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HIGHLIGHTS DISLIKE-MINDED
LATINO TV
Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste
A History
by Jonathan Gray
Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do
The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television
In Critical Cultural Communication
In Critical Cultural Communication
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479809981 | $29
by Mary Beltrán
264 PG | PAPER | 9781479833894 | $30
TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality
Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era
by Elizabeth Ellcessor
A much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives
by Marita Sturken
The role of cultural memory in American identity
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479811687 | $29
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479811632 | $28
MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED
A Biography
Black Women’s Digital Resistance
by Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym
by Moya Bailey
New in paperback The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny In Intersections
248 PG | Cloth | 9781479865109 | $28
144 PG | PAPER | 9781479801756 | $14
BLACK EPHEMERA
KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES
The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley and Shelley Streeby
by Mark Anthony Neal
A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era 280 PG | PAPER | 9781479831968 | $28
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies In Keywords
232 PG | PAPER | 9781479806904 | $27
CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SERIES DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM
This series publishes scholarship that takes critical-cultural approaches to explore the impact of media in varied contexts worldwide. It focuses on the everyday lived experiences of audiences in their interaction with different kinds of media, and on emergent as well as residual cultures of media production.
by Catherine Knight Steele
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought
GENERAL EDITORS - Jonathan Gray, Aswin Punathambekar, and Adrienne Shaw 208 PG | PAPER | 9781479808380 | $27
THE DIGITAL BORDER
BORDER OPTICS
Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier
Migration, Technology, Power
by Camilla Fojas
by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance
How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration? Coming June 2022
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479873401 | $29
208 PG | PAPER | 9781479807017 | $28
DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION
RACE AND MEDIA
Critical Approaches
Portals, Platforms, Pipelines
Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
Edited by Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue and Timothy Havens
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution
392 PG | PAPER | 9781479806782 | $35
344 PG | PAPER | 9781479889310 | $30
THE IDENTITY TRADE
WIFE, INC
The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
by Suzanne Leonard
by Nora A. Draper
New in paperback A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America
New in paperback The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479811922 | $23
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479802517 | $25
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CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS SERIES DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS
THE DIGITAL CITY
Media and the Social Production of Place
African American Cybercultures
by Germaine R. Halegoua
by André Brock, Jr.
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479829965 | $29
Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet
Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479882199 | $30
BEYOND HASHTAGS
LOCKED OUT
Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture
Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks
by Evan Elkins
A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era
by Sarah Florini
How black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarity
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479813056 | $30
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479873876 | $29
FAKE GEEK GIRLS
CELEBRITY
Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
A History of Fame
by Suzanne Scott
by Susan J. Douglas and Andrea McDonnell
Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities
The historical and cultural context of fame in the twentyfirst century
304 PG | PAPER | 9781479879571 | $30
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479862030 | $25
NETFLIX NATIONS
POSTRACIAL RESISTANCE
The Geography of Digital Distribution
Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity
by Ramon Lobato
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479804948 | $25
by Ralina L. Joseph
280 PG | PAPER | 9781479886371 | $30
Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the International Communication Association How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the postracial gaze of Hollywood and beyond
POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES THE DARK FANTASTIC
THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo
by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479806072 | $17
New in paperback Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination
Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
# PG | PAPER | 9781479889587 | PRICE
OPEN WORLD EMPIRE
STORIES OF THE SELF
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
Life Writing after the Book
by Christopher B. Patterson
The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics
by Anna Poletti
Finalist, John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association
344 PG | PAPER | 9781479895908 | $35
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head
Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play
248 PG | PAPER | 9781479836666 | $29
THE RACE CARD
THE POWER OF SPORTS
From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
Media and Spectacle in American Culture
by Tara Fickle
Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus Foundation How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479805952 | $30
by Michael Serazio
400 PG | Cloth | 9781479887316 | $35
VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER
A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of—and punctures the hype around—big-time contemporary American athletics
SOCIAL MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley
by Bonnie Ruberg
by Stuart Cunningham and David Craig
Argues for the queer potential of video games
Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the International Communication Association
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479843749 | $30
368 PG | PAPER | 9781479846894 | $30
How the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industry
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AVIDLY READS SERIES AVIDLY READS OPERA
AVIDLY READS POETRY
by Alison Kinney
by Jacquelyn Ardam
“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.”
“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”
160 PG | PAPER | 9781479811731 | $15
176 PG | PAPER | 9781479813582 | $15
AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES
AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES by Eric Thurm
“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”
by Arielle Zibrak
“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.”
