Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media

ISBN-13: 9781433166914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Elinor Carmi

Opis

Forget everything you know about spam. Now, let's talk about spam. Media Distortions is about the power behind producing deviant media categories. This book examines the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what this power means for our broader understanding of media.

Recenzje

"Elinor Carmi offers a lucid and detailed examination of the taken-for-granted 'deviant' categories and processes of spam and noise. Significantly, through the focus on seven strategies of practitioners, the book convincingly demonstrates how common sense perceptions of these two categories are produced by power relations that make up both online and offline spaces of the everyday."-Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Being Digital Citizens (2015)

Spis treści

List of Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction: Listen Closely - Orchestrating Media Power through Sound - Noisy Behaviors on the Line - Fabricating the European Union Safety Net - Engineering the (Anti)social - Conclusion: Transducing the Deviant.

O autorze

Dr. @Elinor_Carmi is a feminist, researcher, journalist and digital rights advocate, who has been working on deviant media, internet standards, sound studies, and internet governance for the past decade. Elinor is a Postdoc Research Associate at the Communication and Media Department at Liverpool University in the United Kingdom, working on the project "Me and My Big Data: Understanding Citizens Data Literacies". Before academia, Elinor worked in the EDM industry, edited music television channels and was a radio broadcaster. In 2013, she published her first book TranceMission.