Social Sciences Media Studies

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 23-07-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 555 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing, Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy....

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
    • By: Tom Standage
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 15-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media....

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 25-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
    • By: Stephon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....

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    • The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy
    • By: Eric Beecher
    • Narrated by: Eric Beecher
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls—from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk—and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

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    • By: Richard Seymour
    • Narrated by: Adam Bromley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study
    • By: Howard S. Friedman, Leslie R. Martin
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For years we have been told to make lists and obsessively monitor when we’re angry, what we eat, how much we worry, and how often we go to the gym....

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    • The Many Faces of Anonymous
    • By: Gabriella Coleman
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest....

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    • By: Harlan Ellison
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 24 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were only three major television networks. And there was only one Harlan Ellison taking them all to task in a series of weekly essays he wrote for the underground newspaper, the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. “The Freep”....

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    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

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