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Columbia University Press The Labor of Reinvention
Book SynopsisLin Zhang explores how the everyday labor of entrepreneurial reinvention is remaking China. She tells the stories of people from diverse class, gender, and age backgrounds across rural, urban, and transnational settings in rich detail, vividly conveying how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China.Trade ReviewThe Labor of Reinvention makes a crucial and timely contribution to scholarship on global digital capitalism and platform studies in East Asia. Drawing on years of ethnographic work, communication, and political economy, Lin Zhang importantly contributes to our understanding of neoliberalism in China and the global creative industries; theorizing the concept of ‘entrepreneurial labor,’ Zhang offers readers a brilliant perspective on digital labor in the post-2008 economy of China. A must-read for anyone working in media and creative industries! -- Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular MisogynyChina’s economic and social restructuring following the 2008 global economic crisis was remarkable, and Zhang tells it with vividness, compassion, and intelligence. The Labor of Reinvention brings a multivalent bottom-up approach to understanding the labor involved in making digital capitalism work in this national context. A gifted storyteller, Zhang makes the experiences of worker families living in a ‘Taobao village’ come alive on the page. -- Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media CollideThe Labor of Reinvention provides a different and much-needed perspective on entrepreneurialism, studies of which have tended to prioritize a white Western subject, and in so doing essentialized others. Zhang insightfully examines the rupture between the promotion and lived experiences of entrepreneurship in the post-recession Chinese context, focusing on entrepreneurial reinvention—the labor of reworking oneself as an entrepreneur—and considers how this reinvention is involved in broader Chinese national economic and social projects. -- Alice E. Marwick, author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media AgeBased on long-term ethnographic research, Lin Zhang’s The Labor of Reinvention vividly delineates the lives and work of urban, rural, and transnational entrepreneurial laborers in post-2008 China. In doing so, the book not only reveals the complex meanings of new entrepreneurial selves in China but also produces a powerful critique of the ideology of entrepreneurialism in global capitalism. A major contribution. -- Guobin Yang, author of The Wuhan Lockdown[A] granular, grass-roots, bottom-up view of the past couple of decades of the development of China’s digital landscape . . . it is a very good book. -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *I highly recommend this book to any scholar in social sciences interested in the Chinese development, and the related entrepreneurial environment, digital platforms, and technological innovation ecosystem. -- Han Chu * Eurasian Geography and Economics *The Labor of Reinvention will inspire research on digital entrepreneurialism and labour studies. -- Jenny Chan * The China Quarterly *Zhang’s book is an engaging read for people studying digital platforms and labor. -- Alberto Lusoli * International Journal of Communication *Zhang provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the new Chinese digital economy and the pivotal role played by entrepreneurship. It avoids a one-sided interpretation of Chinese phenomena from a Western perspective and transcends the grand historical narratives. -- Qianlu Sun * The Communication Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Cult of Entrepreneurialism1. The Labor of Entrepreneurial ReinventionPart I. City in Transition2. Navigating the Investor State: Elite and Grassroots Entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun3. From Science Park to Coworking: ZGC’s Contested Spaces of InnovationPart II. Back to the Countryside4. The Platformization of Family Production: Reinventing Rural Familism and Governance for the E-Commerce Era5. Moving Beyond Shanzhai? The Contradictions of Entrepreneurial Reinvention in Rural ChinaPart III. Transnational Encounters6. Between Individualization and Retraditionalization: Reinventing Self and Work Through Platform-Based DaigouEpilogue: Toward a China ParadigmNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Perilous Public Square
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Columbia University Press The Perilous Public Square
Book SynopsisThe Perilous Public Square brings together leading thinkers to identify and investigate today’s multifaceted threats to free expression. They go beyond the campus and the courthouse to pinpoint key structural changes in the means of mass communication and forms of global capitalism.Trade ReviewA perfect book for our time, and a true public service. A terrific and impressively diverse collection, exploring multiple threats to freedom of speech. -- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard UniversityThis volume is terrific and timely, and essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of how to think about expression, the platform monopolies, threats, and what the public sphere means today. It challenges shibboleths you may not realize you have. The diverse writers directly and eloquently fight each other in these pages, helping clarify both the stakes and the disagreements about not only what to do, but how to do talk about what to do with some of the most maddening and massive threats to democratic life and discussion. -- Zephyr Teachout, author of Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big MoneyThe Perilous Public Square provides the type of provocative, outside-the-box thinking we so desperately need right now. This collection brings together a stellar group of legal scholars in a format that includes the challenging of, and elaboration on, the core essays’ principal arguments. The result is a compelling and thought-provoking collection that represents a vital contribution to a number of contemporary communications policy debates. -- Philip M. Napoli, author of Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation AgeJustice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously said that free speech “is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.” The meaning and wisdom of that experiment long have been, and continue to be debated. This has never been truer than it is today, as new communications technologies and rapidly shifting political norms call into question old assumptions about speech, information, and their relationships to democratic governance. In this volume, top-notch thinkers from a range of backgrounds and perspectives tackle these vexing questions. The result is timely, engrossing, and deeply informed. A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of free speech and democracy. -- Heidi Kitrosser, Robins Kaplan Professor of Law, University of MinnesotaA must-read for anyone concerned about the many threats facing free expression today, be they from structural, private, or government (U.S. or otherwise) forces, as well as any number of bad actors. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *A thought-provoking, important collection of conversations that embody and manifest the complexity of the challenges that cyberspace presents to “terrestrial” legal thought." * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by David E. Pozen1. Is the First Amendment Obsolete?, by Tim WuReflections on Whether the First Amendment Is Obsolete, by Geoffrey R. StoneNot Waving but Drowning: Saving the Audience from the Floods, by Rebecca Tushnet2. From the Heckler’s Veto to the Provocateur’s Privilege, by David E. PozenThe Hostile Audience Revisited, by Frederick SchauerUnsafe Spaces, by Jelani CobbHeading Off the Hostile Audience, by Mark EdmundsonCosting Out Campus Speaker Restrictions, by Suzanne B. GoldbergPolicing, Protesting, and the Insignificance of Hostile Audiences, by Rachel A. Harmon3. Straining (Analogies) to Make Sense of the First Amendment in Cyberspace, by David E. PozenSearch Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy, by Heather WhitneyOf Course the First Amendment Protects Google and Facebook (and It’s Not a Close Question), by Eric GoldmanThe Problem Isn’t the Use of Analogies but the Analogies Courts Use, by Genevieve LakierPreventing a Posthuman Law of Freedom of Expression, by Frank Pasquale4. Intermediary Immunity and Discriminatory Designs, by David E. PozenDiscriminatory Designs on User Data, by Olivier SylvainSection 230’s Challenge to Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, by Danielle Keats CitronTo Err Is Platform, by James GrimmelmannToward a Clearer Conversation About Platform Liability, by Daphne Keller5. The De-Americanization of Internet Freedom, by David E. PozenThe Failure of Internet Freedom, by Jack GoldsmithThe Limits of Supply-Side Internet Freedom, by David KayeInternet Freedom Without Imperialism, by Nani Jansen Reventlow and Jonathan McCully6. Crisis in the Archives, by David E. PozenState Secrecy, Archival Negligence, and the End of History as We Know It, by Matthew ConnellyA Response from the National Archives, by David S. FerrieroRescuing History (and Accountability) from Secrecy, by Elizabeth GoiteinArchiving as Politics in the National Security State, by Kirsten Weld7. Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Facebookland, by David E. PozenFacebook v. Sullivan, by Kate KlonickMeet the New Governors, Same as the Old Governors, by Enrique ArmijoNewsworthiness and the Search for Norms, by Amy GajdaProfits v. Principles, by Sarah C. HaanContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Radio Empire
Book SynopsisInitially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.Trade ReviewPacked with rich findings, this fascinating study offers invaluable new insights into the far-reaching impact of the BBC's Eastern Service as laboratory for the evolution of a global and transnational vision of modernity, a vision still reverberating across cultural, literary, and media studies today. -- Susheila Nasta, coeditor of The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingWith archival surprises and deft close readings, Radio Empire shows how the BBC’s Eastern Service influenced the development of Anglophone fiction. Including treatments of canonical figures such as E. M. Forster and Mulk Raj Anand, as well as important but understudied novelists, such as Venu Chitale and Attia Hosain, Morse reveals how the technical constraints and possibilities of radio broadcasting impacted the formal conventions of English-language writing. It is an exciting contribution to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. -- Peter J. Kalliney, author of Modernism in a Global ContextWith his searching examination of the role of the BBC's Eastern Service in the development of the global Anglophone novel, Daniel Ryan Morse fills an important gap in literary radio studies. Wedding the insights of postcolonial studies and media theory, Radio Empire capably establishes the salience of transnational and intermedial exchange to the literary history of the mid-twentieth century. -- Debra Rae Cohen, coeditor of Broadcasting ModernismRadio Empire makes a substantial contribution to both radio studies and study of literary modernism . . . Morse provides deeply researched readings that change one's understanding not only of individual texts but also of the shape and scope of literary and media histories. Morse navigates multiple social contexts to make sometimes surprising and always convincing remarks about how politically progressive these literary and radio texts turn out to be . . . Essential. * Choice *Radio Empire pushes against the siloed ways in which literary modernism is often studied, with writers from the Global North and those of South Asian heritage assessed separately. Here, conceptually and methodologically, Morse’s approach is fresh and ambitious . . . [this book] reveals the profound nature of the impact the BBC Eastern Service had upon the printed and broadcast word, and how intertwined the relationship between the two was. * LSE Review of Books *This is an important book for students of Indian Anglophone literature but is also a useful contribution to the history of BBC Radio 3 and the role of the BBC’s external broadcasts. * Radio User *An excellent historical account of an understudied part of the BBC . . . [This book] will undoubtedly be a great tool for any scholar working on broadcasting history, postcolonial studies, and post-war literary history. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Radio Empire is an important work of scholarship, offering a considered analysis of the relationship between radio and literature in the war and post-war years. * The Orwell Foundation Blog *Morse’s compelling account of the intermedial relationship between radio and the novel in the mid-twentieth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship of literary radio, modernism, and postcolonial studies. * Modernism/modernity *A welcome archival counterpart to works by Eric Hayot, Pheng Cheah, and Emily Apter. * NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN2: Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle3: The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand’s Comparative Modernisms4: Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid NovelEpilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of DecolonizationNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Radio Empire The BBCs Eastern Service and the
