Baron-Forness Library: Communication Studies Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515500The 2012 presidential campaign : . a communication perspective / . edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515500http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515601The app generation : . how today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world / . Howard Gardner and Katie Davis.Description: "No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply-some would say totally-involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be "app-dependent" versus "app-enabled" and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era. Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515601http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518605The Arab awakening : . America and the transformation of the Middle East / . Kenneth M. Pollack ... [et al.].Description: This work brings the full resources of the Brookings Institution to bear on making sense of what may turn out to be the most significant geopolitical movement of this generation. Coauthored by 18 of the leading experts on the Middle East, it explains these developments and their consequences. Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might the future look like, and what are the likely ramifications for the United States and the rest of the world? In this book, experts from the Brookings Institution tackle such questions to make sense of this tumultuous region that remains at the heart of U.S. national interests. They offer broad lessons by analyzing key aspects of the Mideast turmoil, such as public opinion trends within the "Arab Street"; the role of social media and technology; socioeconomic and demographic conditions; the influence of Islamists; and the impact of the new political order on the Arab-Israeli peace process. The authors also look at the countries themselves, providing country-by-country analysis of Middle East political evolution, and finding commonalties and grouping them according to the political evolutions that have (or have not) occurred in each country. They offer insight into the current situation, and possible trajectory of each group of countries, as well as individual nation studies.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518605http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518606The Arab revolution : . ten lessons from the democratic uprising / . Jean-Pierre Filiu.Description: This is a concise, but sweeping account of the earth-shattering revolts that began in Tunis in 2010 and continue today throughout the Middle East. Stressing deep historical roots of the events, the author organizes the book around ten lessons that illuminate both the uprisings in particular and the region in general. He touches on the long fight for rights, the role of youth, the role of social networks, power, anger, the difficult position jihadists are now in, and how Palestine remains the central concern throughout the Middle East.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518606http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518586The Arab spring : . new patterns for democracy and international law / . edited by Carlo Panara and Gary Wilson.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518586http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518787The Arab uprising : . the unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East / . Marc Lynch.Description: Will the Arab world's struggle for change succeed in building open societies, or will authoritarian regimes regain their grip? Lynch follows the struggles from Tunisia and Egypt to Yemen, Syria, and Libya, and to the cautious reforms of the region's monarchies, and reveals how America must adjust to the new realities.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518787http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513906Asian popular culture : . new, hybrid, and alternate media / . edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513906http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511389Barrel fever : . stories and essays / . David Sedaris.Description: A satirical look at modern culture. In Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, the author parodies the whining of minority groups, Diary of a Smoker tackles the persecution of smokers, and Santaland Diaries describes the author's experiences as a Macy's elf.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511389http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518593Beyond the Arab spring : . authoritarianism & democratization in the Arab world / . Rex Brynen ... [et al.].Description: For years the authoritarian regimes of the Arab world displayed remarkable persistence. Then, beginning in December 2010, much of the region underwent rapid and remarkable political change. This volume explores the precursors, nature, and trajectory of the dynamics unleashed by the Arab Spring. The authors focus on the complex forces that have sustained authoritarianism in the region, as well as the roots of popular mobilization and regime overthrow. They also examine the possibilities for democratic reform -- and, where it has occurred, relapse. Their work offers a comprehensive assessment, at once sophisticated and accessible, of current developments and trends in the countries of the Arab Middle East and North Africa--Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518593http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513905The big truck that went by : . how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster / . Jonathan M. Katz.Description: An assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake reveals how the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, assessing the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513905http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518371The bully pulpit : . Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of journalism / . Doris Kearns Goodwin.Description: The gap between rich and poor has never been wider. Legislative stalemate paralyzes the country. Corporations resist federal regulations. Spectacular mergers produce giant companies. The influence of money in politics deepens. Bombs explode in crowded streets. Small wars proliferate far from our shores. A dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life. These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for Doris Kearns Goodwin's highly anticipated The Bully Pulpit -- a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft -- a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine -- Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White -- teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S. S. McClure. Goodwin's narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. - Jacket flap.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518371http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513904Burning the page : . the ebook revolution and the future of reading / . Jason Merkoski.Description: In Burning the Page, digital pioneer Jason Merkoski charts the ebook revolution's striking impact on the ways in which we create, discover, and share ideas. From the sleek halls of Silicon Valley to the jungles of Southeast Asia, Merkoski explores how ebooks came to be and predicts innovative and interactive ways digital content will shape our lives.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513904http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512175The Chinese information war : . espionage, cyberwar, communications control and related threats to United States interests / . Dennis F. Poindexter.Description: "This book is about a cyberwar with China. This new type of war, says the author, is China's effort at bending another country's will to its own. It is clever, broadly applied, successful, and aimed directly at the United States"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512175http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518594Civil society and democratization in the Arab world : . the dynamics of activism / . Francesco Cavatorta and Vincent Durac.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518594http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518595Civil society in democratization / . . editors Peter Burnell, Peter Calvert.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518595http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515511Collaborative communication processes and decision making in organizations / . . Ephraim Nikoi, Kwasi Boateng, editors.Description: "This book focuses on the role of technology in organizational decision-making processes and activities, providing academics and management teams with current research in the field of virtual teams in organizations"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515511http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504158Communicating for results : . a guide for business and the professions / . Cheryl Hamilton.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504158http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512176Covering America : . a narrative history of a nation's journalism / . Christopher B. Daly.Description: "Today many believe that American journalism is in crisis, with traditional sources of news under siege from a failing business model, a resurgence of partisanship, and a growing expectation that all information ought to be free. In Covering America, Christopher B. Daly places the current crisis within a much broader historical context, showing how it is only the latest in a series of transitions that have required journalists to devise new ways of plying their trade. Drawing on original research and synthesizing the latest scholarship, Daly traces the evolution of journalism in America from the early 1700s to the digital revolution of today. Analyzing the news business as a business, he identifies five major periods of journalism history, each marked by a different response to the recurrent conflicts that arise when a vital cultural institution is housed in a major private industry. Throughout his narrative history, Daly captures the ethos of journalism with engaging anecdotes, biographical portraits of key figures, and illuminating accounts of the coverage of major news events as well as the mundane realities of day-to-day reporting."--book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512176http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515513The culture of connectivity : . a critical history of social media / . Josâe van Dijck.Description: "Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Josâe van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation as well as to examine shared ideological principles between major social media platforms. This fascinating study will appeal to all readers interested in social media."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515513http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519209Cutting-edge technologies and social media use in higher education / . . [edited by] Vladlena Benson, Stephanie Morgan.Description: "This book brings together research on the multi-faceted nature and overarching impact of social technologies on the main opportunities and challenges facing today's post-secondary classrooms, from issues of social capital formation to student support and recruitment"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519209http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=542135Cyberactivism on the participatory web / . . edited by Martha McCaughey.Description: "Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web--with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content--has reshaped political and social change. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact of these new technologies on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups. Linking new information and communication technologies to possibilities for solidarity and action--as well as surveillance and control--in a context of global capital flow, war, and environmental crisis, the contributors to this volume provide nuanced analyses of the dramatic transformations in media, citizenship, and social movements taking place today. "--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=542135http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518596Cyberactivism : . online activism in theory and practice / . edited by Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers.Description: The Internet has played a central role in some of the most successful instances of contemporary political activism. This book examines the growing importance of this aspect of activism, including the politically motivated sabotage of commercial websites.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518596http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518597Cyberprotest : . new media, citizens, and social movements / . edited by Wim van de Donk ... [et al.] ; foreword by Peter Dahlgren.Description: "This book critically assess how ICTs are finding their way into the world of social movements, considering overarching issues and providing examples of cyberprotest movements from across the globe. It will be valuable reading for students and academics in politics, media and communication, public administration, sociology and ICT. It will also be of great interest to policy makers and social activists."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518597http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518788Democracy and authoritarianism in the Arab world / . . Nicola Pratt.Description: "What explains the enduring rule of authoritarian regimes in the Arab world? Nicola Pratt offers an innovative approach to this recurring question, shedding light on the failure of democratization by examining both the broad dynamics of authoritarianism in the region and the particular role of civil society." "Pratt appraises the part that civil society actors played in the normalization of authoritarianism in the Middle East, the challenges that new organized groups now pose to entrenched Arab regimes, and the varying ways in which those regimes are responding. She also explores the diversity of conceptions of democracy among nonstate actors. Arguing against the idea that Arab culture is inherently incompatible with democracy - the concept of Middle East "exceptionalism" - she assesses the realistic potential for democratization in the region."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518788http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519179Diaries of an unfinished revolution : . voices from Tunis to Damascus / . edited by Layla Al-Zubaidi, Matthew Cassel, and Nemonie Craven Roderick ; translated by Robin Moger and Georgina Collins ; with an introduction by Samar Yazbek.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519179http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518789The digital origins of dictatorship and democracy : . information technology and political Islam / . Philip N. Howard.Description: Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build systems of political communication independent of the state and beyond easy manipulation by cultural or religious elites. With unique data on patterns of media ownership and technology use, this book demonstrates how, since the mid-1990s, information technologies have had a role in political transformation. Democratic revolutions are not caused by new information technologies. But in the Muslim world, democratization is no longer possible without them. -- Publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518789http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519178Digital revolutions : . activism in the Internet age / . by Symon Hill.Description: "From Occupy to Uncut, from the Arab Spring to the Slutwalk movement, few questions about recent activism raise as much controversy as the role of the internet. This book suggests that the internet is a tool, not a cause, of social change. It has profoundly affected the way people communicate, making it easier to find the truth, to learn from activists on the other side of the world, to co-ordinate campaigns without hierarchy and to expose governments and corporations to public ridicule. But it has also helped those same governments and corporations to spy on activists, to disrupt campaigns and to create illusions of popular support. Focused on the real-life experiences of activists rather than theory or abstract statistics, Digital Revolutions asks how the internet has affected activism, how it has allowed movements to go global more quickly and what the future holds for corporations and social movements that are doing battle online."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519178http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519177Dignity : . its essential role in resolving conflict / . Donna Hicks ; foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519177http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518284Disability rhetoric / . . Jay Timothy Dolmage.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518284http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512177Discourse 2.0 : . language and new media / . Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester, editors.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512177http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511391Dress your family in corduroy and denim / . . David Sedaris.Description: In a collection of essays, the Rooster gets married at an uproarious wedding, an estrangement occurs over a rubber vs. plastic debate, and the author gets the upper hand during a slumber party game of strip poker.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511391http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518598Egyptian revolution 2.0 : . political blogging, civic engagement, and citizen journalism / . Mohammed el-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518598http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515602The endtimes of human rights / . . Stephen Hopgood.Description: "In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights"--Publisher website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515602http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515514Fandom at the crossroads : . celebration, shame and fan/producer relationships / . by Lynn Zubernis and Katherine Larsen.Description: Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships is an in-depth exploration of the reciprocal relationship between a groundbreaking cult television show and its equally groundbreaking fandom. For the past six years the authors have inhabited the close-knit fan communities of the television show Supernatural, engaging in criticism and celebration, reading and writing fanfiction, and attending fan conventions. Their close relationships within the community allow an intimate behind-the-scenes examination of fan psychology, passion, motivation, and shame. The authors also speak directly to the creative side in order to understand what fuels the passionate reciprocal relationship Supernatural has with its fans, and to interrogate the reality of fans fears and shame. As they go behind the scenes and onto the sets to talk with Supernatural's showrunners, writers, and actors, the authors struggle to negotiate a hybrid identity as 'aca-fans'. Fangirls one moment, 'legitimate' researchers the next, the boundaries often blur. Their repeated breaking of the fan/creative side boundary is mirrored in Supernatural s reputation for fourth wall breaking, which has attracted journalistic coverage everywhere from Entertainment Weekly to the New York Times. Written with humor and irreverence, Fandom at the Crossroads combines an innovative theorizing of fandom and popular culture, which will be useful in a variety of courses, with a behind-the-scenes story that anyone who has ever been a fan or wondered why others are fans will find fascinating.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515514http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515604Fandom unbound : . otaku culture in a connected world / . edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji.Description: "In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as 'geek'--an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515604http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515605The geek handbook : . practical skills and advice for the likeable modern geek / . Alex Langley.Description: "Drawing on his own knowledge of being a geek for almost 30 years, author Alex Langley provides essential advice for growth and survival for the modern geek"--Cover verso.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515605http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515606Geek wisdom : . the sacred teachings of nerd culture / . edited by Stephen H. Segal ; with commentary by Zaki Hasan ... [et al.] ; illustrations by Mario Zucca.Description: Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks don't something we all can learn from.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515606http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515515Gender communication theories & analyses : . from silence to performance / . Charlotte Krol²kke, Ann Scott S²rensen.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515515http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515516Gender inequality : . feminist theories and politics / . Judith Lorber.Description: "In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Fifth Edition, internationally renowned feminist Judith Lorber examines thirteen evolving theories of gender inequality. Tightly structured around Lorber's own paradigm of "reform, resistance, rebellion," this combination text/reader acknowledges feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality and celebrates its enormous accomplishments over the last forty years. It also documents feminism's ongoing political activism, and with an exploration of postmodern and third-wave trends, points toward its future. Significantly rewritten, reorganized, and updated, the fifth edition includes: More coverage of cultural feminism ; New readings on such topics as deconstruction, ecofeminism, and Chicana feminism ; An expanded discussion of postmodern feminism, including transgendering and its congruences and conflicts with feminist theory and politics ; New references on transnational feminism and feminist studies of men."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515516http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515607Gender, race, and class in media : . a critical reader / . editors, Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez.Description: With a new section on the Internet and the violence debate this third edition offers an integrated approach to media studies and explores the impact of the various media on gender, race and class in modern societies.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515607http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515517Gender stories : . negotiating identity in a binary world / . Sonja K. Foss, Mary E. Domenico, Karen A. Foss.Description: "Essential for anyone who seeks to understand the contemporary gender landscape, Gender Stories defines gender as the socially constructed meanings that are assigned to bodies. The book helps readers navigate issues of gender by introducing them to the ubiquitous gender binary, the problems with much of the research on gender differences, and the variety of gender stories in popular culture. At the heart of the book is a description of the process of becoming a gendered person through crafting and performing gender stories. Because each gender performance is unique, a virtually unlimited number of genders exists--not just two, as the gender binary would have us believe. The same multiplicity that characterizes the gender landscape characterizes the individual, who typically changes gender multiple times a day and across the lifespan. In Gender Stories, personal gender performances are framed within a philosophy of choice. Readers are encouraged to become more conscious of the choices they have in constructing their gender identities and to allow others the same choice by respecting their gender performances. Readers will easily find a place for themselves in the book, regardless of their views on gender, because one perspective on gender is not presented as the right one. Gender Stories affirms and legitimizes diverse perspectives as providing more comprehensive knowledge about gender for everyone."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515517http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515609Gendered lives : . communication, gender, and culture / . Julia T. Wood.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515609http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515611Genderspeak : . personal effectiveness in gender communication / . Diana K. Ivy.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515611http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511388Good poems, American places / . . selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511388http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511387Good poems for hard times / . . selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor.Description: Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511387http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511386Good poems / . . selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor.Description: The popular radio show host showcases some of his favorite poems, including the work of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, and Sharon Olds.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511386http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503940Group dynamics / . . Donelson R. Forsyth.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503940http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518283Handbook of autoethnography / . . [edited by] Stacy Holman Jones, Tony E. Adams, and Carolyn Ellis.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518283http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518592Hardbook of Arab women and Arab Spring : . challenges and opportunities / . editor, Muhamad S. Olimat.Description: "This volume examines the role of Arab women in the Arab Spring and their contribution to the ongoing process of change sweeping the region. The book begins with an examination of the process of democratization and its impediments in the Arab World since the Second World War. It then looks at the conditions that led to the upsurge of the so-called Arab Spring. Finally it underscores womens role as participants, organizers leaders but also as victims. The main thesis of the book is that while Arab women were an integral part of the revolutionary efforts within the Arab Spring paradigm, they did not benefit from their sacrifices. Although they continue to be part of the process of change, their gains, rights and scope for participation are still limited. If the expansion of womens participation and the scope of their rights do not seem to be a priority for revolutionary forces, women have made remarkable achievements, especially in some Arab Spring countries such as Yemen and Libya. The book includes case studies of some Arab Spring countries and other countries influenced by developments: Egypt, Bahrain Kuwait, Libya, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. It calls on revolutionary and reformist forces to give special attention to issues related to Arab women, as they are an indispensable pillar in the process of reform, development, peace and stability in the Middle East"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518592http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511393Holidays on ice / . . by David Sedaris.Description: A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511393http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515518How to watch television / . . edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515518http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518406Human rights rhetoric : . traditions of testifying and witnessing / . edited by Arabella Lyon & Lester C. Olson.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518406http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504161Interpersonal conflict / . . Joyce L. Hocker, William W. Wilmot.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504161http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518599Life as politics : . how ordinary people change the Middle East / . Asef Bayat.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518599http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515521Mad for Foucault : . rethinking the foundations of queer theory / . Lynne Huffer.Description: Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515521http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518372Making Masterpiece : . 25 years behind the scenes at Masterpiece and Mystery! on PBS / . Rebecca Eaton ; with Patricia Mulcahy.Description: "The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programs. For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time drama series in American history. From the runaway hits Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers, to the hugely popular Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect, and Poirot, Masterpiece Theatre and its sibling series Mystery! have been required viewing for fans of quality drama. Eaton interviews many of the writers, directors, producers, and other contributors and shares personal anecdotes--including photos taken with her own camera--about her decades-spanning career. She reveals what went on behind the scenes during such triumphs as Cranford and the multiple, highly-rated programs made from Jane Austen's novels, as well as her aggressive campaign to attract younger viewers via social media and online streaming. Along the way she shares stories about actors and other luminaries such as Alistair Cooke, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Radcliffe, whose first TV role was as the title character in David Copperfield. Readers will also get to know Eaton on a personal level. With a childhood steeped in theater, an affinity for nineteenth century novels and culture, and an 'accidental apprenticeship' with the BBC, Eaton was practically born to lead the Masterpiece and Mystery! franchises. Making Masterpiece marks the first time the driving force behind the enduring flagship show reveals all"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518372http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515522Media and communication research methods : . an introduction to qualitative and quantitative approaches / . Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University .Description: "Employing his signature style--a practical focus, the use of numerous illuminating examples, an easy to follow step-by-step approach, and engaging humor that makes the material approachable--Arthur Asa Berger updates and enhances his best-selling introductory text with the third edition. He combines insightful discussions of qualitative and quantitative media and communication research methods as he covers each topic thoroughly in a fun-to-read style. Ideal for beginning research students at both the graduate and undergraduate level, this proven book is clear, concise, and accompanied by just the right number of detailed examples, useful applications, and valuable exercises that are sure to get your students to want to understand, and master, media and communication research."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515522http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512178Media convergence : . networked digital media in everyday life / . Graham Meikle, Sherman Young.Description: "This book focuses on how everyday media such as Facebook, iTunes and Google can be understood in new ways for the 21st century through ideas of convergence. Key chapters explore the development of the internet, the rise of social media and the new opportunities for audiences to create, collaborate upon and share their own media."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512178http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515523Media, society, world : . social theory and digital media practice / . Nick Couldry.Description: Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. - Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge. - Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media and social theory, this book explores how questions of power and ritual, capital and social order, and the conduct of political struggle, professional competition, and everyday life, are all transformed by today's complex combinations of traditional and 'new' media. In the concluding chapters Couldry develops a framework for global comparative research into media and for thinking collectively about the ethics and justice of our lives with media.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515523http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519176Mindless : . why smarter machines are making dumber humans / . Simon Head.Description: "We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)-the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between humans, as in health care, education, customer relations, and human resources management. And yet there are industries with more human approaches, as Head illustrates with specific examples, whose lead we must follow and extend to the mainstream American economy. Mindless illustrates the shortcomings of CBS, providing an in-depth and disturbing look at how human dignity is slipping as we become cogs on a white collar assembly line. "--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519176http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511390Naked / . . David Sedaris.Description: The author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511390http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518600The new Middle East : . protest and revolution in the Arab World / . edited by Fawaz A. Gerges.Description: "The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books written by prominent scholars of the region and of comparative politics to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011-2012. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Although specific conditions in individual countries that have experienced large-scale popular mobilizations are investigated, they are neither treated in isolation nor separated from broader developments in the region. Instead, the authors highlight connections between individual case studies and systemic conditions throughout the Arab arena. These include the crisis of political authority, the failure of economic development, and new genres of mobilization and activism, especially communication technology and youth movements. The careful analysis and reflection on the prospects for democratic change in the region ensures the book will have both an immediate and enduring appeal"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518600http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511385One-hundred-and-one read-aloud classics / . . edited by Pamela Horn.Description: Includes excerpts, able to be read in about ten minutes, from both contemporary and traditional children's favorites.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511385http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512179Open access / . . Peter Suber.Description: In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers."--pub. desc.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512179http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515524Partisan journalism : . a history of media bias in the United States / . Jim A. Kuypers ; foreword by Larry Schweikart.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515524http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518408Performance ethnography : . critical pedagogy and the politics of culture / . Norman K. Denzin.Description: "In Performance Ethnography, one of the world's most distinguished authorities on qualitative research establishes the initial published connection of performance narratives with performance ethnography and autoethnography, the linkage of these formations to critical pedagogy and critical race theory, and the histories of these formations. He then shows how they may be connected."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518408http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518409Performance studies : . an introduction / . Richard Schechner and Sara Brady.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518409http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518404Performing culture : . stories of expertise and the everyday / . John Tulloch.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518404http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519175The public space of social media : . connected cultures of the network society / . by Thâeráese F. Tierney.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519175http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515612Rather outspoken : . my life in the news / . Dan Rather with Digby Diehl.Description: This memoir by the author, one of the most pre-eminent journalists of our time, is told in a straightforward and conversational manner; you hear his distinctive voice on every page. He has won every prestigious journalism award in his distinguished career, and discusses all the big stories from his decades of reporting. This very personal accounting includes (but is certainly not limited to) his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, his coverage of the JFK assassination, the origin of "Hurricane Dan" as well as inside stories about all the top personalities he has either interviewed or worked with over his remarkable career. The book also includes his thoughts and reflections on the state of journalism today and what he sees for its future, as well as never-before-revealed personal observations and commentary.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515612http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512180Rebuilding the news : . metropolitan journalism in the digital age / . C. W. Anderson.Description: "Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, Rebuilding the News traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online. As the business models of newspapers have collapsed, author C. W. Anderson chronicles how bloggers, citizen journalists, and social networks are implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism. Through a combination of local newsroom fieldwork, social-network analysis, and online archival research, Rebuilding the News places the current shifts in news production in socio-historical context. Focusing on the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Anderson presents a gripping case study of how these papers have struggled to adapt to emerging economic, social, and technological realities. As he explores the organizational, networked culture of journalism, Anderson lays bare questions about the future of news-oriented media and its evolving relationship with "the public" in the digital age."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512180http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513907The reporter who knew too much : . Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times / . Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513907http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512181The reporter's handbook on nuclear materials, energy, and waste management / . . Michael R. Greenberg ... [et al.].Description: An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of 24 of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, TMI and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, global warming. Each 'brief' is based on interviews with named scientists, engineers, or administrators in a nuclear specialty, and each has been reviewed by a team of independent experts. The objective is not to make a case for or against nuclear-related technologies, but rather to provide definitive background information.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512181http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519174Research design : . qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches / . John W. Creswell.Description: "The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here! For all three approaches, Creswell includes a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry. He also presents the key elements of the research process, giving specific attention to each approach. The Fourth Edition includes extensively revised mixed methods coverage, increased coverage of ethical issues in research, and an expanded emphasis on worldview perspectives."--Publishers description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519174http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518601Revolution, revolt, and reform in North Africa : . the Arab Spring and beyond / . edited by Ricardo Renâe Larâemont.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518601http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515519The rhetoric of intention in human affairs / . . Gary C. Woodward.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515519http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518407The Sage handbook of performance studies / . . edited by D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518407http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513763The Sage handbook of qualitative research / . . edited by Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln.Description: The editors and contributors address issues of social justice and examine how people's struggles can inform public issues and in turn be transformed into social policy. Their writings are underpinned by a critical framework, and they are committed to addressing issues of inequality. As with previous editions, their aim is to show how the practices of qualitative research can effect change in the world in positive ways.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513763http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512182Saturday night live and American TV / . . edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, and Ron Becker.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512182http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515525Sherlock and transmedia fandom : . essays on the BBC series / . edited by Louisa Ellen Stein and Kristina Busse.Description: "The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010 - ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective for the digital age, joining participants in the active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians and fans from other communities, including science fiction, media, and anime fandom. This collection explores the cultural intersections and fan traditions that converge in Sherlock and its fandoms"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515525http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515526Social media and the law : . a guidebook for communication students and professionals / . edited by Daxton R. "Chip" Stewart.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515526http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515741Social media for journalists : . principles & practice / . Megan Knight and Clare Cook.Description: This is a much needed one-stop guide for students and practitioners that covers the theory and principles, the skills and practice, and also the realities of building a successful career in the new economy of journalism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515741http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515527The social media reader / . . edited by Michael Mandiberg.Description: With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few. It covers a wide-ranging topical terrain, much like the internet itself, with particular emphasis on collaboration and sharing, the politics of social media and social networking, Free Culture and copyright politics, and labour and ownership. Theorizing new models of collaboration, identity, commerce, copyright, ownership, and labour, these essays outline possibilities for cultural democracy that arise when the formerly passive audience becomes active cultural creators, while warning of the dystopian potential of new forms of surveillance and control.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515527http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515528Social media, social genres : . making sense of the ordinary / . Stine Lomborg.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515528http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519173Social physics : . how good ideas spread-the lessons from a new science / . Alex Pentland.Description: A landmark tour of the new science of "idea flow" outlines revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence, explaining the virtually unlimited data sets of today's digital technologies and the considerable accuracy of information from social networks.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=519173http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504164Social psychology and human nature / . . Roy F. Baumeister, Brad J. Bushman.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504164http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515529Social theory re-wired : . new connections to classical and contemporary perspectives / . edited by Wesley Longhofer, Daniel Winchester.Description: "This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the flexibility of an interactive website. The reader includes original texts from classical and contemporary theorists as well as short synopses of key ideas and brief biographies of each theorist. The website will contain a wide variety of innovative material that the instructor can use to tailor his or her social theory course, including videos and animations; discussion forums with webcam capabilities; commentaries and summaries of key concepts, including extended historical content; exams and quizzes; annotated selections from key readings; classroom activities and links to supplemental texts. The combination of a print reader and a modular online component will appeal to instructors looking to move parts of their course online or instructors already teaching in an online setting."--pub. desc.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515529http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515742The sociology of gender : . an introduction to theory and research / . Amy S. Wharton.Description: "Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to one of the most important topics in the field of sociology. Features extensive revisions and updates, and incorporates recent cross-national research on gender Expands and develops frameworks introduced in first edition Treats gender as a multilevel system operating at the individual, interactional, and institutional levels Stresses conceptual and theoretical issues in the sociology of gender Offers an accessible yet intellectually sophisticated approach to current gender theory and research Includes pedagogical features designed to encourage critical thinking and debate "--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515742http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513903The speech / . . Gary Younge.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=513903http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515743The street politics of abortion : . speech, violence, and America's culture wars / . Joshua C. Wilson.Description: The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues to this day. Picking up the story in the contentious decades that followed Roe, The Street Politics of Abortion is the first book to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front protests through the 1980s and 1990s, the most visible and contentious period in U.S.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515743http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518791Surviving field research : . working in violent and difficult situations / . edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram ... [et al.].Description: This text guides researchers in conducting research in situations of violent conflict or human rights abuses. It informs the reader of the ongoing debates about responsible scholarship and explains how to identify and address challenges in conducting qualitative research in difficult circumstances.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518791http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515744Taken for grantedness : . the embedding of mobile communication into society / . Rich Ling.Description: In this book, Rich Ling explores the process by which the mobile phone has become embedded in society, comparing it to earlier technologies that changed the character of our social interaction and, along the way, became taken for granted. By examining the similarities and synergies between the mobile phone and the clock and the automobile, Ling sheds a more general light on how technical systems become embedded in society and how they support social interaction within the closest sphere of friends and family.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515744http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515745Top of the morning : . inside the cutthroat world of morning TV / . Brian Stelter.Description: Stelter reveals all the dish and dirt behind the polite smiles and perky demeanors of morning television, complete with Machiavellian booking wars and manic behavior by the producers, executives, and stars. So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and discover the dark side of the sun.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515745http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518602Transitional justice and human rights in Morocco : . negotiating the years of lead / . Fadoua Loudiy.Description: "This book examines the Moroccan experience of transitional justice, more specifically the negotiation of the legacy of the period commonly referred to as the Years of Lead. This period of Moroccan history roughly spans from the early 1960s to 1999 during which thousands of citizens were arbitrarily detained, tortured and killed because of their political opinions. Through an analysis of testimonies, public documents and personal interviews, Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Morocco seeks to shed light on Moroccan citizens struggle for recognition and reparation in the aftermath of a long history of grave human rights violations ranging from arbitrary arrest and torture to state sponsored disappearances and murders. While Moroccos experience is often presented within a historical global context, this book offers a comparative analysis, discussing other national examples to situate the Moroccan experience within the relatively recent history of political transitions. Seeking to advance a rhetoric of symbolic justice that privileges the voice of the victims and offers hope for the renewal of a communitys ethos through public discourse and ethico-political practices, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars with an interest in Human Rights and Middle East Politics"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518602http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518405The twentieth century performance reader / . . edited by Teresa Brayshaw and Noel Witts.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518405http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512183Twitter : . social communication in the Twitter age / . Dhiraj Murthy.Description: Twitter has become a household name, discussed both for its role in prominent national elections, natural disasters, and political movements, as well as for what some malign as narcissistic "chatter." This book takes a critical step back from popular discourse and media coverage of Twitter, to present a scholarly engagement of this popular medium. In this timely and comprehensive introduction, the author not only discusses Twitter's role in our political, economic, and social lives, but also draws a historical line between the telegraph and Twitter to reflect on changes in social communication over time. The book examines Twitter as an emergent global communications medium and provides a theoretical framework for students, scholars, and tweeters to reflect critically on the impact of Twitter and the contemporary media environment. The book uses case studies including citizen journalism, health, and national disasters to provide insights and to help decipher some of the ways in which Twitter and social media more broadly may be shaping contemporary life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=512183http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515746Understanding fandom : . an introduction to the study of media fan culture / . by Mark Duffett.Description: "While fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fringe audience, shifts in technology and production in the last few decades have made fandom a central mode of media consumption. An abundance of theorists have emerged in parallel to explore this phenomenon, many specializing in particular kinds of fan research. Although the volume will not address sports fandom, it will aim to include insights from research linked to many other kinds of media, including television and popular music fandom. With a foreword by Matt Hills, Understanding Fandom introduces the whole field of fan studies by looking at the history of debate, key paradigms and methodogical issues. The emphasis will be on showing how fan studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field with its own key scholars and a tradition that is distinct from both textual analysis and reception studies. It draws together a range of debates from media studies, cultural studies and psychology to argue that fandom is particular kind of an engagement with the power relations of media culture"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515746http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515530Unruly practices : . power, discourse, and gender in contemporary social theory / . Nancy Fraser.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515530http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515531War of the worlds to social media : . mediated communication in times of crisis / . edited by Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=515531http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518792The watchdog that didn't bark : . the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative reporting / . Dean Starkman.Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=518792http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511392When you are engulfed in flames / . . David Sedaris.Description: Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=511392
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