Titoli in Studi sui media

L'Apocalisse non è una fantasia distopica, non è una remota possibilità. L'Apocalisse è intorno a noi: è negli aggiornamenti quotidiani sulla pandemia, è nei video YouTube sullo scioglimento dei ghiacciai, è nelle conversazioni quotidiane sul futuro. È sui giornali, sul web e sui social. Ma cosa sta facendo, concretamente, l'umanità per evitare la fine? Mark O'Connell ha intrapreso un viaggio alla ricerca di risposte. Ha visitato i bunker di lusso costruiti in Sud Dakota.

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.

Wikipedia definisce bigiotteria gli oggetti in cui "la valenza estetica compensi la modestia del valore intrinseco dei componenti". È esattamente quello di cui si occuperà "Bigiotteria": significativi reperti dell'attuale fase evolutiva che vengono spesso giudicati irrilevanti.

From the author of the legendary underground bestseller The Illuminatus! Trilogy and more than 30 other books, comes a long-awaited audio event: Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything. This once-in-a-lifetime, 12-session recording captures one of the most unconventional and brilliant writers of...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and...

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedln sono ormai termini entrati nel lessico quotidiano e sempre più spesso capita di sentire persone che ci chiedono se abbiamo una pagina su Facebook o se siamo iscritti a questo o quel gruppo. I social network sono dunque una moda o qualcosa di duraturo? Se non sono una moda, che effetti hanno sulle nostre modalità di relazione? Sono utili o costituiscono una perdita di tempo? Questo volume affronta il fenomeno dei social network: come sono nati e come si sono evoluti, quali effetti hanno prodotto sulle relazioni e sull'identità delle persone.

When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, "No." As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: "We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler's death." What really happened? Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams have compiled extensive evidence - some recently declassified - that Hitler actually fled Berlin and took refuge in a remote Nazi enclave in Argentina.

The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607.

The 2030 Agenda, proclaimed at the 2015 United Nations Summit in New York, is a "global future contract" which national governments are expected to adhere. This agenda includes 17 so-called "sustainability goals" that look good on the surface. A closer look reveals the same actors who want nothing less than full control over the earth's resources, a single centralized world government, and the enslavement of all human beings on earth.

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed the "engineering of consent". During World War I, he was an integral part of the US Committee on Public Information, or CPI, a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise, and sell the war to the American people as one that would "Make the World Safe for Democracy".

Questo libro fornisce degli spunti precisi di riflessione su base scientifica descrivendo il confronto tra scienza conosciuta e sostenitori della Terra piana. Le argomentazioni sono numerose: la curvatura della Terra mai dimostrata, la teoria della relatività di Einstein rimasta tuttora tale, scienziati volutamente ignorati perché scomodi alle teorie più accreditate, le implicazioni della N.A.S.A. nelle sofisticazioni dei video relativi alle missioni Apollo e alla ISS, il vuoto dello Spazio mai testato, sei dei sette defunti astronauti dello Shuttle esploso nel 1986 ritrovati in vita.

In che modo la tv e i social media sono diventati così pervasivi? Come mai si ha la sensazione di vivere in un tempo strano, talvolta estremamente compresso e talvolta profondamente dilatato? E perché ci sembra sempre che ci manchi un quadro generale delle cose, che il nostro sguardo si fissi su alcuni particolari, ingranditi a dismisura?

A Tenth Anniversary Edition of Naomi Klein's No Logo with a New Introduction by the Author NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million...

In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the elaborate strategies that these silicon empires—from tech giants to great powers—are deploying to capture the immense value of AI.

The 10th anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author “A persuasive and intimate book . . . showing how, phones in hand, we turn away from our children, friends, and coworkers, even from ourselves.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post “[Turkle] presents a powerful case that a...

This definitive history of presidential lying reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded -- and why Trump's lies are especially dangerous. If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president to do so. In Lying in State, Eric...

Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from "the need for introspection" to "the ability to discover the key problem." He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence and explores the riches of computer-created art.

While generations of young adults used to spend their summers working as lifeguards or camp counselors, college students today are more likely to seek office experience as interns. Blame the Intern takes listeners into the workspaces of the music industry to show how internships, especially unpaid ones, are problematic introductions to the working world that often provide little valuable training and are unlikely to lead to a job.

Thanks to the power of its "mystic" Indian origins, yoga promises peace, self-realization, and release. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to reveal a new origin story of modern postural practice. Starting with the world's first modern yogi—a Californian escapologist who added Hindu fairy dust to circus exercises—this history reveals a community full of grifters, occultists, and white supremacists, out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise.

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters, Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so.