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TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads in Media & Technology Studies, 2024
Posted on September 25, 2024 in Upcoming Reads
The latest iteration of TIE‘s upcoming reads feature highlights forthcoming titles in the realm of media and technology studies. This field considers the social, cultural, and political significance of media and communications technologies in both local and global contexts, and the cross-disciplinary nature of this scholarly endeavor provides ripe ground for analyzing trends relevant to social and racial justice.
The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, by Anamik Saha, Francesca Sobande, and Gavan Titley. Polity Press, Dec. 2024e. ISBN 9781509559831 $45.00; pbk ISBN 9781509559848 $12.95; ebook ISBN 9781509559855 $12.95e
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior, by Olga Touloumi. Minnesota, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781517913328 $140.00; pbk ISBN 9781517913335 $25.00; ebook ISBN 9781452971544 $25.00
Atrocity: A Literary History, by Bruce Robbins. Stanford, Feb. 2025. ISBN 9781503640559 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641419 $35.00
Beyond Privacy, ed. by Sille Obelitz Søe et al. Bristol University Press, Feb. 2025. ISBN 9781529239683 $120.00; ebook ISBN 9781529239690 $41.99
Billie’s Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsenuous Standard, by Fumi Okiji. Stanford, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781503640467 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9781503641235 $25.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641242 $25.00
The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, by Adrian Daub. Stanford, Sep. 2024. pbk ISBN 9781503640849 $18.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641211 $18.00
ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution, by Terrence J. Sejnowski. The MIT Press, Oct. 2024. pbk ISBN 9780262049252 $22.95
Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures, by Luis Felipe R. Murillo. Stanford, Feb. 2025. ISBN 9781503640603 $105.00; pbk ISBN 9781503641488 $26.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641495 $26.00
Computational Humanities, ed. by Lauren Tilton, Jessica Marie Johnson, and David Mimno. Minnesota, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781517915971 $124.00; pbk ISBN 9781517915988 $36.00; ebook ISBN 9781452971766 $36.00
Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology, by David Golumbia. Minnesota, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781517918132 $140.00; pbk ISBN 9781517918149 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9781452972497 $34.95
Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, ed. by Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, and Simon Appleford. Minnesota, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9781517916916 $140.00; pbk ISBN 9781517916923 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972299 $35.00
Digital Media and Early Child Development Theoretical and Empirical Issues, ed. by Giana Bitencourt Frizzo. Springer, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9783031692239 $159.99e; ebook ISBN 9783031692246 price not yet set
Digital Satire in Latin America: Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media. University of Florida Press, Dec. 2024. ISBN 9781683404637 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9781683404750 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9781683404941 $35.00
Digital Technologies, Smart Cities and the Environment, by Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin. Bristol University Press, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781529237146 $60.00; ebook ISBN 9781529237153 $22.50
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia, by Laura Frances Goffman. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503638174 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640818 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640825 $30.00
Everything to Play For: How Video Games Are Changing the World, by Marijam Did. Verso, Sep. 2024. pbk ISBN 9781804293249 $24.95; ebook ISBN 9781804293263 $9.99
The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down, by Richard Cavell. McGill-Queen’s, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9780228022718 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9780228022725 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9780228023098 $34.95
Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, by Lori Jo Marso. Duke, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9781478026969 $102.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031222 $26.95; ebook ISBN 9781478060215 $102.95e
Feminism in Finnish Print Media, 1968–1985, by Heidi Kurvinen. Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9783031694691 $129.99e; ebook ISBN 9783031694707 price not yet set
The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan, by Gennifer Weisenfeld. Duke, Feb. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028086 $200.00e; pbk ISBN 9781478031314 $45.00e; ebook ISBN 9781478060307 $200.00e
Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing, ed. by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini. Minnesota, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781517916671 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781517916688 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972534 $30.00
Gender and Physics in the Academy, ed. by Meytal Eran-Jona et al. Bristol University Press, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781529222302 $159.95; ebook ISBN 9781529222319 price not yet set
Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Screens: Digital Media and Development, Health, and Well-Being, ed. by Dimitri A. Christakis and Lauren Hale. Springer, Nov. 2024e. ISBN 9783031693618 $59.99e
Handbook of Media and Gender: Perspectives and Findings of Feminist Communication and Media Research, ed. by Johanna Dorer et al. Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024e. ISBN 9783658457884 $449.00e; ebook ISBN 9783658457891 price not yet set
The House that Fox News Built?, by Kevin Arceneaux et al. Cambridge, Sep. 2024e. ISBN 9781009432085 $90.00; pbk ISBN 9781009432078 $29.99
Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance, by Zahra Stardust. Duke, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781478026815 $107.95; pbk ISBN 9781478031062 $28.95; ebook ISBN 9781478060048 $107.95
Instrumentality: On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages, by J. Allan Mitchell. Minnesota, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781517917388 $108.00; pbk ISBN 9781517917395 $27.00; ebook ISBN 9781452971896 $27.00
Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage, ed. by Fotis Liarokapis et al. Springer, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9783031610172 $159.99e; ebook ISBN 9783031610189 price not yet set
The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s, by Reem Hilu. Minnesota, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781517916640 $108.00; pbk ISBN 9781517916657 $27.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972084 $27.00
The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood, by James Boyle. The MIT Press, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9780262049160 $29.95
Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking, by Yuk Hui. Minnesota, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781517917401 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781517917418 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972107 $30.00
Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance, ed. by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and Bethia Pearson. Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2024e. ISBN 9783031689611 price not yet set; ebook ISBN 9783031689642 price not yet set
Media Influence on Opinion Change and Democracy: How Private, Public and Social Media Organizations Shape Public Opinion, ed. by Manuel Goyanes and Azahara Cañedo. Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2024e. ISBN 9783031702303 $129.99e; ebook ISBN 9783031702310 price not yet set
Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance, by Suk-Young Kim. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503614918 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9781503640870 $28.00; ebook ISBN 9781503640887 $28.00
Muslim Religiosity in the Digital Transformation: How Young People Deal with Images of Islam in the Media, by Ednan Aslan and Erol Yildiz. Springer, Oct. 2024e. pbk ISBN 9783658456610 $89.99e; ebook ISBN 9783658456627 price not yet set
The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality, by Rachel Adams. Polity Press, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9781509553099 $25.00; ebook ISBN 9781509553112 $25.00e
The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire, by Nir Shafir. Stanford, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9781503638952 $75.00; ebook ISBN 9781503639577 $75.00
Prosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life, by Adam R. Rosenthal. Minnesota, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781517916572 $124.00; pbk ISBN 9781517916589 $31.00; ebook ISBN 9781452971742 $31.00
Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges, by Cristina Vatulescu. Stanford, Nov. 2024. ISBN 9781503640276 $130.00; pbk ISBN 9781503641020 $32.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641037 $32.00
Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion, by Biancorosso, Giorgio. Duke, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9781478026945 $102.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031178 $26.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060161 $102.95e
Sass: Black Women’s Humor and Humanity, by J Finley, ed. by Dawn Durante. North Carolina, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9781469680019 $99.00; pbk ISBN 9781469680026 $27.95; ebook ISBN 9781469680033 $21.99
Science Societies, by Sarah R. Davies. Bristol University Press, Feb. 2025. ISBN 9781529228991 $120.00; pbk ISBN 9781529229004 $34.50; ebook ISBN 9781529229011 $34.50
Social Media in Society, by Jonathon Hutchinson, Fiona Suwana, and Cameron McTernan. Palgrave Macmillan, Oct. 2024e. pbk ISBN 9783031663598 $54.00e; ebook ISBN 9783031663604 price not yet set
Soviet Factography: Reality without Realism, by Devin Fore. Chicago, Sep. 2024. ISBN 9780226234861 $37.50; ebook ISBN 9780226831022 $36.99
Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us, by Gary Marcus, ed. by Gita Devi Manaktala. The MIT Press, Sep. 2024. pbk ISBN 9780262551069 $18.95
Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, by Greg Epstein, ed. by Gita Devi Manaktala. The MIT Press, Oct. 2024. ISBN 9780262049207 $29.95
Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good Is Harmful, by Mirca Madianou. Polity Press, Jan. 2025e. ISBN 9781509559022 $69.95; pbk ISBN 9781509559039 $24.95; ebook ISBN 9781509559046 $24.95e
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, by The DISCO Network. Stanford, Feb. 2025. pbk ISBN 9781503640634 $16.00; ebook ISBN 9781503641365 $16.00
Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism, by Christopher Cheung. Purich Books, an imprint of UBC Press, Sep. 2024. pbk ISBN 9780774881111 $26.95; ebook ISBN 9780774881128 $75.00
Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation, by Antonio A. Casilli. Chicago, Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780226837079 $115.00; pbk ISBN 9780226820958 $27.50; ebook ISBN 9780226820965 $26.99
Your History with Me: The Films of Penny Siopis, ed. by Sarah Nuttall. Duke, Oct. 2024e. pbk ISBN 9781478030430 $65.00; ebook ISBN 9781478059417 $124.95
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