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Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality

Mark Graham, Martin Dittus

London: Pluto Press (2022), xiii, 194 pp.

"Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and ... more

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The Universal Journalist
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David Randall, Jemma Crew

London: Pluto Press, 6th ed. (2021), xii, 311 pp.

"This is the only 'how to' book on journalism written by writers and editors who have operated at the top level in national news. It has long been the go-to book of advice for young reporters. This edition includes a chapter on social media and is extensively updated throughout, with new content fro ... more

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Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria

Donatella Della Ratta

London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.

"This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Del ... more

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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more

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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty

Jairo Lugo-Ocando

London: Pluto Press (2015), viii, 215 pp.

"In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed f ... more

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War Reporters Under Threat: The United States and Media Freedom

Chris Paterson

Pluto Press (2014), x, 222 pp.

"War Reporters Under Threat describes the threat of violence facing war reporters from the United States government and some of its closest allies. Chris Paterson argues that what should have been the lesson for the press following the invasion of Iraq - that they will be treated instrumentally by t ... more

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Bad News for Refugees

Greg Philo, Emma Briant, Pauline Donald

London: Pluto Press (2013), ix, 203 pp.

"Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts ... more

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More Bad News from Israel

Greg Philo, Mike Berry

London: Pluto Press, Exp. and updated ed. (2011), viii, 475 pp.

"Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, 'More Bad News From Israel' examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how ... more

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Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source

David M. Berry

London: Pluto Press (2008), xiii, 257 pp.

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Theatre of the Oppressed

Augusto Boal

London: Pluto Press, new ed. (2008), xxiv, 184 pp.

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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
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Allan Thompson (ed.)

Kofi Annan (statement)

London; Kampala; Ottawa: Pluto Press; Fountain Publishers; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), xvi, 463 pp.

"This book examines the crucial role the media played in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, bringing together local reporters and commentators from Rwanda, Western journalists, and media theorists. Part One (eight articles) describes and analyzes "Hate Media in Rwanda", mainly, but not exclusively, focusing ... more

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Reflections in a Bloodshoot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas

Lawrence Pintak

London: Pluto Press (2006), xviii, 374 pp.

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Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism

Sam Gregory, Gillian Caldwell, Ronit Avni, Thomas Harding (eds.)

Peter Gabriel (foreword)

London: Pluto Press; Witness (2005), 323 pp.

"This book is an invitation—an invitation to discover the potential of a simple video camera and the power it holds to spark social change. Every day, all around the world, activists draw upon video in creative, strategic ways and use the results to ensure that silent voices are heard and importan ... more