Media Diet Book Club: Forthcoming Books 2008

This is an incomplete list of media- and journalism-related books scheduled to be published this year. If you're aware of others that you think are worth mentioning in Media Diet, let me know!

Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web

A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School

Can We Trust the BBC?

Principles of Convergent Journalism

Media in the Digital Age

The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

Center Field Shot: A Hitory of Baseball on Television

Scandal and Civility: Journalism and the Origins of American Politics

Understanding Media Economics

From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video

Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means

Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion

Shock Jocks: America's Talk Radio Problem

Power, Politics and Identity in South African Media

Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

Virtual Identities: The Construction of Selves in Cyberspace

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News

Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games

The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age

Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources

The Media and Peace

The Mechanical Bride (Facsimile)

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

White News: The Untold Story of Racism in American Media and the Journalists Who Fought It

A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television

The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right

Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America

Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment

The Social Media Playbook: Listen, Look, Join and Lead

Global Bollywood

Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy

Global TV: Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market

The Encyclopedia of Reality Television: The Ultimate Guide to Over 20 Years of Reality TV from The Real World to Dancing with the Stars

The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics

Losing the News: The Uncertain Future of the News That Feeds Democracy