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Action at a Distance by John Durham Peters
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an 'acting at a distance,' an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the... -
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by John Durham Peters
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $23.65When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth:... -
Love and Communication Paddy Scannell (University of Central London) 9781509547531
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.81Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of "talk" - and ultimately the meaning of "being human." Taking an historical approach, Paddy Scannell... -
Why Do People Sing?: On Voice Paddy Scannell (University of Central London) 9781509529438
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby... -
Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture by Peter Krapp
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative... -
The Poetics of Digital Media Paul Frosh 9780745651323
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and... -
Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69 by James Schwoch 9780252033742 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79James Schwoch presents a unique retelling of the Cold War period by examining the relationship of global television, diplomacy, and new electronic communications media. Beginning with the Allied... -
Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology by Akhil Gupta 9780822319344 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $1.38Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological... -
Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater by Melody Jue
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.10In Wild Blue Media, Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment-a place where the weight... -
The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media by Thomas Lamarre
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $25.67A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation With the release of author Thomas Lamarre's field-defining study The Anime Machine, critics established... -
Kittler Now: Current Perspectives in Kittler Studies Stephen Sale 9780745653013
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Friedrich Kittler was one of the world's most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical 'discourse networks' inspired by French... -
The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth by Jeremy A. Greene
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $28.14This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for-and skepticism...