Book SynopsisInitially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.Trade ReviewPacked with rich findings, this fascinating study offers invaluable new insights into the far-reaching impact of the BBC's Eastern Service as laboratory for the evolution of a global and transnational vision of modernity, a vision still reverberating across cultural, literary, and media studies today. -- Susheila Nasta, coeditor of The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingWith archival surprises and deft close readings, Radio Empire shows how the BBC’s Eastern Service influenced the development of Anglophone fiction. Including treatments of canonical figures such as E. M. Forster and Mulk Raj Anand, as well as important but understudied novelists, such as Venu Chitale and Attia Hosain, Morse reveals how the technical constraints and possibilities of radio broadcasting impacted the formal conventions of English-language writing. It is an exciting contribution to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. -- Peter J. Kalliney, author of Modernism in a Global ContextWith his searching examination of the role of the BBC's Eastern Service in the development of the global Anglophone novel, Daniel Ryan Morse fills an important gap in literary radio studies. Wedding the insights of postcolonial studies and media theory, Radio Empire capably establishes the salience of transnational and intermedial exchange to the literary history of the mid-twentieth century. -- Debra Rae Cohen, coeditor of Broadcasting ModernismRadio Empire makes a substantial contribution to both radio studies and study of literary modernism . . . Morse provides deeply researched readings that change one's understanding not only of individual texts but also of the shape and scope of literary and media histories. Morse navigates multiple social contexts to make sometimes surprising and always convincing remarks about how politically progressive these literary and radio texts turn out to be . . . Essential. * Choice *Radio Empire pushes against the siloed ways in which literary modernism is often studied, with writers from the Global North and those of South Asian heritage assessed separately. Here, conceptually and methodologically, Morse’s approach is fresh and ambitious . . . [this book] reveals the profound nature of the impact the BBC Eastern Service had upon the printed and broadcast word, and how intertwined the relationship between the two was. * LSE Review of Books *This is an important book for students of Indian Anglophone literature but is also a useful contribution to the history of BBC Radio 3 and the role of the BBC’s external broadcasts. * Radio User *An excellent historical account of an understudied part of the BBC . . . [This book] will undoubtedly be a great tool for any scholar working on broadcasting history, postcolonial studies, and post-war literary history. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Radio Empire is an important work of scholarship, offering a considered analysis of the relationship between radio and literature in the war and post-war years. * The Orwell Foundation Blog *Morse’s compelling account of the intermedial relationship between radio and the novel in the mid-twentieth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship of literary radio, modernism, and postcolonial studies. * Modernism/modernity *A welcome archival counterpart to works by Eric Hayot, Pheng Cheah, and Emily Apter. * NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN2: Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle3: The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand’s Comparative Modernisms4: Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid NovelEpilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of DecolonizationNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Information
Book SynopsisBringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives.Trade ReviewThese essays take information and fifteen related terms as opportunities to probe historical meanings, hidden assumptions, and social and political implications. Each one offers a distinctive blend of literary references, critical theory, and humanistic analysis to challenge any simple conclusions about the impact of today’s information technologies. Richly thought-provoking! -- Ann Blair, coeditor of Information: A Historical CompanionThis volume assembles an all-star cast to show how concepts saturated with contemporary relevance also trail clouds of intellectual glory. It demonstrates how rich the flowering can be when humanities cross-fertilize with technology talk. -- John Durham Peters, coauthor of Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in HistoryThis collection of essays introduces the audience to a number of key terms necessary for the understanding of information in its denaturalized, noninstrumental forms. Written by a diverse group of leading scholars, it sparkles with reference, fact, and insight. -- Dennis Yi Tenen, author of Plain Text: The Poetics of ComputationDrawing on history, philosophy, theory, and other humanistic perspectives, the contributors are successful in offering important answers to what it means to navigate the Information Age from the intersection of humanities and technology. Academic in approach and tone, this volume will be valuable for those interested in interdisciplinary, humanities, communication, information studies, computer science, and data science programs. * Choice Reviews *A timely contribution. * Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Information and Humanities, by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel Abundance, by Damien Smith PfisterAlgorithm, by Jeremy David Johnson Archive, by Laura HeltonBioinformatics, by Haun SaussyCognition, by N. Katherine HaylesGossip, by Elizabeth HorodowichIndex, by Dennis DuncanIntel, by Geoffrey Winthrop-YoungKeyword, by Daniel RosenbergKnowledge, by Chad WellmonNoise, by Matt JordanScreen, by Francesco Casetti and Bernard Dionysius GeogheganSearch, by David L. MarshallSelf-Tracking, by Deborah LuptonTele (Τῆλε), by Wolf KittlerContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Information
Book SynopsisBringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives.Trade ReviewThese essays take information and fifteen related terms as opportunities to probe historical meanings, hidden assumptions, and social and political implications. Each one offers a distinctive blend of literary references, critical theory, and humanistic analysis to challenge any simple conclusions about the impact of today’s information technologies. Richly thought-provoking! -- Ann Blair, coeditor of Information: A Historical CompanionThis volume assembles an all-star cast to show how concepts saturated with contemporary relevance also trail clouds of intellectual glory. It demonstrates how rich the flowering can be when humanities cross-fertilize with technology talk. -- John Durham Peters, coauthor of Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in HistoryThis collection of essays introduces the audience to a number of key terms necessary for the understanding of information in its denaturalized, noninstrumental forms. Written by a diverse group of leading scholars, it sparkles with reference, fact, and insight. -- Dennis Yi Tenen, author of Plain Text: The Poetics of ComputationDrawing on history, philosophy, theory, and other humanistic perspectives, the contributors are successful in offering important answers to what it means to navigate the Information Age from the intersection of humanities and technology. Academic in approach and tone, this volume will be valuable for those interested in interdisciplinary, humanities, communication, information studies, computer science, and data science programs. * Choice Reviews *A timely contribution. * Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Information and Humanities, by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel Abundance, by Damien Smith PfisterAlgorithm, by Jeremy David Johnson Archive, by Laura HeltonBioinformatics, by Haun SaussyCognition, by N. Katherine HaylesGossip, by Elizabeth HorodowichIndex, by Dennis DuncanIntel, by Geoffrey Winthrop-YoungKeyword, by Daniel RosenbergKnowledge, by Chad WellmonNoise, by Matt JordanScreen, by Francesco Casetti and Bernard Dionysius GeogheganSearch, by David L. MarshallSelf-Tracking, by Deborah LuptonTele (Τῆλε), by Wolf KittlerContributorsIndex
£20.90
Columbia University Press Computing the News
Book SynopsisSylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.Trade ReviewComputing the News is a brilliant account of the potential of technological practice for the renewal of media work and its implications for society at large. Building on his extensive comparative research, Sylvain Parasie has crafted a book that is poised to become a must-read for scholars, analysts, and practitioners. -- Pablo J. Boczkowski, author of Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information PlentyComputing the News is required reading for anyone studying data journalism. Weaving together deep sociological insights with much-needed historical context, Parasie expertly parses how the field has tactfully integrated data and computing while maintaining normative commitments. -- Nicholas Diakopoulos, author of Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the MediaJournalists and future journalists will find in this book a necessary ethical roadmap for the use of data and algorithms, rooted in an in-depth analysis of best practices and pitfalls in U.S. and French media. For journalism scholars, this is a must-read book, featuring wonderfully crafted research on technological innovations. -- David Domingo, Université Libre de BruxellesYes, journalism is knowledge! In this book, Parasie brilliantly shows how all the tricky aspects of doing research—questioning where data come from, reflecting on bias and exclusion, understanding how institutions influence what we see—are crucial aspects of news and what it is for: making truths public. -- Noortje Marres, author of Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social ResearchTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Trying to Be NonjudgmentalPart I. Two Paths to Data Journalism1. Revealing Injustice with Computers, 1967–19952. Rankings; or, The Unintended Consequences of Computation, 1988–2000Part II. A Challenge for Journalism3. Rebooting Journalism4. A Tale of Two Cultures?5. The Tensions Facing Data JournalismPart III. Data Journalism in the Making6. The Making of a Revelation7. How Not to Get Academic8. The Art of Bringing About PublicsConclusion: An Ethics of ReflexivityNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Mediated Climate
Book SynopsisThe Mediated Climate explores the places where the climate and information crises meet, examining how journalism, activism, corporations, and Big Tech compete to influence the public.Trade ReviewThe Mediated Climate puts the status quo on notice. By scrutinizing the intersections between climate change and information ecosystems, the book shows that this is a social, political, cultural, technological, and existential set of intersecting challenges we must bravely address now. -- Max Boykoff, author of Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Society A brilliant, sharp, and original book on how we talk about climate change, and what a difference that might make for our collective future. Change begins with words, and Russell presents an inspiring call for journalists and citizens to lead it. -- Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining Our Political FutureAs any journalist can tell you: the climate crisis is a communication crisis. Russell provides an honest reflection on the ways journalism has been part of the problem, as well as a necessary part of the solution. -- Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care The Mediated Climate is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the intersection of the climate and information crises. Adrienne Russell expertly examines how climate discourses are created and negotiated in a polluted information environment. This book presents inspiring successes for anyone who is engaged in reclaiming our mediated spaces. -- Bruno Takahashi, coeditor of The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental CommunicationRussell provides a comprehensive analysis of the intersection of the climate and the information crises and thereby shows how the climate crisis is also a communication crisis. * Journalism *Recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Two Crises1. House on Fire2. Noise, Incivility, and Ambivalence3. After Peak Indifference4. Collective ImaginaryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press The Mediated Climate
Book SynopsisThe Mediated Climate explores the places where the climate and information crises meet, examining how journalism, activism, corporations, and Big Tech compete to influence the public.Trade ReviewThe Mediated Climate puts the status quo on notice. By scrutinizing the intersections between climate change and information ecosystems, the book shows that this is a social, political, cultural, technological, and existential set of intersecting challenges we must bravely address now. -- Max Boykoff, author of Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Society A brilliant, sharp, and original book on how we talk about climate change, and what a difference that might make for our collective future. Change begins with words, and Russell presents an inspiring call for journalists and citizens to lead it. -- Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining Our Political FutureAs any journalist can tell you: the climate crisis is a communication crisis. Russell provides an honest reflection on the ways journalism has been part of the problem, as well as a necessary part of the solution. -- Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care The Mediated Climate is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the intersection of the climate and information crises. Adrienne Russell expertly examines how climate discourses are created and negotiated in a polluted information environment. This book presents inspiring successes for anyone who is engaged in reclaiming our mediated spaces. -- Bruno Takahashi, coeditor of The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental CommunicationRussell provides a comprehensive analysis of the intersection of the climate and the information crises and thereby shows how the climate crisis is also a communication crisis. * Journalism *Recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Two Crises1. House on Fire2. Noise, Incivility, and Ambivalence3. After Peak Indifference4. Collective ImaginaryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Avoiding the News
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explains why and how so many people consume little or no news despite unprecedented abundance and ease of access.Trade ReviewThis is urgent, necessary reading for anyone in the business of news, for anyone who cares about the news, and for anyone who wants to ensure a future of fair access to knowledge and information for all. We ignore this meticulously researched and empathetically reported book at our own peril. -- Melissa Bell, publisher of Vox MediaNews avoiders are one of the most neglected topics in communications research, yet listening to and understanding them may be absolutely crucial for the health of democratic culture. This precisely grounded, sociologically rigorous, and searching three-country study sets completely new standards for pursuing this elusive topic. -- Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political ScienceThis is a beautifully written book that teaches us so much about the nature of our relationships to news by looking in closely at the lives and understandings of people who choose to avoid it. -- Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThis book is a wide-ranging investigation of not only the quantitative data about news avoidance but also, most importantly, the sentiments of those who have opted out of quality journalism. If journalists want to regain these readers, then it is crucial that we understand them first. This book serves as an important first step. -- Clara Jiménez Cruz, CEO of Maldita.es and chair of the European Fact-Checking Standards NetworkA deep dive into the complicated reasons that people distrust the news. A must-read for any journalist who wants to serve the people, meaning all the people—not just their friends and colleagues. -- Amanda Ripley, Washington Post columnistHighly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Is Ignorance Bliss?2. Who Are Consistent News Avoiders?3. Why News Avoiders Say They Don’t Use News4. Identities: How Our Relationships to Communities Shape News Avoidance5. Ideologies: How Beliefs About Politics Shape News Avoidance6. Infrastructures: How Media Platforms and Pathways Shape News Avoidance7. News for All the People?Appendix A: Studying News Avoidance Using Interpretive MethodsAppendix B: Summary Tables Describing Study ParticipantsAppendix C: Interview Protocols for In-Depth InterviewingNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Syria Divided Patterns of Violence in a Complex
