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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Our World and the Way We Live in It
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"A fine roar of a lecture about how the American mind is shaped by (too much) media . . . De Zengotita . . . is an adventurer of the digitized American psyche."—The Washington Post Book World
Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
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"We owe a profound thanks to Todd Gitlin for opening our eyes to a phenomenon that is so omnipresent it can seem invisible. Media is not just what we see on TV, it is the infrastructure in which we live our lives, not just 'content' but environment. Gitlin is our expert environmental guide through this modern wilderness, a place where rivers flow with projected images, forests are thickets of sounds, and the sky is filled with advertisements."—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
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"Andrew Keen has found the off switch for Silicon Valley's reality distortion field. With a cold eye and a cutting wit, he reveals the grandiose claims of our new digital plutocrats to be little more than self-serving cant. Digital Vertigo provides a timely and welcome reminder that having substance is more important than being transparent."—Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media
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"A riveting look into every part of what is called the 'media ecosystem,' which includes the Internet as well as newspapers, radio and television. Klinenberg grounds all of his reporting in human terms and gives concrete examples of what happens when too few own too much and, worse, control what information will be disseminated to the people. He also wisely includes news of the victories being achieved by media activists."—Joanne Collings, The Examiner
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
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“Blur is an impassioned and practical brief for what its authors call ‘verification’—the effort by journalists and others who publicly exchange information about public affairs to examine evidence and test the truth value of the assertions they and others are making. It argues persuasively for the virtues of traditional journalism without in any way resisting the sweeping changes the Internet has brought to the profession. It’s hard to imagine a more urgently necessary task, for journalism and for democratic societies, than the one Kovach and Rosenstiel have taken on.”—Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
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An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate now We live in a world that is awash in visual...
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
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"Birkerts' argument is persuasive, not only in its content but in its manner. His writing, which questions and muses at the leisurely pace of human speech, and which evinces both intelligence and feeling, reveals a complex individual personality, providing that vertical kind of connectedness that a thousand e-mail messages cannot."—San Francisco Chronicle
Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get
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The New News Reports of the death of the news media are highly premature, though you wouldn’t know it from the media’s own headlines. Ken Doctor goes far...
Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online
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"A must read for parents (and future parents) of teenagers. Consider Anastasia Goodstein as the daughter you totally 'get' - explaining all the behaviors of...
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind
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Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media...
Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online
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Social networking on the web has vastly increased the amount of personal information available for nearly anyone to see. This information, once out of your...
Killer Web Content: Make the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand
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Written by a corporate specialist in web development who has advised Microsoft and HP, Killer Web Content provides the strategies and practical techniques to...
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture
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With the style and irreverence of Vice magazine and the critique of the corporatocracy that made Naomi Klein’s No Logo a global hit, the cult magazine Stay...
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
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The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and...
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
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Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media....
Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves
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A timely cannon blast at the right-wing media machine and how it subverts the principles of democratic representation Talk radio has done an end run around...
How to Advertise:
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"How to Advertise is a continuous classic—a font of time-tested, practical guidance about making brand marketing come alive, with a refreshing flow of new ideas relevant to the worlds of interactivity and integration. Roman, Maas, and Nisenholtz have brought together business wisdom and contemporary best practice into one essential handbook for every advertising professional."—Randall Rothenberg, Advertising Age columnist and director of intellectual capital, Booz Allen Hamilton
The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
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The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and most successful...
Radio On: A Listener's Diary
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There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and...
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
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"The world is messy, like it or not, and it's only going to get messier as the Web destroys rules and rule-makers. You can either complain about the chaos and wish for the good old days of order, or you can buy this book and understand why delirious disorder will soon make us all smarter."—Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail
Exit Interview:
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“David Westin writes with vivid experience and clarity about real life on the high wire of television journalism. Each chapter is a pulse-pounding journey into a crisis—where he presided over big personalities wrestling with big decisions with serious consequences. He has written a book about triumph. Mistakes made and lessons learned. And the real reason reporters get up each day to do it all again.” —Diane Sawyer, anchor, ABC World News

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