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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have
attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as
well as scholars in various disciplines. Both Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert have been named on Time magazine's list of the most
influential people in the world. The ten essays in this
interdisciplinary collection explore the issues engendered by the
popularity of entertainment news, including the role of satire in
politics, the declining level of trust in traditional sources of
media, the shows' cathartic or informational function, and the ways
in which these shows influence public opinion. It is a vital
addition to the scholarship on the collision of pop culture and
politics.
Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype, is a new
edited collection by Robin DeRosa which considers the role and
function of "simulation" in contemporary culture. Drawing on
theories of the simulacra from Jean Baudrillard, the collection
looks at the hyperreal-the state of being more real than the
real-in television, film, gaming, and cultural identity. DeRosa's
collection covers diverse content: from celebrity socialites to
cooking shows on TV; from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Jesus Christ on
the big screen; from Farmville to Extreme Championship Wrestling in
the world of games; and from the new German avant-garde to Florida
Studies in its treatment of postmodern identities and cultures.
Robin DeRosa's Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype
asks new questions-ethical, entertaining, and epistemological-about
how we can understand the shifting nature of the real.
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays
bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and
respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The
essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views
on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the
understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask,
among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of
literature, and of education in understanding and representing
genocidal violence? What are the challenges we face in teaching and
learning about extreme events such as these, and how does the
language we use contribute to or impair what can be taught and
learned about genocide? Who gets to decide if it's genocide and who
its victims are? And how does the demonization of perpetrators of
atrocity prevent us from confronting the complicity of others, or
of ourselves? Through a multi-focused and multidisciplinary
investigation of these questions, Understanding Atrocities
demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of
genocide studies. With contributions by: Amarnath Amarasingam,
Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen,
Travis Hay, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah
Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Scott W. Murray, Christopher
Powell, and Raffi Sarkissian
The emergence of COVID-19 has raised urgent and important questions
about the role of Canadian intelligence and national security
within a global health crisis. Some argue that the effects of
COVID-19 on Canada represent an intelligence failure, or a failure
of early warning. Others argue that the role of intelligence and
national security in matters of health is-and should-remain
limited. At the same time, traditional security threats have
rapidly evolved, themselves impacted and influenced by the global
pandemic.Stress Tested brings together leading experts to examine
the role of Canada's national security and intelligence community
in anticipating, responding to, and managing a global public
welfare emergency. This interdisciplinary collection offers a
clear-eyed view of successes, failures, and lessons learned in
Canada's pandemic response. Addressing topics including supply
chain disruptions, infrastructure security, the ethics of
surveillance within the context of pandemic response, the threats
and potential threats of digital misinformation and fringe beliefs,
and the challenges of maintaining security and intelligence
operations during an ongoing pandemic, Stress Tested is essential
reading for anyone interested in the lasting impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
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