New in Media Studies and American Studies

In the news & in the Cloud: New in Media Studies and American Studies

"A heady and rewarding explanation of our lives in the data age. [Cheney-Lippold's] discussion of privacy will fascinate many.  Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." —Starred Kirkus Reviews "This book sparkles with brilliant insights. It offers us tools and a vocabulary through which we can think about the layers of identities that our data-conjured ghosts inhabit. I don’t think I fully grasped the complexity of what these clouds of commercial data did with us and to us until I read We Are Data.” —Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything—and Why We Should Worry An Amazon #1 New Release

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"Analyzing citizen-policing initiatives from 'Hue and Cry' posters in 1775 to Call-911 programs, author Reeves's cutting insight deconstructs the protocols and policies of what he calls 'America's surveillance society.' This book carefully examines historical accounts and court cases up to present day, and the withering effects of police crowdsourcing on America's dream of security, comfort, and liberty." —Starred Library Journal

"Whose Global Village? stimulated my thinking, and has reinforced my belief that the three seemingly disparate topics I keep returning to in my life – social and cultural innovation, new technologies and community-driven design – are in fact closely related, and should be so to make sure the digital era benefits all people equally." —TheMuseumoftheFuture.com Check out Ramesh on CNN, WNYC, The Washington Post, and Forbes!

“Britt Rusert’s  Fugitive Science is a tour de force of scholarly recovery and intellectual reimagining. This beautifully rendered cultural history bravely engages African American critiques of racial science as well as the politics of scientific knowledge these artists, writers and activists deployed toward the goal of liberation. Groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship.” —Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science

"Neocitizenship is an alarming look into a future in which the neoliberal democratic system has fallen apart." —Inverse.com

"Culture Jamming is a must for modern day activists who want to overturn the status quo, and fast, and who embrace the creativity and interconnectedness of modern life."