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GalleryBook Review: Are Filter Bubbles Real? by Axel Bruns
As references to echo chambers and filter bubbles become ubiquitous in contemporary discourse, Axel Bruns offers a riposte in […]
GalleryBook Review: Photography and the Art Market by Juliet Hacking
In Photography and the Art Market, Juliet Hacking combines business analysis of the art market with the historical emergence of the […]
GalleryBook Review: Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A ‘Race Today’ Anthology edited by Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock
Here to Stay, Here to Fight, edited by Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock, is a […]
GalleryBook Review: Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts
In Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, Sarah T. Roberts explores the work conditions and […]
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 […]