Book SynopsisOra Szekely draws on sources including in-depth interviews, conflict data, and propaganda distributed through social media to examine how competing narratives of the civil war in Syria have shaped the course of the conflict.Trade ReviewA wonderfully nuanced and insightful account of how struggles to dominate the fractured narrative landscape of Syria’s civil war have shaped the conduct of warring parties. As markers of how combatants define what they are fighting for and whom they are fighting against, conflicts to determine whose narratives prevail have played a crucial role in Syria’s civil war, both in understanding how violence becomes organized and in how the broader conflict is defined. A compelling case for the importance of conflict narratives, and conflicts over narratives, Szekely’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on the Syrian civil war and on civil war more broadly. It deserves to be widely read. -- Steven Heydemann, Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Professor in Middle East Studies, Smith CollegeSzekely’s fine book combines keen analytical insight with a wealth of empirical information on the Syrian civil war. She brilliantly exposes how a war of incompatible narratives—fight for dignity, against terrorism, for an Islamic state—had material consequences for the power balance on the ground by affecting recruitment, financing, and outside intervention. -- Raymond Hinnebusch, codirector, Centre for Syrian Studies, University of St. AndrewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Syrian Tragedy2. What Are We Fighting For?3. Patterns of Violence4. The YouTube WarConclusionAppendix: MethodsNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Flexible India
Book SynopsisShameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.Trade ReviewShameem Black’s Flexible India provides an important new perspective on the complex politics of yoga in contemporary India. In a style that is lucid, incisive, and critically insightful, her analysis sheds light on how the practice of yoga, and claims to authority over its historical representation, are riven with contradictions that reinforce inequities and injustices. At the same time, yoga’s flexible multivocality animates the possibility of practice that transcends entrenched forms of exclusion, exploitation, and alienation. With deep empathy and critical reasoning, Black shows how the rigidity of India’s twenty-first-century modernity can be understood in terms that work out the tensions of nationalism and the contortions of neoliberalism. -- Joseph S. Alter, author of Yoga in Modern IndiaShameem Black invites us to reassess the idea of ‘yoga’ in the popular cultural imaginary. Her timely, thoughtful, and erudite study tackles notions of cultural appropriation, social inequality, and political critique, channeled through a wonderfully blended academic and creative endeavor. -- E. Dawson Varughese, author of author of Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in EnglishBlack’s richly textured analysis takes us on a journey across disciplines, genres, and lenses, highlighting crucial questions surrounding the meaning, value, and practice of yoga, all the while gloriously centering its messy multiplicity and internal contradictions. An ambitious, skillfully written book—and a truly edifying, rewarding read. -- Farah Godrej, author of Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral StateFlexible India is a stirringly intimate portrait of both the beauty and the vicissitudes of global yoga. Black expertly unfurls the complex ethical debates of modern yoga without relinquishing its generative possibilities for hope, imagination, and flexibility. A must read. -- Amanda Lucia, author of White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational FestivalsFlexible India offers a powerful panorama of the paradoxes and transformative potential of yoga. Never reductive, Shameem Black lays bare painful contradictions in sensitive and compassionate prose. She interrogates power imbalances, cultural appropriation, and the possibility of positive transformation through yoga with integrity and bravery. -- Suzanne Newcombe, author of Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating YogisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationPrologue: The Bracelet1. Setting Up: Yoga’s Flexible Forms2. Conducting Mass Practice: India’s Vision for Yoga3. Aligning Both Hands: Yoga in Indian Fiction4. Assuming Corpse Pose: Yoga in U.S. Popular Culture5. Bending Over Backward: Yoga’s Precarious Work6. Framing New Parts: Yoga Through Diasporic Critique7. Lying Out: Spectral YogaEpilogue: The MoonNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Flexible India
Book SynopsisShameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.Trade ReviewShameem Black’s Flexible India provides an important new perspective on the complex politics of yoga in contemporary India. In a style that is lucid, incisive, and critically insightful, her analysis sheds light on how the practice of yoga, and claims to authority over its historical representation, are riven with contradictions that reinforce inequities and injustices. At the same time, yoga’s flexible multivocality animates the possibility of practice that transcends entrenched forms of exclusion, exploitation, and alienation. With deep empathy and critical reasoning, Black shows how the rigidity of India’s twenty-first-century modernity can be understood in terms that work out the tensions of nationalism and the contortions of neoliberalism. -- Joseph S. Alter, author of Yoga in Modern IndiaShameem Black invites us to reassess the idea of ‘yoga’ in the popular cultural imaginary. Her timely, thoughtful, and erudite study tackles notions of cultural appropriation, social inequality, and political critique, channeled through a wonderfully blended academic and creative endeavor. -- E. Dawson Varughese, author of author of Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in EnglishBlack’s richly textured analysis takes us on a journey across disciplines, genres, and lenses, highlighting crucial questions surrounding the meaning, value, and practice of yoga, all the while gloriously centering its messy multiplicity and internal contradictions. An ambitious, skillfully written book—and a truly edifying, rewarding read. -- Farah Godrej, author of Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral StateFlexible India is a stirringly intimate portrait of both the beauty and the vicissitudes of global yoga. Black expertly unfurls the complex ethical debates of modern yoga without relinquishing its generative possibilities for hope, imagination, and flexibility. A must read. -- Amanda Lucia, author of White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational FestivalsFlexible India offers a powerful panorama of the paradoxes and transformative potential of yoga. Never reductive, Shameem Black lays bare painful contradictions in sensitive and compassionate prose. She interrogates power imbalances, cultural appropriation, and the possibility of positive transformation through yoga with integrity and bravery. -- Suzanne Newcombe, author of Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating YogisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationPrologue: The Bracelet1. Setting Up: Yoga’s Flexible Forms2. Conducting Mass Practice: India’s Vision for Yoga3. Aligning Both Hands: Yoga in Indian Fiction4. Assuming Corpse Pose: Yoga in U.S. Popular Culture5. Bending Over Backward: Yoga’s Precarious Work6. Framing New Parts: Yoga Through Diasporic Critique7. Lying Out: Spectral YogaEpilogue: The MoonNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
Book SynopsisAlgorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled.Trade ReviewAlgorithmic Culture Before the Internet tackles a too-often neglected aspect of our computer world: the cultural dimensions of algorithmic certainty. Ted Striphas shifts our critical gaze away from the supposed historically and technologically unique features of digital mechanisms to construct a sweeping tale of terminology, logic, and instrumentality. He has written an essential study that is by equal measure surprising, convincing, and engaging. -- Charles R. Acland, author of American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and WonderTed Striphas writes engagingly about the history of the entanglement of the concepts of “culture” and “algorithm” by rethinking the cultural work of the humble keyword. This is the book—and the histories—we need to help us understand what is at stake in the prevailing articulation of culture, technology, and power. -- Anne Balsamo, author of Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at WorkMasterful and fascinating. Each chapter, grappling with a keyword and uncovering its fraught construction, took me somewhere I didn’t expect to go. This is the book we need to advance the study of algorithms as part of the history of culture. -- Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social MediaThis prehistory of algorithmic culture steps back from the relentless novelty of much writing about computing, helping us realize that algorithms, culture, and the relationship between them are stranger and older than we might have thought. -- Nick Seaver, author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music RecommendationThis book takes readers to unexpected places, making brilliant and original connections across vast bodies of knowledge. It is sure to enhance the historical understanding of anyone interested in computers, social media, and the culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines DemocracyRecommended. * Choice Reviews *This book provides much food for thought to those who study the intersection of technology and media . . . Striphas’s account is bold in its independence, finding precedents in unexpected places. * Technology and Culture *[This book] would appeal especially to those readers with an interest in intellectual history following the1960s. * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Welcome to the Machine1. Key-Words2. Algorithm3. Culture4. Algorithmic CultureEpilogue: Coming to TermsNotesIndex
£90.00
Columbia University Press Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
Book SynopsisAlgorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled.Trade ReviewAlgorithmic Culture Before the Internet tackles a too-often neglected aspect of our computer world: the cultural dimensions of algorithmic certainty. Ted Striphas shifts our critical gaze away from the supposed historically and technologically unique features of digital mechanisms to construct a sweeping tale of terminology, logic, and instrumentality. He has written an essential study that is by equal measure surprising, convincing, and engaging. -- Charles R. Acland, author of American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and WonderTed Striphas writes engagingly about the history of the entanglement of the concepts of “culture” and “algorithm” by rethinking the cultural work of the humble keyword. This is the book—and the histories—we need to help us understand what is at stake in the prevailing articulation of culture, technology, and power. -- Anne Balsamo, author of Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at WorkMasterful and fascinating. Each chapter, grappling with a keyword and uncovering its fraught construction, took me somewhere I didn’t expect to go. This is the book we need to advance the study of algorithms as part of the history of culture. -- Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social MediaThis prehistory of algorithmic culture steps back from the relentless novelty of much writing about computing, helping us realize that algorithms, culture, and the relationship between them are stranger and older than we might have thought. -- Nick Seaver, author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music RecommendationThis book takes readers to unexpected places, making brilliant and original connections across vast bodies of knowledge. It is sure to enhance the historical understanding of anyone interested in computers, social media, and the culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines DemocracyRecommended. * Choice Reviews *This book provides much food for thought to those who study the intersection of technology and media . . . Striphas’s account is bold in its independence, finding precedents in unexpected places. * Technology and Culture *[This book] would appeal especially to those readers with an interest in intellectual history following the1960s. * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Welcome to the Machine1. Key-Words2. Algorithm3. Culture4. Algorithmic CultureEpilogue: Coming to TermsNotesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press The Journalists Predicament
Book SynopsisDrawing on in-depth interviews in France and the United States, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is a worthy pursuit—and how that conviction is managed and sometimes dissolves amid the profession’s ongoing upheavals.Trade ReviewWhat keeps journalists going in the face of wrenching changes across the news industry? Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano offer the most convincing answer yet to this vital question. Based on nearly a decade of comparative research in France and the United States, The Journalist’s Predicament develops a powerful new framework that connects professional norms to the individual aspirations and career trajectories of working journalists. The result is a major contribution to the sociology of news. -- Lucas Graves, author of Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American JournalismHow do French and American journalists behave in market-driven newsrooms, in the face of declining work conditions? Some resist these changes and some surrender to them; some find springboards for innovation and others leave the profession entirely. To map these varied experiences, this insightful book explores journalists’ strategies and the social conditions that subtly shape them. -- Erik Neveu, coeditor of Bourdieu and the Journalistic FieldPowers and Vera-Zambrano's excellent book analyzes how journalists in the United States and France respond to the economic and symbolic decline of their profession. They reveal the pragmatic adjustments that journalists must make to continue believing in their work. The Journalist's Predicament is a profoundly humane, generous, and compelling book on the current transformations of newsmaking. -- Angèle Christin, author of Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of AlgorithmsIn a path-breaking sociological analysis, Powers and Vera-Zambrano force a reckoning with the journalistic profession's enduring inequalities. Read this essential book to gain a deeper understanding of journalism's contemporary "crisis"—who thrives, who barely survives, who leaves, and why. -- Rodney Benson, author of Shaping Immigration News: A French-American ComparisonRecommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Would Anyone Be a Journalist?1. The Genesis of the Journalist’s Predicament2. Living For—and Maybe Off—Journalism3. At Their Best4. Conserve, Challenge, Accede5. Leaving JournalismConclusionEpilogue: Is Journalism Dying?Appendix A: Interviewing as ComprehensionAppendix B: Seattle and Toulouse as Regional MediaAppendix C: Tables and DataNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press The Journalists Predicament Difficult Choices in
Book SynopsisDrawing on in-depth interviews in France and the United States, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is a worthy pursuit—and how that conviction is managed and sometimes dissolves amid the profession’s ongoing upheavals.Trade ReviewWhat keeps journalists going in the face of wrenching changes across the news industry? Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano offer the most convincing answer yet to this vital question. Based on nearly a decade of comparative research in France and the United States, The Journalist’s Predicament develops a powerful new framework that connects professional norms to the individual aspirations and career trajectories of working journalists. The result is a major contribution to the sociology of news. -- Lucas Graves, author of Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American JournalismHow do French and American journalists behave in market-driven newsrooms, in the face of declining work conditions? Some resist these changes and some surrender to them; some find springboards for innovation and others leave the profession entirely. To map these varied experiences, this insightful book explores journalists’ strategies and the social conditions that subtly shape them. -- Erik Neveu, coeditor of Bourdieu and the Journalistic FieldPowers and Vera-Zambrano's excellent book analyzes how journalists in the United States and France respond to the economic and symbolic decline of their profession. They reveal the pragmatic adjustments that journalists must make to continue believing in their work. The Journalist's Predicament is a profoundly humane, generous, and compelling book on the current transformations of newsmaking. -- Angèle Christin, author of Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of AlgorithmsIn a path-breaking sociological analysis, Powers and Vera-Zambrano force a reckoning with the journalistic profession's enduring inequalities. Read this essential book to gain a deeper understanding of journalism's contemporary "crisis"—who thrives, who barely survives, who leaves, and why. -- Rodney Benson, author of Shaping Immigration News: A French-American ComparisonRecommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Would Anyone Be a Journalist?1. The Genesis of the Journalist’s Predicament2. Living For—and Maybe Off—Journalism3. At Their Best4. Conserve, Challenge, Accede5. Leaving JournalismConclusionEpilogue: Is Journalism Dying?Appendix A: Interviewing as ComprehensionAppendix B: Seattle and Toulouse as Regional MediaAppendix C: Tables and DataNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Seeing and Believing
Book SynopsisSeeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for social justice.Trade ReviewSeeing and Believing is a meticulous and engaging portrait of how digital technology, especially social media, affects society. Never abstracting or ignoring the gaze of whiteness in seeking racial justice, Armour shows the reader how photographic insurrection can upend oppressive relationships generated by biodisciplinary powers. -- Kate Ott, author of Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics in a Digital AgeThe ethical questions that animate Seeing and Believing are achingly current: How do we live with the aggressive seductions of digital worlds? Can religious teachings offer us any help? This fully engaged and persistently hopeful book moves through the stripping-away of critique to find resources for insurrection. -- Mark D. Jordan, author of Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian TeachingDeveloping an account of 'photographic insurrection,' Seeing and Believing calls and calls out, attuning us to the ways that our new digital public square can be mobilized toward justice. Prophetic, critical, and meditative, this text will most certainly impact the way we see the world—and ourselves. Or at least it did for me. -- Biko Mandela Gray, author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the SubjectEllen Armour's sensitivity to diverse articulations of power informs her treatment of images as both inducing conformity and spawning resistance. This is especially relevant for the consideration of social media since these platforms are shaped both by their providers and by their consumers. This book brings intensive theological reflection to the study of visual culture in a way that will engage scholars of many kinds. -- David Morgan, author of Images at Work: The Material Culture of EnchantmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Setting the Stage2. Life on the New Public Square3. (Re)making Us4. Reframing Photography5. Photographic InsurrectionEpilogueAppendix: Ways of Seeing PromptsNotesBibliographyIndex
£87.20
Columbia University Press Seeing and Believing
Book SynopsisSeeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for social justice.Trade ReviewSeeing and Believing is a meticulous and engaging portrait of how digital technology, especially social media, affects society. Never abstracting or ignoring the gaze of whiteness in seeking racial justice, Armour shows the reader how photographic insurrection can upend oppressive relationships generated by biodisciplinary powers. -- Kate Ott, author of Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics in a Digital AgeThe ethical questions that animate Seeing and Believing are achingly current: How do we live with the aggressive seductions of digital worlds? Can religious teachings offer us any help? This fully engaged and persistently hopeful book moves through the stripping-away of critique to find resources for insurrection. -- Mark D. Jordan, author of Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian TeachingDeveloping an account of 'photographic insurrection,' Seeing and Believing calls and calls out, attuning us to the ways that our new digital public square can be mobilized toward justice. Prophetic, critical, and meditative, this text will most certainly impact the way we see the world—and ourselves. Or at least it did for me. -- Biko Mandela Gray, author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the SubjectEllen Armour's sensitivity to diverse articulations of power informs her treatment of images as both inducing conformity and spawning resistance. This is especially relevant for the consideration of social media since these platforms are shaped both by their providers and by their consumers. This book brings intensive theological reflection to the study of visual culture in a way that will engage scholars of many kinds. -- David Morgan, author of Images at Work: The Material Culture of EnchantmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Setting the Stage2. Life on the New Public Square3. (Re)making Us4. Reframing Photography5. Photographic InsurrectionEpilogueAppendix: Ways of Seeing PromptsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Antiracist Journalism
Book SynopsisAndrea Wenzel provides a critical look at how local media organizations in the Philadelphia area are attempting to address structural racism.Trade ReviewAntiracist Journalism is a reflection of the ethic of care that Andrea Wenzel lives out every day as a journalist, researcher, teacher, and community member. The insights she draws from Philadelphia's built media environment are a powerful guide for journalism stakeholders—from community members to corporate leaders to philanthropic organizations—who are committed to addressing the harms of erasure and mischaracterization wrought through decades of unexamined professional practice. -- Meredith D. Clark, founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation, and Social Change, Northeastern UniversityDeeply researched and beautifully written, Wenzel’s masterful account of Philadelphia’s antiracist media initiatives is an invaluable contribution to journalism studies. Her call for reimagining newsrooms to become more equitable is a timely and vital argument. Essential reading for anyone who believes in building a truly multiracial democratic society. -- Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism?Antiracist Journalism offers a pathway toward disrupting mainstream journalism in the hopes of a better-informed democracy. Read this book if you care about how journalism can be problematic and—more importantly—how we can fix it to be more inclusive and relevant. Wenzel’s commitment to conducting rigorous community-based research in concert with practitioners shines forth in her analyses. She has written an important book—both reflexive and brilliant. -- Sue Robinson, author of How Journalists Engage: A Theory of Trust Building, Identities and CareHighly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Case for Reimagining1. Repairing and Reimagining a More Public Media2. Repairing and Reimagining an “Antiracist” Legacy Newspaper3. Institutionalizing Accountability Infrastructure4. Imagining a Community-Centered Wire Service5. Imagining Community-Governed Service Journalism6. External Support for Equitable Local JournalismConclusion: Transforming Through Process and Infrastructure, Not Projects and DestinationsAppendix: MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Antiracist Journalism
Book SynopsisAndrea Wenzel provides a critical look at how local media organizations in the Philadelphia area are attempting to address structural racism.Trade ReviewAntiracist Journalism is a reflection of the ethic of care that Andrea Wenzel lives out every day as a journalist, researcher, teacher, and community member. The insights she draws from Philadelphia's built media environment are a powerful guide for journalism stakeholders—from community members to corporate leaders to philanthropic organizations—who are committed to addressing the harms of erasure and mischaracterization wrought through decades of unexamined professional practice. -- Meredith D. Clark, founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation, and Social Change, Northeastern UniversityDeeply researched and beautifully written, Wenzel’s masterful account of Philadelphia’s antiracist media initiatives is an invaluable contribution to journalism studies. Her call for reimagining newsrooms to become more equitable is a timely and vital argument. Essential reading for anyone who believes in building a truly multiracial democratic society. -- Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism?Antiracist Journalism offers a pathway toward disrupting mainstream journalism in the hopes of a better-informed democracy. Read this book if you care about how journalism can be problematic and—more importantly—how we can fix it to be more inclusive and relevant. Wenzel’s commitment to conducting rigorous community-based research in concert with practitioners shines forth in her analyses. She has written an important book—both reflexive and brilliant. -- Sue Robinson, author of How Journalists Engage: A Theory of Trust Building, Identities and CareHighly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Case for Reimagining1. Repairing and Reimagining a More Public Media2. Repairing and Reimagining an “Antiracist” Legacy Newspaper3. Institutionalizing Accountability Infrastructure4. Imagining a Community-Centered Wire Service5. Imagining Community-Governed Service Journalism6. External Support for Equitable Local JournalismConclusion: Transforming Through Process and Infrastructure, Not Projects and DestinationsAppendix: MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Towers in the Void
Book SynopsisS. E. Kile argues that Li Yu’s cultural experimentation draws attention to the materiality of particular media forms, expanding the scope of early modern media by interweaving books, buildings, and bodies.Trade ReviewWith its incisive analysis, eloquent writing, and integrated use of theories, this book is of great value for scholars in literature, print culture, and material culture. * H-Material-Culture *A brilliant new conceptualization of the maverick Li Yu as entrepreneur, designer, playwright, and multimedia specialist. Kile’s daring, astute study of this most original seventeenth-century Chinese writer grabs you from page one. A true tour de force. -- Judith Zeitlin, author of The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese LiteratureLi Yu had a career as full of twists as his stories are. Taking media innovation as the thread that connects Li Yu’s many activities, this study opens new windows in his floating towers and adds arias to his silent operas. -- Haun Saussy, author of The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual AsiaIn this important and absorbing study of Li Yu, Kile shows how thinking through media in its multiple forms—print culture, the sights and sounds of the theater, spatial constructs, the human body—yields fresh insights into early modern China. -- Wai-yee Li, author of The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial ChinaTowers in the Void provides authoritative new insights into Li Yu’s writings based on a broad examination of his corpus. Integrating insightful and innovative readings of Li Yu’s creative works with his prescriptions on garden design and lengthy musings, Kile offers a new and productive approach to the study of Li Yu that can inspire other such innovative analyses of late imperial Chinese literature. -- Robert Hegel, cotranslator of A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroductionPart I: Textual Media1. Cultural Entrepreneurship and Woodblock Print2. Building with WordsPart II: Spatial Media3. Fictional Space in Twelve Towers4. Garden Space in Leisure NotesPart III: Corporeal Media5. Remodeling Fictional Bodies6. Remodeling Real Bodies in Leisure NotesEpilogueAppendix: Li Yu’s OeuvreNotesWorks CitedIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Towers in the Void
