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Excommunication – Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation - Alexander R. Galloway

Always connect - that is the imperative of today's media. In this book, the author turns our usual understanding of media on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself - instances they call excommunication.

DKK 328.95

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Critical Terms for Media Studies - W. J. T. Mitchell

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This title defines what this hybrid area aims to do, exploring our language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media.

DKK 422.95

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Feed-Forward - On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media - Mark B. N. Hansen

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. The author shows that media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world.

DKK 291.95

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The Marvelous Clouds - Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media - John Durham Peters

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is just as true--environments are media. Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world...

DKK 223.95

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The Freudian Robot - Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious - Lydia H. Liu

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.

DKK 396.95

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The Black Image in the White Mind – Media and Race in America - Robert M. Entman

Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans through the images the media show them. This text offers a comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of whites toward blacks.

DKK 359.95

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Taken by Storm - The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War

This text examines the role played by the mass media and public opinion in the development of United States foreign policy in the Gulf War. It explores the prewar media debate, news coverage during and after the war, and the media's effect on public opinion and decision-makers.

DKK 291.95

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A Violent Peace - Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations - Carolyn N. Biltoft

DKK 929.95

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Covering the Body - The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory - Barbie Zelizer

DKK 371.95

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Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich - Richard A. Etlin

This work explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilisation. Revealing how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually de-humanize Jews, this work shows how the seeds of the Holocaust were sown

DKK 440.95

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When the Press Fails - Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina - W. Lance Bennett

Looking at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, this title argues that the dependence of reporters on official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting voices from outside the Beltway.

DKK 188.95

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Making the News - Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting - Amber E. Boydstun

Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is it that the media can sustain public interest for months in a complex story like negotiations over Obamacare while ignoring other important issues in favor of stories on \balloon boy\? This title deals with these questions.

DKK 381.95

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Governing With the News, Second Edition - The News Media as a Political Institution - Timothy E. Cook

The ideal of a neutral, objective press has proven in recent years to be just that - an ideal. In Governing with the News, Timothy E. Cook goes far beyond the single claim that the press is not impartial to argue that the news media are in fact a political institution integral to the day-to-day operations of our government.

DKK 404.95

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Projections of Power - Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy - Robert M Entman

Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works - a model that allows him to explain why the media cheered American victories over small-time dictators in Grenada and Panama but barely noticed far more difficult missions in Haiti and Kosovo.

DKK 254.95

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Inventing the Public Enemy - The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934 - David E. Ruth

In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other \invented\ gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell.

DKK 327.95

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The Attractions of the Moving Image - Tom Gunning

An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning. Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have defined the field of cinema and media studies. His works have transformed our understanding of early cinema and the American avant-garde and reset the terms of many central debates in film and media history and theory. His 1986 essay \The Cinema of Attractions\ is among the most cited essays on film..

DKK 523.95

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Attack of the Difficult Poems – Essays and Inventions - Charles Bernstein

Addresses the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art.

DKK 323.95

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Music, Race, and Nation - Musica Tropical in Colombia - Peter Wade

This volume explores the history of \musica tropical\, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power.

DKK 364.95

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How Partisan Media Polarize America - Matthew Levendusky

Drawing on experiments and survey data, this title shows that Americans who watch partisan programming do become more certain of their beliefs and less willing to weigh the merits of opposing views or to compromise.

DKK 976.95

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The Paradox of Democracy - Zac Gershberg

A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies since their advent: Though freedom of speech and media has always been a necessary condition of democracy, that very freedom is also its greatest threat. When new forms of communication arrive, they often bolster the practices of democratic politics. But the more accessible the media..

DKK 181.95

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The Word and Its Witness - The Spiritualization of American Realism - Gregory S. Jackson

Explores the development of religious media in America. This book shows how the homiletic tradition in Protestant sermons provided a foundation for the development of visual and literary realism.

DKK 401.95

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When the News Broke - Heather Hendershot

\Heather Hendershot argues that a moment long understood as sitting at the crux of American political history-the chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago-is also crucial to understanding the country's media history. By scrutinizing those events and broadcasts in precise detail, Hendershot documents the emergence of the idea that the media are inherently liberal. As she shows, the public was unwilling to accept what was happening, and when exposed to even a fraction of the chaos, recoiled..

DKK 271.95

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Righting the American Dream - Diane Winston

A provocative new history of how the news media facilitated the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the religious Right. After two years in the White House, an aging and increasingly unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president, but in 1983 something changed. Reagan spoke of his embattled agenda as a spiritual rather than a political project and cast his vision for limited government and market economics as the natural outworking of religious conviction. The news media broadcast this message..

DKK 390.95

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Picturing Culture - Explorations of Film and Anthropology - Jay Ruby

This text explores the relationship between film and anthropology. It analyzes key filmmakers, the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, ethnography and anthropological knowledge.