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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy Ed 2


Free Download Johan Farkas, "Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032563036 | 2023 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 13 MB
The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.

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The Post-American World Release 2.0


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English | 2011 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 039308180X, 0393340384 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
The New York Times bestseller, revised and expanded with a new afterword: the essential update of Fareed Zakaria’s international bestseller about America and its shifting position in world affairs.

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Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change


Free Download Peter Gross, "Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change"
English | ISBN: 0739174940 | 2012 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This in-depth exploration shows how despite positive changes after the fall of Communism, the transformations of societal institutions, including the mass media, have turned out to be slow, uncertain, and unsatisfying to many when measured against the admittedly ambiguous and overly Panglossian expectations.

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Crime and the Imaginary of Disaster Post-Apocalyptic Fictions and the Crisis of Social Order


Free Download Majid Yar, "Crime and the Imaginary of Disaster: Post-Apocalyptic Fictions and the Crisis of Social Order"
English | 2015 | pages: 125 | ISBN: 1349506141, 1137509066 | PDF | 1,0 mb
This study explores the ‘imaginary of disaster’ that appears in popular fictions about the apocalyptic breakdown of society. Focusing on representations of crime, law, violence, vengeance and justice, it argues that an exploration post-apocalyptic story-telling offer us valuable insights into social anxieties.

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The Great Post Office Scandal


Free Download Nick Wallis, "The Great Post Office Scandal"
English | ISBN: 1739099206 | 2022 | 574 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. They were just a few of the hundreds who had been prosecuted by the Post Office using IT evidence from an unreliable computer system called Horizon. When the Post Office became aware that Horizon didn’t work properly, it covered it up. The Great Post Office Scandal is the story of how these innocent people had their lives ruined by a once-loved national institution and how, against overwhelming odds, they fought back to clear their names. Gripping, heart-breaking and enlightening, The Great Post Office Scandal should be read by everyone who wants to understand how this massive miscarriage of justice was allowed to happen.

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The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-911 Plays


Free Download Qurratulaen Liaqat, "The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-9/11 Plays"
English | ISBN: 1527518949 | 2023 | 194 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is a suitable genre to describe the post-9/11 era mired in wars, violence, and unspeakable horror? What kind of literary expressions and techniques are appropriate to give voice to the prevalence of global anguish in the post-9/11 scenario? Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option for the expression of the incongruity of the unspeakable horror unleashed after 9/11? Is the term ‘absurd’ applicable to this era? If yes, in what terms is this applicable? This book tries to find answers to these questions and many more. It reflects on the epistemological shifts in the avant-garde tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, its ongoing critical currency in contemporary history, and its changing contours in the post-9/11 plays of Rajiv Joseph, an emerging American dramatist. It establishes the continued relevance of the Theatre of the Absurd at the current juncture of human history.

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Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television


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English | ISBN: 1666918679 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1402 KB
This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order.

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