Book SynopsisS. E. Kile argues that Li Yu’s cultural experimentation draws attention to the materiality of particular media forms, expanding the scope of early modern media by interweaving books, buildings, and bodies.Trade ReviewWith its incisive analysis, eloquent writing, and integrated use of theories, this book is of great value for scholars in literature, print culture, and material culture. * H-Material-Culture *A brilliant new conceptualization of the maverick Li Yu as entrepreneur, designer, playwright, and multimedia specialist. Kile’s daring, astute study of this most original seventeenth-century Chinese writer grabs you from page one. A true tour de force. -- Judith Zeitlin, author of The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese LiteratureLi Yu had a career as full of twists as his stories are. Taking media innovation as the thread that connects Li Yu’s many activities, this study opens new windows in his floating towers and adds arias to his silent operas. -- Haun Saussy, author of The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual AsiaIn this important and absorbing study of Li Yu, Kile shows how thinking through media in its multiple forms—print culture, the sights and sounds of the theater, spatial constructs, the human body—yields fresh insights into early modern China. -- Wai-yee Li, author of The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial ChinaTowers in the Void provides authoritative new insights into Li Yu’s writings based on a broad examination of his corpus. Integrating insightful and innovative readings of Li Yu’s creative works with his prescriptions on garden design and lengthy musings, Kile offers a new and productive approach to the study of Li Yu that can inspire other such innovative analyses of late imperial Chinese literature. -- Robert Hegel, cotranslator of A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroductionPart I: Textual Media1. Cultural Entrepreneurship and Woodblock Print2. Building with WordsPart II: Spatial Media3. Fictional Space in Twelve Towers4. Garden Space in Leisure NotesPart III: Corporeal Media5. Remodeling Fictional Bodies6. Remodeling Real Bodies in Leisure NotesEpilogueAppendix: Li Yu’s OeuvreNotesWorks CitedIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Newshawks in Berlin
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£90.00
Columbia University Press Falsehoods Fly
Book SynopsisA leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works—and breaks down.Trade ReviewIn this important book, renowned philosopher Paul Thagard doesn’t beat around the bush: misinformation kills. But what is misinformation exactly? Thagard offers not only a bold new theory but also actionable solutions. A timely and compelling read. -- Sander van der Linden, author of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build ImmunityPaul Thagard has done a great public service by writing such an accessible, comprehensive book on what many feel is the great scourge of our age: misinformation. I am delighted to see a philosopher of such stature take on this problem, bringing logic, crystal-clear prose, and a little hope to a topic that affects us all. This is public philosophy at its finest. -- Lee McIntyre, author of On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect DemocracyFalsehoods Fly gives a novel framework for thinking about the various mechanisms involved in the spread of misinformation. By breaking this process down into concrete stages, Thagard helps identify what makes people susceptible to false beliefs. He draws on the latest in cognitive science to identify where the processes of misinformation can best be interrupted and stopped. A range of current examples, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Russia-Ukraine war, helps situate his arguments. This insightful book can help us all better understand ourselves and improve our ability to form good beliefs. -- Cailin O'Connor, coauthor of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs SpreadIn his signature lucid and witty style, Paul Thagard offers a novel theory of misinformation—how it is generated and spread and how it can be fixed. His theory is rooted in a solid foundation and comes with a healthy dose of optimism that bullshitters and their "alternative facts" will not prevail. A refreshing perspective and satisfying read. -- Olaf Dammann, Tufts University School of MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Lies Kill: The Perils of Misinformation2. Information and Misinformation: How They Work3. Believing What You Want: Motivated Reasoning, Emotion, and Identity4. Plagues: COVID-19 and Medical Misinformation5. Storms: Climate Change and Scientific Misinformation6. Plots: Conspiracy Theories and Political Misinformation7. Evils: Inequality and Social Misinformation8. Misinformation Self-Defense: A Manual Illustrated by the Russia-Ukraine War9. Reality Rescued: Beyond Post-TruthGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£75.60
University of Illinois Press Zworykin Pioneer of Television
Book SynopsisWhat can radical historians learn by engaging with new trends in world history? This title explores some of the possibilities created by the dialogue between world history and radical history - in the way we frame our research, narrate our stories, and teach our subjects.Trade Review"By focusing squarely on the cultural dimensions of social welfare policy, Sanford Schram brilliantly illuminates recent turns in policy and politics. Nor does he slight the material for the symbolic. Rather he shows the close connections between the cultural and material aspects of policy. Most welcome of all, Schram's work is imbued with a rare empathetic concern for the people who are both the beneficiaries and victims of social welfare." - Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center of the City University of New York "If you want a flesh-and-blood story of the real agendas that lie behind policy-making in the age of tough love, After Welfare is the best book on the topic. Schram's incisive expose makes for spectacular common sense." - Andrew Ross, New York University "This engagingly written book lays bare the dirty little secrets' of a new order of social policy, one that shores up inequality by tapping into cultural reserves of race and gender prejudice while publicly presenting a neutral face. Its power derives from Schram's eloquence, his sharp wit, and his talent for persuading the reader to scrutinize social policy through the lens of social theory." - Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota "Sanford Schram's After Welfare is an exemplary combination of political theory, cultural critique, applied policy analysis and astute and comprehensive mapping of the contemporary politics of welfare. It should engage a wide readership in both academia and the policy community." - Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii
£38.70
MO - University of Illinois Press Remake Remodel
Book SynopsisOffers a unique glimpse inside the industry and reveals how executives and content creators are remaking their roles, their audiences, and their products at this critical historic juncture.Trade Review"A timely, well-researched account of recent shifts in the women's magazine industry and the impact of these changes on publishers and consumers. Duffy's book offers an engaging analysis of the ways in which magazine producers have been compelled to engage with new media platforms in the quest to maintain profitability."--Anna Gough-Yates, author of Understanding Women's Magazines: Publishing, Markets and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain"A remarkable case study of an industry in flux, Duffy's well-researched book would be an asset to any course on magazine media in general and on women's magazines in particular."--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"Remake, Remodel offers a compelling look at the ways in which a shifting media landscape is provoking structural changes in labor organization, content development, and professional identity within the women's magazine industry."--Journal of American Culture "Remake, Remodel is not intended as a harsh attack on new media's participatory culture, but it aims (and succeeds) in presenting "a more nuanced view" of the magazine industry. . . . An excellent resource for both scholars and teachers."--Journal of Magazine & New Media Research"A cutting-edge study at the forefront of new conceptualizations and practices in the magazine industry. Duffy insightfully charts the dilemmas and complexities the magazine faces as it strives to define itself in the face of changes in technology and political economy in media and advertising."--Matthew P. McAllister, coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture"Brooke Erin Duffy offers a timely, well-researched account of recent shifts in the women's magazine industry and the impact of these changes on publishers and consumers. Her book offers an engaging analysis of the ways in which magazine producers have been compelled to engage with new media platforms in the quest to maintain profitability."--Anna Gough-Yates, author of Understanding Women's Magazines: Publishing, Markets, and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press Watching Womens Liberation 1970 Feminisms
Book SynopsisIn 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC - the "Big Three" of the pre-cable television era - discovered the feminist movement. This book uses case studies of key media events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the emergence of feminism's second wave.Trade ReviewBonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award, Feminist and Women Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015. "With Watching Women's Liberation 1970, Dow provides a thorough and accessible introduction to second-wave feminism. Introductory gender studies courses, as well as women's history and journalism history courses, would benefit from the inclusion of this book."--Journalism History"White the scholarship, writing and rhetorical analysis excellent, what is particularly valuable about this book is the ways that Dow not only provides nuanced analysis of coverage itself, but provides highly original and pertinent historical information which contextualized coverage. This book will be useful for those studying women's history, feminism, media and cultural studies, and may also be of interest to the general public who are interested in the media's relationship with feminists and feminist activism."--Canadian Journal of History"Dow's brilliant book should appeal to scholars and general readers who are interested in journalism, feminist politics, and popular memory."--The Journal of American History"Dow's careful and astute reading of the mediated meanings of the second wave attests to the rhetorical power of broadcast media in shaping public perceptions of women's liberation."--Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000"Combines the fields of media and feminist studies to expose how truly remarkable 1970 was. What Dow contributes to this field is insight into a movement when this treatment began, and what she reveals is the continued relevancy of her claim."--H-Net Reviews"An important and incisive study of media reportage in 1970, a 'pivotal year' for feminist movements. Highly recommended."--Choice"In her well-researched examination of network news, Dow argues against the view that television's treatment of feminism was universally negative. . . . [A] valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex process by which this movement developed."--Women's Review of Books"Dow is particularly skilled at drawing together theory, historical context, primary media content, and examples of other scholarly work on the news media and the women's movement in accessible ways, and that is the great strength of this collection of essays."--Labour/Le Travail "As with her previous work, Dow's critical rhetorical analysis is sound and incisive, and her archival research is very impressive. This is an important study for media studies and feminist media studies, and I anticipate it will have a wide impact."--Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture
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MO - University of Illinois Press Behind the Gas Mask
Book SynopsisOffers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One.Trade Review"Well-researched and informative. . . . a good look at American preparation for and experience with gas exposure in World War I."--The Journal of America's Military Past "As the centennial anniversary of World War I is upon us and as chlorine gas is once again being used as a weapon of war in the Middle East, Faith's review of the birth of the Chemical Warfare Service is well-timed and pertinent."--H-Net Reviews"Faith offers a compelling investigation of the U.S. Army's experience with chemical weapons in World War I. Ultimately the public and government rejected future use of chemical weapons in battle. If Americans had accepted the arguments of chemical weapons experts, twentieth-century warfare would have been even more terrifying. This book tells an important story of a path not taken, at least not yet." --Jennifer D. Keene, author of Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America"A compelling case study of the dilemmas the US Army faced in that period."--Michigan War Studies Review"Faith's study will be very useful and instructive for anyone interested in the Army's uneasy relationship with chemical warfare during and immediately after World War I."-- On Point: Journal of Army History"A must-read for anyone who is seriously interested in American involvement in chemical warfare during World War I."--U.S. Military History Review
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University of Illinois Press Diana and Beyond
