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Dependent, Distracted, Bored

Affective Formations in Networked Media

by Susanna Paasonen

ISBN: 9780262045674

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 20, 2021

A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.

You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

ISBN: 9780262539913

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 2, 2021

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.

Who's Laughing Now?

Feminist Tactics in Social Media

by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen

ISBN: 9780262044721

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 24, 2020

Feminist social media tactics that use humor as a form of resistance to misogyny, rewiring the dynamics of shame, shaming, and shamelessness.

#HashtagActivism

Networks of Race and Gender Justice

by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles

Foreword by Genie Lauren

ISBN: 9780262043373

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 10, 2020

This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. (Ms.)

Worried About the Wrong Things

Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World

by Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

Foreword by S. Craig Watkins

ISBN: 9780262536219

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 11, 2018

Why media panics about online dangers overlook another urgent concern: creating equitable online opportunities for marginalized youth.

Goodbye, World!

Looking at Art in the Digital Age

by Omar Kholeif

ISBN: 9783956793097

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 13, 2018

A look at how the internet and post-millenial technologies have transformed our ways of seeing and birthed a new form of culture.

Protecting Children Online?

Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies

by Tijana Milosevic

Foreword by Sonia Livingstone

ISBN: 9780262037099

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2018

A critical examination of efforts by social media companies—including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram—to rein in cyberbullying by young users.

Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

by Jessa Lingel

ISBN: 9780262036214

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2017

How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.

In the Swarm

Digital Prospects

by Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Erik Butler

ISBN: 9780262533362

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2017

A prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.

Reading the Comments

Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web

by Joseph Reagle

ISBN: 9780262529884

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 7, 2016

What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web.

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