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  • The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self

    A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures

    Edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Geert Lovink, Teresa Numerico, Peter Sarram ...
    This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the current online identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy the planetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • We Are Data

    Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

    by John Cheney-Lippold ...
    Do algorithms get to decide who we are? "Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us, and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Interface Effect

    by Alexander R. Galloway ...
    Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Infocracy

    Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy.In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Toronto School of Communication Theory

    Interpretations, Extensions, Applications

    Edited by Rita Watson, Menahem Blondheim ...
    While never formally recognized as a school of thought in its time, the work of a number of University of Toronto scholars over several decades – most notably Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan – formulated a number of original attempts to conceptualize communication as a phenomenon, and launched radical and innovative conjectures about its consequences. This landmark collection of essays re ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Texture

    Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload

    by Richard H. R. Harper ...
    Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Blog Theory

    Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive

    by Jodi Dean ...
    Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Experimenting with Ethnography

    A Companion to Analysis

    Edited by Andrea Ballestero, Brit Ross Winthereik ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Updating to Remain the Same

    Habitual New Media

    by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ...
    What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Critical Theory and the Digital

    by Dr. David M. Berry ...
    Series series Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
    This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Media and Communication

    by Marcel Danesi ...
    The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academics alike. Contributions from over fifty experts and practitioners provide an accessible introduction to these disciplines' most important concepts, figures, and schools of thought – from Jean ... Read more

    $43.99 USD