Book SynopsisWhat narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"Shome presents critical arguments that challenge the seemingly innocuous tenants of celebrity culture by examining the strategies adopted by privileged upper-class white women to rejuvenate their identities, largely by extracting culture, resources and people from the developing world, and consequently are implicated in the production of neo-colonial conditions."--Celebrity Studies"The clarity of her writing and her engaging media examples would make this an excellent text for students and seasoned scholars alike. Packaging analytical rigor alongside an exciting array of examples, Diana and Beyond is as compelling as it is insightful."--European Journal of Cultural Studies"Raka Shome's Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture will take the field far in understanding how to cultivate a transnational attentiveness. The dazzling Diana and Beyond follows Lady Di as she twists and turns, appears stable, transforms, and the moves again across various global and national registers. Shome deftly demonstrates how to study something as seemingly stable as national identity without stabilizing or circumscribing its constituents."--Quarterly Journal of Speech"A broader exploration of the relationship between White femininity and national ideologies, where particular understandings of the former perform a mediating function between the national and the global. . . . A powerful exercise of cultural critique that offers several wide-ranging lessons."--Journal of Communication"Sharp analysis of how neoliberal logics have fundamentally changed the politics in the North Atlantic societies in the past decades - as in a shift from 'welfare' to 'wellness'. Diana and Beyond certainly speaks to many fields of study. In her own elegant way, Shome demonstrates how Princess Diana of Wales has to do with everything else."--New Formations"An excellent resource for those interested in intersectional studies of nationalism, gender, and popular culture. . . . By identifying points of success and slippage between female iconicity and national identity, Shome’s project successfully traces the shifts in Diana’s Whiteness, as it masks the inequalities of class, religion, and race involving women of color and women of the Global South, to whom her book is dedicated."--Popular Communication"Brings together one of the most talked about images in recent history, Princess Diana, with one of the least talked about, whiteness. It is a brilliant move, to see, scrutinize and show the elusive, and to many people invisible, structures of white femininity in one of its most visible and vivid manifestations. Combining a painstaking analysis of Diana's immediate historical and cultural context with a wide sense of her connection to other prominent images of white femininity, the book lucidly opens up the gender and ethnic specificities of particular, but also broad and familiar, instances of motherhood, fashion, nation, masculinity, and spirituality. This is a major contribution to cultural history and celebrity studies as well as the fields of gender and whiteness, beautifully written, always enthralling."--Richard Dyer, author of White: Essays on Race and Culture and Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society"Well-researched and theoretically sophisticated, this work asks disturbing questions of contemporary neoliberal politics. By focusing on the significance of Princess Diana's whiteness, Shome's work takes us beyond post-imperial, postcolonial analyses of whiteness, by engaging instead with neoliberalism and globalization. Moving between the ethos of New Labour's 'Cool Britannia' and the Coalition government's demands for a skewed and cruel austerity, this work re-inflects race, class and sexuality in contemporary culture in new and significant ways. Without a doubt, one of the most significant books to be written about the intertwining of race, class and gender on the one hand and neoliberalism and multiculturalism on the other."--Radhika Mohanram, co-author of Imperialism as Diaspora: Race, Sexuality, and History in Anglo-India "Diana and Beyond generates astute understandings not only of the culture of the contemporary UK but also of transnationalized regimes of gender, privilege, and social class. Raka Shome has produced a genuinely intellectually exciting book that is adept at analyzing important cultural phenomena too often written off as ephemeral, apolitical and 'feminine.'"--Diane Negra, author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom "Shome's book is expertly-written and much-needed, connecting whiteness studies with concerns about neoliberalism and global media cultures."--Catherine R. Squires, author of The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century
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University of Illinois Press Digital Rebellion
Book SynopsisBegins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement - network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent - became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations.Trade Review"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. . . . I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume. . . . The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident."--Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games"Combining the passion of an activist and the reasoned arguments of a scholar, Wolfson wonderfully details the emergence of the Cyber Left. In Digital Rebellion he not only celebrates its political potential but also, and more importantly, provides a lucid critique of the forms it has taken thus far."--Michael Hardt, co-author of Declaration and Empire"A major contribution. . . . Eminently readable, Digital Rebellion is a mixture of reporting and theory all designed to move beyond the horizontal-vertical duality and achieve a synthesis that draws from the best of both worlds."--Counterpunch"The first book to chart the intellectual and technological history of the Indymedia network and to place that history within the theoretical debate about social movement organization and politics. This is an important chapter in contemporary social movement activism and Todd Wolfson does an excellent job charting the rise of the Independent Media Center and the theoretical implications of this model for left political organizing."--Andy Opel, author of Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future
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University of Illinois Press Acid Hype American News Media and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Siff provides two parallel narratives about LSD. The first focuses on the history of LSD, its popularity beginning in the mid-1950s and its fall from grace a decade later; the second concerns the way in which media attention to LSD changed journalistic methods. Recommended."--Choice"The rich content of consumer magazines, especially those published before television became culturally dominant, remains largely unexamined by media historians. Acid Hype illustrates how rewarding study of mass-circulation magazines can be. Who could anticipate Stephen Siff would find that such bedrock Republicans as Henry and Clare Boothe Luce personally embraced hallucinogenic drugs and encouraged their use in the pages of Life and Time?"--Joseph Bernt, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Ohio University"Stephen Siff. . . is never less than shrewd and readable in his assessment of how various news media differed in method and attitude when covering the psychedelic beat."--Inside Higher Ed"This examination of the media's heightened interest in LSD in the 1950s and 1960s is an important book. Painstakingly researched, it provides a highly interesting trip through an era where it seemed all Americans were aware of the drug and many were taking it. This study unquestionably will be cited extensively by historians."--Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University"Acid Hype is a conscientiously researched, thoughtfully conceptualized, and clearly written account of the media's significant role in manufacturing the LSD craze in America in the late 1960s."--H-Net Reviews"A well-researched work of narrative history."--Journal of American History"This examination of the media's heightened interest in LSD in the 1950s and 1960s is an important book. Painstakingly researched, it provides a highly interesting trip through an era where it seemed all Americans were aware of the drug and many were taking it. This study unquestionably will be cited extensively by historians."--Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University"Stimulating and enjoyable."--Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest "Siff does a very good job of explaining the relationship between the legal system and social environment, as well as the key players in government and society during the so-called psychedelic years in the United States. This makes Acid Hype especially valuable as a resource."--Sammye Johnson, Carlos Augustus de Lozano Chair in Journalism, Trinity University, and co-author of The Magazine from Cover to CoverTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Midcentury Media's Trip with LSD 1 1. Early Restrictions on Drug Speech, 1900-1956 17 2. Introducing LSD, 1953-1956 42 3. Creating a Psychedelic Past, 1954-1960 68 4. Research at the Intersection of Media and Medicine, 1957-1962 89 5. Luce, Leary, and LSD, 1963-1965 115 6. Moral Panic and Media Hype, 1966-1968 145 Postscript: Psychedelic Media 181 Notes 191 Index 227
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University of Illinois Press Cupcakes Pinterest and Ladyporn Feminized
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An enlightening consideration of the ways women consume media."--Bust "Taken as a whole, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn reads as a roundtable discussion on new roads ahead for feminist media and cultural studies more deeply concerned with issues of gender, race, and sexuality than ever."--The Velvet Light Trap"Cupcakes shows that the seemingly most traditional forms of popular culture, the sites that appear to simply reify normative femininity, are actually locations for complex and agentic negotiations of gendered, raced, and classed expectations in the often contradictory field of popular culture."--Signs "Through its manifold critiques of digital media, cultural products, and gendered spaces, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn has the potential to reinvigorate contemporary scholarship in feminist media studies and bring "feminized cultures" back into focus."--Feminist Media Studies"A fascinating time capsule of the activities and perceptions of women in the early 21st century in an environment that nurtures and celebrates phenomena such as E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey, celebrity gossip blogs, and the Kardashians. Recommended."--Choice"By foregrounding the complexity of gender in a postfeminist culture increasingly opposed to gender-specific analysis, Levine reminds us that these projects of feminist media analysis are as important in the 21st century as they were during the early days of feminist studies. . . . Levine's collection provides a fresh, updated look at feminized pop culture."--Feminist Collections"Levine has assembled a comprehensive set of smart, accessible, and interesting essays that truly capture 'feminized' popular culture in the early twenty-first century United States. This will be the definitive volume on 'post-feminist' popular cultural productions for some time to come."--Rebecca Wanzo, author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling"Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn offers a concise, engaged, and fascinating set of analyses on things feminine, female, and feminist in the context of popular media culture. The book is headed by a truly insightful introductory essay from Elana Levine and filled with consistently provocative and unique essays that artfully make the case for the many ways in which gender is central to the production, reception, and content of media. If you've ever wondered how new media forms like Twitter and Facebook have bigger implications for gender relations, this book is for you."--Brenda R. Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity "In a provocative return to a topic dominant in early feminist media and cultural studies, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn helps us to understand better the pleasures and politics of feminine popular culture at a time when its creators and consumers are negotiating both feminist and postfeminist sensibilities.--Mary Celeste Kearney, editor of The Gender and Media Reader
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University of Illinois Press New Korean Wave
Book SynopsisTrade Review"New Korean Wave is an invaluable resources for students and faculty studying international media, culture, and communication." --Journal of Film and Video"In recent years, the Korean wave, Hallyu, has emerged as a major Asian presence on the media globe but its political economy has largely been ignored. Dal Yong Jin's excellent study fills this gap in international scholarship: highly recommended."--Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, London"In a concise and illuminating book that unpacks the evolution of the Korean Wave, Jin deftly highlights the key factors that have fueled the rise of South Korea as a major player in the global market place for popular culture."--Hyung-Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia"Highly recommended overview of the present Korean culture industry, especially regarding the influence of government support on home-grown entertainment industries."--The Learned Fangirl"A fascinating story of how Korean cultural industry grew from being a relatively overlooked sector to becoming a global success story, analyzing the social and technological mechanism that enabled this sector's growth and its relations with the state. This book is an outstanding contribution to the scholarship on the New Korean Wave."--Nissim Otmazgin, author of Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia"Much has been written in recent years about the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. But what has often been missing is the capacity to situate this wave in the wider context of political economy, cultural policy, and global media flows. Dal Yong Jin's book marks an admirable survey of the phenomenon from this critical institutional perspective, and will become the defining text for understanding the political economy of the New Korean Wave."--Terry Flew, author of Global Creative Industries
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University of Illinois Press Making the News Popular
