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A behind-the-scenes look at the struggles between visual
journalists and officials over what the public sees-and therefore
much of what the public knows-of the criminal justice system. In
the contexts of crime, social justice, and the law, nothing in
visual media is as it seems. In today's mediated social world,
visual communication has shifted to a democratic sphere that has
significantly changed the way we understand and use images as
evidence. In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock examines the way
criminal justice in the US is presented in visual media by focusing
on the grounded practices of visual journalists in relationship
with law enforcement. Drawing upon extended interviews, participant
observation, contemporary court cases, and critical discourse
analysis, Bock provides a detailed examination of the way
digitization is altering the relationships between media,
consumers, and the criminal justice system. From tabloid coverage
of the last public hanging in the US to Karen-shaming videos, from
mug shots to perp walks, she focuses on the practical struggles
between journalists, police, and court officials to control the way
images influence their resulting narratives. Revealing the way
powerful interests shape what the public sees, Seeing Justice
offers a model for understanding how images are used in news
narrative.
How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing
principles of the early web Begun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to
some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco,
craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It
is also a throwback to the early internet. The website has barely
seen an upgrade since it launched in 1996. There are no banner ads.
The company doesn't profit off your data. An Internet for the
People explores how people use craigslist to buy and sell, find
work, and find love-and reveals why craigslist is becoming a lonely
outpost in an increasingly corporatized web. Drawing on interviews
with craigslist insiders and ordinary users, Jessa Lingel looks at
the site's history and values, showing how it has mostly stayed the
same while the web around it has become more commercial and far
less open. She examines craigslist's legal history, describing the
company's courtroom battles over issues of freedom of expression
and data privacy, and explains the importance of locality in the
social relationships fostered by the site. More than an online
garage sale, job board, or dating site, craigslist holds vital
lessons for the rest of the web. It is a website that values user
privacy over profits, ease of use over slick design, and an ethos
of the early web that might just hold the key to a more open,
transparent, and democratic internet.
Clyde E. Palmer: Arkansas Newspaper Publisher began as a thesis by
Lawrence J. Bracken, a student at the University of Arkansas at
Little Rock. Bracken's extensive research over several years traces
the career and impact of Palmer, a force in American journalism for
nearly 50 years until his death in 1957. Palmer, an enterprising
Arkansas newspaper publisher, engineered a conglomerate of media
properties that was uncommon in his era. He was a successful
businessperson and became a pioneer of technological developments
in newspaper publishing. He established a lasting influence through
the many future editors and publishers that worked for him before
their careers took them to leadership positions at newspapers
across the nation. Perhaps his most enduring legacy is as the
patriarch of the four successive family generations of publishers
to lead with a powerful commitment to journalism in the public
interest supported by sustainable profits from the business of
journalism. Palmer's daughter Betty obtained a degree in journalism
at the University of Missouri, where she met Walter Hussman, who
devoted his career to the company in both newspaper publishing and
moving it into television broadcasting and cable television. The
company WEHCO Media Inc. carries the mantle of Palmer's legacy
today under the leadership of Palmer's grandson, Walter Hussman Jr.
Hussman's daughter, Eliza Hussman Gaines, leads the company's
flagship newspaper as managing editor of the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette. In an era when newspapers are challenged by
digital economics, understanding the roots of the business and the
importance of journalism to civic society is perhaps more important
than ever. Palmer's story is one of America's early newspaper
success stories, which has carried forward for over a century.
Expanded Internet Art is the first comprehensive art historical
study of "expanded" internet art practices. Charting the rise of a
multidisciplinary approach to online artistic practice in the past
decade, the text discusses recent currents in contemporary artistic
practice that parallel the explosion of the internet through
advances such as social media, smart phones, and faster bandwidth.
Internet art is no longer determined solely by its existence on the
web; rather, contemporary artists are making more art about
informational culture using various methods of both online and
offline means. It asks how artists, such as Seth Price, Harm van
den Dorpel, Kari Altmann, Artie Vierkant and Oliver Laric, create a
critical language in response to the persuasive influence of
informational capture on culture and expression, where the
environment itself becomes reorganized to be more legible as
information.
