The AI Con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want

In this book, the authors offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging takedown of AI hype across its many forms. The authors show how to spot AI hype, how to deconstruct it, and how to expose the power grabs it aims to hide. Included Notes and Index

E-commerce : business, technology, society. Thirteenth Global Edition

Understanding the Vast and Expanding Field of E-commerce Laudon's E-commerce 2017: Business, Technology, Society emphasizes three driving forces behind the expanding field of e-commerce: technology change, business development, and social issues. A conceptual framework uses the templates of many modern-day companies to further demonstrate the differences and complexities in e-commerce today. An…

Computer In Society : Privacy, Ethics and The Internet

This book focuses around the social and ethic issues that companies face everyday in doing business. It is a collection of 37 articles from experts in the social issues of computing, exploring the most pressing issues in information technology today. The chapters are fresh, informative, timely, and authoritative.The readings cover such themes as views of computing, the information society, comp…

Taking sides : clashing views on controversial issues in mass media and socie…

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill CreateTM includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or …

Corporate Communication about Climate Change : villians, victims, and white k…

Embedded in the emerging field of climate change communication, Thaker provides a comprehensive analysis of enablers and barriers to corporate action on climate change, business role and influence on media coverage of climate change, and its impact on public opinion and the policy-making process. Includes Index

American education : an introduction to social and political aspects. Sixteen…

Joel Spring’s American Education provides a clear, concise introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States. Students will come away with a strong knowledge of the forces behind the shaping of the American educational system through connecting with the latest topics, issues, and data.

Media effects research : a basic overview. Fifth Edition

Packed with current examples and the latest research available, MEDIA EFFECTS RESEARCH: A BASIC OVERVIEW, 5e, offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of mass media's effects on society. Using an engaging personal narrative style, the author presents media theories in the context of current research findings-giving readers a clear understanding of how the effects of mass media are measu…

Semiotics : the basics. Fourth Edition

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Fourth Edition

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9780367726539

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384 p. ; 20 cm.

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302.2 Cha s

The media at war : communication and conflict in the twentieth century. Secon…

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent can news media be viewed as disinterested reporters of truth? Lively and highly readable, this book explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated fr…

Convergence media history

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new way…

Beyond the box : television and the Internet

Charting the revolution in television viewing that is underway in living rooms across the country, this book discusses voting practices on American Idol and text-messaging on Degrassi to online forums for connecting with other Buffy the Vampire fans. It shows how the power of the Internet has fundamentally altered television viewing.

Advertising and society : an introduction. Second edition

Now revised and updated to reflect the impact of emerging technologies, this new edition of Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences examines the evolution of advertising and its influence on society. Expanded with five new chapters covering the impact of emerging technologies, including the evolution of Direct to Consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising; product placement in va…

Researching digital media and society

This book will help you to understand why researchers in this field choose and use particular research methods, equipping you to put these methods into practice across the whole range of undergraduate media courses. Bibliography : page 223-241. Index : page 243-249.

Genders and sexualities in Indonesian Cinema

Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of transgender cultures, with many festivals and local rites involving members of transgender communities. This book examines how transgendered individuals and transgendered communities are represented in Indonesian film, both gay, lesbian and wari (male-to-female transgender) film and more general film.

Handbook of visual communication : theory, methods, and media. Second Edition

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Second Edition

ISBN/ISSN

9781138590311

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493 p. ; 26 cm.

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302.23 Jos h

Communication power. Second Edition

In this wide-ranging book, Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by the revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, & power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment.

Food & society : principles and paradoxes. Second Edition

This popular and engaging text, now revised in a second edition, offers readers a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers' curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With update…

Intercultural communication for global business : how leaders communicate for…

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Second Edition

ISBN/ISSN

9780367375560

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313 p. ; 26 cm.

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302.20121 Tul i

Fundamentals of media effects. Second Edition

"Mass media's potential to influence audience beliefs and behavior is a subject that has long fascinated scholars and the general public. The ongoing interest and concern are reflected in the common tendency to blame “the media” for many of society's problems. This extensively revised and updated edition cuts through popular notions of presumed effects to provide a balanced, informed, up-to…

Advertising and societies : global issues. Second Edition

Now in its second edition, Advertising and Societies: Global Issues provides an international perspective on the practice of advertising while examining some of the ethical and social ramifications of advertising in global societies. The book illustrates how issues such as the representation of women and minorities in ads, advertising and children, and advertising in the digital era have releva…