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Deals with developing new processes, responding to disruptive technology and discontinuous change, resolving institutional conflict, managing expectations, and avoiding the technological abyss; views of the newspaper's chairman and publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Doing digital food studies -- Digital methods within the humanities and social sciences -- Digital methods and food studies -- The contribution of this volume -- The chapters of this volume -- Part 1: Textual analysis -- Part 2: Digital ethnography -- Part 3: Users' practices -- Part 4: Digital archives and network analysis -- Future encounters -- References -- Part 1: Textual analysis -- Chapter 2: Textual analysis in digital food studies: New approaches to old methods -- Studying digital food texts -- Textual analysis: Then and now -- Methods for analysing media and digital texts -- Textual "readings" -- Discourse and framing analyses -- Visual analysis -- Content analysis -- Multimethod approaches -- Research design for textual analysis: A practical example -- Key lessons for digital food studies -- Using textual analysis: A how to guide -- Dos and Don'ts -- Now you try -- Questions for reflection -- Ethical considerations -- Further readings -- References -- Chapter 3: Reading celebrity food websites: Poststructural approaches -- Poststructuralism and discourse analysis -- Reading websites as texts -- From discourse to materiality -- Dos and Don'ts -- Now you try -- Questions for reflection -- Ethical considerations -- Further readings -- References -- Chapter 4: Analysing digital food sounds from a textual perspective - A case of champagne (?) -- Introduction -- Digital food sounds -- Reduced listening and iconic signification -- Causal listening and indexical signification -- Semantic listening and symbolic signification -- Key lessons and additional analytical perspectives -- Dos and Don'ts -- Now you try -- Questions for reflection -- Ethical considerations.

The article provides insights into the driving forces that underpin new forms of political participation. Digital technologies offer opportunities for engaging in a wide range of civicallyoriented activities, each of which can contribute to deeper democratic engagement. Conventional acts of political participation are argued to be driven primarily by intrinsic motivations relating to self-efficacy and empowerment with participants feeling they can have influence over decision makers. Little research explores whether similar motivations drive participation in less conventional acts, as well as whether mobilisation attempts via social media by peers or political organisations mediate those motivations. Drawing on data from a survey among a representative sample of the UK electorate, we find the offline and online spheres of agency remain fairly distinct. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations both matter but extrinsic motivations have the strongest explanatory power independent of the sphere of activity. The mediating effect of mobilisation tactics has a minimal effect on extrinsic motivations, online or offline, but online intrinsic motivations lose their explanatory power. As intrinsic factors offer little explanatory power some forms of online political participation may lack meaning to the individual. Rather, these non-conventional acts result from reward seeking and are more likely to be encouraged by non-governmental campaigning organizations suggesting social media users are most likely to perform simple acts in support of non-contentious causes.

This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities' self-representation in media employment. Improving disability representations in the media is vital to improving the social position of people with disability, and including people with lived experience of disability is integral to this process. While the media industry has changed significantly as a result of digital and participatory media, discriminatory attitudes around fear and pity continue to impact whether people with disability find work in the media. The book demonstrates no significant changes in attitudes towards employing disabled media workers since the 1990s when the last major research into this topic took place. By focusing on the employment of people with disability in media industries, Katie Ellis addresses a neglected area of media diversity, appealing to researchers in media and cultural studies as well as critical disability studies. Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow and Convenor of the Critical Disability Studies Research Network in the Internet Studies Department at Curtin University, Australia. She has published widely in the area of disability, and digital and networked media, extending across both issues of representation and active possibilities for social inclusion

