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We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago - amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago - many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere.

Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow, Chefredakteurin beim beliebten Portal finanzfluss, wirft einen erhellenden Blick hinter die Kulissen der deutschen Medienwelt. Sie räumt auf mit Irrtümern und haltlosen Klischees, schildert gängige Fails im System und erklärt, warum es „die Wahrheit" einfach nicht gibt. Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen zeigt sie: Die Medienbranche kämpft mit gewaltigen Problemen – doch bleiben etablierte Nachrichtenmedien trotzdem unersetzlich.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedln sono ormai termini entrati nel lessico quotidiano e sempre più spesso capita di sentire persone che ci chiedono se abbiamo una pagina su Facebook o se siamo iscritti a questo o quel gruppo. I social network sono dunque una moda o qualcosa di duraturo? Se non sono una moda, che effetti hanno sulle nostre modalità di relazione? Sono utili o costituiscono una perdita di tempo? Questo volume affronta il fenomeno dei social network: come sono nati e come si sono evoluti, quali effetti hanno prodotto sulle relazioni e sull'identità delle persone.

The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016-2020) is a harbinger of a changing internet, and thus a changing culture. The amorphous and seemingly pervasive presence of the Remilia Corporation and the hyperstition it has produced stems from the apparition of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, her philosophies having been translated and organized so as to guide listeners through a labyrinth of online terminalism that has now bled deep into our everyday lives.

A clear-eyed examination of why modern media lost public trust—and what it will take to earn it back. Trust in journalism is collapsing. Social platforms reward outrage over truth. Algorithms, advertisers, and billionaires shape what we see, think, and share. Now artificial intelligence is...

The first, foundational book on the next media renaissance, from one of the foremost thought leaders at the intersection of storytelling and technology. These days we don’t want to just watch our media—we want to be a part of it. To touch, feel, and test our surroundings, to make decisions...

From the creator of the viral Kardashian Kolloquium comes a New Media manifesto for the TikTok age - blending theory, cultural analysis and history to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and what their fame reveals about how media functions today. Since 2007, Kim Kardashian and her...

No One Planned This: How Platforms Rewired Entertainment traces the shift from studios and networks to feeds and ranking systems. From Netflix's streaming pivot to YouTube's industrialized creator model, from infinite scroll to algorithmic dominance, it reveals how infrastructure—not talent—began deciding what gets seen, what gets paid, and what endures.

From the oral tradition of campfire tales to today's immersive, serialized audio dramas, the horror genre has found a natural home in the podcasting form. With its ability to tap into the listener's imagination and provoke visceral responses, podcasting has reinvigorated horror storytelling. This book traces the lineage of sound-based horror, examining the rise of hit shows like Welcome to Night Vale, The Black Tapes Podcast, A Scottish Podcast, and One by One, which adopt the serialized format popularized by true crime podcasting post-2014.

Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain - this is the Wolverine that faced fans in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and claws. Legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged fans' expectations of super hero stories and created Marvel's most brutal and beautiful comic.

Shane Ross, author of best-sellers The Bankers and Mary Lou McDonald, winds the clock back to examine RTÉ's history of broadcasting excellence alongside the accusations of corruption, waste, and ineptitude it has faced along the way, while also considering what the future might hold for this formerly beloved institution.

Soziale Medien bergen Gefahren für Kinder und Jugendliche, die weit über Mediensucht hinausgehen. Sie wirken vielmehr tief hinein in das soziale Verhalten und die politische Identität Heranwachsender – und beeinflussen, wie sie diese Beziehungen pflegen und ihre Persönlichkeit entwickeln. Nina Kolleck bringt die sozialen und politischen Abgründe von Social Media auf den Punkt.

Porn isn’t just an industry. It’s an infrastructure. It’s not just about sex. It’s about systems. This book is not a purity sermon. It’s not a guilt trip. It’s not a moral panic dressed up as self-help. It’s a blunt, forensic scan of what happens when the oldest human instinct meets the most addictive technology on Earth. From ancient temples to VHS tapes, Playboy to Pornhub, sacred rituals to infinite scroll, THE FANTASY MACHINE tells the true story of how porn evolved from side-show taboo to full-blown nervous system takeover.

A good mystery isn’t just entertainment; it’s a tonic for life’s hardships Like so many of us living through the upheaval of the last five years, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling writer Cathy Rentzenbrink found that to keep her spirits up, she needed a project to throw herself...

What happens when a reality TV mogul turns the American presidency into a media battlefield? Trump and the Media dives deep into Donald Trump's unprecedented rise from celebrity businessman to President of the United States, revealing how he mastered the modern media landscape to shape public opinion, fuel controversy, and wage a relentless war against the press. This gripping analysis chronicles key moments, from the explosive “fake news” crusade and Twitter diplomacy to Fox News alliances and media manipulation that reshaped political communication forever.

An urgent case that the survival of democracy depends on reinventing the press, with ten pioneering reforms to help journalism better serve the public—from the co-author of the classic The Elements of Journalism. The crisis in journalism reflects a crisis in American democracy. Faith in news...

Brought to you by Penguin. Hotly-anticiaped new guide to working, learning and living with the latest genereations of AI, from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack. Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton...

The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607.

While generations of young adults used to spend their summers working as lifeguards or camp counselors, college students today are more likely to seek office experience as interns. Blame the Intern takes listeners into the workspaces of the music industry to show how internships, especially unpaid ones, are problematic introductions to the working world that often provide little valuable training and are unlikely to lead to a job.

Brought to you by Penguin. A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical...