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Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen original essays by cultural and anthropological experts such as Kyle William Bishop, Nils Bubandt, Johan Höglund, and Steffen Hantke, among others, study the nature of humanity’s ongoing complicated relationship to the environment via the concept of the undead. In doing so, The Anthropocene and the Undead sheds invaluable light on adjacent concepts such as the Capitalocene, Necrocene, Disanthropocene, Post-anthropocene, and the Symbiocene to trace real and imagined trajectories of our more-than-human selves into undead and undying futures.Trade ReviewThe undead, in their many forms, have never been more popular and never felt more relevant than in a cultural landscape plagued by global pandemic and ecological disaster, making Simon Bacon’s Anthropocene and the Undead a timely analysis. Bringing together a dream-team of cultural commentators discussing representations of the Anthropocene and its demise across film, television, literature and theatre through the prism of the undead, this book offers a richly nuanced consideration of the fractured relationship between humanity and the natural world. The chapters are provocative, insightful and richly interconnected, inviting reflection and action. -- Stacey Abbott, University of RoehamptonThere is a cascade of books examining the Anthropocene, but this collection stands out for its brilliant elucidation of the many ways the ‘undead’ represent a present era that is increasingly defined by humans’ impact on the planet. Expertly organized and contextualized by Simon Bacon, essays consider the ways in which the ‘undead’ figure identity, space, time, life, death and undying in the Anthropocene. Reading both cultural texts and material reality, the essays collectively illuminate how everything about life on Earth is becoming an ‘undying’ that is also, inevitably, an ongoing history of the evolution of life on Earth. -- Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University

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Book SynopsisDrawing on texts and theorists of Greek myth, psychoanalysis, and masculinities, Susan Mackey-Kallis and Brian Johnston develop and offer a model of rhetorical and mythic criticism to analyze popular American film. In this book, Mackey-Kallis and Johnston focus their analysis on films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal our collective gendered cultural wounds. Many of these “mystic” films, they contend, affirm the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, integration of the feminine, self-sacrifice, and transcendence as antidotes to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition. Ultimately, the authors argue for the importance of digging into the substance of cultural wounds – rather than superficially suturing them over – to change the conversation about woundedness and provide a roadmap for healing gendered relations in contemporary American culture. The book concludes with a discussion of Joseph Campbell’s interpretation of the metaphorical power of myth and its transcendent function to argue for a theory of “us”, rather than a theory of “us versus them.” Scholars of film, gender studies, American studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychology will find this book of particular interest. Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Wounding and Healing: The Search for Self in American Film and CultureSection 1: The Tragic Frame: Suffering, Scapegoating, Mortification, Masculine (White) Fragility, and the Lack/Loss of the Feeling FunctionSection 1: PrefaceChapter 1: There Will Be Blood: “Give Me the Blood”Chapter 2: Million Dollar Baby: “Hits Too Close to the Bone” Chapter 3: Moonlight: “Who Is You, Man?” Section 2: The Comic Frame: Suffering, Scapegoating, Mortification, and the Search for the FeminineSection 2: PrefaceChapter 4: Guardians of the Galaxy: “We Are Groot”Chapter 5: Iron Man:“I Am Iron Man”Chapter 6: The Darjeeling Limited: “We Haven’t Located Us Yet”Section 3: The Mystic Frame: Reflexivity, Transcendence, Restoration of the Feminine and the Flowering of CompassionSection 3: PrefaceChapter 7: Ad Astra: “We’re All We’ve Got”Chapter 8: Big Fish: “To Catch an Uncatchable Fish”Chapter 9: The Fountain: “Dying as an Act of Creation”Conclusion: Final Thoughts: “Thou Art That”BibliographyAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brydon argues that many of these wars were fought based on false or misleading narratives, beginning with blaming Spain for the sinking of the Maine and continuing, most recently, with charges that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11. Research has shown that well-told stories can affect the public’s beliefs, attitudes, and actions, and Brydon has identified some of these recurring stories that have been told to support and sustain each war during this time period. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, Brydon critically evaluates these “war stories” to determine if they possessed narrative coherence and fidelity that provided good reasons to go to war, rather than simply the appearance of these qualities. The responsibility, Brydon stresses, is on the media and on academics to view future war narratives through a critical lens, in order to best inform the American people. Scholars of media studies, history, military studies, American studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Propaganda and Persuasion2. Narratives of War3. The Spanish-American War: A Splendid Little War4. World War I: The War to End All Wars5. World War II: The Survival War6. Korea: The Never-Ending War7. Vietnam: The Domino Theory Falls8. The Persian Gulf War: Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome9. The War on Terror: America’s Forever War10. Conclusion: Recurring War StoriesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brydon argues that many of these wars were fought based on false or misleading narratives, beginning with blaming Spain for the sinking of the Maine and continuing, most recently, with charges that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11. Research has shown that well-told stories can affect the public’s beliefs, attitudes, and actions, and Brydon has identified some of these recurring stories that have been told to support and sustain each war during this time period. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, Brydon critically evaluates these “war stories” to determine if they possessed narrative coherence and fidelity that provided good reasons to go to war, rather than simply the appearance of these qualities. The responsibility, Brydon stresses, is on the media and on academics to view future war narratives through a critical lens, in order to best inform the American people. Scholars of media studies, history, military studies, American studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful. Trade ReviewDrawing on a comprehensive survey of major theories of persuasion and propaganda and combining it with detailed recounting of the narrative of American wars since 1898, Brydon offers an easily readable and compelling account of how propaganda succeeds (and sometimes fails) at sustaining U.S. public support for war. The chapter on Vietnam is especially thorough. -- David Zarefsky, Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University and author of Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and the Presidency: The Speech of March 31, 1968Americans tend to believe in the exceptional righteousness of their country's war efforts, and when that fails, in the resistance they exhibit towards government propaganda measures. Steven R. Brydon shows how consistently American administrations pursued pro-war measures, and how and when resistance occurred and mattered. It's an important lesson for Americans today. -- Ed Kilgore, New York MagazineThis book is a tremendously engaging narrative that brings the historical record of American war propaganda to life and highlights its relevance to contemporary dynamics of politics and persuasion. Readers who remember these events and those just learning about them will be intrigued by the propaganda tactics deployed by governments and the media to construct enemies and sell wars. -- Erin Steuter, Mount Allison UniversitySteve Brydon's book makes its timely debut amid heightened anxieties about the roots and troubling reach of propaganda across the world. -- J. Michael Sproule, Professor Emeritus, San Jose State UniversitySteve Brydon has done something that's been missing from past books on the subject of propaganda in general and wartime propaganda, specifically: A coherent theoretic base backed by sound empirical research. In doing so, Professor Brydon has tied together the rhetorical foundation of Walter Fisher's paradigm with social psychologist Melanie C. Green's Transportation Theory and quantitative research it spurred. As a result, this book is a far richer, more robust, and heuristic explanation of the how and why of the subject. -- Michael D. Scott, California State University, ChicoI highly recommend Steven Brydon’s American Propaganda from the Spanish-American War to Iraq: War Stories. Taking a narrative and historical approach, Brydon first surveys theories about media effects, propaganda, and story-telling, then turns to a series of case studies, from the Spanish-American War to the War on Terror. Brydon shows how the stories told about those wars had recurrent themes and were, in many cases, misleading. The book is well-researched, artfully written, and timely, as we look to history to help us understand our new era of propaganda and disinformation. -- J. Michael Hogan, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, Penn StateIn this comprehensive, engagingly written, and carefully researched book, Steven Brydon illuminates the catastrophic danger of false war narratives. A major theme is that how we consume and, more importantly, critically analyze news is crucial in a world that has become more complex, with competing narratives from multi-media sources. While the term “fake news” has become part of the lexicon, Brydon shows the insidious ways that false narratives have existed in the past and persist today with fragmented media sources, including social media, that refuse to admit, or even suggest, that there is another side to issues. This book meticulously recounts misinformation from the Spanish-American War to the ongoing War on Terror and makes an important contribution to media literacy and the rhetoric of war. -- Nichola D. Gutgold, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Propaganda and Persuasion2. Narratives of War3. The Spanish-American War: A Splendid Little War4. World War I: The War to End All Wars5. World War II: The Survival War6. Korea: The Never-Ending War7. Vietnam: The Domino Theory Falls8. The Persian Gulf War: Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome9. The War on Terror: America’s Forever War10. Conclusion: Recurring War StoriesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book brings into focus the perception of Muslim women in the United States, often overlooked in research literature and common media narratives, but at the same time facing increasing hate and aggression based on their religious and gendered identities. Guided by data from three original experiments and theories of priming and media effects, Alexis Tan and Anastasia Vishnevskaya discuss how stereotypes of Muslim women in the media influence public stereotypes, and how public stereotypes direct aggressions towards them. This book contributes to existing literature in the field by presenting evidence that both verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices, and that activation can be controlled by people who self-identify as social liberals. Ultimately, Tan and Vishnevskaya suggest both media and intrapersonal interventions to mitigate harmful consequences of prejudice towards Muslim women in the United States. Scholars of media studies, communication, religious studies, gender studies, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Historical and Current Stereotypes of Muslim Women in the United States and the Role of the Media in Their FormationChapter 3: Public Opinion in the United States and the Consequences of Muslim Women StereotypesChapter 4: Priming and Activation Control of StereotypesChapter 5: Priming Negative Stereotypes of Muslim Women: Antecedents and ConsequencesChapter 6: Semantic and Visual Primes of Stereotypes of Muslim Women: Activation and Activation ControlChapter 7: Interventions Applied to Muslim WomenChapter 8: Conclusions and RecommendationsBibliographyAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book brings into focus the perception of Muslim women in the United States, often overlooked in research literature and common media narratives, but at the same time facing increasing hate and aggression based on their religious and gendered identities. Guided by data from three original experiments and theories of priming and media effects, Alexis Tan and Anastasia Vishnevskaya discuss how stereotypes of Muslim women in the media influence public stereotypes, and how public stereotypes direct aggressions towards them. This book contributes to existing literature in the field by presenting evidence that both verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices, and that activation can be controlled by people who self-identify as social liberals. Ultimately, Tan and Vishnevskaya suggest both media and intrapersonal interventions to mitigate harmful consequences of prejudice towards Muslim women in the United States. Scholars of media studies, communication, religious studies, gender studies, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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Book SynopsisWith a combination of field experience and criminological research, this book gives insight to the news and drama programming that shapes the way viewers perceive crime and the formation of policy.Table of ContentsChapter 1: What’s So New About News?Chapter 2: Murder in the First DegreeChapter 3: Murder in the First BlockChapter 4: “True” Crime ShowsChapter 5: News You Can’t UseChapter 6: It’s All in the GenesChapter 7: The Unbearable Weight of Being BlackChapter 8: Damsels in DistressChapter 9: Missing Pretty White GirlsChapter 10: It’s Hard Being a Girl…Even Harder Being a Girl of ColorChapter 11: Good Cops, Bad Cops, Dirty Cops, and Mad Cops: Five Hollywood FilmsChapter 12: From the TV Screen to the Ballot Box

