Books
A select list of books by CMS/W faculty, lecturers, and alumni.
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The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story (2013)
Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon.
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The phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture, through one line of code.
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Building Mobile Experiences (2012)
“The methods outlined apply user-centered design processes to mobile devices in a way that makes these methods relevant to the mobile experience.”
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This Is How You Lose Her (2012)
“Junot Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love.”
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Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (2012)
A concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds.
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane (2012)
“A provocative and entertaining look at the psychology of superstition and religion, how they make us human—and how we can use them to our advantage.”
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Raising the Stakes (2012)
T.L. Taylor’s book on professional computer gaming and the accompanying efforts to make a sport out of this form of play.
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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation (2012)
“’As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.’ So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g.”
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The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy (2012)
In The Panic Virus, Mnookin interviews parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists to task: How do we decide what the truth is?
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What’s Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (2011)
“Before the rise of Limbaugh and Beck, these broadcasters bucked the public interest mandate and created an alternate universe of right-wing coverage.”
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Riddle and Bind (2010)
Riddle & Bind is a book of poems to solve.
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture (2010)
Jing Wang’s “detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China.”
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist (2009)
In the courts and streets of London, Newton and Chaloner played out an epic game of cat and mouse.
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The Day We Found the Universe (2009)
Marcia Bartusiak’s “riveting and mesmerizing story behind the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.”
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We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (2009)
William Uricchio explores media and identity in the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations, and languages of contemporary Europe.
