ilość książek w kategorii: 961
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
ISBN: 9780774832038 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has become politicized. And decision making is increasingly centralized in the Prime Minister's Office. What is happening to our democracy? To get to the bottom of this, Alex Marland reviewed internal political party files, media reports, and documents obtained through access to information requests, and interviewed Ottawa insiders. He discovered that in the face of rapid changes in communication technology, the infusion of corporate marketing... The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has be... |
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221,33 zł |
The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere: Knowledge, Politics, Identity
ISBN: 9781138660243 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jurgen Habermas's notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and possibilities of new media in creating and disseminating public information; changing human communication at the interpersonal, institutional and societal levels; and affecting our self-fashioning as private and public individuals. Beginning with philosophical approaches to the subject, the book goes on... This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of publ... |
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247,01 zł |
Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America
ISBN: 9780520284517 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every user knows the importance of the "@" symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of email, Spanish-speaking feminist activists immediately claimed it to replace the awkward "o/a" used to indicate both genders in written text, discovering embedded in the internet an answer to the challenge of symbolic inclusion. In repurposing the symbol, they changed its meaning. In Interpreting the Internet, Elisabeth Jay Friedman provides the first in-depth exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have...
Every user knows the importance of the "@" symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of...
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135,45 zł |
Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities
ISBN: 9781349572717 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How have social media transformed politics in Western democracies? This book examines this question focusing on the power balance between and within parties in the Netherlands from a comparative perspective. Jacobs and Spierings also investigates topics such as local/European politics and the impact on women and ethnic-minorities. How have social media transformed politics in Western democracies? This book examines this question focusing on the power balance between and withi... |
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194,97 zł |
Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America
ISBN: 9780520284494 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every user knows the importance of the "@" symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of email, Spanish-speaking feminist activists immediately claimed it to replace the awkward "o/a" used to indicate both genders in written text, discovering embedded in the internet an answer to the challenge of symbolic inclusion. In repurposing the symbol, they changed its meaning. In Interpreting the Internet, Elisabeth Jay Friedman provides the first in-depth exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have...
Every user knows the importance of the "@" symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of...
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574,68 zł |
Forecasting and Nowcasting Elections Using Social Media: Just by Chance?
ISBN: 9781472466662 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional polls. However, there are difficulties in recording and analyzing often brief, unverified comments while the unequal age, gender, social and racial representation among social media users can produce inaccurate forecasts of final polls. Reviewing the different techniques employed using social media to nowcast and... The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution ... |
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797,80 zł |
Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
ISBN: 9781138695986 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Ian Taylor examines how a social movement, the anti-Iraq War movement in the UK, engaged with the media as a part of their campaigning against the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Moving beyond content analysis to draw upon interviews with locally based journalists and activists, Taylor examines how locally based anti-war groups engaged with their local press, as well as how those groups were reported on by the local press in their respective areas. In the process of exploring these ideas, the book takes on questions like: How did local journalists assess the... In this book, Ian Taylor examines how a social movement, the anti-Iraq War movement in the UK, engaged with the media as a part of their campaignin... |
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746,33 zł |
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace: The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity
ISBN: 9780739141953 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village, ' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained through countless public/private communication networks, has even begun to alter the very fabric of national identity. This is particularly true among stateless nations, diasporic groups, and national minorities, which have fashioned the Internet into a shield again the assimilating efforts of...
Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village, ' the new mille...
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205,88 zł |
Digital, Political, Radical
ISBN: 9780745650869 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.
Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and normative. She dares us to be politically emboldened. She urges us to seek out an emancipatory politics that aims to deepen our democratic... Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must p...
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297,99 zł |
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?: The Changing Nature of American Valor
ISBN: 9780199982950 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the men and women associated with the American Revolution and Civil War to the seminal figures in the struggles for civil and women's rights, Americans have been fascinated with icons of great achievement, or at least reputation. But who spins today's narratives about American heroism, and to what end? In Where Have All the Heroes Gone?, Bruce Peabody and Krista Jenkins draw on the concept of the American hero to show an important gap between the views of political and media elites and the attitudes of the mass public. The authors contend that important changes over the past...
From the men and women associated with the American Revolution and Civil War to the seminal figures in the struggles for civil and women's rights, Ame...
