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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

TWITTER

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

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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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