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Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation

J. D. Lasica

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Total reviews: 30 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

This book really explains our times 5 out of 5 stars.
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I originally heard about this book, while I was listening to a recorded Q and A session of South by Southwest (SXSW). I'm really glad I followed up and got it. Lasica did a fantastic job explaining our culture and how we interact with technology and new media. This book really wraps up how different groups such as corporations, senators, pirates and musicians affect it. Things are happening that you won't necessarily agree with on all sides.

Technology isn't as simple as making discoveries, because of the slow moving patent driven society we have become. The two sides covered brilliantly by Lasica are basically those who want or have ownership over information so they can control pricing, distribution, and those who want to use technology and media as creators, not just consumers. But it's the examples in the book that make it great...of the groups driven to darknets who don't want to be limited by laws that they feel are outdated, unjust, those who want information for everybody. These people from all walks of life are very interesting. Plus I loved all the references I learned about from reading it.

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"An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media."
-Kara Swisher, author of aol.com
The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices. Drawing on unprecedented access to entertainment insiders, technology innovators, and digital provocateurs-including some who play on both sides of the war between digital pirates and entertainment conglomerates-the book shows how entertainment companies are threatening the fundamental freedoms of the digital age.

Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern

D. Kellner

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Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects, argueing that media culture is the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity, social reproduction and change. Through studies of Reagan and Rambo, horror films and youth films, rap music and African American culture, Madonna, fashion, television news and entertainment, MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head, the Gulf-War as cultural text, cyberpunk fiction and postmodern theory, Kellner provides a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and provide methods of analysis and critique.

Many people today talk about cultural studies, but Kellner actually does it, carrying through a unique mixture of theoretical analyses and concrete discussions of some of the most popular and influential forms of contemporary media culture. Criticizing social context, political struggle, and the system of cultural production, Kellner develops a multi-dimensional approach to cultural studies that broadens the field and opens it to a variety of disiplines. He also provides approaches to the vexed question of the effects of culture and provides perspectives for cultural studies.

It Ain't Necessarily So: How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality

David Murray, Joel Schwartz, S. Robert Lichter

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Anthrax scares. Airplane crashes. The AIDS epidemic. Presidential election polls and voting results. Global warming. All these news stories require scientific savvy, first to report, and then-for the average person-to understand. It Ain't Necessarily So cuts through the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys, and statistics. Whether the problem is bad science, media politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge, this book gives news consumers the tools to penetrate the hype and dig out the facts.

"Whether it's a scientific study on day care or health care, hunger in America or the environment, once it gets into the hands of journalists - look out! You may think you're getting the straight story - but it ain't necessarily so, as this aptly named book makes clear. But beware: It Ain't Necessarily So may confirm your worst fears about the media. Which is precisely why it's such an important contribution to our understanding of how things really operate inside the American newsroom." (Bernard Goldberg, author of Bias)

Thomson Advantage Books: Building a Speech (with InfoTrac) (Thomson Advantage Books)

Sheldon Metcalfe

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Great book on public speaking 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has everything you need if you are learning how to write speeches. It even has a section on how to help you control your nerves. It's a great book to keep in your library.

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Metcalfe's BUILDING A SPEECH, Fifth Edition, continues the tradition of providing proven texts at lower prices. With 20 chapters organized into five units, BUILDING A SPEECH guides students through a step-by-step process of acquiring public speaking skills by observation, peer criticism, personal experience and instructor guidance. Readings and exercises provide assistance in developing informative and persuasive speeches as well as research and speechwriting skills. This book establishes a caring environment for the learning process through a conversational style that aims to both interest and motivate students, while conveying encouragement through topics such as apprehension and listening that will help students to realize that they are not alone in their struggles. It is grounded in the philosophy that students can master the steps of speech construction if provided with a caring environment, clear blueprints, and creative examples.

Media and Society: The Production of Culture in the Mass Media

John W. Ryan, William M. Wentworth

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In this large-scale, postindustrial society, the mass media has become deeply embedded into the lifestyles of everyday citizens. People are lured by television ratings, celebrity-sponsored products, and high-profile crimes and scandals, all finding their way into living rooms across America by satellites, cable wires, and modems. This book examines the real, imagined, and potential effects of the mass media on individuals and society. The book explores the processes through which the mass media is enabled and constrained by such factors as technology, law, industry structure, and occupational careers, accounting for the vast changes that have developed in recent years. This book is divided into two parts. Part I defines mass communication and locates its role in social life. Part II considers the factors which influence media content, providing insight into how the industry operates. Sociologists, Communication and Mass Media specialists, film, music, and pop culture critics, and enthusiasts of these fields.

Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture

Stanley J. Baran

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Become Media Literate 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great text about understanding media in all its forms. The reading was little complicated but when Dr. Baran explained what it all meant, I became more involved in media ranging from print to the internet. If you want to understand the media and how business, such as advertising, uses this it's a real eye opener. Read this book! It'll make you think about how our world is working right now.

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This text emphasizes that media audiences can take more active roles as media consumers and have a deeper understanding of the influence the media have in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media producers, technologies, and industries.

Major Principles of Media Law, 2008 Edition

Wayne Overbeck

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MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW is a comprehensive and concise summary of media law. The text offers a lawyer's grasp of current cases and a teacher's grasp of the key principles of communication law. The text is revised every year to include the most recent developments in communication law through the end of the Supreme Court's term. Each August, a new edition is available for fall classes, with recent developments through July 1 fully integrated into the text, not added as an appendix or separate supplement.

The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex

Maureen Orth

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"The book achieves a fresh spin thanks to incisive updates and story-behind-the-story anecdotes, all peppered with the author's pull-no-punches observations." -People

Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth covers lives led in public, on camera, at the very top-from Margaret Thatcher to Tina Turner, from the political theater of the Clinton White House to the strange kingdom of Princess Diana's almost father-in-law. Now this National Magazine Award-winning reporter pulls back the curtain to reveal those who flourish (or sometimes flame out) at these heady altitudes, unraveling their complex lives and exploring the chemistry, the very DNA, of celebrity today.

The Importance of Being Famous is a portrait of an era where the media grew larger, the distinction between fame and infamy grew smaller, and celebrity ruled all. Orth delivers a revealing, sophisticated look at the big room of modern celebrity and the star-making machinery of the "celebrity-industrial complex."

Media Entertainment: The Psychology of Its Appeal (Lea's Communication Series)

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14 outstanding, informative, and highly recommended essays 5 out of 5 stars.
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Media Entertainment: The Psychology Of Its Appeal focuses on an empirical exploration and analysis of media entertainment's appeal to those seeking and experiences diversion, relaxation, excitement, amusement, bewilderment, and other alterations of prevailing experiential states and emotional responses. Dolf Zillmann and Peter Vorderer effectively collaborate to compile fourteen outstanding, informative, and highly recommended essays by experts in the field. These include: The Coming of Media Entertainment (Dolf Zillmann); Interactive Entertainment and Beyond (Peter Vorderer); Humor and Comedy (Dolf Zillmann); Conflict and Suspense in Drama (Peter Vorderer & Silvia Knobloch); Violence, Mayhem, and Horror (Glenn G. Sparks & Cheri W. Sparks); Sex on Entertainment Television (Bradley S. Greenberg & Linda Hofschire); Affect-Talk and Its Kin (Gary Bente & Ansgar Feist); Children's Likes and Dislikes of Entertainment Programs (Patti M. Valkenburg & Joanne Cantor); Sports on the Screen (Jennings Bryant & Arthur A. Raney); Music and Music Videos (Christine H. Hansen & Ronald D. Hansen); Video Games and the Pleasures of Control (Torben Grodal); The Respondent Gender Gap (Mary Beth Oliver); Personality and Entertainment Preferences (James B. Weaver III); The Aesthetics of Media Fare (Gerald C. Cupchick & Stephen Kemp). Enhanced with both an author index and a subject index, Media Entertainment is invaluable, informative reading for students of mass media and the popular culture.

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This collection represents a systematic exploration of media entertainment from an academic perspective. Editors Zillmann and Vorderer have assembled scholars from psychology, sociology, and communication to provide a broad examination of the primary function of media entertainment--the attainment of gratification. Chapters included here address vital aspects of media entertainment and summarize pertinent findings, providing an overview of what is presently known about the appeal and function of the essential forms of media entertainment, and offering some degree of integration. Written in a clear, non-technical style, this volume provides a lively and entertaining study of media entertainment for academic study and coursework.

The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media

John B. Thompson

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Very informative and engaging title 5 out of 5 stars.
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Sociological and anthropological theories are integral to the structure of this book and the theories discussed here. Very interesting and informative, the author formulates various models of communication and the media's effects on society and the formation of the self and personal identity. Politics and ecomics are briefly addressed but only in their capacity to shape the media, which in turn molds national and global culture.