Distribution Matters
Media distribution networks — from postal services to social media platforms — affect in essential ways who has access to cultural resources, and on what terms. Distribution Matters explores attendant questions about how and why distribution matters to civic life and popular culture.
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Cloud Policy
A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data
ISBN: 9780262548069
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, democratic principles, and the foundation of the public interest over the past century.
Selling the American People
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
ISBN: 9780262545440
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet.
Prison Media
Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology
ISBN: 9780262545495
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.
Creative Hustling
Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi
ISBN: 9780262544832
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2023
The first book-length study of Nairobi-based female filmmakers—and how their dogged pursuit of opportunities, innovation, and cultural support is defining an industry.
Cloud Policy
A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data
ISBN: 9780262548069
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, democratic principles, and the foundation of the public interest over the past century.
Selling the American People
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
ISBN: 9780262545440
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2023
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet.
Prison Media
Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology
ISBN: 9780262545495
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.
Creative Hustling
Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi
ISBN: 9780262544832
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 28, 2023
The first book-length study of Nairobi-based female filmmakers—and how their dogged pursuit of opportunities, innovation, and cultural support is defining an industry.
