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  • Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies

    Lights, Camera, Algorithms

    by Bridget Kies, Mel Stanfill ...
    A timely intervention into the role of AI in teaching film and media studies, this book offers insights into how scholars and educators can adapt their approaches in the face of emerging technologies.Exploring the intersection of generative AI with film and media studies, this book highlights the importance of addressing AI in the classroom. It advocates for teaching AI literacy as an extension of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Professor Superstar

    Fandom and Anti-Fandom of Academia

    by Mel Stanfill ...
    Series series Digital Culture Books
    Examining celebrity and fan studies together, Professor Superstar argues that academia shares key traits with fandom, including collective emotional investment, shared interpretation of texts, and identity formation. Universities are often seen as isolated from everyday life, creating an atmosphere of both fascination and resentment. Some academics even go on to become field-specific ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

    The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises

    by Anastasia Salter, Mel Stanfill ...
    Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur.” Figures like Joss Whedon are both one of “us” and one of “them.” This is a strategy of marketing and branding—it is a claim from the auteur himself or industry PR machines that the presence of an auteur who is also a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Exploiting Fandom

    How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans

    by Mel Stanfill ...
    As more and more fans rush online to share their thoughts on their favorite shows or video games, they might feel like the process of providing feedback is empowering. However, as fan studies scholar Mel Stanfill argues, these industry invitations for fan participation indicate not greater fan power but rather greater fan usefulness. Stanfill’s argument, controversial to some in the field, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Race After Technology

    Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

    by Ruha Benjamin ...
    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • We, the Data

    Human Rights in the Digital Age

    by Wendy H. Wong ...
    A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.Winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyShortlisted, 2024 Lionel Gelber PrizeOur data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Participatory Culture in a Networked Era

    A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

    by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd ...
    In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Cyberlibertarianism

    The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology

    by David Golumbia ...
    An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinningsIn a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Surviving The Future

    Abolitionist Queer Strategies

    by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson ...
    Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Beset by a new pandemic, fanning the flames of global uprising, these queers cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope while building mutual networks of rebellion and care. These essays propose a militant strategy of queer survival in an ever precarious future. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • That Book Is Dangerous!

    How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing

    by Adam Szetela ...
    An alarming exposé of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media—when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor.In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam Szetela investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom. Although progressives are correct to be ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cancelled

    The Left Way Back from Woke

    by Umut Ozkirimli ...
    Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The Right complains about brain-dead political correctness. In reality, both sides are colluding in a reactionary politics that is as self-defeating as it is divisive. Can the Left escape this extremism ... Read more

    $16.00 USD