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By Stuart Ewen

All Consuming Images by Stuart Ewen dives deep into the world of consumer culture, exploring the powerful influence of images on our society. Ewen takes readers on a thought-provoking journey examining how advertising, media, and propaganda shape our desires, beliefs, and behaviors.

Through insightful analysis and engaging examples, Ewen uncovers the ways in which images have become central to modern life, driving consumerism and shaping our collective consciousness. This book challenges readers to question the pervasive influence of visual culture and consider the implications of our image-saturated world.

With meticulous research and a critical perspective, All Consuming Images offers a compelling exploration of the intersection between image, power, and consumption in contemporary society. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of our media-driven world.

Basic Books, 1999, 306 pages

By Vian Bakir • Andrew McStay

This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future.

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 286p..

Edited by Richard Rogers

There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. This book takes up the mainstreaming of the fringe and the marginalization of the mainstream. In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on display the current state of information online, noting how social media platforms have taken on the mantle of accidental authorities, privileging their own on-platform performers and at the same time adjudicating between claims of what is considered acceptable discourse.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 246p.