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  • Triaging the Streaming Wars

    Edited by Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Tim Pollard ...
    Series series Electronic Media Research Series
    This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the significant disruption caused to the entertainment industries by the rise of these streaming services, a team of international scholars examine changes to labor issues and compensation, which were central to the conflict between the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Lights, Camera...YOU!

    by Anne Pollard, Alan Roth ...
    Have you ever wondered what would happen if you realized...You were never meant to be an extra in your own life movie.What if you are the writer, the director, the producer, and the star of an extraordinary story that's still unfolding?Lights, Camera... YOU! takes you behind the scenes of your own life using the magic of filmmaking as a powerful guide for personal transformation. Each chapter ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Approved Mental Health Professional′s Guide to Psychiatry and Medication

    Edited by Alan Pollard, Gwen Adshead, Robert Brown ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
    This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era

    A Critical Examination of Disney+

    by Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Timothy Pollard ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment – the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming – and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace.Exploring how Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox positioned the company to launch the Disney+ streaming service, the chapters look ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    How to Thrive Online

    by Howard Rheingold ...
    A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, ... Read more

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  • Move Fast and Break Things

    How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

    by Jonathan Taplin ...
    A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Networked

    The New Social Operating System

    by Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman ...
    How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless ... Read more

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  • The Pixar Touch

    by David A. Price ...
    A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year***The Pixar Touch***is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Building Successful Online Communities

    Evidence-Based Social Design

    by Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Moira Burke, Yan Chen ...
    How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, Joshua Green ...
    Series Book 15 - Postmillennial Pop
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    $30.79 CAD

  • Lurking

    How a Person Became a User

    by Joanne McNeil ...
    One of Esquire 's Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020, , and a OneZero Best Tech Book of 2020. Named one of the 100 Notable books of 2020 by the End of the World Review.A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the userIn a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us ... Read more

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  • Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations

    Edited by Vanessa Dennen, Camille Dickson-Deane, Xun Ge, Dirk Ifenthaler, Sahana Murthy, Jennifer C. Richardson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book focuses on making the transition from in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book presents and analyzes research questions to explore in this arena, including pedagogical issues relating to technological and infrastructure challenges, teacher professional development, issues of disparity, ... Read more

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