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  • Media Events in a Global Age

    Series series Comedia
    "This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb ... Read more

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  • The Place of Media Power

    Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age

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  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

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  • Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies

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  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

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    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

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