The News: A User's Manual

The News is Alain de Botton's witty and insightful exploration of our twenty-first century obsession with media. Why do we keep checking the news? ...

Reducere. The News: A User's Manual is an insightful analysis of the impact of the incessant news machine on us and our culture. The news is everywhere. We c...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): Steve CullisonNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 125 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

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DescriptionIn Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, cha...

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Breaking the News asks timely questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a g...

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While the effective conveyance of technical knowledge presents formidable roadblocks to sharing scientific knowledge and discoveries, certain commu...

Stiu ca, de foarte multe ori, va simtiti derutati si confuzi in fata ciudateniilor universului cotidian. De multe ori, de foarte multe ori, priviti...

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Stiu ca, de foarte multe ori, va simtiti derutati si confuzi in fata ciudateniilor universului cotidian. De multe ori, de foarte multe ori, priviti...

Stiu ca, de foarte multe ori, va simtiti derutati si confuzi in fata ciudateniilor universului cotidian. De multe ori, de foarte multe ori, priviti...

A user-friendly manual, written with a deft style and wry humour, to the inner workings of one of nature's most miraculous but misunderstood creati...

Reducere. A manifesto about the toxic effect of news on our well-being, from the internationally bestselling author of THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY. News is t...

This collection provides a cross-cultural comparative analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, of how Islam is represented in the media in vari...

An in-depth look into how the news media frame referendum campaigns, based on the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. An analysi...

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A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media s...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Jay (Clinical Associate Professor, Claremont Graduate University) PragIllustration(s): 49 figures; 49 Illustrati...

In this unique book, Roger Mosey, one of British broadcasting's most experienced voices, examines how the news can be made better at a time of exis...

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Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan DerrickNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 170 x 214 x 34Cover type: Pa...

DescriptionFrom hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer sc...

The book stresses that the reporting process is more difficult than most critics and reporters realize, and points out that the best reporters are ...

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In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year, and wove the strands together into an essential story for our time. The ...

A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and novelty played into his constant...

Reducere. 'Fake news' has become an obsessional catchphrase and a worldwide fear. Yet few of us realize that shades of falsehood have always run through the ...

This book addresses endemic issues of racism in news media at what is a critical moment in time; as journalists around the world speak out en masse...

From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one of the greatest deal-mak...

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This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture-how formerly independent ...

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How can we keep up with the deluge of information about COVID-19 and tell which parts are most important and trustworthy?We read: "Scientists recom...

Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways ...