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Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking

Rustin Thompson

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vii, 204 pp.

"Author and veteran filmmaker Rustin Thompson shows that by stripping away, sidestepping, or reassessing the entrenched industry hurdles-long waits for funding, the unwieldy crews, the unnecessary gear, the gauntlet of film festivals, pitch forums, and distribution networks-filmmakers can move quick ... more

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Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media

James E. Katz, Kate K. Mays (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xix, 283 pp.

"This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider soci ... more

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The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting

Lindsay Palmer

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 226 pp.

"Though news fixers are vital to the practice of international reporting-helping journalists to understand foreign languages, set up compelling interviews, and navigate unfamiliar terrain-their role is rarely made transparent to news audiences. Without news fixers, journalists would struggle to cove ... more

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Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma

Amit Pinchevski

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vii, 186 pp.

"Transmitted Wounds explores the ways media shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Through a series of case studies - from the radiocasts of the Eichmann trial to virtual reality therapy for PTSD - Pinchevski offers a bold thesis about the deep association of media and traum ... more

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Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present

Gustavo Procopio Furtado

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 265 pp.

"This work examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present. Marked by significant efforts toward the democratization of Brazil's highly unequal society, this period also witnessed the documentary's rise to unprecedented vitality ... more

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Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives

Mark Graham, William H. Dutton (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. (2019), xxx, 438 pp.

"How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and anyone with a serious interest in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. Spaw ... more

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Free Speech in the Digital Age

Susan J. Brison, Katharine Gelber (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xvi, 259 pp.

"This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of gov ... more

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Journalism Without Profit: Making News when the Market Fails

Magda Konieczna

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), x, 252 pp.

"This widely accessible book by Magda Konieczna, an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University in the United States, provides a critical and broad examination of nonprofits in the American journalism landscape. Konieczna employs very rich and insightful case studies of three American non ... more

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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 462 pp.

"Analysing millions of news stories together with Twitter and Facebook shares, broadcast television and YouTube, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture of contemporary American political communications. Through data analysis and detailed qualitative case studies of coverage o ... more

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Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age

Mohamed Zayani (ed.)

New York; Qatar: Oxford University Press; Georgetown University (2018), xii, 335 pp.

"Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are p ... more

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

Jamie Susskind

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2018), xiv, 516 pp.

"Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and ... more

Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth: A Guide to Program Evaluation with Stakeholders and Communities

Lori L. Bakken

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), xvi, 236 pp.

"Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and social service programs. This book walks the reader through a process of creating answerable evaluations questions, designing evaluation studies to answe ... more

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Socio-Informatics: A Practice-Based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts

Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David A. Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, Gunnar Stevens (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), xviii, 559 pp.

"The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications w ... more

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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.

"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more

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Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss

Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Larissa Hjorth

New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 228 pp.

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Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South

James Ron, Shannon Golden, David Crow, Archana Pandya

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), x, 255 pp.

"As international donors pour money into global human rights promotion, many governments—as well as scores of scholars and activists—fear a subtle, Western-led campaign for political, economic, and cultural domination. This book asks: What do publics in the global South think? Drawing on surveys ... more

Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know

Mara Einstein

New York: Oxford University Press (2017), 240 pp.

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Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Tim Unwin

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), viii, 226 pp.

"ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural develop and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, all too often, projects designed to do so fail to go to scale, and are unsustainable when donor funding ceas ... more

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