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GalleryBook Review: Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents by Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.
In Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents, Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. explores the cultural trend of life hacking in its […]
GalleryBook Review: Heading Home: Motherhood, Work and the Failed Promise of Equality by Shani Orgad
In Heading Home: Motherhood, Work and the Failed Promise of Equality, Shani Orgad draws on interviews with educated, London-based women to […]
GalleryNew Review: Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny by Sarah Banet-Weiser
In Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny, Sarah Banet-Weiser engages with popular feminism through the lens of ambivalence, charting both the […]
GalleryBook Review: Smartphone Cultures edited by Jane Vincent and Leslie Haddon
In Smartphone Cultures, editors Jane Vincent and Leslie Haddon bring together contributors to offer nuanced analysis of the role and cultures […]
GalleryAuthor Interview: Q&A with Sarah Banet-Weiser on Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny
In this author interview, we speak to Sarah Banet-Weiser about her recent book Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny, […]
GalleryLong Read Review: k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Mark Fisher, edited by Darren Ambrose with Simon Reynolds
New collection k-punk gathers together work written by the influential British cultural theorist and political activist Mark Fisher between […]
GalleryBook Review: Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why it Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
In Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why it Matters Now, former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger offers an appraisal of […]
GalleryBook Review: A Political Theory of Post-Truth by Ignas Kalpokas
In A Political Theory of Post-Truth, Ignas Kalpokas offers a nuanced and lucid description of the conditions and content […]
GalleryBook Review: The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation by Bingchun Meng
In The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation, Bingchun Meng explores how the media industry in China has shaped and […]
GalleryBook Review: Alison Bechdel: Conversations edited by Rachel R. Martin
In Alison Bechdel: Conversations, editor Rachel R. Martin collates a number of interviews with the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, known […]
GalleryAuthor Interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy
In this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, […]
GalleryBook Review: Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media edited by Dario Llinares, Neil Fox and Richard Berry
In Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media, editors Dario Llinares, Neil Fox and Richard Berry offer an interdisciplinary collection that […]
GalleryAre We Heading Towards A Digital Dystopia? Q&A with Sam Byers, author of Perfidious Albion
As part of LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders (25 February and 2 March 2019), author Sam Byers participated on a panel discussing ‘Are […]
GalleryBook Review: Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London edited by Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox, Malcolm James and Anna Minton
In Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London, editors Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox, Malcolm James and Anna Minton bring […]
GalleryBook Review: Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill
In Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, Rachel O’Neill examines the construction of intimacy under neoliberalism through an ethnographic exploration of […]