Book SynopsisThe professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production--and unleashed both crisis and opportunity on journalistic institutions. Anthony Nadler charts a paradigm shift, from market research's reach into the editorial suite in the 1970s through contemporary experiments in collaborative filtering and social news sites like Reddit and Digg. As Nadler shows, the transition was and is a rocky one. It also goes back much further than many experts suppose. Idealized visions of demand-driven news face obstacles with each iteration. Furthermore, the post-professional philosophy fails to recognize how organizations mobilize interest in news and public life. Nadler argues that this civic function of news organizations has been neglected in debates on the future of journalism. Only with Trade Review"Recommended."--Choice "With Making the News Popular, Anthony Nadler offers a unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship trying to make sense of the fragmentation of journalism's high-modern paradigm and the democratic implications of the various models of news that have emerged in its stead."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This important book offers a penetrating and original analysis of how news audiences are mobilized. With his path-breaking contribution to media studies and journalism history, Nadler has woven a captivating account that reveals how media institutions--from traditional newspapers to cable news and social news sites--shape our preferences, and why this matters for democratic society. Making News Popular should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking a critical understanding of the economic and cultural imperatives that drive our news media."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"In this imaginative and original history, Tony Nadler shows how, since the 1970s, U.S. news institutions have embraced the principle that consumer preferences rather than editorial expertise should determine the news agenda. Along the way, he asks important questions about the consequences of this enduring approach for our own digital news era. How do the news media shape and constrain the very audience choices they claim to measure? What are the consequences for our public culture and democracy? How can we build a more participatory, inclusive, and democratic news media? An illuminating, challenging, and highly readable account."--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
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University of Illinois Press Indians Illustrated
Book SynopsisAfter 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of buckskinned braves and Indian princesses proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly . In Indians Illustrated , John M. Coward charts a social and cultural history of Native American illustrations--romantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and otherwise--in the heyday of the American pictorial press. These woodblock engravings and ink drawings placed Native Americans into categories that drew from venerable good Indian and bad Indian stereotypes already threaded through the culture. Coward's examples show how the genre cemented white ideas about how Indians should look and behave--ideas that diminished Native Americans' cultural values and political influence. His powerful analysis of themes and visual tropes unlocks the racial codes and visual cues that whites used to represent--and marginalTrade Review"Indians Illustrated is a good read that strongly contributes to our knowledge of American Indians' depictions and stereotyping while bringing the world of nineteenth-century printed press into our own homes." --American Indian Quarterly "In Indians Illustrated, Coward not only has written a book that clearly and decisively achieves the primary objective of providing a history of the development and consequences of Native American stereotypes, but he also provides a framework useful for anyone who seeks to understand stereotyping of any group in American media."--Journalism History "Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual image can be on the development of cultural attitudes."--Jhistory "The author's work is a revelation, and with its many illustrations, a journey in time. Read enough of it, and you will be questioning the historical veracity of any illustration you see from the late 19th century."--Journalism and Mass Communication Education"The book charts new territory, offers important new insights on a topic that deserves further examination, and opens doors to subsequent research for scholars and graduate students."--American Indian Culture and Research Journal"Coward provides a fascinating look at how powerful the visual image can be on the development of cultural attitudes. Indians Illustrated not only provides a crucial study for scholars of Native American culture but is also very useful as a text for scholars of race, anthropology, popular culture, and visual studies."--H-Net Reviews"Indians Illustrated is a good introduction to the concept that images of Native Americans in the nineteenth century popular press were constructed, framed, and viewed through Anglo-European American eyes and that the imagery has much less to do with real Native American life, history, or people than it has to do with the self-perception and self-ideation of its mainstream colonial counterpart."--Journal of American Culture"[Coward] makes a compelling case for the importance of these pictures as primary sources for cultural history." --The Journal of American History "This helpful book makes a major contribution to the field of communication and media history, laying a stronger foundation for helping the media, scholars, and society to understand, confront, and heal from how the media had been complicit in the conquest and genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas." --CBQ: Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Impressive. This book is an engaging example of 'visual history' done well." --South Dakota History "Rich in context and beautifully written. Other scholars have considered the stereotyping of Native Americans, but this book links the phenomenon to journalism/media history and explores the cultural significance of these widely circulated images."--Janice Hume, author of Popular Media and the American Revolution: Shaping Collective Memory "John Coward provides a comprehensive, well-documented overview of the development of the visual clues that support Manifest Destiny and racial stereotypes of American Indians. No one has provided more insight or made such a detailed study of Native American images in the press. This is a one-of-a-kind book."--William E. Huntzicker, author of The Popular Press, 1833–1865 "If there is any story in the narrative of American history that exemplifies our reliance on stereotypes, it must be pictorial representations of Native Americans in the late 19th century press. In Indians Illustrated, John Coward explores this story with thoroughness, insight, and grace. By also including a wealth of well-chosen images, he helps explain not only the details of cultural production but a larger rendering of 'otherness' in America."--David Abrahamson, Northwestern University
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University of Illinois Press Goodbye iSlave
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anyone who has used a smartphone, tablet, laptop computer, e-reader, video game console, or smart speaker would do well to read Goodbye iSlave. In tight effective prose, Qiu presents a gripping portrait of the lives of Foxconn workers and this description is made more confrontational by the uncompromising language Qiu deploys."--boundary 2 "Qiu's grim and eloquent book traces parallels between the digital economy and Atlantic slavery--from Congo mines to Foxconn sweatshops to iPhone users' labor. Full of insights, Goodbye iSlave also offers hope, in new forms of social struggle."--Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science "Networking China is highly recommended for researchers or students in the area of media and communications, economics, political sciences and Chinese studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in communication sectors." --Information, Communication & Society"Outstanding and well-researched. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Readers from media and information studies, sociology, history and many other social sciences disciplines will find Goodbye iSlave illuminating." --The China Quarterly"Qiu's book brings attention to the hidden and deeply exploitative conditions of digital labor that make possible our world of new media and technologies." --PoLAR"This remarkable dissection of twenty-first century global iSlavery, rooted in Qiu's on-the-ground and comparative historical research, gives a high-voltage jolt to complacent iCitizens--and examples of what to do next."--John D.H. Downing, editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
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University of Illinois Press Six Minutes in Berlin
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is one of the greatest sports stories ever told: How a group of young oarsmen from the Pacific Northwest who could barely afford train fare to Chicago, much less Berlin, won gold medals in the famous Hitler Olympics of 1936. There are two gripping tales here, and Michael Socolow tells them both well. First, there is the David v. Goliath saga of the University of Washington crew team upsetting every Ivy League crew in America to travel to Berlin, where the Huskies prevailed over the greatest crews the world had ever seen. The second story is the birth of modern broadcast sports journalism. What would later become the "wide world of sports" was born in Berlin, where American radio networks implemented new technologies on an almost daily basis to bring their listeners sporting events in "real time"--an amazing accomplishment that we now take for granted. Socolow successfully weaves these two fascinating tales into one enthralling book. Bravo!"--Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist"Sports, Nazism, and the glory days of radio come together seamlessly in Michael Socolow's gripping account of the hottest ticket at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Olympic Regatta. Offering expert play-by-play and vivid color commentary, Socolow provides a fascinating look at an epochal moment in sports and media history. Six Minutes in Berlin is a crystal-clear window into the birth of global journalism and trans-national fandom, shadowed throughout by the specter of a more ominous competition on the horizon."--Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University
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University of Illinois Press Media Localism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Energetically written. . . . Crucial topics for understanding what is actually going on behind the scenes of your local nightly news."--Sante Fe New Mexican"Shines a needed light on the threats that local broadcasters are currently facing. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a path forward."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly"The book is well researched. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a new path forward."--American Journalism"It is the detail in Ali's analysis that is impressive. There is much value in it as just a history of media policy-making at the beginning of the 21st century, as Ali looks at key moments in regulatory processes in each of the territories he covers."--Journalism"This book offers a very interesting contribution to reconsider the approach to local media." --CBQ Critical Reviews"Media's woeful lack of localism is matched by lack of definition about what the term really means. Ali's brilliant dissection of localism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada provides a foundation for developing strategies to restore our vanished local media."--Michael Copps, former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission"This landmark book offers a fascinating and invaluable analysis for anyone seeking a critical understanding of 'the local' in our digital age. With elegance and clarity, Ali draws from comparative case studies and key historical contexts to show why democracy still requires media localism--and why an unfettered market can't support it. This is a must-read for policymakers, journalists, and concerned citizens everywhere."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"Bold and innovative. A scholarly interrogation of significant moves to think through the meaning of community and how various policymakers, politicians, activists, and indeed entrepreneurs have sought to mobilize these concerns."--Des Freedman, author of The Contradictions of Media Power
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University of Illinois Press Zombies Migrants and Queers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fojas has done it again. With her trademark elegance of prose and sharp cutting cultural critique she slices through those thick layers of capitalist ideology that wrap all variety of popular cultural entertainment. From blue-ice meth to the zombie invasions, Fojas scrapes to the bone just how pop culture speaks to and against very real, everyday material concerns of twenty-first century trans-Pacific borderland denizens. Extraordinary! Exquisite! Edifying!"--Frederick Luis Aldama, author of The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez"The range of this book is astonishing and Fojas does justice to complex theoretical concepts by showing how they help us understand the primary texts while not dumbing down the theory."--David Schmid, author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture"Powerful and inventive, offering a new way to think about zombie media as critiques of debt that are themselves too often unable to think their way of the global orders of racial capitalism against which they so anxiously rage." --American Quarterly"Essential."--PopMatters"Camilla Fojas's Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture is a detailed and timely investigation of some of the most popular media of the past decade in the context of the global economic downturn."--Journal of Asian American Studies"Zombies, Migrants and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture by Camilla Fojas is such as an academic work, bringing together theories and topics from many different disciplines (sociology, economics, cultural studies, philosophy) in a very casual--yet impressively coherent--way." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"An exciting book, quite probably Fojas's most important work to date. It is timely, edgy, well-researched, impassioned. In it, Fojas analyzes journalism, memoirs, literature, photography, art, film, TV, music, economics, history, all in relation to 'popular culture.' . . . She adroitly draws on Greek myths, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Barthes, Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis, Foucault, and others in her contemplation of specific artistic and mass media exemplars."--Christine Holmlund, editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
