From Chicago
Friending the Past
The Sense of History in the Digital Age
Alan Liu
“Friending the Past is argued with Alan Liu’s characteristic power and exhibits the high level of creative abstraction that I think of as the signature asset of Romanticists, including Liu. This book is thoughtfully engaged with a breadth of research and is a brilliant observation of our digital milieu, its overarching logics, and underlying conditions.”—Lisa Gitelman, New York University
Paper $32.50
From Pluto Press
Shooting a Revolution
Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
Donatella Della Ratta
“This gripping work maps the media transformations in Syria—from the high hopes during the 2011 protests to the depression and despair of a never-ending war.… Della Ratta blends deep insider knowledge with personal insights and urgent critical theory. Tactical media theory at its best.”—Geert Lovink, author of Networks Without a Cause
Digital Barricades
Paper $27.00
Propaganda Blitz
How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
David Edwards and David Cromwell
Foreword by John Pilger
“To devastating effect, Propaganda Blitz compiles the evidence that the ‘mainstream media’ betrays us, its readers, not just because most of it is owned by right-wing billionaires but because even ‘liberal’ oases are not what they seem.… As Propaganda Blitz proves, the liberal media is our enemy, not our ally.“—Jonathan Cook, winner of the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism
Paper $21.00
From Diaphanes
Scripted Culture
Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere
Edited by Ruedi Widmer and Ines Kleesattel
This book takes a tour through the current debates on digital culture, bringing together a wide array of perspectives from aesthetic theory, cultural studies, electronic media, and the arts.
Paper $40.00
Connect and Divide
The Practice Turn in Media Studies
Edited by Ulrike Bergermann, Monika Dommann, Erhard Schüttpelz, and Jeremy Stolow
This anthology takes stock of our empirical and historical understanding of the two-sided nature of media and tracks the recent turn in media studies to examining practice itself. Connect and Divide offers a unique discussion of the intersection of media theory and practice theory.
Paper $85.00
