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21. | | Title: The poetics of rock: cutting tracks, making recordsAuthor: Zak, Albin Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Popular Music | American Music | Musicology | Contemporary Music | American Studies | Media Studies | Popular MusicPublisher's Description: After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots? Artworks? Fetishes? Commodities? Conveniences? . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishingAuthor: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Media Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Print Media | Public Policy | SciencePublisher's Description: False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded. A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University in the wake of a scandal involving a co-author accused of fabricating data. A university investigating committee de . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | | 24. | | Title: Outspoken: free speech storiesAuthor: Levinson, Nan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Media Studies | Public Policy | Sociology | Law | Public Policy | Urban Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our fr . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Hanging out in the virtual pub: masculinities and relationships online Author: Kendall, Lori 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | American Studies | Technology and Society | Anthropology | Electronic Media | Media Studies | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | United States History | Media Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary hist . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocideAuthor: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | ReligionPublisher's Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Technology and scholarly communication Author: Ekman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Media Studies | Technology and Society | Library Science | Reference | Economics and Business | Electronic MediaPublisher's Description: Electronic publishing has been gaining ground in recent years and is now a recognized part of the digital world. In the most comprehensive assessment of electronic publishing to date, thirty-one scholars, librarians, and publishers focus specifically on scholarly publishing. They analyze a number of . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Media worlds: anthropology on new terrainAuthor: Ginsburg, Faye D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Media Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Electronic Media | Postcolonial Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Sociology | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media - film, television, video - are used in societies around the globe, often in places . . . [more]Similar Items |
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