... political science and cultural and media studies” (2012: 352), I advocate examining a longue durée of change to media economies, and the resulting evolution of new ideas about civic virtue, as well as emergent forms of associational life that advanced those ideas and put them into practice. In this...

...Garry Whannel This paper examines the transformation of news as a cultural commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and circulation speed of media production. It introduces the concept of vortextuality and illustrates the vortextual effect with reference to the coverage...

... used the media and media spectacle to successfully win the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections. I conclude with a discussion of how new and alternative media can help to promote genuine democratic debate and help disseminate the full range of information and ideas necessary to have a robustly...

... thing itself in favor of flat images. In conclusion, the article explains that this is the future of new media culture—the twenty-first-century dystopia of the negative abyss. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 negative abyss absolute surface squared/negative horizon media culture selfie...

...Joy Garnett New York artist Joy Garnett outlines her methods as a painter who works from sampled or found images. She discusses her relationship to her sources, which have included science photographs, declassified military and news media imagery. She describes the challenges she has encountered...

... of compulsory compassion in news media stories about the actual or threatened removal of roadside memorials, I argue that there is an economy of power circulating in the practice of roadside memorialization, where some subjects are deemed legitimately memorable and some are not, where some subjects...

... ways: first, by promoting to news media and policy makers a set of financialized free-market ideas about managing the economy, and second, by managing large companies as financial assets for the benefit of financiers and the super-rich. In both ways, they have encouraged financialization and the...

...Helen Powell; Sylvie Prasad David Chaney (2001) argues that access to lifestyle templates are available primarily through multiple media channels, where lifestyle is an example of a new “social form” based on specific patterns of consumer choice. This article examines a very particular kind of...

...Bernhard J. Dotzler Each “new technology” inflicts “new violence” on its subjects. Following Marshall McLuhan's argument, this article outlines a theoretical frame for thinking about the relationship between violence and the media. Focusing on Stanley Milgram's experiment mentioned by McLuhan in...

..., Protocol Founded through Facebook by four women in Canada, Idle No More became a worldwide movement in two months ( Bernd 2013 ). It “has been driven by social media, a place where anyone can participate in discussion and follow news if they have an Internet connection or smartphone” ( Donkin 2013...

... findings underline the significance of representations of the new super- rich as devices through which the media accomplish the global circulation of an upper- middle- class repertoire of cultural capital, which is used both to police shifting class boundaries and to establish a legitimate preserve for...

... alternative to traditional infrastructural and geological analyses, one oriented less toward the excavation of elements from deep time and the depths of the earth and more toward the conditions in which geologic matter’s potentials are actualized as media. It also opens up a new set of genealogies for...

... announced modesty, Manovich also aims to offer a broad perspective into the role software plays across cultural domains, but he mostly focuses on “media” software. After the fame of Manovich’s The Language of New Media , readers have high expectations for this book and, in many ways, the author does not...

... unfolded a telling exchange. It began as Paxman set out to goad Kennedy on the number of appearances the politician had made in the popular entertainment media. Having excused him at least the indulgence of the long-running BBC satirical quiz show Have I Got News For You , Paxman turned with less charity...

... and new media. The short article on control contains only a schematic conceptualization of a transformation in social organization and cannot alone express the full complexity of Deleuze’s understanding of control and innovation ( Galloway 2012 ); the article only covers control but, as I will show...

... was an abundance of voter-preference polls, as well as some new developments in polling technology. Political scientists and pollsters experimented with computerized seat projections in the 1990s and the media began to publish them in the 2000 election. In 2004, seat projections commissioned by two...

... communication to modes, unearthing a hidden history of power and conflict. McLuhan updated and extended these insights to account for the media of modernity—first the print technology of Gutenberg’s galaxy, and later new electric media like television and radio. Innis developed macro-histories that traced...

...Shannon Mattern For millennia, mud and its geologic analogues have bound together our media, urban, architectural, and environmental histories. Some of the first writing surfaces, clay and stone, were the same materials used to construct ancient city walls and buildings, whose facades also...

... that is itself a massive transport effort when opening weekends may see up to three or four thousand prints delivered in the USA alone. Apart from the provision of security against piracy, in the expanded realm of electronic distribution distributors not only handle promotion but also new media formats...

..., simultaneously “normalizes, while also officially disavowing, a normative commitment to neoliberal policies” (9). Limiting the scope of the book to an analysis of the mainstream media of Anglo-American and liberal democratic media systems, and presenting the political rhetoric of the UK New Labour...