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  • The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era

    Beyond the Propaganda Model

    Series Book 35 - Intersections in Communications and Culture
    The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era presents the first book-length examination of flak as a form of political harassment, authored by a seasoned researcher on political discourse and mass media. Flak against news media was a component of the Edward Herman-Noam Chomsky seminal "Propaganda Model." However, in the thirty years since the model was introduced, flak has become an ... Read more

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  • Talking Back to Globalization

    Texts and Practices

    Series Book 33 - Intersections in Communications and Culture
    Globalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In Talking Back to Globalization: Texts and Practices, contributors provide a series of case studies that stress the interplay between ... Read more

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  • How the Right Lost Its Mind

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  • Mediated Society

    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

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  • The Dying Citizen

    How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

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  • The Costs of Connection

    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

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    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; ... Read more

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  • Our Own Worst Enemy

    The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

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    A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to ... Read more

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