176 PG | PAPER | 9781479807093 | $15
144 PG | PAPER | 9781479826957 | $15
SURVEILLANCE COPS, CAMERAS, AND CRISIS
CITIZEN SPIES
The Long Rise of America’s Surveillance Society
The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras
by Joshua Reeves
The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States
by Michael D. White and Aili Malm
200 PG | PAPER | 9781479850150 | $25
2021 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of bodyworn cameras
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479878116 | $25
WE ARE DATA
SURVEILLANCE CINEMA
Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
by Catherine Zimmer
by John Cheney-Lippold
Examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance
What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479808700 | $25
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479836673 | $28
GAMING, COMICS, & POP CULTURE THE RACIAL RAILROAD
LIKE WATER
A Cultural History of Bruce Lee A Cultural History of Bruce Lee
by Julia H. Lee
Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film
Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United States
304 PG | PAPER | 9781479812776 | $30
352 PG | Cloth | 9781479812868 | $30
COMICS AND STUFF
GAMING SEXISM
Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games
by Henry Jenkins
by Amanda C. Cote
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics— as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now
352 PG | PAPER | 9781479800933 | $32
Interviews with female gamers about structural sexism across the gaming landscape
274 PG | PAPER | 9781479802203 | $30
GAMER TROUBLE
POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CIVIC IMAGINATION
Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture by Amanda Phillips
Case Studies of Creative Social Change
Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479834921 | $29
Edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro and Sangita Shresthova
400 PG | PAPER | 9781479869503 | $32
THE FORBIDDEN BODY
Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination by Douglas E. Cowan
From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together
Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change
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328 PG | PAPER | 9781479803118 | $30
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RACE AND ETHNICITY HIP HOP HERESIES
KEEPING IT UNREAL
Queer Aesthetics in New York City
Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
by Shanté Paradigm Smalls
by Darieck Scott
Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop
Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
In Postmillennial Pop
In Sexual Cultures
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479808205| $28
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479824144 | $29
NETWORKING THE BLACK CHURCH
HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE
Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop
Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness
by Erika D. Gault
by Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey
Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church
308 PG | PAPER | 9781479805822 | $35
Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering 272 PG | PAPER | 9781479805358 | $30
RACIALIZED MEDIA
BLACK PATIENCE
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity Edited by Matthew W. Hughey and Emma González-Lesser
by Julius B. Fleming Jr.
A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater
How media propagates and challenges racism
In Performance and American Cultures
394 PG | PAPER | 9781479814558 | $35
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479806843 | $29
QUEER TIMES, BLACK FUTURES
THE HOLLYWOOD JIM CROW
The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
by Kara Keeling
Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time
by Maryann Erigha
The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry
In Sexual Cultures 288 PG | PAPER | 9780814748336 | $30
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479847877 | $25
SOCIAL MEDIA & STREAMING CREATOR CULTURE
PAIN GENERATION
An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment
Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie
Edited by Stuart Cunningham and David Craig Foreword by Nancy K. Baym
by L. Ayu Saraswati
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment
328 PG | PAPER | 9781479817979 | $35
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479808335 | $28
THE PROCRASTINATION ECONOMY
CAMMING
Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry by Angela Jones
The Big Business of Downtime by Ethan Tussey
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479802524 | $20
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection 344 PG | PAPER | 9781479874873 | $30
NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY
Honorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living
AFFINITY ONLINE
How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
by Deana A. Rohlinger
by Mizuko Ito, Crystle Martin, Rachel Cody Pfister, Matthew H. Rafalow, Katie Salen and Amanda Wortman
A sociological approach to understanding new media’s impact on society
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people 240 PG | PAPER | 9781479845699 | $28
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479852758 | $26
BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY
The New Youth Activism by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana GamberThompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Arely Zimmerman
In Connected Youth and Digital Futures
CONNECT WITH US!
The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital age 352 PG | PAPER | 9781479874149 | $25
In Connected Youth and Digital Futures
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GREAT FOR COURSES KEYWORDS FOR MEDIA STUDIES
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479859610 | $28
ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION
Edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
by Safiya Umoja Noble
In Keywords 256 PG | PAPER | 9781479837243 | $28
RESTRICTED ACCESS
CONTROLLING THE MESSAGE
Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation
New Media in American Political Campaigns
by Elizabeth Ellcessor
Edited by Victoria A. Farrar-Myers and Justin S. Vaughn
How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility. Postmillennial Pop 272 PG | PAPER | 9781479853434 | $29
368 PG | PAPER | 9781479867592 | $30
CRIME TV
FILM AS RELIGION,
Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture
SECOND EDITION
Myths, Morals, and Rituals
Edited by Jonathan A. Grubb and Chad Posick
by John C. Lyden
Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture
From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television
376 PG | PAPER | 9781479884971 | $35
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479811991 | $28
HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION,
HOW TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES
SECOND EDITION
Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann
Edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell
Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture
A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present
In User’s Guides to Popular Culture
In User’s Guides to Popular Culture 432 PG | PAPER | 9781479898817 | $30
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 How politicians and ordinary citizens use and consume new media during political campaigns
400 PG | PAPER | 9781479827985 | $30
CRIP SERIES DISTRESSING LANGUAGE
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
Disability and the Poetics of Error
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present
by Michael Davidson
by Dennis Tyler
The role of disability and deafness in art
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America
248 PG | PAPER | 9781479813841 | $29
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479831128 | $30
LITERARY BIOETHICS
ACCESSIBLE AMERICA
Animality, Disability, and the Human
A History of Disability and Design
by Maren Tova Linett
by Bess Williamson
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans
New in paperback A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it
224 PG | PAPER | 9781479801251 | $28
304 PG | PAPER | 9781479802494 | $20
PARTNER PRESSES TELL OUR STORY
DEFINING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
Multiplying voices in the news media
Power, Media, and #MeToo
by Julie Reid and Dale T McKinley
by Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider
Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media # 234 | PAPER | 9781776145775 | $20
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Contemporary shifts in power in relation to the increased recognition and censure of sexual misconduct Published by: University of Regina Press 368 PG | PAPER | 9780889778092 | $30
POWER AND LOSS IN SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALISM
BABEL UNBOUND
Rage, reason and rethinking public life Edited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton
News in the age of social media
In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied
by Glenda Daniels
The crisis of journalism in contemporary South Africa Published by: Wits University Press 232 PG | PAPER | 9781776145997 | $20
272 PG | PAPER | 9781776145898 | $50
Published by: Wits University Press
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