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591,44 zł |
Political Internet: State and Politics in the Age of Social Media
ISBN: 9781138213708 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to social media, and explores its role in shaping the resistance and protest movements on the ground. The volume also explores the role of the Internet, a global technology, in framing debates on the idea of the nation state, especially India, as well as diplomacy and international relations. It also discusses the possibility of whether Internet can be used as a tool for social justice and change, particularly by the underprivileged, to go beyond... This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to ... |
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772,07 zł |
In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media
ISBN: 9780691173535 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a difference? Drawing on numerous studies, Diana Mutz provides the first comprehensive look at the consequences of in-your-face politics. Her book contradicts the conventional wisdom by documenting both the benefits and the drawbacks of in-your-face media. "In-your-face" politics refers to both the level of incivility and the up-close and personal way that we experience political conflict on television. Just as actual physical closeness intensifies... Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a differen... |
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108,36 zł |
Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power, and Media
ISBN: 9780199466313 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belonging the feeling of being part of that nation - can only arise when citizens are empowered to enter the discourse and modify it. Linking political science and cultural studies to explore the mutually constitutive role of discourse and institutions, this volume argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study.
The volume explores discursive plurality... If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belonging the feeling of being part of that nation - can only arise when ci...
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191,55 zł |
Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
ISBN: 9780190266127 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized activist groups to listen. Beneath the waves of e-petitions, "likes," and hashtags lies a sea of data - a newly quantified form of supporter sentiment - and advocacy organizations can now utilize new tools to measure this data to make decisions and shape campaigns. In this book, David Karpf discusses the power and potential of this new "analytic activism," exploring the organizational and media logics that determine...
Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, b...
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628,02 zł |
Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy
ISBN: 9780190266134 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized activist groups to listen. Beneath the waves of e-petitions, "likes," and hashtags lies a sea of data - a newly quantified form of supporter sentiment - and advocacy organizations can now utilize new tools to measure this data to make decisions and shape campaigns. In this book, David Karpf discusses the power and potential of this new "analytic activism," exploring the organizational and media logics that determine...
Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, b...
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227,29 zł |
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?: The Changing Nature of American Valor
ISBN: 9780199982967 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the men and women associated with the American Revolution and Civil War to the seminal figures in the struggles for civil and women's rights, Americans have been fascinated with icons of great achievement, or at least reputation. But who spins today's narratives about American heroism, and to what end? In Where Have All the Heroes Gone?, Bruce Peabody and Krista Jenkins draw on the concept of the American hero to show an important gap between the views of political and media elites and the attitudes of the mass public. The authors contend that important changes over the past...
From the men and women associated with the American Revolution and Civil War to the seminal figures in the struggles for civil and women's rights, Ame...
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162,29 zł |
Syria, Press Framing, and the Responsibility to Protect
ISBN: 9781771123075 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to Protect (R2P), occurred from the outset and became even more pronounced following President Assad's use of chemical weapons against civilians in August 2013. Despite that egregious breach of international convention, no humanitarian intervention was forthcoming, leaving critics to argue that UN... The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, ... |
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170,90 zł |
Yelpocracy: The Beta Test
ISBN: 9781537397481 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You know how to use YELP already. You rate your local restaurants, hotels, etc., so that other people can filter out the good from the bad eateries and rely on your judgment. http: //www.Yelpocracy.com - Get Rating Today in this revolutionary new book - we demonstrate how to use this same technology to rate the government's laws, policies and regulations and how to best give them better ideas using this simple, easy to use rating system. If you think that the American system of government works perfectly then this may not be the book for you. The truth is that our current system for choosing...
You know how to use YELP already. You rate your local restaurants, hotels, etc., so that other people can filter out the good from the bad eateries an...
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44,65 zł |
Citizen Marketer Osdp P
ISBN: 9780190658069 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassroots circulation of opinion on digital platforms and beyond. By exploring how everyday people assist in the promotion of political media messages to persuade their peers and shape the public mind, Joel Penney offers a new framework for understanding the phenomenon of viral political communication: the citizen marketer. Like the citizen consumer, the citizen marketer is guided by the logics of marketing practice, but, rather than being passive,...
From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassroots...
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162,29 zł |
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
ISBN: 9780691175515 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy--and what can be done about it As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It's also no surprise that... From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today'... |
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151,70 zł |