The Socialist Register has been at the forefront of intellectual
enquiry and strategic debate on the left for five decades. This
expertly curated collection analyzes technological innovation
against the backdrop of the recurrent crises and forms of class
struggle distinctive to capitalism. As we enter what some term the
fourth industrial revolution and both mainstream commentators and
the left grapple with the implications of rapid technological
development, this volume is a timely and crucial resource for those
looking to build a political strategy attentive to sweeping changes
in how we produce goods and live our lives.
The Finance module provides a significant underpinning to the
Chartered Fintech Professional (CFtP) qualification. While the
topics are familiar to professionals who are traditionally trained
in Finance, these topics are required to appreciate the financial
problems that technology can help solve. Without a clear
appreciation of finance concepts and practice, any professional
will have difficulties solving such problems the traditional way,
let alone incorporating recent technological breakthroughs. In this
module, we provide the basic concepts and knowledge that a fintech
professional needs.This book covers the main concepts and theories
in finance which include economics, financial statement analysis,
financial management, and investment management. Finance for
Fintech Professionals is a companion volume to the book on
technology that covers fundamental concepts on data, artificial
intelligence, and network. Together, these two books form the
foundation for a good understanding of finance and fintech
applications which will be covered in subsequent volumes.Bundle
set: Global Fintech Institute-Chartered Fintech Professional Set I
The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't
stop itTetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular
video game ever made. But how did an obscure Soviet programmer,
working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product which has
now earned nearly 1 billion in sales? How did a makeshift game turn
into a worldwide sensation, which has been displayed at the Museum
of Modern Art, inspired a big-budget sci-fi movie, and been played
in outer space?A quiet but brilliant young man, Alexey Pajitnov had
long nurtured a love for the obscure puzzle game pentominoes, and
became obsessed with turning it into a computer game. Little did he
know that the project that he laboured on alone, hour after hour,
would soon become the most addictive game ever made.In this
fast-paced business story, reporter Dan Ackerman reveals how Tetris
became one of the world's first viral hits, passed from player to
player, eventually breaking through the Iron Curtain into the West.
British, American, and Japanese moguls waged a bitter fight over
the rights, sending their fixers racing around the globe to secure
backroom deals, while a secretive Soviet organization named ELORG
chased down the game's growing global profits. The Tetris Effect is
an homage to both creator and creation, and a must-read for anyone
who's ever played the game- which is to say everyone.
Audio is a unique medium for communication. It's intimate,
immediate, immersive, and creators can produce it at home. In The
Podcaster's Manifesto, Sarah Lemanczyk draws from her experience as
one of the first professors in the United States to teach a
dedicated podcasting course as part of a journalism curriculum. The
book takes the mystery out of audio: what makes it different, where
its challenges lie, and what makes it such an enticing medium to
work in. The book prepares readers to participate in the audio
world by introducing them to terminology, equipment, and best
practices, and then demonstrating how to put it all together to
create audio that is impactful, engaging, and rich-audio that
people will listen to. Dedicated chapters help readers find their
voice, write for the ear, edit audio, set up a home studio, pitch a
podcast, and more. Written in an easy, humorous style, The
Podcaster's Manifesto is an exemplary resource for programs and
courses in communication, especially those with emphasis in audio
and podcasting. It is also an invaluable resource for any
individual interested in developing their own podcast.
Building a successful cybersecurity team is no longer optional.
Cyberthreats evolve at a staggering pace, and effective
cybersecurity operations depend on successful teams. Unfortunately,
statistics continue to illustrate that employers are not finding
the people they need. The Can. Trust. Will. system guides the
C-Suite, HR professionals and talent acquisition to build
unbeatable cybersecurity teams through advanced hiring processes
and focused on-boarding programs. Additionally, this book details
how successful cybersecurity ecosystems are best built and
sustained, with expert analysis from high-level government
officials, Fortune 500 CSOs and CISOs, risk managers, and even a
few techies. Those already in the field (and newbies) will glean
invaluable knowledge about how to find their most effective
position within a cybersecurity ecosystem. In a tech-driven
environment, cybersecurity is fundamentally a human problem: and
the first step is to hire for the human element.
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