Dialogue: reflecting on Chapter 1 of Josh Braun’s, This Program is Brought To...
This month, Yale University Press publishes a new book, This Program is Brought to You By… : Distributing Television News Online, by Josh Braun, a co-founder and regular contributor to Culture...
View ArticleFirst look — Graham Meikle, Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility
Hi all. My book Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility is published in February 2016 by Routledge. I’m very happy to accept the invitation to share a first look at some of the book with...
View ArticleA taste of Dan Kreiss’ new book, Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive...
I’m thrilled to share an excerpt of the first chapter from Dan Kreiss‘ new book, Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy, published by Oxford University Press...
View ArticleThe Age of Sharing, by Nicholas John – an excerpt
I’m delighted to post an excerpt from my new book, The Age of Sharing, which is published by Polity today. (Actually, it’s published today in the UK and most of the world, and on December 19 in the US...
View ArticleBook announcement: Digital countercultures and the struggle for community
Although in many ways, countercultural identities have always been at the heart of popularizing the internet, it’s the popularity of the internet that has made it difficult for some countercultural...
View ArticleIntroduction (from Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism...
This week and next, Culture Digitally is happy to host a series of excerpts from our contributors’ Pablo J. Boczkowski’s and C. W. Anderson’s new collected volume, “Remaking the News: Essays on the...
View ArticleBook Announcement: (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social...
Fashion bloggers and Instagrammers seem to enjoy a coveted lifestyle–one replete with international jet-setting, designer-comped fetes, and countless other caption-worthy moments. Yet the attention...
View ArticleHow Public Should You Be?
The following is an excerpt from my new book, Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today. In most workshops on how to use LinkedIn, some new adopter would ask: how...
View Articleread an excerpt from Mike Ananny’s new book, Networked Press Freedom
In my new book Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear [MIT Press | Amazon] I critically examine what press freedom means today. I argue that, as news production,...
View ArticleNew book excerpt! from Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in...
Documenting Aftermath (MIT Press) (Amazon) looks at Northern California earthquakes in 1868, 1906, 1989, and today, and asks how information orders shaped post-disaster knowledge. I examine the...
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