Media / Communication

From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. This is a book about possibility and refusal in …

Charts the myth of the “good guy with a gun, ” connecting America’s frontier beginnings with visions of the end of the world In the midst of widespread mass shootings in America, a common motif stand …

With growing numbers of billionaires at one end and startling numbers of food banks at the other, ‘advanced’ industrial societies are becoming ever more unequal.  Yet the evolution and widesprea …

Never before has humanity done so much talking… But is anyone listening? For that matter, are people ever speaking to each other? We need to acknowledge that speech, as we know it, has never been s …

Digital Detox: Managing Your Online Presence and Social Media  by Clara Wintershade explores the intricate relationship between our offline and online lives. As social media becomes an extension …

Interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies. Sex panics saturate contemporary discourse and …

In QAnon: Unmasking the Theory, readers will embark on a comprehensive exploration of one of the most complex and influential conspiracy movements of the 21st century. From its mysterious origins on …

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first volume dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japan …

The Veil Between: The Forbidden Science of Spirits and Shadows is a chilling exploration into the dark, hidden truths of the metaphysical world. Demetri Welsh pulls back the curtain on the mysterious …

In the early twentieth century, white-controlled magazines and Black magazines told very different stories about the dynamics of race, sex, and power in the United States. Memory Work: White Ignoranc …