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HIGHLIGHTS Race and Media

Comics and Stuff

Critical Approaches

HENRY JENKINS

Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media 344 PAGES • PAPER 9781479889310 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

352 PAGES • PAPER 9781479800933 • $32.00 104 full color illustrations

2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies

The Content of Our Caricature

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head 256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479889587 • $29.00 In Postmillennial Pop

Horrible White People Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY

Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering 272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479805358 • $30.00

Misogynoir Transformed

Black Women’s Digital Resistance MOYA BAILEY

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of antiBlack misogyny 256 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479865109 • $28.00 In Intersections

Technologies of Speculation

The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society SUN-HA HONG

An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms 294 PAGES • PAPER 9781479883066 • $30.00

Gaming Sexism

Racialized Media

AMANDA C. COTE

Edited by MATTHEW W. HUGHEY and EMMA GONZÁLEZ-LESSER

Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games Interviews with female gamers about structural sexism across the gaming landscape 274 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802203 • $30.00

The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity

How media propagates and challenges racism 394 PAGES • PAPER 9781479814558 • $35.00

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Dislike-Minded

Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste JONATHAN GRAY

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479809981 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

Border Optics

Cultures of Surveillance on the US-Mexico Frontier CAMILLA FOJAS

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance 224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479807017 • $28.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

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Wife, Inc.

The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century SUZANNE LEONARD

A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America 272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802517 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

Locked Out

Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture EVAN ELKINS

A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era 240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479873876 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

The Digital City

Media and the Social Production of Place GERMAINE R. HALEGOUA

Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479882199 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

Fake Geek Girls

Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry SUZANNE SCOTT

Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479879571 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association

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The Identity Trade

Selling Privacy and Reputation Online

Postracial Resistance Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity

NORA A. DRAPER

RALINA L. JOSEPH

The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities

How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond

320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479811922 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

280 PAGES • PAPER 9781479886371 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

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SOCIAL MEDIA FORTHCOMING

Pain Generation

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Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

Creator Culture

An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment

L. AYU SARASWATI

Edited by STUART CUNNINGHAM and DAVID CRAIG

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism

Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment

224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479808335 • $28.00

336 PAGES • PAPER 9781479817979 • $35.00

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2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

The Procrastination Economy

A Biography JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM

The Big Business of Downtime ETHAN TUSSEY

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

How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection

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256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802524 • $20.00

POPULAR CULTURE NEW IN PAPERBACK! 2020 Special Award - Professional, World Fantasy Con | Finalist, 2020 Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, FIYACO

Crime TV

Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture Edited by JONATHAN A. GRUBB and CHAD POSICK

From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television 384 PAGES • PAPER 9781479884971 • $35.00

Don’t Use Your Words!

Children’s Emotions in a Networked World JANE JUFFER

How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural production 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479833054 • $35.00

The Dark Fantastic

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS

Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination 240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479806072 • $16.95 In Postmillennial Pop

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO, and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change 400 PAGES • PAPER 9781479869503 • $32.00

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OPEN SQUARE

opensquare.nyupress.org Distributed Blackness African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.

An explanation of the digital practices of the Black Internet 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479829965 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

Netflix Nations

The Geography of Digital Distribution RAMON LOBATO

How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture 240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479804948 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

Beyond Hashtags

Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks

Show Sold Separately Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts

SARAH FLORINI

JONATHAN GRAY

How Black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarity

“Show Sold Separately will rewrite the rules of what we look at when we want to understand how audiences make meaning of media franchises.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Comics and Stuff

288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479813056 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

264 PAGES • PAPER 9780814731956 • $27.00

GENDER AND SEXUALITY The Pornification of America

Gamer Trouble

BERNADETTE BARTON

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture 232 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479894437 • $24.95

Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS

256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479834921 • $29.00

Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

Queer Times, Black Futures KARA KEELING

A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time 288 PAGES • PAPER 9780814748336 • $30.00 In Sexual Cultures

Re-Imagining Black Women

A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD

A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women 304 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479850891 • $30.00

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HISTORY NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Accessible America

The Hollywood Jim Crow

A History of Disability and Design BESS WILLIAMSON

The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry

A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it

MARYANN ERIGHA

The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry

304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802494 • $19.95 In Crip

240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479847877 • $25.00

The Fight for Free Speech

S TAY C O N N E C T E D

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

@NYUPRESS

IAN ROSENBERG

“Essential reading for journalists, political activists, and ordinary citizens alike.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred) 312 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479801565 • $27.95

KEYWORDS SERIES Keywords for Media Studies

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Keywords for Comics Studies

Edited by LAURIE OUELLETTE and JONATHAN GRAY

Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, DEBORAH WHALEY, and SHELLEY STREEBY

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

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies

240 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479859610 • $28.00 In Keywords

Keywords for Children’s Literature, second edition Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, and NINA CHRISTENSEN

An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture 272 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479899678 • $28.00 In Keywords

288 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479831968 • $28.00 In Keywords

ABOUT THE SERIES Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field.

Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.

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AVIDLY READS SERIES FORTHCOMING

Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures

Avidly Reads Board Games

ARIELLE ZIBRAK

ERIC THURM

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.”

“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”

176 PAGES • PAPER 9781479807093 • $14.95 In Avidly Reads

144 PAGES • PAPER 9781479826957 • $14.95 In Avidly Reads

POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES 2020 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Open World Empire

Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games

The Race Card

From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON

TARA FICKLE

Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play

How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes

344 PAGES • PAPER 9781479895908 • $35.00 In Postmillennial Pop

Video Games Have Always Been Queer BONNIE RUBERG

Argues for the queer potential of video games 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479843749 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop

272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479805952 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop

Stories of the Self

Life Writing after the Book ANNA POLETTI

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics 248 PAGES • PAPER 9781479836666 • $29.00 In Postmillennial Pop

2020 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association

Social Media Entertainment

The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley STUART CUNNINGHAM and DAVID CRAIG

How the transformation of social media platforms and userexperience have redefined the entertainment industry 368 PAGES • PAPER 9781479846894 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop

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Anti-Fandom

Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age MELISSA A. CLICK

A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling 352 PAGES • PAPER 9781479851041 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop

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CONNECTED YOUTH AND DIGITAL FUTURES SERIES

By Any Media Necessary

The Digital Edge

HENRY JENKINS, SANGITA SHRESTHOVA, LIANA GAMBERTHOMPSON, NETA KLIGLERVILENCHIK, and ARELY M. ZIMMERMAN

S. CRAIG WATKINS and ALEXANDER CHO

The New Youth Activism

The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital age

How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality

How Black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479849857 • $26.00 In Connected Youth and Digital Futures

352 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479874149 • $25.00 In Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Affinity Online

How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning MIZUKO ITO, CRYSTLE MARTIN, RACHEL CODY PFISTER, MATTHEW H. RAFALOW, KATIE SALEN, and AMANDA WORTMAN

How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people 256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479852758 • $26.00 In Connected Youth and Digital Futures

CONNECTED YOUTH AND D I G I TA L F U T U R E S This open access series explores young people’s day-to-day lives and futures. The volumes consider changes at the intersection of civil and political reform, transformations in employment and education, and the growing presence of digital technologies in all aspects of social, cultural and political life.

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WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS Power and Loss in South African Journalism News In the Age of Social Media

Tell Our Story

Multiplying Voices In the News Media

GLENDA DANIELS

JULIE REID and DALE T. MCKINLEY

This timely book analyses the crisis and chaos of journalism in contemporary South Africa and argues for and about the power of public interest journalism

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

232 PAGES • PAPER 9781776145997 • $20.00 Published by Wits University Press

Babel Unbound

Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life Edited by LESLEY COWLING and CAROLYN HAMILTON

In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied 292 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145898 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press

234 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145775 • $20.00 Published by Wits University Press

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS Resistance

Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo Edited by SUE GOYETTE

Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette 176 PAGES • PAPER 9780889778016 • $21.95 Published by University of Regina Press

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GREAT FOR COURSES How to Watch Television, second edition Edited by ETHAN THOMPSON and JASON MITTELL

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present 432 PAGES • PAPER 9781479898817 • $30.00 In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

How to Play Video Games Edited by MATTHEW THOMAS PAYNE and NINA B. HUNTEMANN

Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture 400 PAGES • PAPER 9781479827985 • $30.00 In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

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Algorithms of Oppression

Film as Religion, second edition

SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE

Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms

Myths, Morals, and Rituals JOHN C. LYDEN

320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479811991 • $28.00

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Celebrity

A History of Fame SUSAN J. DOUGLAS and ANDREA McDONNELL

The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century 336 PAGES • PAPER 9781479862030 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication

Spreadable Media

Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture HENRY JENKINS, SAM FORD, and JOSHUA GREEN

How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries 352 PAGES • PAPER 9781479856053 • $22.00 In Postmillennial Pop

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Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry ANGELA JONES

The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living 344 PAGES • PAPER 9781479874873 • $30.00

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