540525

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Platforms and Cultural Production by Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy Pdf

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy explore both the processes and the implications of platformization across the cultural industries, identifying key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labor, creativity, and democracy. The authors foreground three particular industries – news, gaming, and social media creation – and also draw upon examples from music, advertising, and more. Diverse in its geographic scope, Platforms and Cultural Production builds on the latest research and accounts from across North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China to reveal crucial differences and surprising parallels in the trajectories of platformization across the globe. Offering a novel conceptual framework grounded in illuminating case studies, this book is essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are transforming – and what the stakes are for understanding platform power.

Author : Ezra Klein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781476700397

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Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein Pdf

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and how we are polarizing it—with disastrous results. “The American political system—which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president—is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.” “A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” (The New York Times Book Review), Why We’re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. “Well worth reading” (New York magazine), this is an “eye-opening” (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics—and perhaps at yourself.

Author : Christopher R. Martin
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501735264

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No Longer Newsworthy by Christopher R. Martin Pdf

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects of it doing so. The damning indictment of the mainstream media that flows through No Longer Newsworthy is a wakeup call about the critical role of the media in telling news stories about labor unions, workers, and working-class readers. As Martin charts the decline of labor reporting from the late 1960s onwards, he reveals the shift in news coverage as the mainstream media abandoned labor in favor of consumer and business interests. When newspapers, especially, wrote off working-class readers as useless for their business model, the American worker became invisible. In No Longer Newsworthy, Martin covers this shift in focus, the loss of political voice for the working class, and the emergence of a more conservative media in the form of Christian television, talk radio, Fox News, and conservative websites. Now, with our fractured society and news media, Martin offers the mainstream media recommendations for how to push back against right-wing media and once again embrace the working class as critical to its audience and its democratic function.

Author : Drew Curtis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101216927

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It's Not News, It's Fark by Drew Curtis Pdf

A hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it’s the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local six o’clock news (“Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!” Everybody panic!), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year (“Roads will be crowded this holiday season.” Thanks, AAA.). It’s Not News, It’s Fark is Drew Curtis’s clever examination of the state of the media today and a hilarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there’s just not enough hard news to fill a newspaper or a news broadcast. Drew exposes eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the world of reporters today. It’s Not News, It’s Fark examines all the “news” that was never fit for print in the first place, and promises to have you laughing along the way.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782277460

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I Would Prefer Not To by Herman Melville Pdf

A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11018181

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The Works of Thomas Reid Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters by Thomas Reid Pdf

Author : James Glentworth Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030804288

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The Acts, the Epistles and the Revelation by James Glentworth Butler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Scotland
ISBN : UOM:39015028027285

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Brown (Of Montreal)
Publisher : Montreal ; Rouses Point, N.Y. : Lovell
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Currency question
ISBN : MINN:31951001519448B

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The Labor and Money Questions: a New Catechism on Political Economy by William Brown (Of Montreal) Pdf

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NWU:35556022183057

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The Works of Thomas Reid by Thomas Reid Pdf

Author : Samuel Rhoads,Enoch Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6GIL

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Friends' Review by Samuel Rhoads,Enoch Lewis Pdf

Author : Dan Gillmor
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596102272

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We the Media by Dan Gillmor Pdf

Looks at the emerging phenomenon of online journalism, including Weblogs, Internet chat groups, and email, and how anyone can produce news.

Author : Patrick Fairbairn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:1990035-40

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Imperial Bible Dictionary by Patrick Fairbairn Pdf

Author : S. G. W.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : BL:A0018307673

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Spiritual Communication, &c by S. G. W. Pdf