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   Now Available: Live Art in LA

   We are delighted to announce the publication of Peggy Phelan's latest book, Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983, which documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. Order a complimentary exam copy today!

2. Studying Mobile Media

   Through the lens of the iPhone—as a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile media—the essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century.
    

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   Recommend to your Librarian: Organizations and Popular Culture

   Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage reflexively in coming to terms with the meaning of work, technology and workplace relations. Featuring contributors from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, this exciting anthology provides a comprehensive review of research in organization and popular culture.
    

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   Now Available: Misunderstanding the Internet

   The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one fourth of the world’s population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. 
   
   Misunderstanding the Internet is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed textbook that aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies around the internet.
    

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   The Politics of Reality Television reviewed in CHOICE, September 2011

   "Exemplifying the vibrant scholarship on reality television, this collection tests the field's first generation of theory and initiates cross-cultural analysis of this globaly pervasive television genre. Summing Up: Recommended."
   --CHOICE, September 2011 (R. W. Morrow, Morgan State University)
     

6. eFocus on Race and Ethnicity - eBook Collection for Libraries

   Race and ethnicity have been at the forefront of both academic debate and social issues for many decades. This exciting new resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race, taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.

7. eFocus on Sexuality Studies - eBook Collections for Libraries

   The field of sexuality studies has been a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies have been incorporated into various disciplines. This collection both charts the growth of this area and provides material which would be relevant to a wide cross section of courses.

8. eFocus on Postcolonialism - eBook Collection for Libraries

   Postcolonialism consists of a wide range of responses to colonialism and its ongoing legacies and is one of the most important cultural and theoretical developments of recent decades. This invaluable resource offers a range of perspectives on postcolonialism from across the humanities and social sciences.

9. eFocus on the Internet, Culture and Society - eBook Collection for Libraries

   The internet has proved a technology with almost unprecedented impact on culture and society. This exciting new collection assesses this impact from the perspective of eighteen different academic disciplines, ranging from economics and linguistics to cultural studies and anthropology.

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