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  • Cloud Catcher

    by Susanne Jennifer Petersen ...
    About the BookCloud Catcher is a whimsical story with a message: Don’t take what doesn’t belong to you! You must learn to love and respect nature from a distance. The antics of a little boy are innocent until he learns this valuable lesson.About the AuthorSusanne earned her bachelor’s degree in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education, from the University of Georgia. ... Read more

    $38.13 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Machines Came to Speak

    Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech

    by Jennifer Petersen ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Trial Films on Trial

    Law, Justice, and Popular Culture

    by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, Martha Merrill Umphrey, Carol J. Clover, Barry Langford0, Katie Model1, Jennifer Petersen2, Ticien Marie Sassoubre3, Norman W. Spaulding4 ...
    A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screenHistorically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908, was a courtroom drama. Since then, this niche genre has produced such critically acclaimed films as ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Authoritarianism

    Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

    by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • How We Became Our Data

    A Genealogy of the Informational Person

    by Colin Koopman ...
    We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to matter so much to ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition

    Edited by Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler ...
    Series Book 11 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Legal Literacy

    An Introduction to Legal Studies

    by Archie Zariski ...
    Series series OPEL (Open Paths to Enriched Learning)
    To understand how the legal system works, students must consider the law in terms of its structures, processes, language, and modes of thought and argument—in short, they must become literate in the field. Legal Literacy fulfills this aim by providing a foundational understanding of key concepts such as legal personhood, jurisdiction, and precedent, and by introducing students to legal research ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies

    Properties of Meaning, Power, and Value in Cultural Production

    by Sean Johnson Andrews ...
    Series series Cultural Studies and Marxism
    In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. hegemony on the global stage. Critics who challenged these practices of mass persuasion were quickly discredited by the emergent field of communication research - a field explicitly attempting to measure and thereby improve the efficacy of media messages ... Read more

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  • The Art of Revolt

    Snowden, Assange, Manning

    by Geoffroy de Lagasnerie ...
    Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Reality Bites

    Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

    by Dana L. Cloud ...
    Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics, and viability of an empirical standard for political truths. Cloud observes how appeals to truth ... Read more

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