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GalleryBook Review: The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias
In The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism, Nick Couldry and Ulises A. […]
GalleryBook Review: British Women Amateur Filmmakers by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Heather Norris Nicholson
In British Women Amateur Filmmakers, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Heather Norris Nicholson look at the practices of over 40 women amateur filmmakers, […]
GalleryBook Review: Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food edited by Samantha King et al
In Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food, Samantha King et al stage conversations with thirteen scholars working across […]
GalleryPlanning a Halloween Movie Marathon? 5 Books on the Chilling Art of the Horror Film
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Since George Méliès’s groundbreaking three-minute gothic extravaganza Le Manoir du Diable (1896), the cinematic landscape has […]
GalleryBook Review: Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France by Ignacio Siles
In Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France, Ignacio Siles studies the evolution of the blog both […]
GalleryBook Review: This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
In This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, Peter Pomerantsev takes readers on a gripping journey through the disinformation […]
GalleryBook Review: Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont
In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, editors Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont assemble a collection of key contributions […]
GalleryBook Review: Re-Engineering Humanity by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger
In Re-Engineering Humanity, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger explore how the rise of new technologies and datafication grounded in machinic rationality […]
GalleryBook Review: The Psychology of Fashion by Carolyn Mair
In The Psychology of Fashion, Carolyn Mair brings a psychological approach to understanding current significant issues within fashion studies, […]
GalleryBook Review: Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire by Laura Edmondson
There is a long history of cultural production in response to violent conflict, and more recently its manipulation by […]
GalleryBook Review: How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart
Originally published in 1971 in Chile to intense opposition from the right-wing media, in How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist […]
GalleryBook Review: The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara
In The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, Margaret O’Mara provides a new account of the region’s evolution that […]
GalleryBook Review: Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
In Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that speculative fiction offers a rich […]
GalleryBook Review: Respawn: Gamers, Hackers and Technogenic Life by Colin Milburn
In Respawn: Gamers, Hackers and Technogenic Life, Colin Milburn offers a detailed analysis of the entanglements of game cultures, political activism […]
GalleryBook Review: A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
In A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum […]
