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This book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introductory
guide to information, offering students the critical tools they
need to shift their positioning from consumers and users to
creators and critics. Searching, accessing, and using information
are central to most daily lives. Yet, many users are not able to
define what information is, identify who controls information, and
create information to achieve a common good. In this book, Micky
Lee teaches readers to critically interrogate key issues such as
the categorization of information and knowledge throughout history,
what digital divides are, why information is gender and race
biased, how governments and corporations control citizens and
consumers, as well as how we can resist unbalanced power relations.
Readers will not only be able to relate these issues to "old"
technologies, such as writing and printing, but will also be able
to examine futurist technologies through the lenses of these
enduring issues. A thoughtful and comprehensive overview, this is
an ideal book for students and scholars of media studies,
information and society, and communication and technology.
Google is synonymous with searching, but in this innovative new
research volume, Micky Lee explores how the Alphabet Corporation,
now the parent company of Google, is more than just a search
engine. Using a political economic approach, Lee draws on the
concept of networks to investigate the growth of this key media
player. The establishment of the parent company, Alphabet, shows
the company is expanding to other industries from equity investment
to self-driving cars. This book first examines this history of
expansion, before delving into the economic, political, and
cultural profiles of the corporation. Lee ultimately finds that
what makes Google powerful is not one genius idea, but rather
networks of people, places, and capital. Alphabet: The Becoming of
Google is a compelling dive into the sometimes inscrutable world of
Google, ideal for students, scholars, and researchers interested in
the fields of digital media studies, the politics and economies of
online media, and the history of the internet.
This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical
world, social representations and rules, and historical power
relations-the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not. Do
parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as
self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do
wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not
built for them? By asking questions like these the authors reveal
how normalization has informed people's experiences of their bodies
and their fight for substantive equality. Understanding these
processes requires acknowledging the tension between social
construction and embodiment as well as centering the intersection
of dis/abilities with other identities, such as race, class,
gender, sex orientation, citizen status, and so on. Scholars and
researchers will find that this book provides new avenues for
thinking about dis/ability. A wider audience will find it
accessible and informative.
Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an
enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high
expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he
only makes art for a few high-brow critics. However Wong's
interviews show this Hong Kong auteur is candid about the art of
filmmaking, even surprisinghis interlocutors by suggesting his
films are commercial and made for a popular audience. Wong's
achievements nevertheless feel like arthouse cinema.His third film,
Chungking Express, introduced him to a global audience captivated
by the quick and quirky editing style. His Cannes award-winning
films Happy Together and In the Mood for Love confirmed an audience
beyond the greater Chinese market. His latest film, The
Grandmaster, depicts the life of a kung fu master by breaking away
from the martial arts genre. In each of these films, Wong Kar-wai's
signature style-experimental, emotive, character-driven, and
timeless-remains apparent throughout. This volume includes
interviews that appear in English for the first time, including
some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of print. The
interviews cover every feature film from Wong's debut As Tears Go
By to his 2013 The Grandmaster.
This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools
they need to understand the way digital technologies have
transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing
on three main approaches - media economics, critical political
economy, and production studies - the authors provide an
empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures
and culture, business strategies, markets, networks of strategic
alliances, and state policies as they relate to global media.
Examples throughout involve both traditional and digital media and
are taken from different regions and countries to illustrate how
the media business is influenced by interconnected historical,
political, economic, and social factors. In addition to introducing
today's convergent world of global media, the book gives readers a
greater understanding of their own potential roles within the
global media industries.
This book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introductory
guide to information, offering students the critical tools they
need to shift their positioning from consumers and users to
creators and critics. Searching, accessing, and using information
are central to most daily lives. Yet, many users are not able to
define what information is, identify who controls information, and
create information to achieve a common good. In this book, Micky
Lee teaches readers to critically interrogate key issues such as
the categorization of information and knowledge throughout history,
what digital divides are, why information is gender and race
biased, how governments and corporations control citizens and
consumers, as well as how we can resist unbalanced power relations.
Readers will not only be able to relate these issues to "old"
technologies, such as writing and printing, but will also be able
to examine futurist technologies through the lenses of these
enduring issues. A thoughtful and comprehensive overview, this is
an ideal book for students and scholars of media studies,
information and society, and communication and technology.
Google is synonymous with searching, but in this innovative new
research volume, Micky Lee explores how the Alphabet Corporation,
now the parent company of Google, is more than just a search
engine. Using a political economic approach, Lee draws on the
concept of networks to investigate the growth of this key media
player. The establishment of the parent company, Alphabet, shows
the company is expanding to other industries from equity investment
to self-driving cars. This book first examines this history of
expansion, before delving into the economic, political, and
cultural profiles of the corporation. Lee ultimately finds that
what makes Google powerful is not one genius idea, but rather
networks of people, places, and capital. Alphabet: The Becoming of
Google is a compelling dive into the sometimes inscrutable world of
Google, ideal for students, scholars, and researchers interested in
the fields of digital media studies, the politics and economies of
online media, and the history of the internet.
This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools
they need to understand the way digital technologies have
transformed the global media business of the 21st century. Focusing
on three main approaches - media economics, critical political
economy, and production studies - the authors provide an
empirically rich analysis of ownership, organizational structures
and culture, business strategies, markets, networks of strategic
alliances, and state policies as they relate to global media.
Examples throughout involve both traditional and digital media and
are taken from different regions and countries to illustrate how
the media business is influenced by interconnected historical,
political, economic, and social factors. In addition to introducing
today's convergent world of global media, the book gives readers a
greater understanding of their own potential roles within the
global media industries.
Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an
enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high
expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he
only makes art for a few highbrow critics. However, Wong's
interviews show this Hong Kong auteur is candid about the art of
filmmaking, even surprising his interlocutors by suggesting his
films are commercial and made for a popular audience. Wong's
achievements nevertheless feel like art-house cinema. His third
film, Chungking Express, introduced him to a global audience
captivated by the quick and quirky editing style. His Cannes
award-winning films Happy Together and In the Mood for Love
confirmed an audience beyond the greater Chinese market. His latest
film, The Grandmaster, depicts the life of a kung fu master by
breaking away from the martial arts genre. In each of these films,
Wong Kar-wai's signature style-experimental, emotive,
character-driven, and timeless-remains apparent throughout. This
volume includes interviews that appear in English for the first
time, including some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out
of print. The interviews cover every feature film from Wong's debut
As Tears Go By to his 2013 The Grandmaster.
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