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Investigative journalist David Gardner turns his uncompromising gaze on the many conspiracy theories connected with the COVID pandemic. With first-hand reporting and detailed investigations into the people who originated these COVID theories—some of them plausible, some driven by an agenda and some plainly mad—he answers the questions that everyone has been asking for nearly two years since the pandemic began, and left us doubting our leaders as never before.

Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded oral performance as its primary object of analysis and by exploring the historically specific convergences between audio recording technologies, media formats, generic forms, and the institutions and practices surrounding the literary.

World War II was a media war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the press to a great extent, of course, but as the war progressed, the media also came to influence commanders' decisions on the battlefield. The Media Offensive offers a new way to understand military-media relations during World War II. The press and public opinion shaped not only how the conflict was seen but also how it was fought. In what could be called "the new history of war reporting," the focus is switched from how the military controlled reporters to how military decisions were shaped by the press.

In Fooling with the Amish, Dirk Eitzen examines the fakery in Amish Mafia and how actual viewers of the show responded to it to discover answers to two questions that have long puzzled media scholars: What is it about the so-called reality of reality shows that appeals to and gratifies viewers? How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? Eitzen's ultimate answer to these questions is that, in taking liberties with facts, Amish Mafia works very much like gossip.

Selling sex has never been more profitable—or dangerous—for everyone on both sides of the screen. Jewels Jade should know. She has spent most of her life working in the adult entertainment industry. Porn isn’t just for men in trench coats and shady video store backrooms anymore. From vanilla to vile, it’s all online. Just like social media, though, online porn banks on fresh content and takes viewer data mining to the bank, creating a snowballing cycle of algorithms, addictive behaviors, and extreme performances that have consequences beyond our wildest dreams and nightmares.

Brought face to face with the author of his obituary and his own inevitable mortality, Edward Stourton is prompted to reflect on the life he has led and the events that have shaped him. The world has changed, and so has Ed. In Confessions, he describes this remarkable journey with candour, humour and the insight that only forty years' experience of writing and reporting can provide.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedln sono ormai termini entrati nel lessico quotidiano e sempre più spesso capita di sentire persone che ci chiedono se abbiamo una pagina su Facebook o se siamo iscritti a questo o quel gruppo. I social network sono dunque una moda o qualcosa di duraturo? Se non sono una moda, che effetti hanno sulle nostre modalità di relazione? Sono utili o costituiscono una perdita di tempo? Questo volume affronta il fenomeno dei social network: come sono nati e come si sono evoluti, quali effetti hanno prodotto sulle relazioni e sull'identità delle persone.

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces.

Fake News: Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the "fake news" phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex and fast-moving debate.

Mein Smartphone – meine Entscheidung. So gestalten und kontrollieren Sie Ihr digitales Leben. Für einen verantwortungsvollen und selbstbestimmten Umgang mit Medien. Lernen Sie, Quellen und Daten nach Güte und Glaubwürdigkeit beurteilen zu können. In diesem Ratgeber erhalten Sie Basiswissen zu Digitaler Souveränität in den Bereichen Technik und IT, in der Beurteilung von Daten und Quellen, sowie Informationen zur Datensicherheit und zum Datenschutz und über mögliche gesundheitliche Folgen der Mediennutzung, um damit Medienkompetenz zu steigern und die Möglichkeit, seine digitale Welt deutlich mehr selbst zu gestalten.

Why are some of the most interesting artists of our time committed to engaging with conflict and exploitation around the world? Beautiful, Gruesome, and True tells the stories of three of them: Amar Kanwar makes riveting films about the destruction of rural India in the drive to extract natural resources. Teresa Margolles creates haunting installations from the traces of crime scenes and drug-related violence in Mexico. The anonymous collective Abounaddara has produced more than four hundred short films chronicling the uprising and civil war in Syria.

In Editor Missing, veteran journalist Ruben Banerjee attempts to provide clarity on the state of Indian media at a time when there is consensus only on the lack of it. The media mirrors society, and Banerjee is best placed to tell its contested story in contemporary India. As a top editor for various publications, he has had a ringside view for years of the decline in its standards, quality and objectivity. His own experiences reflect the time we live in.

Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated.

Who are the illuminati? What did the Knights Templar really do? Are we truly being controlled by secret societies? What is the secret of the Holy Grail? These questions and more are answered in this unique audio book. We delve into the esoteric world of secret societies and ask whether they are watching our every move and manipulating us. Prepare for a world of the occult and mystery. It’s time to open your mind.

We are being controlled by a massive secret order that finds it’s origins in the darkness of history. They emerged from ancient cults, created religions and governments are are even now manipulating business and more.This audio book delves into the illusive illuminati. We delve deep into the esoteric world of the Bible and the many Saints of the church. And we seek out Satan himself. Get ready for a roller coater ride into the world of myth and the occult.

Plus-size fashionistas have been writing their own narrative for the past two decades, creating a market all on their own that is now worth more than $21 billion dollars. The Power of Plus features interviews with trailblazers such as Tess Holliday, Hunter McGrady, Gabi Gregg, and more, as it follows the evolution of plus-size fashion from its start on small blogs to its current boom, examines the way this market has changed women’s relationships with their bodies, and predicts how plus-size fashion is integral to the future success of the industry.

En este revelador Audible Original, el profesor Michael Shermer, editor de la revista Skeptic y presentador del podcast Salón de la Ciencia, muestra las teorías conspirativas históricamente preponderantes y ayuda a entender cómo y por qué surgieron, quiénes eran propensos a creer en ellas y perpetuarlas y qué hay en realidad detrás de todas esas creencias.

Tyrants on Twitter is the first detailed analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to subvert the liberal international order. In addition to examining the 2016 US election, David L. Sloss explores Russia's use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe, as well as China's use of social media and other digital tools to meddle in Western democracies and buttress autocratic rulers around the world.

Cuneiform texts found on clay plates in Mesopotamia tell us about an extraterrestrial race, called the Anunnaki, who came from space to exploit our planet. Through genetic manipulation, they created modern humans from existing earthly life forms to serve them as slaves. They physically left our planet millennia ago, but as Jan Erik Sigdell reveals, their influence and control over humanity is still pervasive and significant.

Identitätspolitik zwischen Vernunft und Exzess. Wer gendert, das Z-Wort meidet und im Schlaf aufsagen kann, wofür die Buchstabenwürmer LGBTQIA* und BIPoC stehen, gilt in seinen Kreisen als "woke". Die Mehrheitsgesellschaft dagegen fragt: Haben wir keine anderen Sorgen? Petra Gerster und Christian Nürnberger führen durch das Minenfeld, das die deutsche Sprache durch identitätspolitische Forderungen geworden ist.