F I L M & M E D I A – TV & Radio / Digital Technologies
The News Media At War
The Clash of Western and Arab Networks in the Middle East Tarek Cherkaoui, TRT World Research Centre, Turkey This book considers the cross-cultural factors at play that caused American news coverage during the 2003 war in Iraq to be distinctly different from its Arab counterparts. Tarek Cherkaoui examines how this difference has led to a persistent disconnect in how America and the Arab world perceive each other. He reveals how geo-political and ideological legacies of the past, which divide the world into a dichotomy of ‘us’ against ‘them’, play a dominant role in reinforcing the ensuing polarization. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 320 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781350243040 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780761046 ePub 9781786721433 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781786731432 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Academic
Time on TV
Narrative Time, Time Travel and Time Travellers in Popular Television Culture Edited by Lorna Jowett, University of Northampton, UK, Kevin Robinson, Mary Hare School, UK & David Simmons, University of Northampton, UK From early examples such as Star Trek and Sapphire and Steel to more contemporary shows including Life on Mars and The Vampire Diaries, time has frequently been used as a device to allow programme makers to experiment stylistically and challenge established ways of thinking. Time on TV provides a range of exciting, accessible, yet intellectually rigorous essays that consider the many and varied ways in which telefantasy shows have explored this subject, providing the reader with a greater understanding of the importance of time to the success of genre on the small screen. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781350242357 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784530136 ePub 9781838609719 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781838609726 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: Investigating Cult TV • Bloomsbury Academic
Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler
Edited by Noel Fitzpatrick, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, Neill O’Dwyer, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland & Mick O’Hara, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler frames the intertwined relationship between artistic endeavours and scientific fields and their sociopolitical implications. Each chapter is either an explication of, or a critique of, some aspect of Bernard Stiegler’s technological philosophy; as it is his technological-political-aesthetical-ethical theorisations which form the philosophical foundation of the volume. Emerging scholars bring critical new reflections to the subject area, while more established academics, researchers and practitioners outline the mutating nature of aesthetics within historical and theoretical frameworks. Not only is interdisciplinarity a prevailing topic at work within this collection, but so too is there a delineation of the mutating, hybrid role inhabited by the arts practitioner – at once engineer, scientist and artist – in the changing landscape of digital cultural production. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 288 pages • 22 colour illus HB 9781501356353 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501356360 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501356377 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Media Power and Global Television News The Role of Al Jazeera English
Saba Bebawi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia This book considers Al Jazeera English's position in the global news environment. Author Saba Bebawi notes that while the Middle East has been a particular focus of global crisis reporting, international coverage of these conflicts has historically been presented through a 'Western' perspective. The absence of Arab voices in the global public sphere has created a discursive gap between the Middle East and the rest of the world. Using a framing analysis of selected news reports by Al Jazeera English before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring' protests, Bebawi identifies the extent to which it addresses this gap between the Arab and global spheres. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 208 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350242333 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784530860 ePub 9780857729354 • £85.50 / $105.94 ePdf 9780857727312 • £85.50 / $105.94 Bloomsbury Academic
Technológos in Being
Radical Media Archaeology and the Computational Machine Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Germany Wolfgang Ernst’s new book, in its explicit mediascientific approach, aligns with the politics of the Thinking Media series to publish innovative works that advance media studies towards the ‘new sciences.’ Ernst invites readers to re-adjust their ideas of media studies: the conviction that an extended understanding of "medium" needs to include a concept of materiality that focuses on "non- human" agencies as well. The book grounds media analysis radically in the technological apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardand software, to precisely locate the scenes, operations and frictions where reasoning logos and ‘informable’ matter interfere. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781501362293 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501362286 • £81.19 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501362279 • £81.19 / $99.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic
Digital Media Ecologies
Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware Sy Taffel, Massey University, New Zealand Digital Media Ecologies illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by an array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems. UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 256 pages PB 9781501379949 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501349249 ePub 9781501349256 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501349263 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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