Social Science / Media Studies

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

A novel conceptualization of the politics of walls and other surfaces by bringing together critical cultural and media theory and post-communist studies of urban space.

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.

An in-depth look at how we make and circulate art today, and how creative and economic processes shape the meaning and value of artworks.

A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation: gear cultures.

An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.

An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.

An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.

A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.