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New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Softcover. Near Fine. 6x0x9. [MEDIA]. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb. "The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Associaton, and Reuters, 1848-1947." New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. English language. Softcover. 9 x 6 x 0.5 in. 23 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm. 14 oz. xiv, 256 pp. Pitting on spine. Wear at bottom of spine. Front cover slightly bows. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9781107657830."Based on newly available and extensive archival evidence, this book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb argues that newspaper publishers formed news associations and patronized news agencies to cut the costs of news collection and exclude competitors from gaining access to the news. In this way, cooperation facilitated the distribution of news. The extent to which state regulation permitted cooperation, or prohibited exclusivity, determined the… Read More

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021. Softcover. Near Fine. 6x0x9. [MEDIA]. Eds. Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz. "Saturation: An Elemental Politics." Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021. English language. Softcover. xii, 332 pp. 9 x 6 inches. 17 oz. Price in pencil on half-title. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9781478011460."Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of being thoroughly soaked, while in chemistry it is the threshold at which something can be maximally dissolved or absorbed in a solution. Contributors to this collection expand notions of saturation beyond water to consider saturation in sound, infrastructure, media, Big Data, capitalism, and visual culture. Essays include analyses of the thresholds of HIV detectability in… Read More