Intro -- Foreword-The Era of the Both -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Understanding Technopolitical Ecologies: Main Perspectives and Key Lessons -- The Performative Function of the Media in Latin America -- References -- Part I Technopolitics: A Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2 Digital Media Practices and Social Movements. A Theoretical Framework from Latin America -- Introduction -- New Media and Emerging Subjectivities in Latin America -- Appropriation Processes and Creative Resilience Practices -- Emotional Dimensions of the Appropriation Process -- Creative Use in Net Activism Practices -- Digital Media in Latin America: Do It Together! -- Building Communities -- Digital Media as a Meaningful Space -- Digital Media as Temporary Autonomous Communities -- Acquiring Power -- The Development of "Another" Communication -- The Emergence of a New Political Subject -- Discussions and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Tracing the Roots of Technopolitics: Towards a North-South Dialogue -- Introduction. A Widespread but Ambiguous Notion -- Technopolitics as Conceptual Horizon -- Technopolitics in Technology Transfer and Scientific Innovation -- Technopolitics and the Political Sphere -- Technopolitics in Spain -- Extension of Technopolitics to the Latin American Context -- The Potentialities of the Concept -- An Integral Understanding Beyond Instrumentality -- An Attention to Hybrid (Online-Offline) Political Action -- A Focus on Social Movements' Innovation and Experimentation -- An Attention to Present and Future Non-Human Actions -- An Emphasis of the Emotional Aspects of Recent Uprisings -- Conclusions: Towards a North-South Dialogue -- References -- Chapter 4 E-Democracy. Ideal vs Real, Exclusion vs Inclusion -- Huisman and the E-Democracy Illusion

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Analysing Quantified Stories on Social Media -- 1.1 Narrating Numbers -- 1.2 Social Media, Metrics and Numbers -- A History of Metrics and Numbers -- Quantified Self-Tracking -- Metrics and Affect -- Visibility and Social Buttons -- 1.3 Stories on Social Media -- 'New' Types of Stories, 'New' Types of Telling? -- Storytelling Participation Between Agency and Media Affordances -- 1.4 Quantified Storytelling: Our Approach -- Questions and Methodology -- A Heuristic Typology of (In)Visible Metrics -- Key-Insights: Metricized Formats, Engagement and Power -- References -- Chapter 2: Measuring and Narrating the Disrupted Self on Instagram -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Quantification of Illness Narratives on Instagram -- 2.3 Methods and Material -- 2.4 Analysis -- Stories of Teleological Counting and Hope -- Stories of Frustrated (Re)Counting -- Performative Measures of Positivity and the Tellability Crisis of Having Nothing to Count -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Making Memes Count: Platformed Rallying on Reddit -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Metricized Affordances of Reddit -- 3.3 Methods and Material -- 3.4 Analysis -- Meta-memetics -- Political Education -- Outreach and Influx -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Curating Stories: Curating Metrics-Directives in the Design of Stories -- 4.1 Introducing Stories as Designed Features -- 4.2 Directives in the Design of Metricized Stories -- 4.3 Material and Methods -- A Critical, 'Values in Design', Perspective -- Tracking the Design of Stories -- Corpus-Assisted Methods -- Communicative Practices: A Case Study of Influencers' Stories -- 4.4 Analysis -- Directive I: Sharing-Life-in-the-Moment -- Directive II: Audience Engagement as Quantified Viewing -- Metrics and Tiers of Invisibility.

"The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover thirty-seven topics: from the right to have access to internet, to trolling and online shaming, speech on social media, fake news, sex robots and dating online, persuasive technology, value alignment, algorithmic bias, predictive policing, price discrimination online, medical AI, privacy and surveillance, automating democracy, the future of work, and AI and existential risk, among others. Each chapter gives a rigorous map of the ethical terrain, engaging critically with the most notable work in the area, and pointing directions for future research"--

