The Future of Media

This collection arrives like a gift in advance. Each chapter is grounded in a contextualized reading of the present, voiced in a future-oriented mode: manifesto, modest hope against hope, wary projection, somber warning, cautious reflection, energized activist, fateful meditation, up for grabs. The authors invite their readers—from relative beginner to academic peer—on a trek across diverse media terrain, serving as trustworthy seers tracing out the vectors that have shaped our current moment while feeding into its future-fragile arcs.

Dr. Gregory J. Seigworth, Digital Communication and Cultural Studies, Millersville University

From one of the world's great centres for critical research and teaching in media and communication comes this excellent collection of essays, tackling head on many of the most important challenges facing media today, imbued with political urgency and analytical clarity.

Professor David Hesmondhalgh, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds

The contributors to this collection have put together much more than an edited volume: this is, in its own way, a movement, complete with its artists, theorists, and manifestos. It is an energetic work that draws on a glittering array of thinkers, balancing critiques against possibilities, poised on the abyss of something like hope.

Professor Mark Andrejevic, School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University, Australia

The Future of Media is at once the culmination of a decades' long engagement with media studies and materialism and the start of something new. Its writers demonstrate brilliantly how and why diverse materialist approaches to media and computational culture can illuminate the contemporary moment.

Professor Caroline Bassett, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities, Cambridge University, UK