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University of Illinois Press Football and Manliness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What does the NFL have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? Thomas Oates' expansive and readable book provides a riveting and often surprising answer to this question. This vital account of the racist and masculinist populism that is enabled--and occasionally constrained--through the culture of professional football is a must read for scholars and fans alike."--Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy "Oates offers clear arguments regarding ideologies of masculinity, race, gender, and sexuality; all chapters work with and build on each other leading to a coherent, all-encompassing argument. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Engaging, thoughtful, and timely, Football and Manliness moves the conversation beyond the gridiron to spotlight the ways that football shapes our collective understanding of masculinity and its implications within the broader social and economic arenas."--David J. Leonard, author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness "Oates compellingly demonstrates the worthiness of the NFL as an urgent and productive site of scholarly inquiry within cultural studies."--Lateral "Readers interested in feminist scholarship, sociology of sport, twenty-first-century masculinity, the black athlete, and popular culture will find this theoretical framework and authoritative analysis valuable."--Journal of Sport History
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University of Illinois Press The Media Commons
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBook of the Year, Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2018 "There is hardly a topic that is more important and yet underresearched than the ways in which media. . . have (mis)represented environmental issues in recent decades. Patrick Murphy has the right credentials, reputation, and ability for the challenge. Given the importance of the topic, this books merits inclusion on the adoption lists of a wide spread of media, environmental, and discourse studies courses (among others) at undergraduate and graduate levels."--Mass Communication and Society"How is it that in less than four years Discovery replaced Ten Ways to Save the Planet with programming encouraging meat consumption, while The Walking Dead now provides post-apocalyptic survival techniques to a global audience? Murphy provides essential scholarship of environmental discourses within the politics and economies of transnational media."--Libby Lester, author of Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News"This book is addressing a universal crisis that right now, as we speak, is rapidly mainstreaming. It is a text that will be recognized as a critically important, highly innovative, and possibly paradigm-changing contribution to our understanding of how mediated discourses work to destroy our planet."--Oliver Boyd-Barrett, author of Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire "Murphy skillfully unpacks the links among the institutions, ideology, and messages of global media systems and our imaginaries of the environment. The result is a scathing critique of the absorptive capacity of a market-driven, 'Promethean' discourse that elides social agency in response to our global ecological tensions."--Robert Cox, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication"The book's approach produces an interesting and unique contribution that should be required reading for scholars and students." --European Journal of Communication
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University of Illinois Press The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Black Press Research Collective's Top Black Press Scholarship of the 2010s Book "An immersive read, a welcome contribution to our understanding of the evolving relationship between African Americans and the media during Jim Crow and its demise. . . . Highly recommended."--People's World"Horne, celebrated author of over 30 eye-opening works on class and race history, harnesses the varied details of The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press in a style that is at once academic and fittingly narrative. The work is thus an accessible treasure trove of political and social involvements and insights spanning almost all the continents. " --Publishing Research Quarterly"It is equal parts social history, travelogue, memoir, and biography, making for a surprisingly engaging look at one of the most iconic musicians of all time." --RoguesPortal"Required reading for students of African-American journalism."--Publisher's Weekly"Horne offers media history students and scholars a compelling case that sheds new light on a lesser-known historical figure. There is no doubt that Horne's book will find its way onto media historians' bookshelves."--American Journalism"An exhilarating and enlightening ride through some of the most tumultuous times in modern African American history." --Journal of American Ethnic History"The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press is a brilliant model for writing black transnational history and for appreciating the contradictory results of desegregation for mid-twentieth century African American media, black freedom, and Pan-Africanism."--Erik S. McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism"This brilliant and masterfully written work broadens understandings of the vital work and historical agency of the black press, in particular the domestic and international coverage and political relationships forged by the Associated Negro Press and its astute and complicated founder Claude Barnett."--Taj Frazier, author of The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
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University of Illinois Press Pleasure in the News African American Readership
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gallon succeeds in outlining the mutual liberalization of the Black press and Black urban communities in the interwar period. She conveys the dynamism of an era when newspapers thrust race leaders and new migrants into public reconsideration of how Blackness could be embodied in the twentieth century." --Journal of American History"The institution of Black Press, as Pleasure in the News outlines, contained a diversity of approaches to sexuality, in such papers as the Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, New York Amsterdam News, and Philadelphia Tribune. It is remarkable that Gallon is able to weave these newspapers together so skillfully and the archival research involved in this study is impressive. . . . In centering sexuality and pleasure, Gallon thoughtfully highlights ambivalences that the Black Press and its readership grappled with and the always important question of how much a newspaper's content is shaped by its reader' perceived desires." --American Periodical”Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon's systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds, provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field. How did respectability impact performativity, how did opinion makers command and defer to sexual consumers, and what did all of this mean for the experience of black desire within the marginal spaces of the modern metropolis?”—Kevin Mumford, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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University of Illinois Press Fighting Fascist Spain Worker Protest from the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fighting Fascist Spain elucidates the courage, creativity, and endurance necessary to keep this publication, its community, and its cause alive through decades of setbacks for antifascist Spanish exiles, both in their adopted homes in the United States and in Spain. . . . Feu's book reanimates a unique, print-based approach to resisting fascism and promoting democracy during that period while providing lessons that inform our understanding of the relationship between media, democracy, and resistance today." --American Periodicals”In this groundbreaking book, Montse Feu brings together a story of immigrants, print media, and transnational solidarity. Through meticulous archival research, Feu is able to craft a fascinating interwoven history about grassroots activism, anti-fascist organizing, and the global circulation of radical media from the perspective of Spanish immigrants in the United States. The book is also an important contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on the Spanish Civil War’s impact across the Americas.”—Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Dartmouth College”An important, deeply researched, and well-written book. Feu has given us the definitive work on Spanish Civil War exiles in the United States.”—Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America”Montse Feu has produced a detailed and comprehensive history of the most important newspaper and its network of artists, intellectuals and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco's Spain. After more than ten years of exhaustive research, Feu has successfully brought to light this important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies, with particular attention to the role that anarchism played in educating and inspiring workers. This is a book that will stand the test of time, as well as inspire many more years of research on such themes as Hispanic immigrants and exiles in the United States and their relationship to politics in their homeland(s), relationships and networks of the various Hispanic nationality groups in building a shared identity, gender roles among Hispanic intellectuals and community organizations, art and politics, and above all, the role of print culture in the development of these themes.”—Nicolás Kanellos, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno
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University of Illinois Press Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the ICA ACJS Outstanding Book Award "A compelling analysis . . . Osman does an excellent job of articulating the histories and traces of what she calls both foreign and indigenous forms of modernisation, and helpfully details the narratives of successive foreign incursions and their backlashes. She convincingly shows that any perspective which poses contemporary American/global ideas of modernity as being in direct contrast with deep-seated and supposedly static forms of tribal patriarchy and tradition is of little help in understanding the contemporary situation." --Critical Studies in Television "In Television and the Afghan Culture Wars, Wazhmah Osman takes readers on a powerful tour of Afghan media, politics, and society. . . . A rich analysis of the local-global nexus. . . . Fiercely critical of the imperial gaze." --Television and New Media"Television and the Afghan Culture Wars poignantly critiques discourses of failure and immutability, bringing to the foreground the dynamism and talents of an Afghan population that is well-integrated with global flows of consumption and entertainment. Nuanced and deeply researched." --Iranian Studies"An excellent introductory text on contemporary Afghanistan through a non-western perspective that centers the everyday life, agency, and desires of ordinary Afghans." --International Journal of Middle East Studies"Osman's analysis of the televisual medium in Afghanistan is valuable and serves as a timely marker of the end of an era and the beginning of another." --Media, Culture, and Society"Osman's book is a lucid read about complicated dynamics." --Interventions"An insider look into Afghanistan's social norms and cultural narratives." --SouthAsia"Television and the Afghan Culture Wars is an insightful, powerful book. Weaving together nuanced ethnography, complex media theory, and even a touch of personal memoir, Osman provides a compelling perspective on the world of Afghan television. Nuanced and deeply researched, the book is an important contribution to a number of fields, including war and conflict studies, media globalization, and development communication."--Matt Sienkiewicz, author of The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media since 9/11 "This is the first richly observed ethnographic account of the landscape of media in post-US invasion Afghanistan. Osman’s self-reflexive voice in telling the story of the dynamic media field in Afghanistan is in and of itself of import. The limited scholarship that exists on media and democracy under occupation in the Global South tends to reproduce paternalistic narratives of development. In contrast, this critical work foregrounds the geopolitical context that leads to a television 'boom,' highlighting the important role of women and ethnic minority communities in Afghani media production and consumption. Television and Afghan Culture Wars is a must read for scholars and students of global media and American empire."--Paula Chakravartty, coeditor of Race, Empire and the Crisis of the SubprimeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Legitimizing Modernity: Indigenous Modernities, Foreign Incursions, and Their BacklashesChapter 2. Imperialism, Globalization, and Development: Overlaps and DisjuncturesChapter 3. Afghan Television Production: A Distinctive Political EconomyChapter 4. Producers and Production: The Development Gaze and the Imperial GazeChapter 5. Reaching Vulnerable and Dangerous Populations: Women and the PashtunsChapter 6. Reception and Audiences: The Demands and Desires of Afghan PeopleConclusion: The Future of Media, the Future of AfghanistanAppendix A: Ethnic Groups TableAppendix B: Media Funding Sources and Recipients TableAppendix C: TV Stations and Affiliations TableNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Illinois Press Movie Mavens US Newspaper Women Take On the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Juxtaposing biographical information found through archival research with samples of film criticism transcribed from local papers, Abel throws a much-needed light on the female columnists who originally mediated the pictures for a mass audience increasingly defined by young women and girls." --Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film"With a scholar's knack for detail, Abel provides context for this crucial period of cinema history. An illuminating combination of scholarship and nostalgia." --Library Journal"A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a model film historian."--Laura Horak, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
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