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Véritable petit guide pratique écrit en 1928 par le neveu américain de Sigmund Freud, ce livre expose cyniquement et sans détour les grands principes de la manipulation mentale de masse ou de ce que Bernays appelait la "fabrique du consentement". Comment imposer une nouvelle marque de lessive ? Comment faire élire un président ? Dans la logique des "démocraties de marché", ces questions se confondent. Bernays assume pleinement ce constat : les choix des masses étant déterminants, ceux qui parviendront à les influencer détiendront réellement le pouvoir.

In this landmark volume, Scott traces how culpable elements in the CIA and FBI helped prepare for the assassination, and how the deep state continues to influence our politics today. As timely and important as ever in the current chaotic political climate, Dallas '63 is a reality-shattering, frightening exposé not of those who govern us - but of those who govern those who govern us.

Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, the Coca-Cola Company. It tells the story of how, over the past 130 years, the corporation has tried to make its products and brands physically and culturally a central part of global daily life in over 200 countries. Through this story of Coca-Cola, Amanda Ciafone reveals the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations-liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal - of the 20th and 21st centuries. A story of global capitalism, it is not without contest.

Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media is for anyone who needs to be reminded that we're all a work in progress, no matter what judgments we make when measuring our lives against what others share online. In her debut book, award-winning journalist and sought-after speaker Jessica Abo addresses the relationship between our psychology and technology and how we can take back our happiness IRL (in real life) without falling into the compare-and-despair trap. 

Euphrates to the land of the Hittites and the Upper Sea toward the west.

Noir - as a style, movement, or sensibility - has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cineastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject.

More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn’t be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The nightly news is being replaced by carefully orchestrated propaganda. Our iPhones are monitored, as are our laptops and our landlines. As for social media, that too is ripe for spying by men in black suits. No wonder, then, that the last few years have seen an incredible rise in conspiracy theories about deceptions and cover-ups.

Plattformen wie YouTube, Facebook, Twitter oder Amazon sind die neuen sozialen Magneten - Clanbildner einer sich anbahnenden globalen digitalen Stammesgesellschaft. Während die herkömmlichen sozialen Bindungskräfte von Familien, Institutionen, Parteien, Verbänden und Staaten zunehmend schwinden, entstehen um digitale Plattformen wimmelnde Kollektive, die sich wie Schwärme oder Horden ausnehmen. Ihre Benutzer sind "Follower", digitale Gefolgschaft hält die neuen Clans zusammen.

Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues such as screen addiction....

Internet delle cose, intelligenza artificiale, robotica, realtà virtuale: è il nostro mondo sempre più digitale e interconnesso. Riflettendo sulle rivoluzioni industriali del passato, a partire da quella inglese del XVIII secolo, l'audiolibro mostra come in gioco vi siano profondi rivolgimenti sociali e territoriali, non solo la tecnologia. Oggi la quarta rivoluzione ci obbliga a ripensare radicalmente stili di vita, modelli educativi, modi di consumare, produrre, lavorare, interagire. Cruciali il ruolo dell'informazione e della politica.

Nach jüdischer Überlieferung begründete Sem, Sohn Noahs, die Tradition der "semitischen" Schriftreligion, aus der u.a. das Judentum und Christentum sowie der Islam entstanden. Gegen diese weltverändernde Kraft der Schriftreligionen stemmten sich Gegenmythen, die den Zusammenhalt, die Bildungserfolge sowie den Kinderreichtum von Juden und anderen Semiten als bedrohliche Verschwörungen deuteten.

As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political differences and learning how to talk respectfully with people whose views she disagrees with passionately. Her viral TED Talk on the need to practice emotional - rather than political - correctness sparked a new way of considering how often we amplify our differences and diminish our connections. But these days even famously 'nice' Kohn finds herself wanting to breathe fire at her enemies.

Le televisioni oggi sono tante e molto diverse tra loro: nessun mezzo di comunicazione ha raggiunto nella storia una diffusione e un'influenza così grandi. Anche in Italia sono ormai lontani i tempi del duopolio Rai-Mediaset, poiché nuovi competitori, come Sky, controllano quasi un terzo delle risorse del sistema televisivo. Questo audiolibro traccia l'evoluzione della Tv in Europa e nel mondo, e dà conto del suo forte impatto sui consumi culturali e sui comportamenti sociali, pubblici e privati.

Social media can inform and enlighten but can also manipulate, control, and destroy innocent people. It is changing humanity and is the new master of our daily lives, but some are calling it a virtual prison that we willingly engage in while oblivious to the sinister agenda behind the technology.

In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.

Taking listeners back to the days of TaB cola, dot matrix printers, and digging through the couch for just one more quarter, Alex Rubens combines his knowledge of the tech industry and experience as a gaming journalist to conjure the wild silicon frontier of the 8-bit ’80s. 8-Bit Apocalypse: The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command offers the first in-depth, personal history of an era for which fans have a lot of nostalgia.

A charming and timely tribute to the women who broke glass ceilings in film and television, debuting during an historic time of change in the entertainment industry. Renegade Women in Film and TV blends fascinating biographical profiles and exclusive interviews with icons like Barbra Streisand...

A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagement In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are...

Perché quel sorriso, ascoltatore? Sapere ti rende felice. Credi di conoscere tutto quello che ti circonda: le app nel tuo cellulare sono in grado di dirti che tempo farà da oggi a due settimane, arrivano a pronosticare il vincitore del prossimo campionato di serie A. Chi ha inventato Internet? Google è Dio? Perché le persone non mi vogliono? Cosa mangiano le tartarughe? Ridi pure, ascoltatore: queste domande le hai poste proprio tu, e un programma di analisi ora le sta condividendo con il mondo intero.

A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline, and how they will save or destroy us all. Memes are the street art of the social web. Using social media–driven movements as her guide, technologist and digital media scholar An...