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Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiv, 244 pp.
"Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media sheds light on a fascinating yet often overlooked phenomenon: how ordinary people transform their private lives into captivating performances for the digital stage. Focusing on home dance videos shared on Instagram from 2010 to 2020, the
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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.
"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula
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Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba
Deep Insights
Princeton University Press (2026), xii, 242 pp.
"Until just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly available, Cubans have found inventive ways to work around such remaining barriers as slow speeds, high costs, and inadequate infrastructure. In Island in the Ne
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Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiii, 373 pp.
"The digitising of Indigenous cultural heritage (CH) is not often debated in international research. A topical gap in research-based knowledge on the legal and ethical practices of various fields of Indigenous CH exists, for example, regarding digitisation, education, law, social processes, and crea
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou
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Locating North Korea in Communication Research
London: Routledge (2025), xiv, 171 pp.
"This volume showcases continuity and change in communication with and within North Korea. By approaching the country from three distinct angles - news media, popular culture, and digital technology - the volume looks at media portrayals of North Korea, at cultural discourses in various media, and a
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Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), 283 pp.
"Artificial Humanities explores how the humanities-literature, history, and art-can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in parallel with actual technological developments, Nina Beguš presents a novel interdisciplinary
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Full Night: The Best Romanian Internet Cafe
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 28 pp.
Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), 2902-2918
"Web series are, in some ways, tailored for capturing everyday life in a pandemic. As shortform episodic content distributed via online platforms, the creators of Web series commonly work with tight budgets, recruiting crew and cast from their own networks, and making use of the home as an inexpensi
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In/Visibility in the Digital Age: A Literature Review From a Communication Studies Perspective
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5471-5493
"Visibility and its counterpart, invisibility, are critical concepts in digital communication, although research on these concepts in communication studies has rarely been reflected on in an integrative way. This article aims to map key discussions in current research on in/visibility from a communi
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Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 312 pp.
"Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that n
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Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook
Deep Insights
Cham: Springer Nature (2024), 637 pp.
"This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a bett
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Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 291 pp.
"Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result
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New Horizons in Digital Anthropology: Innovation for Understanding Humanity
Paris: UNESCO; LiiV Center (2023), 59 pp.
"This publication, developed in partnership between UNESCO and the LiiV Center, maps the landscape of innovation in digital anthropology as an approach to ensure a better understanding of how human communities and societies interact and are shaped by technologies and, knowing this, how policies can
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Social media images and conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.
"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela
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El sueño de lo real: Nuevos realismos y tecnología digital
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2023), 221 pp.
"Son tres las preguntas importantes que articulan este libro. En primer lugar, si el auge de un nuevo pensamiento realista, que reflexiona sobre nuestra relación con los objetos materiales, con la naturaleza y con las ideas, es un pensamiento político. Con ese interrogante queremos examinar el mod
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Failurists: When things go awry
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2023), 204 pp.
