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En un mundo hiperconectado y condicionado por los mandatos de belleza, ¿cómo prevalece la autenticidad y el respeto por la imagen y el cuerpo propio y ajeno? En este audiolibro, Esther Pineda G. nos guía en el laberinto algorítmico de los ideales de belleza en las redes sociales, con el...

La historia del auge y la caída de Interviú, una revista consagrada al erotismo, la provocación y la denuncia política Durante décadas, Interviú fue sinónimo de escándalo y de periodismo valiente. En sus páginas convivieron el destape y los sucesos más crudos, las firmas más...

La desinformación en salud no nació con la pandemia, pero sí encontró en las plataformas digitales el ecosistema perfecto para echar raíces. En este audiolibro, Jessica Lakshmi, Lakishimishi, se adentra en el terreno donde la salud se cruza con el miedo, el mercado y la tecnología para...

El algoritmo no es un tema técnico. Es un tema de poder. De quién controla la información, de quién se beneficia de tu atención, de quién gana cuando los otros pierden la capacidad de pensar por sí mismos. ¿Te has preguntado quién decidió qué consumirás hoy en tu teléfono? ¿Por...

Contra la desinformación masiva y las noticias falsas que amenazan con fracturar la estabilidad social, dos destacados psiquiatras se adentran en los intrincados laberintos de la psicología humana para revelar qué se oculta tras la mente del conspirador y cómo el pensamiento crítico puede...

言葉の力は、生きる力。現場で考え抜いた伝える、鍛える、表す極意。 スマホとネットが日常の一部となり、顔の見えない人ともコミュニケーションできる現代社会は、便利な反面、やっかいでもある。言葉の力が生きる力とも言える時代に、日本語の足腰をどう鍛えるか、大切なことは何か──恋愛、子育て、ドラマ、歌会、SNS、AIなど、様々なシーンでの言葉のつかい方を、歌人ならではの視点で、実体験をふまえて考察する。

A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain's colonial rule and secure Washington's American victory The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, it was waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin shows how the leaders of the American...

From Whitewash, the first critical book on the Warren Report, through numerous Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuits, to Never Again!, his last published work, Harold Weisberg worked tirelessly to lift the veil of secrecy and deceit from the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. Based on the government’s own evidence, he demonstrated beyond question that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, did not kill President Kennedy. In his final years, Weisberg focused on making a record for history, producing over two dozen unpublished manuscripts on the subject.

Springsteen Fandom: "A Lifetime Conversation" explores the experience of the Bruce Springsteen musical fandom as a mutual exchange between artist and audience. Choosing significant stops of the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour as a narrative guideline, the book presents a thorough...

An eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment—and how we can fight back, from the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic. Whether it’s our reality-television-star President or...

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR TRANSGENDER NONFICTION An Electric Literature Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A them Best LGBTQ+ Book of the Year A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year An Autostraddle Most Anticipated October Read A BookRiot Most...

‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN ‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince millions that a...

Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at ""ordinary"" Americans and detest so much of what this country is about)...the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous)...

This program features a prologue and epilogue read by the author. A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech—for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of...

Veteran CIA agent Kevin Shipp, who worked with all four Directorates of the agency, including protecting the head of the CIA, provides his perspective on how the agency has strayed so far from its original mission to provide accurate intelligence to the American president.

How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate...

This program is read by the authors. The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history—and how to fight back. Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven’t, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. You couldn’t walk out of your front door in New York...

In the following keynote address given at Saint Francis College, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan's concept of "The Medium Is The Message" from his seminal book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. "The Medium Is The Message" proposed that the media—not the content that they carry—affects the society in which it plays a role and, thus, should be the primary focus of study.

This book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change.

In the following keynote address given at Baylor University, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan's seminal book, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man," which proposed that the media—not the content that they carry—affects the society in which it plays a role and, thus, should be the focus of study. Levinson, a colleague of McLuhan’s, lays out, how in the decades since its 1964 publication, McLuhan’s study of media theory and the concept that "the medium is the message," still holds true.