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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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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e
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Disability Media Studies
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
Keywords for Media Studies
New York: New York University Press (2017), vi, 229 pp.
Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.
New York; London: New York University Press, paperback ed. (2017), xv, 304 pp.
"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to cont
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Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten
New York; London: New York University Press (2016), xiii, 269 pp.
"The central thesis of Crtl+Z is that a digital right to be forgotten is an innovative idea with a lot of possibilities and potential. The idea simply needs to be opened up, reframed, and restructured. The extreme options currently on the table limit the many ways to think about digital redemption a
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Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling
New York: New York University Press (2015), x, 390 pp.
"Complex TV offers a sustained analysis of the poetics of television narrative, focusing on how storytelling has changed in recent years and how viewers make sense of these innovations. Through close analyses of key programs, including The Wire, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, Curb
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The Social Media Reader
New York; London: New York University Press (2012), x, 289 pp.
"The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different s
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Global TV: Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market
New York: New York University Press (2008), xv, 259 pp.
"A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that “I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day.” That Lucy’s madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplace that imports and exports TV shows.
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Global Bollywood
New York; London: New York University Press (2008), vi, 314 pp.
Media Reception Studies
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2005), xi, 252 pp.
"Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media. Janet Staiger travers
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Francophonie and the National Airwaves: A History of Television in Senegal
Planet TV: A Global Television Reader
New York: New York University Press (2003), ix, 470 pp.
Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals
New York: New York University Press (2003), viii, 289 pp.
