Media Studies and Technology: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newMedia.xml New Media Studies and Technology Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance | by Timothy Raphael http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=331702 How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America | by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322627 How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference? A Good Quarrel: America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court | Timothy R. Johnson and Jerry Goldman, Editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=243263 The country's top legal reporters comment on and analyze some of the most important oral arguments in recent court history. Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom | edited by Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=234436 An indispensable and engaging guide to using wikis in the classroom. The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture | by Jennifer M. Kapczynski http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327424 A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past. The Best of Technology Writing 2008 | edited by Clive Thompson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=339556 The year's best technology writing. Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body | by Michael Davidson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=286540 A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir. This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities | by Jim Rossignol http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=293023 An insider's view of online games and how they change us. Reframing Screen Performance | by Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=104480 Challenges conventional approaches to film by advancing the simple yet revolutionary idea that acting is one of cinema's essential aspects. The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age | edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297291 Investigates the multi-faceted nature of hyperlinks and their consequences for commerce, communication, and civic discourse in the world of digital media . Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation | by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Sean O'Siochru http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=312911 This book is the World Bank's first publication presenting good practices from around the world in media and broadcasting policy and regulation and complements existing work in governance, public sector reform, and access to information. Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age | edited by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287891 This collection is a timely intervention in national debates about what constitutes original or plagiarized writing in the digital age. Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China | edited by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=308803 Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities---including the Chinese Communist Party itself---seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood.