Announcement: New book from Fred Turner on the long lost history of multimedia
I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. I’m able to share the first chapter...
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I’m thrilled to announce that our anthology, Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by myself and Pablo Boczkowski and Kirsten Foot, is now officially available...
View ArticleChris Kelty on the concepts of freedom that animated the history of the PC
With permission from The MIT Press, I have the pleasure of circulating another essay from our 2014 volume, Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Sociality, this one from Chris...
View ArticleAnnouncement and Sample Chapter: New Book by Robert Gehl “Reverse Engineering...
It’s our pleasure to announce Robert Gehl’s new book titled “Reverse Engineering Social Media Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism” (Amazon link). This book is a welcome...
View ArticleLow Power to the People! Sneak Peek
At the invitation of Culture Digitally and with the permission of my publisher, MIT Press, I am thrilled to provide the introduction of my just-out book, Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and...
View ArticleBook Announcement and Excerpt from “Gaming at the Edge”
Below is the preface to Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) In the late the 1980s, my mother, sister, and I lived in Japan for...
View ArticleBook Announcement and Excerpt from “Developer’s Dilemma”
Below is an excerpt from Casey O’Donnell’s book, Developer’s Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators (MIT Press, 2014). – How to Play (Use) This Game (Book) – The structure of this book is...
View ArticleBook Announcement and Sneak Peak! Media Independence Working with Freedom or...
Media Independence Working with Freedom or Working for Free? What do we mean by ‘independent media’ or the ‘independence of media’? This book brings together leading scholars in media, cultural...
View ArticleBook Announcement and Excerpt: Social Media and the Transformation of News...
My book, Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting, has just been published with Routledge in the Research in Journalism series. I am delighted share an excerpt with Culture...
View ArticleBook Announcement and Excerpt: “Boundaries of Journalism”
Matt Carlson and Seth Lewis have just published Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation, an edited collection on the study of boundary work and journalism, and part of...
View ArticleDialogue: 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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