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Introducing Media Studies

A Graphic Guide

Ziauddin Sardar

The media is ubiquitous. Every day we watch hours of TV, listen to the radio, surf the web, read newspapers and magazines, go to the cinema or watch DVDs. The media in these forms and more exercise...

Everyman's McLuhan

Jacob Albert

Anyone who has ever considered media and its relation to humanity has most likely heard the name Marshall McLuhan. Famous for his adages, he was a careful student of 20th century media, in...

The Age of Persuasion

How Marketing Ate Our Culture

Terry O'Reilly

Stop to consider the culture of the 21st century: Each morning, you might hear a half-dozen ads on the radio before your feet touch the floor. Staggering out of bed, you'll pass brand logos on your...

Skeptical Essays

Richard Kostelanetz

A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the impossibly prolific anarchist and libertarian cultural critic targets, with dead-on accuracy and quotable wit: Andy Warhol, Harold Bloom, The...

A Poetics of Resistance

The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency

Jeff Conant

Part literary criticism, part media analysis, and part marketing handbook, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshingly new take on the Zapatistas. While much has been written on the...

Reporting Iraq

An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It

Mike Hoyt

The world's best known reporters tell the story of what really happened in Iraq in a gripping and gritty narrative history of the war. Included are contributions from fifty international...

When Media Goes to War

Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent

Anthony DiMaggio

In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and...

Re:Imagining Change

How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World

Doyle Canning

Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change makers. This unique book explores how culture,...

People Like Us

Misrepresenting the Middle East

Joris Luyendijk

In People Like Us, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a reporter in the Middle East. Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers...