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  • Not My Type

    Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

    by Apryl Williams ...
    In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Mediated Millennials

    Edited by Jeremy Schulz, Laura Robinson, Aneka Khilnani, John Baldwin, Heloisa Pait, Apryl A. Williams, Jenny Davis, Gabe Ignatow ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), Volume 19 of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications draws on global case studies that examine media use by millennials. By bringing together contributors and case studies from four continents to examine millennial digital media practices, the volume charts ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Communication and Information Technologies Annual

    Digital Distinctions & Inequalities

    Edited by Laura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten, Jeremy Schulz, Apryl Williams, Timothy M. Hale ...
    Series Book 10 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 10 of the Communication and Information Technologies Annual, Digital Distinctions & Inequalities, brings together nine studies of this increasingly important form of inequality. Drawn from four continents, the research provides a global overview of the current state of the ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Communication and Information Technologies Annual

    [New] Media Cultures

    Edited by Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Shelia R. Cotten, Timothy Hale, Apryl A. Williams, Joy L. Hightower ...
    Series Book 11 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Sponsored by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume examines wide-ranging aspects of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. Themes include the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, and cultural change in the ... Read more

    $178.99 CAD

  • Media and Power in International Contexts

    Perspectives on Agency and Identity

    Edited by Apryl Williams, Ruth Tsuria, Laura Robinson ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in Media and Communications
    This special volume of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity. Scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies come together to examine axioms of power at play across different forms of cultural production. Contributing to these fields, the volume highlights the value of ... Read more

    $148.99 CAD

  • Brazil

    Media from the Country of the Future

    by Laura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States. Volume 13 provides an unparalleled compilation of research on Brazilian media and communication studies guided by the expert hands ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

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    $116.79 CAD

  • Digital Bodies

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by Mia Consalvo, Charles Ess ...
    Series Book 14 - Handbooks in Communication and Media
    The Handbook of Internet StudiesHANDBOOKS IN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA“Highly recommended.” CHOICE“A state-of-the-art collection that represents and celebrates the diversity of theoretical and disciplinary approaches marking this brave new field. A new must-have reference book for Internet studies.” Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois“This indispensable volume reflects th... ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Digital Sociologies

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    Providing a much needed overview of the growing field of digital sociology, this handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender. Rooted in a critical understanding of inequality as foundational to digital sociology and is edited by leaders in the field. It includes topics ranging from web ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Race After Technology

    Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

    by Ruha Benjamin ...
    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Experience Research Social Change

    Critical Methods, Third Edition

    by Colleen Reid, Lorraine Greaves, Sandra Kirby ...
    Experience Research Social Change is a “how to” guide to research that also raises broader theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions. First published in 1989, it was the first critical methods book, and continues to inspire generations of researchers, students, and community workers.The third edition has been thoroughly revised, now containing twelve chapters organized into three parts: ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD