Media Studies Politics

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 23-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,558 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
    • By: Joel Morris
    • Narrated by: Joel Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....

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    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

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    • Searching for the Truth on Political TV
    • By: Rob Burley
    • Narrated by: Rob Burley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television....

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    • Orientations, Objects, Others
    • By: Sara Ahmed
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time.

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    • 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
    • By: Karen Arrington
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Channel your Black-girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you can achieve, it's time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you....

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    • My Conversations with the World's Most Evil Men
    • By: Christopher Berry-Dee
    • Narrated by: Geoff Barham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • We've all heard so much about the killers who grab the front pages, the ones whose crimes are so appalling that they exert a strange fascination on many people....

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    • Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs....

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    • The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy - one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled....

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    • The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist It
    • By: Laura Dodsworth, Patrick Fagan
    • Narrated by: Henry Nott
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind....

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    • A Vision of Hope for Our Time
    • By: Desmond Tutu
    • Narrated by: Desmond Tutu
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Reaching out to listeners of all religious backgrounds, Desmond Tutu shows us how to transform suffering into joy both in our lives and in our world....

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    • The Untold Story of Silicon Alley
    • By: Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Fisher
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Grigoriadis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship.

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    • How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
    • By: Jason Bisnoff
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing....

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    • The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
    • By: Peter Pomerantsev
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • From one of our leading experts on disinformation comes the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today....

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