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Book SynopsisCrime in TV, the News, and Film provides a fresh look at the interplay between criminal events and the media outlets that cover them. The authors’ diverse backgrounds— a criminologist researcher, a documentarian and media professor, a police officer, and a criminologist who is a former TV reporter— allow for frank discussion. Combining field experience with criminological research, the book gives insight to the everyday media operations that can produce most people’s views on crime and profoundly influence public opinion— public opinion that often frames public policy.Viewers of crime dramas and consumers of news will gain a new understanding of the way their programs are produced. Readers will become more aware of the issues and biases that sometimes cloud perceptions of crime and criminals. Finally, both experts and scholars interested in the subject will improve their discernment of media stories and media depictions, shining a light on crime in a hazy field. This book can be used in the classroom for an array of courses in the fields of media and communications, criminology, sociology, and more.Trade ReviewThere is a disconnect between the realities of crime and the way crime is represented in U.S. news and entertainment media. In Crime in TV, the News, and Film: Misconceptions, Mischaracterizations, and Misinformation, Adubato and colleagues adopt a multidisciplinary approach to highlight the nature of crime, victim, and offender representations in the media, reality, and the causes and impacts of the gulf between what people observe in media and reality. This book is a must read for any person who is interested in the ways media representations of crime, victims, and offenders influence daily life and society. -- Jennifer L. Lanterman, University of Nevada, RenoThis timely work shows how media portrayals of crime in the news and in entertainment, including film and television, shape society's views and biases about crime, criminals, victims, and justice. In 12 chapters, authors from the fields of journalism, criminal justice, and film provide readers and researchers with a clearer understanding of how media portrayals of crime are created, produced, and depicted. The chapters provide relevant and impactful examples of how well-known, crime-based media productions reconcile with actual crime statistics and research. Readers will gain insight into how US news media outlets, television, and film depict crime, criminals, victims, police, and the criminal justice system. This book would make an especially good addition to course readings for criminal justice, communication studies, and film and television studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels of study. Recommended for undergraduates through faculty and general readers. * Choice Reviews *

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Book SynopsisExemplary Representations of African American Women on Television: Queen Sugar On Screen and Behind the Scenes argues that the Oprah Winfrey Network’s program Queen Sugar is a significant contribution to mainstream media that creates a space for deeper conversations concerning Black/African American women’s social roles, social class, and social change. Ollie Jefferson provides a unique analysis of the television drama by using the exemplary representations conceptual framework, which is designed to define exemplars represented as characters that illustrate the complex humanity of Black lives—in this case, multidimensional female characters. Jefferson highlights the best practices used by female African American producers Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, using Queen Sugar as a case study that broadens understanding of the media industry’s need for culturally sensitive and conscious inclusion of people of color behind the scenes—as media owners, creators, writers, directors, and producers—to put an end to the persistent and pervasive misrepresentations of African American women on camera. Scholars of television studies, media studies, women’s studies, and race studies will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction and Overview: Transforming the Storylines Above-the-LinesChapter 1: Mass Media Myths and Misrepresentations Chapter 2: Television TypecastsChapter 3: Media Exclusion to InclusionChapter 4: Multimedia Mogul Trending New Ground Chapter 5: Changing the Channel: Mainstream Media MessagesChapter 6: Inclusive Crew Commentary on Countering Narratives Chapter 7: Complex Characters Countering Stereotypes Chapter 8: Cultural Context in CommunityChapter 9: The Businesswoman On-ScreenChapter 10: The Activist Woman On-ScreenChapter 11: The Seasoned Woman On-ScreenChapter 12: The Reformed Woman On-ScreenChapter 13: The Sisterhood Series for Social ChangeConclusion: Exemplary Images, Inclusion & ImpactDefinition of Key Terms ReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisMedia Feedback: Our Lives in Loops provides an overview of the concept of media feedback, which is inherent in nearly every media platform we encounter on a daily basis. Rogers argues that every like on Facebook, view on Instagram, death in a video game, and movie suggestion on Netflix is a form of feedback that guides our actions and improves our performance. Rogers continues on to claim that in the current media landscape, more often than not, we are influenced by some kind of media feedback, even when we aren’t aware of it. This book employs a series of studies on media feedback to provide a resource for readers to understand not only what media feedback is, but also how it impacts our everyday lives. Scholars of media studies, communication, psychology, and sociology will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: Feedback, an Elusive ConceptChapter 2: Measures and RecruitmentChapter 3: Approach and Avoid FeedbackChapter 4: Positive and Negative FeedbackChapter 5: Implicit versus Explicit Media FeedbackChapter 6: Frequency of Media FeedbackChapter 7: Timeliness of Media FeedbackChapter 8: Relevance of Media FeedbackChapter 9: Media Feedback as AuthorityChapter 10: Distractions and Media FeedbackChapter 11: Customization and Media FeedbackChapter 12: Veracity of FeedbackChapter 13: User Media Feedback and System Media FeedbackChapter 14: Media Feedback from UsersChapter 15: Dating Apps and Feedback LoopsChapter 16: Conclusion: Takeaways and the Future of FeedbackReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisMedia Feedback: Our Lives in Loops provides an overview of the concept of media feedback, which is inherent in nearly every media platform we encounter on a daily basis. Rogers argues that every like on Facebook, view on Instagram, death in a video game, and movie suggestion on Netflix is a form of feedback that guides our actions and improves our performance. Rogers continues on to claim that in the current media landscape, more often than not, we are influenced by some kind of media feedback, even when we aren’t aware of it. This book employs a series of studies on media feedback to provide a resource for readers to understand not only what media feedback is, but also how it impacts our everyday lives. Scholars of media studies, communication, psychology, and sociology will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: Feedback, an Elusive ConceptChapter 2: Measures and RecruitmentChapter 3: Approach and Avoid FeedbackChapter 4: Positive and Negative FeedbackChapter 5: Implicit versus Explicit Media FeedbackChapter 6: Frequency of Media FeedbackChapter 7: Timeliness of Media FeedbackChapter 8: Relevance of Media FeedbackChapter 9: Media Feedback as AuthorityChapter 10: Distractions and Media FeedbackChapter 11: Customization and Media FeedbackChapter 12: Veracity of FeedbackChapter 13: User Media Feedback and System Media FeedbackChapter 14: Media Feedback from UsersChapter 15: Dating Apps and Feedback LoopsChapter 16: Conclusion: Takeaways and the Future of FeedbackReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisHoly Hype: Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News defines and explores the intersection of the sacred—religious symbols, themes, and rhetoric—within the profane realm of advertising and promotion. Susan H. Sarapin and Pamela L. Morris trace the historical overlap of consumer and religious ideologies in society, offering detailed examples of its use throughout history through analyses of over a hundred collected advertisements, from monks selling copiers, to billboard messages from God, to angels and the worship of vodka. Throughout the book, the authors continually evaluate if and when the technique of ‘holy hype’ is effective through its use of recognizable sacred symbols that capture audiences’ attentions and inspire both positive and negative emotions. Scholars of communication, media studies, religion, advertising, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Preface: Let There Be LightChapter 2: What, in Heaven’s Name, Is It? Chapter 3: Religion and Advertising: Scrambling the Sacred and Profane Chapter 4: In the Beginning: At the Intersection of Damascus Road and Madison AvenueChapter 5: Selling the Goods Amidst the Good NewsChapter 6: Apparel: The Fabric of American FaithChapter 7: Marketing Religion on the StreetsChapter 8: The Bible Tells Me So: Scriptural Metaphors in Advertising for NonprofitsChapter 9: Revelations of the Future of Holy Hype About the Authors

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Book SynopsisDeconstructing the Albino Other: A Critique of Albinism Identity in Media discusses how American popular culture and communication about albinism, including movie characters and memes, have worked to create and maintain a negative trope of albinism that situates people with albinism (PWA) as a monolithic other. Niya Pickett Miller demonstrates that consequently, PWA must construct their own identities of albinism, highlighting the salient aspects of themselves as they see fit with no valid representation to look to for guidance. Thus, Pickett Miller argues, self-defining for PWA is a key rhetorical action taken to rearticulate albinism identity. Rather than focusing on scientific and medical lenses of analysis, this book positions albinism as a social construct through which a broader understanding of otherness can be achieved, using the negative influence of pop culture’s otherization of PWA as a case study with broader implications, including how medical conditions can be visually troped to isolate the other outside of society’s realm of normalcy. Scholars of media studies, race studies, sociology, rhetoric, and the medical humanities will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsPreface: Why This Book MattersChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The (Evil) Albino TropeChapter 3: (Re)constituting Albinic IdentityChapter 4: “Other” White Storytellers: Emancipating Albinism Identity through Personal NarrativesChapter 5: ConclusionReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIn The Transmedia Construction of the Black Panther: Long Live the King, Bryan J. Carr explores and analyzes the evolution of the Black Panther character since his inception in the 1960s across comics, film, television, video games, and music. The Black Panther, Carr argues, is the sum of the creative works of countless individuals across various media that have each contributed to the legacy of the first mainstream Black superhero, all happening against a backdrop of social and cultural upheaval, global political struggle for equality, and the long shadow of colonizing Western attitudes. The Panther’s existence is a complex one that not only illustrates in microcosm those same struggles in the historically white superhero space, but also offers a perfect case study for media trends of representation then and now. Carr addresses a number of questions: Does the Black Panther really represent a powerful counter-narrative to long-standing regressive attitudes toward Black identity and Africa? Who were the key contributors to our understanding of the character? And finally, how can we use the character to understand the complexities of our modern consolidated media systems? Scholars of media studies, film and television studies, comics studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, and African studies will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction: A King of Many FacesChapter 2: Context of the King: Africa, the Media, Blackness, and HegemonyChapter 3: The Panther in the Silver Age: The King ArrivesChapter 4: The Panther in the 1970s: Whitewashing and New Jungle ActionChapter 5: The Panther in the 1980s-90s: A King for a New Age and a New AudienceChapter 6: The Panther in the 00s-10s: A Rise to Prominence and Growing PainsChapter 7: The Panther Today: Meditations on KinghoodChapter 8: A King in Many Forms: Black Panther in TV, Games, and ElsewhereChapter 9: A King Goes Hollywood: Black Panther and the MCUChapter 10: What Makes a King?: The Transmedia Mythmaking of Black PantherBibliographyAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIn Performative Memoir: Moving between Worlds, Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes construct a new genre of writing, performative memoir. Drawing on scholarship in performance studies and autoethnography, the authors outline a methodology for studying autoethnography, performance, and memoir in a new creative process. Carilli and Viramontes then demonstrate the process by creating their own performative memoirs, titled “Loving Crazy” and “Mexican Love,” and perform a close reading of each memoir to show how these theories can be applied to our own personal experiences and trauma. Scholars of performance studies, communication, media studies, cultural studies, and trauma studies will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Performative Memoir: The Methodology of a Creative Process Theresa Carilli and Adrienne ViramontesPerformative Memoir: From Nostalgia to Recovery Theresa Carilli and Adrienne ViramontesThe Performative Memoir as Spiritual PracticeAdrienne ViramontesLoving Crazy: A Performative MemoirTheresa CarilliMexican Love: A Performative MemoirAdrienne ViramontesMaking Sense, Making Peace: An Analysis of “Loving Crazy” as a Performative MemoirTheresa CarilliThe Art of Living Through Performative Memoir: Four PhasesAdrienne ViramontesPerformative Memoir: Crossroads of Communication ScholarshipTheresa Carilli and Adrienne ViramontesSelected References About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Corinne M. Dalelio analyzes how the rise of interactive media over the last few decades has had enormous impacts on every aspect of American society—the ways in which we organize, produce, consume, engage, entertain, and inform. Yet the vestiges of the one-way, broadcast model of the media industries continue to be primary, prominent, and persuasive in our culture, Dalelio argues. This book offers clarity and insight into the current media landscape by first outlining what it is that makes interactive media distinct from that which came before, and then identifying the harmonies and tensions between media systems—new and old—as they operate in various communicative contexts still in flux. These contexts include art, journalism, activism, marketing, and even the public sphere. Dalelio encourages readers to hone their critical digital literacy skills by supplying them with analytical concepts and theoretical principles that can be applied, regardless of how these tools change or evolve, ultimately enabling more thoughtful and meaningful interactive media usage and consumption. Elucidated throughout with interesting and relevant narrative examples, this book offers an engaging and straightforward presentation of the current scholarly understanding of these tools along with practical tips for navigating the challenges of our complex media ecosystem. Scholars of media studies, communication, sociology, and American studies will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresPrefaceChapter 1: Interactive MediaChapter 2: The Media Convergence EcosystemChapter 3: Groups and CommunitiesChapter 4: NetworksChapter 5: Amateur MediaChapter 6: Citizen NewsChapter 7: CollaborationChapter 8: ActivismChapter 9: Convergence ConsumerismChapter 10: Media Industry Concerns and ConfrontationsChapter 11: New Models for Converging MediaChapter 12: The New GatekeepersChapter 13: Privacy and SurveillanceChapter 14: Heading into the FutureBibliographyAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Corinne M. Dalelio analyzes how the rise of interactive media over the last few decades has had enormous impacts on every aspect of American society—the ways in which we organize, produce, consume, engage, entertain, and inform. Yet the vestiges of the one-way, broadcast model of the media industries continue to be primary, prominent, and persuasive in our culture, Dalelio argues. This book offers clarity and insight into the current media landscape by first outlining what it is that makes interactive media distinct from that which came before, and then identifying the harmonies and tensions between media systems—new and old—as they operate in various communicative contexts still in flux. These contexts include art, journalism, activism, marketing, and even the public sphere. Dalelio encourages readers to hone their critical digital literacy skills by supplying them with analytical concepts and theoretical principles that can be applied, regardless of how these tools change or evolve, ultimately enabling more thoughtful and meaningful interactive media usage and consumption. Elucidated throughout with interesting and relevant narrative examples, this book offers an engaging and straightforward presentation of the current scholarly understanding of these tools along with practical tips for navigating the challenges of our complex media ecosystem. Scholars of media studies, communication, sociology, and American studies will find this book particularly useful. Trade ReviewIn this book, Dalelio reminds us of the key importance of interactivity as a defining characteristic of media that span generations and span the globe. She convincingly suggests that the human-computer relationship is a co-authored one, with the latter increasingly responsive to the input of the former. Interactive media can be found in familiar and unfamiliar places, from mobile phones and videogame consoles to eyeglasses and kitchen countertops. This volume introduces us to a shared understanding of interactivity. Through a combination of narrative and social sciences, readers are invited to both celebrate and question how our technologies impact the form and function of our interactions with each other. -- Nick Bowman, Texas Tech UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresPrefaceChapter 1: Interactive MediaChapter 2: The Media Convergence EcosystemChapter 3: Groups and CommunitiesChapter 4: NetworksChapter 5: Amateur MediaChapter 6: Citizen NewsChapter 7: CollaborationChapter 8: ActivismChapter 9: Convergence ConsumerismChapter 10: Media Industry Concerns and ConfrontationsChapter 11: New Models for Converging MediaChapter 12: The New GatekeepersChapter 13: Privacy and SurveillanceChapter 14: Heading into the FutureBibliographyAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisCombat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.Trade ReviewA remarkable achievement. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet offers readers a profound, eloquent, and haunting reflection on the relationship between war and American culture. -- Andrew Bacevich, author of America's War for the Greater Middle EastFor all of us drugged by American war culture, this book comes as a Prince Charming to awaken us from our treacherous fantasies. Dr. Monnet’s dissection of the genre conventions that control our emotional responses to war stories is stunningly brilliant. Her exploration of how the conventions of melodrama and horror fiction now tend to undermine the intentions of many would-be antiwar works is truly eye-opening. The book has made me rethink many works I thought I understood well, and it would be a treasure chest for a variety of courses. Anyone seeking to free us from our culture of war must read the invaluable volume. -- H. Bruce Franklin, professor emeritus, Rutgers University; author of Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever WarIt was said that the Civil War photographer Mathew Brady changed America forever by laying the battlefield dead at the people’s doorsteps. In her unflinching study, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet shows how the battlefield victims of America’s “war culture” have increasingly dominated the imagery of literature and film since the end of the Second World War—to a degree that Brady’s contemporaries could scarcely have imagined. Theoretically informed, richly illustrated, and driven as much by a hatred of war as by the awareness of its perverse seduction, this book magisterially builds upon the insights of Richard Slotkin’s classic Regeneration through Violence. -- Will Kaufman, author of The Civil War in American Culture and American Culture in the 1970sTable of ContentsChapter One: Melodrama, Dying and the Sacred: The Cult of Iwo JimaChapter Two: Melodrama Queered: The Outsider (1961) and The Portable War Memorial (1968)Chapter Three: Melodramatizing Iwo Jima in the 21st Century: James Bradley’s and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our FathersChapter Four: Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War: Robin Moore’s The Green Berets (1965)Chapter Five: Adventure Revisited: Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977) and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (2014)Chapter Six: Horror, Irony and the Anti-war Novel: Gustav Hasford’s The Short-TimersChapter Seven: The Hero’s Journey to Film and Back: Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Hasford’s Counter-attackCoda: The Future of War Culture, the Cultural War for the Future

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Book SynopsisCombat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.Trade ReviewA remarkable achievement. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet offers readers a profound, eloquent, and haunting reflection on the relationship between war and American culture. -- Andrew Bacevich, author of America's War for the Greater Middle EastFor all of us drugged by American war culture, this book comes as a Prince Charming to awaken us from our treacherous fantasies. Dr. Monnet’s dissection of the genre conventions that control our emotional responses to war stories is stunningly brilliant. Her exploration of how the conventions of melodrama and horror fiction now tend to undermine the intentions of many would-be antiwar works is truly eye-opening. The book has made me rethink many works I thought I understood well, and it would be a treasure chest for a variety of courses. Anyone seeking to free us from our culture of war must read this invaluable volume. -- H. Bruce Franklin, professor emeritus, Rutgers University; author of Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever WarIt was said that the Civil War photographer Mathew Brady changed America forever by laying the battlefield dead at the people’s doorsteps. In her unflinching study, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet shows how the battlefield victims of America’s “war culture” have increasingly dominated the imagery of literature and film since the end of the Second World War—to a degree that Brady’s contemporaries could scarcely have imagined. Theoretically informed, richly illustrated, and driven as much by a hatred of war as by the awareness of its perverse seduction, this book magisterially builds upon the insights of Richard Slotkin’s classic Regeneration through Violence. -- Will Kaufman, author of The Civil War in American Culture and American Culture in the 1970sThis book is mightily impressive. Its core – an examination of the role of the idea of war in post-WWII American culture, and an associated racially- and sexually-charged thirst for killing (and sometimes self-sacrificially dying) – is carried through with verve, and enlightenment. It makes real new contributions to our understanding of popular genres such as ‘adventure’ and ‘romance’, and does it through beautifully crafted case-studies. These include the battle for Iwo Jima (from the myths around the battle, through the famous Rosenthal photograph, to the several film versions); the narratives of the Green Berets (from novels, to song, to movie); and a series of books and films post-Vietnam war. The combination of sophisticated thinking (grounded in sharply-considered reading) and close analytic study makes this an exceptional contribution to our thinking about the constructed meanings of war. -- Martin Barker, author of A ‘Toxic Genre’: the Iraq War FilmsIn this deeply empathetic study of the meanings and significance of American battle field deaths, Professor Agnieszka Soltysik manages, in one sustained effort, to resuscitate – so to speak – America’s soldiers fallen in combat and to spare them the fate of willful oblivion, as just so many body bags surreptitiously brought home. She explores the ingredients that help the survivors to redeem the fallen and to rededicate their remains to a higher purpose to inspire the nation. -- Rob Kroes, Professor of American Studies Emeritus, University of AmsterdamWe now live and die amid perpetual warfare, the violence of which has been brought home in countless ways. Our foreign policies, backed up by the world’s largest military and politicians on all sides, have reaped a terrible harvest. So has American culture, which since World War II has portrayed our foreign ventures in melodramatic, adventurous, even tantalizingly gothic ways to convince us that war is an answer, combat death glorious, and flags worth saving. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet reveals the lies of such propaganda and offers solutions in our critical understanding of how war damages both our souls and our bodies. -- John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern CaliforniaCombat Death in Contemporary American Culture makes a compelling, insightful case for post-1945 media as mediating the illegibility of warfare, in light of the fact that death, by definition, is traumatic for everyone, other than the person who experiences it. The dynamics of narrative form, made accessible through film and literature, thus ritualize or sanctify experiences that can neither be reported nor confirmed. Drawing on works including Full Metal Jacket, American Sniper, Dispatches, and Flags of Our Fathers, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet provides a lucid, timely examination of the generic paradigms privileged in contemporary mediations of combat death. -- Alan Nadel, author of Containment Culture and Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950sThis perceptive and imaginative study examines the deep cultural longing for patriotic re-enchantment in the codes of popular war narratives. A brilliant deep dive into the post-sacred temptations of our unacknowledged civil religion. -- Carolyn A. Marvin, Frances Yates Emeritus Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, author of Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American FlagCombat Deaths in Contemporary American Culture is a must-read contribution to war scholarship. Tracing the ambiguities in the representation of American combat deaths, Monnet deftly reframes classic war films, as well as unearths understudied texts, to guide readers into decoding war texts in ways that demystify the seductive war-promoting impacts of Hollywood storytelling. This is the first comprehensive study of the powerful emotions surrounding representations of combat death in popular culture, and it unpacks how both cultural and martial discourse have historically written death of service personnel as symbolically sacred. Beautifully and clearly written, this book rethinks the generic lenses through which to view war violence and lays out methods of recognizing the ways in which Hollywood war films encourage their viewers to be swept out of the horrors of war and into the emotional pull of the melodramatic mode alongside the excitement of the adventure genre. It unpacks how popular depictions of state-sanctioned violence, anchored and nurtured by the cultural addiction to fantasies of war, and challenges readers to resist the seduction and glamorization of war as any kind of solution to the global crises and challenges of the 21st century. For American citizens living with ongoing but barely perceptual “forever wars,” this profoundly relevant book should be required reading. -- Anna Froula, East Carolina UniversityTable of ContentsChapter One: Melodrama, Dying and the Sacred: The Cult of Iwo JimaChapter Two: Melodrama Queered: The Outsider (1961) and The Portable War Memorial (1968)Chapter Three: Melodramatizing Iwo Jima in the 21st Century: James Bradley’s and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our FathersChapter Four: Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War: Robin Moore’s The Green Berets (1965)Chapter Five: Adventure Revisited: Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977) and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (2014)Chapter Six: Horror, Irony and the Anti-war Novel: Gustav Hasford’s The Short-TimersChapter Seven: The Hero’s Journey to Film and Back: Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Hasford’s Counter-attackCoda: The Future of War Culture, the Cultural War for the Future

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Book SynopsisHomeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media argues that the best sources for how to address issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly as they express their experiences through personal blogs and memoirs. Mary L. Schuster discusses how space and land have been historically denied to marginalized communities who still feel the effects to this day, along with examining the conditions and limitations of common spaces often assigned to those experiencing homelessness, culminating in an analysis of how the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted homelessness. Schuster focuses on two vulnerable groups that often experience homelessness: victims of domestic violence and unaccompanied youth, particularly those who struggle with gender identity and unstable housing. This book includes a variety of case studies, examining public meetings and court decisions, public policy symposiums, and personal interviews, and ultimately finds that intersectionality—specifically age, race, gender identity, and ethnicity—plays a large part in understanding and experiencing homelessness. By shifting our attention to the diverse voices who experience homelessness themselves, Schuster claims, we can finally begin to remedy this crisis. Scholars of media studies, sociology, and urban development will find this book particularly useful. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding HomelessnessChapter One: The “Wall of Forgotten Natives”: Contested Land and SpaceChapter Two: “Not in My Neighborhood” or Even in My City: Legal Restrictions in Private and Public SpacesChapter Three: This Space Called Home: Women and Youth Facing HomelessnessChapter Four: Displacement and Containment: The Encampment, the Shelter, the Fire, and the VirusChapter Five: Final Reflections Appendix A: Online Blogs and Video Interview CitationsAppendix B: Fair Use and Privacy Concerns Regarding Social Media; Personal PositioningReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisHomeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media argues that the best sources for how to address issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly as they express their experiences through personal blogs and memoirs. Mary L. Schuster discusses how space and land have been historically denied to marginalized communities who still feel the effects to this day, along with examining the conditions and limitations of common spaces often assigned to those experiencing homelessness, culminating in an analysis of how the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted homelessness. Schuster focuses on two vulnerable groups that often experience homelessness: victims of domestic violence and unaccompanied youth, particularly those who struggle with gender identity and unstable housing. This book includes a variety of case studies, examining public meetings and court decisions, public policy symposiums, and personal interviews, and ultimately finds that intersectionality—specifically age, race, gender identity, and ethnicity—plays a large part in understanding and experiencing homelessness. By shifting our attention to the diverse voices who experience homelessness themselves, Schuster claims, we can finally begin to remedy this crisis. Scholars of media studies, sociology, and urban development will find this book particularly useful. Trade ReviewMeticulously grounded in qualitative, historical, and transdisciplinary case studies, this book offers a wide-ranging, yet contextually nuanced account of the rhetoric enabling the stigmatization and marginalization of homeless people. By centering the anti-essentializing stories of people experiencing homelessness, as conveyed on their own terms in blogs and memoirs, this book amplifies their tactics for resisting stigmatization and reclaiming rhetorical agency. Through its synthesis and contribution of useful knowledge to ameliorate the problem of homelessness, this book constitutes a compelling illumination of rhetorical-spatial segregation and an exemplary model of rhetorical listening and scholarly advocacy. -- J. Blake Scott, University of Central FloridaIn this clear-eyed, rigorous book, Mary Schuster describes how our systems have failed the unhoused, often by way of the moments of light and uplift that are inscribed in the voices of those with lived experience. This book's careful listening is essential for humanizing and challenging a broken system, while offering hope for real change. -- Ryan Berg, Avenues for YouthThis book is an excellent piece of rhetorical scholarship and a powerful example of the ways in which rhetorical scholarship can support advocacy in regard to social and political issues. Schuster expands our scholarly understanding of homelessness by offering a distinctly rhetorical perspective that is based on rigorous research and successfully captures the voices of those individuals who have first-hand experience of being homeless. -- Amy Koerber, Texas Tech UniversityMary L. Schuster’s new book is a stellar example of what scholarship in rhetorical studies can and should be—ambitious, illuminating, and accessible. Schuster deftly uses rhetorical theory to examine the discursive construction and material experience of homelessness, not merely to shed light on a contemporary social problem but, more importantly, to move us collectively closer to solving this serious and completely avoidable crisis. Through a careful and compelling analysis, Schuster demonstrates how the metaphors and tropes deployed so often to dehumanize and stigmatize the unhoused can become a powerful tool of resistance. This is genuinely transdisciplinary research that is theoretically savvy and committed to advocacy. -- T. Kenny Fountain, University of VirginiaAs Mary Schuster notes, “No universal or singular reason for homelessness exists, just as no comprehensive solution emerges despite our efforts to address the issue.” With her commitment to rhetorical listening and nonidentification, however, Schuster cleaves monolithic rhetorical tropes of homelessness, holding up the fragments and examining their facets—including perspectives of Native people, LGBTQ+ youth, and victims of domestic violence. She shows that rhetorical theory and rhetorical action allow groups affected by homelessness to challenge the public discourse’s tendency to essentialize them—to place them in convenient boxes built on long-standing social imaginaries. -- Brian N. Larson, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding HomelessnessChapter One: The “Wall of Forgotten Natives”: Contested Land and SpaceChapter Two: “Not in My Neighborhood” or Even in My City: Legal Restrictions in Private and Public SpacesChapter Three: This Space Called Home: Women and Youth Facing HomelessnessChapter Four: Displacement and Containment: The Encampment, the Shelter, the Fire, and the VirusChapter Five: Final Reflections Appendix A: Online Blogs and Video Interview CitationsAppendix B: Fair Use and Privacy Concerns Regarding Social Media; Personal PositioningReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisAlgorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms. Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Presence of AlgorithmsStefka Hristova, Soonkwan Hong, and Jennifer Daryl SlackChapter 1: Why Do We Need the Concept of Algorithmic Culture?Jennifer Daryl Slack and Stefka HristovaChapter 2: Fetishizing Algorithms and Rearticulating ConsumptionSoonkwan HongChapter 3: Monoculturalism, Aculturalism, and Post-Culturalism: The Exclusionary Culture ofAlgorithmic Development Ushnish SenguptaChapter 4: “The Spectre of Self-Organization”: Will Algorithms Guide Us towards Truth?Ravi Sekhar ChakrabortyChapter 5: Machines of Liberation, Machines of Control: The Ambiguous Roots of Data CapitalismReka Patricia GalChapter 6: The Autoimmunitary Violence of the Algorithms of MourningStefka HristovaChapter 7: Algorithms, Identity, and Cultural Consequences of Genetic ProfilesAmanda K. GirardChapter 8: Technologies of Convenience: An Examination of the Algorithmic Bias in the Input/Output System of Digital CamerasJoel S. BeattyChapter 9: Generative Adversarial Networks: Contemporary Art and/as AlgorithmJames MacDevittAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisAlgorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data, or algorithmic culture, are simultaneously reshaping everyday culture while perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. Contributors situate issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity, offering a critique of the myriad constraints enacted by algorithms. This book argues that consumers are undergoing an ontological overhaul due to the enhanced manipulability and increasingly mandatory nature of algorithms in the market, while also positing that algorithms may help navigate through chaos that is intrinsically present in the market democracy. Ultimately, Algorithmic Culture calls attention to the present-day cultural landscape as a whole as it has been reconfigured and re-presented by algorithms. Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Presence of AlgorithmsStefka Hristova, Soonkwan Hong, and Jennifer Daryl SlackChapter 1: Why Do We Need the Concept of Algorithmic Culture?Jennifer Daryl Slack and Stefka HristovaChapter 2: Fetishizing Algorithms and Rearticulating ConsumptionSoonkwan HongChapter 3: Monoculturalism, Aculturalism, and Post-Culturalism: The Exclusionary Culture ofAlgorithmic Development Ushnish SenguptaChapter 4: “The Spectre of Self-Organization”: Will Algorithms Guide Us towards Truth?Ravi Sekhar ChakrabortyChapter 5: Machines of Liberation, Machines of Control: The Ambiguous Roots of Data CapitalismReka Patricia GalChapter 6: The Autoimmunitary Violence of the Algorithms of MourningStefka HristovaChapter 7: Algorithms, Identity, and Cultural Consequences of Genetic ProfilesAmanda K. GirardChapter 8: Technologies of Convenience: An Examination of the Algorithmic Bias in the Input/Output System of Digital CamerasJoel S. BeattyChapter 9: Generative Adversarial Networks: Contemporary Art and/as AlgorithmJames MacDevittAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisSouth Korea is one of the most successful cases of democratization and rapid economic development in the world. It shares one troubling problem with many other industrialized and democratic countries of the recent years: the increase of extreme polarization in the language and emotions of politics and society. However, Korea experienced this problem earlier than most of these countries. The turbulent democratization history created parties that have weak ideologies but wield deeply effective stories and strategies. The combination of these two traits creates a downwards spiral where the performance of moral superiority becomes the sharpest weapon, at the cost of the voters and the institutional role of the party system. The author points out that we need a standard for viewing this growing problem and argues that the traits of ideological polarization in language are not well understood. Using partisan newspaper text data from 1990 to 2014 and quantitative text analysis, this book collects the most typical meanings used by parties and partisans, analyzing why they exist and for which purpose. In the age of digital data and possibly restricted mobility, this book is a proposal for what the author calls “Computational Area Studies” and “Distant Fieldwork.”Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPreface: First-Hand Comparative Experiences as a German KoreanAcknowledgments1. The Puzzle of Weak Yet Extreme Ideology2. Background Theory of Extremely Polarized Topics3. Methodology4. Framing Democracy5. Framing Unification6. Framing Welfare7. ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyAbout the Author

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