"In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing o…
Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.
"If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Col…
Argues for the importance of understanding identity as relational rather than static in encouraging feminist alliances across race, class, and ethnicity.
Statelessness in context -- A case study in statelessness: diamonds, the diamond network, and diamontaires -- The mechanics of statelessness -- A theory of statelessness -- The costs of statelessness: cartel behavior and resistance to change -- Lessons from statelessness: econom…
In Stateless Commerce, Barak Richman uses the diamond industry to explore how ethnic trading networks operate and why they persist in the twenty-first century. How, for example, does the Forty-Seventh Street diamond district in midtown Manhattan--surrounded by skyscrapers and so…
"The first full-length study of prison life writing, this book shows how the autobiographical literature of incarcerated people is consistently based on a conversion narrative, the same narrative that underpins prison rehabilitation. By demonstrating how prison life writing inte…
Introduction -- The hustle -- Building a company -- Airbnb nation -- The bad and the ugly -- Air rage -- Hospitality, disrupted -- Learning to lead -- What's next?
A thorough and objective profile of this groundbreaking and unusual company covers its founders, meteoric rise, nagging troubles, and global popularity
A thorough and objective profile of this groundbreaking and unusual company covers its founders, meteoric rise, nagging troubles, and global popularity.
