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Bogna Konior
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet investigates how intelligence-human and artificial-manifests under conditions of secrecy, hostility, and concealment.Departing from Chinese science fiction writer Li…

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Rukmini Pande
Understanding Fandom

In this second edition of Understanding Fandom, Rukmini Pande expands on the original scholarship of Mark Duffett to address the shifting landscape of fan studies.In an era in which questions of social id…

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Olivier Alexandre
Tech

"A fascinating study of Silicon Valley as multiple complex, overlapping communities." ― Kirkus ReviewsThe first holistic analysis of the space, mindset, and inner workings of Silicon Valley in a…

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Eric Beecher
The Men Who Killed the News

Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and dir…

lieferbar ab 27.1.2026.

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Ella Klik
Negative Media

In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storag…

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Ella Klik
Negative Media

In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storag…

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Planet Digital

In the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed -- reshaping culture on a planetary scale. Yet the story of global m…

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Danny Wallace
Somebody Told Me...

Bestselling author Danny Wallace (Yes Man and Join Me) takes on the modern epidemic of lies, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to find out if truth has a chance in the fight.Have your loved ones bee…

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Steven Barnett
Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity: What's Wrong with Media Monopolies?

Media companies are in the midst of fundamental transformation. The industrial pragmatism needed to survive in 21st century business models, however, collides with the need for diversity of voice in a hea…

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Jenny Kidd, Eva Nieto McAvoy,
AI Afterlives

AI Afterlives offers the first-ever empirically informed investigation of how algorithms and automation are being used to 'revive' media fragments from the past, from animating old photographs of our ance…

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Jr
Reinventing Journalism Practice, Education and Training

Journalistic objectivity has always been a significant principle at the forefront of the industry, especially now, in times of citizen and participatory reporting. Even in historical times of breaking eve…

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Liina-Ly Roos,
The Not-Quite Child

Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: t…

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James Craig Holte
Pandemics in American Popular Culture

"This engaging reference book analyzes and contextualizes portrayals of epidemics and pandemics across a wide range of American media"--

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Andrea Pinotti
At the Threshold of the Image

"This book invites us to linger on the threshold that both separates and joins the real and the iconic world"--

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Katherine Anderson Howell
Disability and Fandom

Disability and Fandom examines how key fandom platforms--including cons, Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok--set up user interfaces that may mask their true values, potentially decr…

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Tina Kendall
Entertained or Else

Provides the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between boredom and networked media, particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus lockdowns.

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Cara Wallis
Social Media and Ordinary Life

How Chinese citizens use social mediaFocusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnograp…

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Conspiracy Theories and Extremism in New Times

Conspiracy Theories and Extremism in New Times outlines a cadre of alt-right groups, conspiracy theories, and other forms of stigmatized knowledge threatening our society. In an era dominated by the perva…

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Lee Kuhnle, Nathan Radke
Uncover Up

An urgent exploration of how conspiracy theories take hold and spread and how to see the truth through the noiseConspiratorial thinking, mis- and disinformation, and anti-intellectualism are at dangerous …

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Avi Brisman, Nigel South
Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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