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Arguing for Our Lives

A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog

Robert Jensen

We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has...

Stay Solid!

A Radical Handbook for Youth

Matt Hern

This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes,...

Action!

Professor Know-It-All's Illustrated Guide to Film and Video Making

Bill Brown

Focusing on necessary lessons and skills to make watchable films, this profusely illustrated volume provides budding directors with vital information they can use. Featuring a wealth of definitions...

A Poetics of Resistance e-book

The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency

Jeff Conant

The first "postmodern revolution" presented itself to the world through a complex and evolving web of propaganda, using a wide range of media: the colorful communiqués of Marcos; the ski masks,...

Friends, Followers and the Future

How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media

Rory O'Connor

There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics....

The Death and Life of American Journalism

The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again

Robert McChesney

American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran...

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...

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...

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...