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This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It

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A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.

Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively par