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In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate. Within a matter of days, Parker was sending out telegrams and letters to promoters and booking agents: 'We have a new boy that is absolutely going to be one of the biggest things in the business in a very short time. His name is ELVIS PRESLEY.'<br/><br/>The close personal bond between Elvis and the Colonel is something that has never been fully portrayed before. It was a relationship founded on mutual admiration and support. From the outset, the Colonel defended Elvis fiercely and indefatigably against RCA executives, Elvis' own booking agents and movie moguls. But in their final years together, the story grew darker, as the Colonel found himself unable to protect Elvis from himself - or to control growing problems of his own.<br/><br/>Featuring troves of previously unpublished correspondence from the Colonel's own archives, revelatory for both their insights and their emotional depth, <i>The Colonel and the King</i> provides a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager and a unique perspective on not one but two American originals. A tale of the birth of the modern-day superstar (an invention almost entirely of Parker's making) by the most acclaimed music writer of his generation, it presents these two misunderstood icons as they've never been seen before: with all of their brilliance, humour and flaws on full display.

<b>From the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society</b><br/><br/>We all feel it&mdash;the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they&rsquo;re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, &ldquo;With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade." Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. <i>The Sirens&rsquo; Call</i> is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance.<br/><br/>Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes writes, &ldquo;Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human." <i>The Sirens&rsquo; Call</i> is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.

Mediehistoria är idag ett snabbt växande fält som vidgats till att omfatta långt mycket mer än studier av medieteknologier eller institutioner som press, radio, film och TV. I denna antologi breddar författarna ramen och analyserar allt från vardagsnära trycksaker till transnationella politiska fenomen, med andra ord sådana motiv som länge uteslutits ur mediernas historiografi.<br/><br/>I åtta kapitel visar författarna på styrkorna med att använda ett brett mediebegrepp. Bokens första del behandlar mediesystem och mediehändelser, exemplifierade i fallstudier av spiritistiska seanser, Gallupundersökningar, kejsare Wilhelm II:s medierade persona och begravningen av den före detta statsministern Karl Staaff. Den andra delen fokuserar på mediematerialiteter och infrastrukturer såsom konstkopior, kontorspärmar, guideböcker och gestaltningen av medieteknologier i IKEA-kataloger.<br/><br/><i>Expanding media histories</i> riktar sig i lika hög grad till studenter som forskare genom att presentera ny empirisk forskning som tar avstamp i centrala mediehistoriska nyckelbegrepp.<br/><br/>Medverkande: Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Marie Cronqvist, Christine Davidsson Sandal, Henning Hansen, Ulrika Holgersson, Charlie Järpvall, Charlotta Krispinsson, Betto van Waarden, Eskil Vesterlund.

Club Cultures - Music, Media And Subcultural Capital [Bok / Pocket]

Marketing is all around us. From your very first memories to the moment before you opened this book, you&apos;ve been inundated by marketing. You learned to read from the logos on the side of the road, and you spend your time and your money in response to what marketers have paid to put in front of you. Marketing, more than a lake or a forest, is the landscape of our modern lives. Because marketing has been done to us for so long, we take it for granted. This is Marketing turns that upside down and opens the door for you to do something with marketing. To make something better. To cause a change you&apos;d like to see in the world. To grow your project, but mostly to serve the people you care about.

Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhaps the weirdest business story of our time. A fast-paced and riveting account of a hilarious and tragic mess. Matt Levine, Bloomberg Opinion Money Stuff columnist<br/><br/>the bird is freed Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022<br/><br/>When Elon Musk took over Twitter, commentators were rooting for the visionary behind Tesla and SpaceX to succeed. Here was a tough leader who could grab back power from Twitters entitled workforce, motivate them to get extremely hardcore, and supercharge Twitters profit and potential. And it was all out of the goodness of his own heart, rooted in his fervent belief in the necessity of making Twitter friendlier to free speech. I didnt do it to make more money, Musk said. I did it to try and help humanity, whom I love.<br/><br/> Once Musk charged into the Twitter headquarters, the command-and-control playbook Musk honed at Tesla and SpaceX went off the rails immediately. Distilling hundreds of hours of interviews with more than sixty employees, thousands of pages of internal documents, Slack messages, presentations, as well as court filings and congressional testimony, Extremely Hardcore is the true story of how Musk reshaped the worlds online public square into his own personal megaphone. <br/><br/>Youll hear from employees who witnessed the destruction of their workplace in real-time, seeing years of progress to fight disinformation and hate speech wiped out within a matter of months. Theres the machine-learning savant who went all-in on Twitter 2.0 before getting betrayed by his new CEO, the father whose need for healthcare swept him into Musks inner circle, the trust and safety expert who became the subject of a harassment campaign his former boss incited, and the many other employees who tried to save the company from their new bosss worst instincts. This is the story of Twitter, but its also a chronicle of the post-pandemic labor movement, a war between executives and a workforce newly awakened to their rights and needs.<br/><br/>Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. Its the next best thing to being there, and you wont have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop. <br/><br/>Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor of Platformer where she covers Twitter, X Corp., and Elon Musk. Previously, she was a senior reporter at The Verge where she reported on the labor movement in Silicon Valley. Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, andVox. Shes appeared onCNN, NBC, CNBC, and the BBC.<br/><br/>Schiffer has become one of the most indispensable chroniclers of the chaos inside [Twitter]. The Washington Post<br/><br/>Zoë Schiffer has the wonderfully gossipy and perfectly timed story on whats happening in the company formerly known as Twitter. As much as this book is of the moment, its also a story of the ages, one of hubris, hero worship, and ultimately, the destruction of a company that should have been a public good.<br/> Bethany McLean, coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room, All the Devils are Here, and The Big Fail<br/><br/>It used to be said that Twitter was like a clown car that drove into a goldmine and fell in. Zoë Schiffers incredibly written and astonishingly reported book about the Musk era of the worlds craziest company tells the story of a man who took the clown car, strapped a rocket to the back of it, and then slammed it into a wall at 100,000 miles an hour. You simply wont be able to put this book down.<br/> Nick Bilton, author of American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter<br/><br/>Twitter was an extraordinary idea that, thanks to incompetent management, never lived up to its promise. Then Elon Musk bought it. Zoë Schiffers brilliant book exposesthe malicious idiocy of Musk and his sycophants.<br/> Roger McNamee, tech investor and author of the NYT bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

A collection of never-before-seen photographs of RADIOHEAD by their bassist Colin Greenwood, with a ten-thousand-word essay by him about the band that has been his life since they formed at school.