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  • Surveillance Technologies in Performance and Migration

    by Dr Sidonie Carey-Green, Liam Jarvis, Karen Savage ...
    Series series Performance and Digital Cultures
    Reflecting on the violent impact of digital border systems and surveillance practices that dehumanises migrating bodies, this book draws parallels to similar harmful acts of identity marking in relation to performance and migration.Performance practice creates an opportunity for bodies reduced to data at digital border zones to reject the numerical label forced upon them, making a more human and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Postdigital Performances of Care

    Technology & Pandemic

    by Liam Jarvis, Liam Jarvis, Karen Savage, Karen Savage ...
    Series series Performance and Digital Cultures
    Covid-19 has been described as a 'digital pandemic'. But who might the characterisation of the pandemic as 'digital' leave behind? This timely book reconsiders the pandemic as 'postdigital', examining tensions between a growing postdigital attitude of disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on adapted modes of online practice mid-lockdown in both performance-making and ... Read more

    Was $55.99 USD Now $25.99 USD

  • Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance

    Precarious Intermedial Identities

    Edited by Liam Jarvis, Karen Savage ...
    In the context of the postdigital age, where technology is increasingly part of our social and political world, Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance traces how identity can be created, developed, hijacked, manipulated, sabotaged and explored through performance in postdigital cultures. Considering how technology is reshaping performance, this timely collection reveals how we engage in ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Immersive Embodiment

    Theatres of Mislocalized Sensation

    by Liam Jarvis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of ‘virtual embodiment’ in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant’s sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent ‘immersive’ practices in an increasingly expanding and cross-disciplinary field are coinciding with a wealth of new scientific knowledge in body ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • A City Is Not a Computer

    Other Urban Intelligences

    by Shannon Mattern ...
    Series series Places Books
    A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    by Mark McGurl ...
    **National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?**Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Life in Media

    A Global Introduction to Media Studies

    by Mark Deuze ...
    A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world.From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Coming of Age in Second Life

    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • I-Docs

    The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary

    Edited by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Mandy Rose ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice within non-fiction storytelling. Their various incarnations are now a focus at leading film festivals (IDFA DocLab, Tribeca Storyscapes, Sheffield DocFest) ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Looking Closer 5

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller ...
    The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines, as well as on blogs and Internet journals. Prominent contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ambivalent Internet

    Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
    This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play.Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • New Media

    A Critical Introduction

    by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly ...
    New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.The authors ... Read more

    $83.99 USD