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Reading the Comments
What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web. Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations “on the bottom half of the Internet,” he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Reagle visits communities of Amazon reviewers, fan fiction authors, online learners, scammers, freethinkers, and mean kids. He shows how comment can inform us (through reviews), improve us (thro...
The Age of Netflix
In 2016, Netflix--with an already enormous footprint in the United States--expanded its online streaming video service to 130 new countries, adding more than 12 million subscribers in nine months and bringing its total to 87 million. The effectiveness of Netflix's content management lies in its ability to appeal to a vastly disparate global viewership without a unified cache of content. Instead, the company invests in buying or developing myriad programming and uses sophisticated algorithms to "narrowcast" to micro-targeted audience groups. In this collection of new essays, contributors explore how Netflix has become a cultural institution and transformed the way we consume popular media.
The Best Horror of the Year
A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director; a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle's body; a girl looks to understand her place in a world in which zombies have overrun the ear...
Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre
Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre is an anthology of the best upcoming writers exploring the dark side of stoners, zombies, killer clowns, Disneyland, werewolves in night clubs, the Golden Age of Hollywood, and Scottish hermit crabs. Includes new work by Roberta Rogow, Brian Rosenberger, Tim Johnson, C.C. Parker and Jenifer Jourdanne among others. Table of Contents Formaldehyde by C.C. Parker Doof Doof Doof by Paul Haines Peppercorn Rent by Roberta Rogaw Rats, Wrong Alley by Tim Johnson Brilliant Suspension by Trina Shealy Orton Blue Elephants by Jenifer Jourdanne Hermetic Crab by Cameron Hill Head Drippers by Rob Steussi Something Funny is Going On by Brian Rosenberger Clob by Michael Stone Berries Under Snow by William Brock
Best Horror of the Year
For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of this series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman Kim Robinson Stephen King Linda Nagata Laird Barron Margo Lanagan And many others With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this “light” creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness, as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.
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She Nailed a Stake Through His Head
Meandering between desert sands and skyscrapers, between past, present, and alternate timelines, "She Nailed a Stake Through His Head" is a gallery of horrors inspired by the most nightmarish images of Near Eastern cultures.
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22
The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.
