Media Studies

Brought to you by Penguin. From Orwell Prize-winning Daniel Lavelle comes a wild road trip chasing aliens through the UFO heartlands The US government has been investigating unidentified aerial phenomena in a secret division of the Department of Defence. A former intelligence official urged the...

From an executive producer of the hit HISTORY network series The Proof Is Out There, an evidence-based peek behind and beyond some of the world’s greatest mysteries. In recent years the assumed existence of UFOs/UAPs, the widespread acceptance of government interference in the truth, and...

The "official story" has always felt a little too neat, hasn’t it? If you’ve ever looked at a headline and felt that itch in the back of your brain, the one that says the math isn't adding up—then you’re in the right place. This isn't a lecture, and we aren't here to sell you a tin foil hat. We’re just pulling back the curtain to see who’s actually holding the strings. 17 CHAPTERS. ZERO FILTER. This audiobook is a deep-dive into the shadows of reality, narrated to feel less like a documentary and more like a late-night conversation you weren't supposed to overhear.

Bloomsbury presents The Ultimates by Ted Adams, read by Mack Sanderson. Explore the Stories Behind the Legends The 1990s and early 2000s were a time of intense change and experimentation for Marvel Comics. Out of this emerged The Ultimates—a comic that would have an explosive impact on Marvel...

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...

"The Roswell Report: Case Closed" by James McAndrew is a historical account produced by the United States Air Force, written in the late 20th century. The book centers on the infamous Roswell Incident of 1947, which has fueled decades of speculation regarding extraterrestrial life and UFOs...

Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. In Chicago, a high school teacher visits her late brother's Facebook page, hypnotized by the shifting content that animates and reanimates him.

В аудиокниге «Новое Просвещение и борьба за свободу знания» Питер Кауфман описывает, как веками могущественные силы—главы церкви и инквизиторы, правители и палачи, комиссары и секретные службы—стремились ограничить свободный поток информации. В XVI веке работа над переводом Библии каралась смертной казнью, словари и энциклопедии были под запретом, книги о науке и истории уничтожались.

Noticias falsas, medias verdades, rumores amplificados y narrativas diseñadas para engañar y polarizar circulan todos los días por medios, redes sociales y conversaciones cotidianas. Mario Campos, especialista en medios de comunicación y opinión pública, expone con claridad y ejemplos cómo funciona la maquinaria de la desinformación: quién la impulsa, por qué encuentra terreno fértil y de qué manera los ciudadanos terminamos participando como víctimas y, muchas veces sin saberlo, en su propagación.

From the creator of the highly popular Kardashian Kolloquium comes a new media manifesto for the TikTok age, blending theory and cultural analysis to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and explore what their fame can teach us about the way media functions today “By far the best book...