Saturday, February 16, 2008

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
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