Media Studies
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Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
$9.99 Read moreNine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of a young girl trying to enter the school being taunted, haras… [more below]
- Series: Captured History
- Author: Tougas, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0756545129
- Language: English
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The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance
$28.95 Read moreFrom Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and “insufficiently white” women
More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commit- Author: Strings, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0807008621
- Language: English
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Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
$18.99 Add to cartA Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.
As a Deafblind woman with partial vision- Author: Sjunneson, Elsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982152400
- Language: English
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Love and Let Die: James Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche
$29.95 Read moreA deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche–the Beatles and the Bond films–and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over si… [more below]
- Author: Higgs, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363300
- Language: English
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Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
$32.95 Add to cartArtificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life … [more below]
- Author: McQuillan, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1529213509
- Language: English
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Analog
$16.95 Add to cartWhy, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog–vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.
We’re surrounded by screens; our music come- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hassan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544490
- Language: English
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
$17.99 Add to cartIn the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sex… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982165782
- Language: English
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Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire
$22.00 Read more“From schoolboy socialist to boy publisher to mogul on the make: Young Rupert offers a revelatory glimpse of Murdoch becoming Murdoch.”–Jeff Sparrow, author of No Way But This: in search of Paul Robe
- Author: Marsh, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1957363517
- Language: English
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Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
$19.00 Add to cart“Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the ‘unaccountable joy’ of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented
- Author: Sullivan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250906008
- Language: English
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What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise
$12.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based rep… [more below]
- Author: Yasmin, Seema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1665900040
- Language: English
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Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER: National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press CriticismLeading journalists from Fox News, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, newspapers, and other outlets-including Dan Rather, Ashleigh Banfield, Robert Mc… [more below]
- Author: Borjesson, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591022304
- Language: English
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True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by Esquire
A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium–and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gen- Author: Lindemann, Danielle J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862949
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$29.00 Read moreThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. Fo- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394827
- Language: English
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Can You Believe It?: How to Spot Fake News and Find the Facts
$18.99 Add to cartFor today’s tech-savvy kids, here’s the go-to resource for navigating what they read on the internet.
Should we believe everything we read online? Definitely not! And this book will tell you why. Th
- Author: Grant, Joyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1525303228
- Language: English
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Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice
$16.95 Read moreRising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States.
While people of color are fast becoming the ma
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Kolhatkar, Sonali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868729
- Language: English
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The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, Ksan San Francisco
$32.95 Read moreThe Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercul… [more below]
- Author: Rosenfeld, Hank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149307086X
- Language: English
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Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
$24.95 Add to cartThis most complete study to date of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a t… [more below]
- Author: Lipstadt, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 08 1993
- ISBN10: 0029191610
- Language: English
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
$19.95 Add to cartAn engaging and scholastic presentation of zines and modern culture
Much history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing. From their origins in early 20th cent- Series: Scene History
- Author: Duncombe, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1621064840
- Language: English
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Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024
$18.95 Read moreHighlighting the year’s most significant independent journalism—including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories–Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024 illu… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Andy Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 164421332X
- Language: English
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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
$18.99 Add to cartI think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She’s perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roose… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 8, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810107
- Language: English
