The following post is excerpted from my recently published book Remake, Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age with permission from the University of Illinois Press. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with leading magazine editors, publishers, and digital strategists, this book shows how magazine workers are adapting to the rhetoric and realities of digitization, audience interactivity, […]
A few weeks ago, Tim Jordan shared the opening chapter of his new book, Internet, Society, and Culture: Communicative Practices before and after the Internet, published by Bloomsbury. (You can still read it here.) The comments that followed raised some interesting observations, both about it and inspired by it, so we’re re-posting those comments here […]
The question of what difference the internet makes has been a perennial for those of us studying digital cultures of one sort or another. What I’ve attempted to do over the last few years is to look at what might have changed in communication since the rise to mass use of internet cultures and technologies. […]
A few weeks ago, Torin Monahan shared a chapter from his new book with John Gilliom, SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society, published by the University of Chicago Press. (You can still read chapter 5 of the book here.) A number of Culture Digitally participants commented, and Torin had a chance to respond. Rather […]
I’m pleased to announce the publication of SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society and am delighted to be able to share a sample chapter with the Culture Digitally community. While there are lots of good research monographs on surveillance studies, our objective was to write a fun introductory book with lots of examples and […]