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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 224 pp.
"Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. These particular Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimenta
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Data Visualization in Society
Deep Insights
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 464 pp.
"This book is a contribution to the multi-disciplined and multi-faceted conversation concerning the forms, uses and roles of data visualization in society. Do data visualizations do 'good' or 'bad'? Do they promote understanding and engagement, or do they do ideological work, privileging certain vie
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Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 266 pp.
"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati
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Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 241 pp.
"This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, thi
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Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa: A Mediated Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp.
"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app
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The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 431 pp.
"From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of the Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, and the rise of citizen science and ecological games, this book shows how play is a key theoretical, methodological, and practical principle for comprehending such new for
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The Handbook of Privacy Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2018), 456 pp.
"The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective. Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, th
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Stories
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2018), 208 pp.
Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2015), 319 pp.
"This book considers how Moroccan-Dutch youth, mostly born in the Netherlands, navigate digital spaces to articulate their politicized identities in a time when claims over the failure of multiculturalism, anti-immigration sentiments and Islamophobia sweep across Europe. Digital Passages: Migrant Yo
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Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media
Amsterdam; Leiden: Amsterdam University Press; International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) (2006), 20 pp.
"After the events of 9/11, media representations of Muslims in the West—never known for their accuracy—became even more stereotypically negative. Few of us realize, however, the profusion of similar sentiments that existed within Arab Muslim media outlets ten or even fifteen years earlier. Lila
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Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2005), 224 pp.
"In Shooting the Family, twelve authors investigate the transfigured role of the family in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television, as well as through particularistic media like home movies and videos. "Shooting the Family" has a
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