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    Communication, Power and Social Change

    Series series Pelican Books
    An authoritative and accessible guide to the world’s most influential force – the contemporary mediaOur lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend, on average, over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The news and entertainment industries are being transformed by the shift to digital platforms. But how much is really changing in terms of ... Read more

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  • The Mediation of Poverty

    The News, New Media, and Politics

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    The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media, and Politics discusses the influence of the increasing use of digital technologies on media and political responses to poverty in the United Kingdom and Canada. Considering poverty politics at symbolic and structural levels, Joanna Redden uses a frame analysis of mainstream and alternative news content to identify which narratives dominate poverty ... Read more

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  • Data Justice

    Series series Data Justice
    "The definitive book on the social, political, and economic dimensions of data."- Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World"An essential handbook for those invested in reclaiming our digital space."- Payal Arora, author of The Next Billion Users and FemLab Co-FounderIn an age of datafication, the systematic collection, analysis and exploitation of data impacts all aspects of our ... Read more

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  • Compromised Data

    From Social Media to Big Data

    There has been a data rush in the past decade brought about by online communication and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, among others), which promises a new age of digital enlightenment. But social data is compromised: it is being seized by specific economic interests, it leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between research and the public good, and it fosters ... Read more

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