"This book examines the current state of global media distribution today, including legacy and born-digital media industries, and the social, cultural, and economic impact of the digital distribution ecosystem"--
For the first time in British history, both major political parties are controlled by what are inverted elites: well-born, privately educated men (mostly) who affect populist attitudes.
Every Journalist's Guide to Covering Climate Change
Climate change affects every aspect of our lives—which means it plays a role in every news story. As a journalist, helping your audience understand these climate connections is part of the job, whether you cover healthcare, economics, politics, sports, or any other beat. We are all climate journalists now.
Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV
According to popular stereotype, Bravo reality television portrays vapid, one-dimensional characters tearing each other down for viewers' enjoyment. Whether The Real Housewives taps into our voyeuristic urges, our fascination with wealth and class, or the allure of the sheer spectacle of grown women yelling at one another, the show is truly a ......
A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness
Part of the Magic: A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness is a book of remarkable and wildly entertaining anecdotal stories told through the lens of an entertainment industry insider. Author Bambi Moe enjoyed a twenty-year career at the Walt Disney Company in charge of all aspects of music for Walt Disney Television Animation. Her ......
The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It
Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with trenchant analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government over the past 40 years, Free The Press gives readers a unique perspective on the challenges facing journalism as well as the rise of hostility between these institutions.
What does it mean to be healthy? Is it a measure of physical illness, of a mental health condition, or of emotional control? In twenty-first-century Aotearoa/New Zealand, it is all of the above. Being healthy in this country requires an investment of extensive work, resources, and time. Because while it encompasses the above categories, for many ......
You will never look at social media the same way again. Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news, warfare, politics, advertising, consumption, entertainment, friendships, labour, and economy to friendships, leisure, language, and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. Social media shape and are shaped by contemporary society. In order to understand contemporary society we have to ask critical questions about social media. This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice. This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media's relationship with society. The Fourth Edition contains new chapters and has updated and revised versions of other chapters: ? The book includes a new chapter on TikTok in the context of global capitalism and the geopolitical conflict between China and the USA. ? It explores new topics such as information and social media warfare in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the implications of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter for democracy and the public sphere, the prospects of Twitter-alternative Mastodon, digital fascism, influencers and the attention economy on TikTok, digital capitalism, the role of big data in digital capitalism, The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto, social media's digital alienation, and Putinism and information warfare. ? It explores populism, racism, nationalism, militant patriarchy in a chapter on right-wing authoritarianism on social media that includes two case studies of Donald Trump and Putinism. ? It analyses the phenomenon of social media influencers in the age of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. ? It explains in an updated chapter what digital capitalism is and what role big data plays in it. ? It explores the growing prominence of platforms and platform capitalism. ? It analyses fake news, misinformation, and surveillance capitalism in the context of Facebook, WhatsApp, Cambridge Analytica, and the Internet Research Agency. ? It shows why Google is simultaneously the Internet's God and Satan. ? It discusses digital democracy and the digital public sphere in the context of Twitter. ? It challenges you to envision and achieve a truly social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world. ? It introduces platform co-operatives and the Public Service Internet. There are winners and losers in the age of digital capitalism. This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to critically understand how we got to digital capitalism and capitalist social media, what we can do about it, and what a democratic public sphere looks like.
In 2019, the United States' trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) firm entwined with China's political-economic transformation. But the question remained: why does Huawei matter?