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Howard Rheingold -- Overview /Martin Rieser -- Pockets of Plenty: An Archaeology of Mobile Media /Erkki Huhtamo -- The Temporal and Spatial Design of Video and Film-based Installation Art in the 60s and 70s: Their Inherent Perception Processes and Effects on the Perceivers' Actions /Susanne Jaschko -- Forgotten Histories of Interactive Space /Martin Rieser -- Art by Telephone: From Static to Mobile Interfaces /Adriana de Souza e Silva -- Mobile/Audience: Thinking the Contradictions /Mary Griffiths and Sean Cubitt -- Towards a Language of Mobile Media /Jon Dovey and Constance Fleuriot -- Snapshots from Curating Mobility: (If you build it, they won't necessarily come) /Beryl Graham -- Beyond Mapping: New Strategies for Meaning in Locative Artworks /Martin Rieser -- Digital Media and Architecture—An Observation /Anke Jacob -- Urban Screens as the Visualization Zone of the City's Invisible Communication Sphere /Mirjam Struppek -- Future Physical: The Creative User and theme of response-ABILITY /Debbi Lander -- 'A Fracture in Reality': Networked Narratives as Imaginary Fields of Action and Dislocation /Andrea Zapp -- What makes mediascapes compelling?:Insights from the Riot! 1831 case-study /Josephine Reid and Richard Hull -- Hopstory: A study in place-based, historically inspired narrative /Valentina Nisi and Glorianna Davenport -- The Media Portrait of Liberties: A Non-linear Community Portrait /Valentina Nisi , Mads Haahr and Glorianna Davenport -- Loca: 'Location Oriented Critical Arts' /Drew Hemment , John Evans , Mika Raento and Theo Humphries -- Invisible Topographies /Usman Haque -- Wifi-Hog: The Battle for Ownership in Public Wireless Space /Jonah Brucker-Cohen -- Puppeteers, Performers or Avatars: A Perceptual Difference in Telematic Space /Paul Sermon -- Mobile Feelings: Wireless Communication of Heartbeat and Breath for Mobile Art /Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau -- The Living Room /Victoria Fang -- tunA and the Power of Proximity /Arianna Bassoli -- Engagement with the Everyday /Margot Jacobs -- Between Improvisation and Publication: Supporting the Creative Metamorphosis with Technology /Cati Vaucelle -- Developing Creative Audience Interaction: Four Projects by Squidsoup. /Anthony Rowe -- The Emotional Wardrobe /Lisa Stead , Petar Goulev , Caroline Evans and Ebrahim Mamdani -- Social Fashioning and Active Conduits /Katherine Moriwaki -- Wunderkammer: Wearables as an Artistic Strategy /Laura Beloff -- Flirt and Mset /Fiona Raby -- Trace, The Choreography of Everyday Movement and Drift /Teri Rueb -- Blast Theory /Matt Adams -- Mixed Reality Lab /Steve Benford -- The Politics of Mobility /Drew Hemment -- Memory-Rich Garments and Social Interaction /Joey Berzowska -- Heart on Your Sleeve /Annie Lovejoy -- Contributor Biographies -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography Books and Articles.

Politische Meinungsbildung, Protest oder Selbstdarstellung? Politische Expression im Web ist gegenwärtig in aller Munde und beschäftigt Medien, Politik, Justiz und Öffentlichkeit gleichermaßen. Tobias Zimmermann beleuchtet mit dem Online-Leserkommentar einen der quantitativ bedeutsamsten und kontroversesten Kanäle politischen Ausdrucks im Internet und lotet so politikwissenschaftliches Neuland aus. Aufbauend auf Jürgen Habermas' deliberativer Demokratietheorie schlägt er dabei eine Brücke zwischen normativer Erwartungshaltung und empirischer Realität.

"Taking as point of departure that since the mid-1990s the web has been an essential medium within society as well as in academia this article addresses some fundamental questions related to web historiography, that is the writing of the history of the web. After a brief identification of some limitations within digital history and Internet studies vis-a-vis web historiography it is argued that the web is in itself an important historical source, and that special attention must be drawn to the web in web archives - termed reborn-digital material - since these sources will probably be the only web left for future historians. In line with this argument the remainder of the article discusses the following methodological issues: What characterizes the reborn-digital material in web archives, and how does this affect the historian's use of the material as well as the possible application of digital analytical tools on this kind of material?" (author's abstract)

"This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media's gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women. Drawing on her own experiences working as part of this gatekeeping system, Stephanie Patrick argues that, in order to combat this threat, the mainstream media doubled down on gendered narratives of meritocracy that legitimized certain (male) celebrities over others. Using a range of case studies spanning "old" media sites and "new," including Disney, Playboy, and reality television, this book demonstrates that sexual exploitation and violation could be considered constitutive of female celebrity, rather than a side effect. Patrick's case studies include some of America's most (in)famous celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, and Donald Trump, urging readers to question their assumptions about these figures and their public trajectories. This nuanced exploration of patriarchal capitalism and women's ongoing sexual exploitation by the media will be an important reference for scholars and students of digital and new media, journalism, celebrity studies and gender studies"--

Venezuela's displacement crisis has received extensive media coverage around the world. COVID-19 has exacerbated dramatic stories of border closures and increased prejudice against new arrivals. This article analyses videos of six young Venezuelan migrants who created YouTube channels to document their journey over four years (2017–21). A multimodal content analysis (MCA) captured themes and portraits that emerged from these videos. While these stories should not represent the full spectrum of Venezuelan self-mediatized migration, neither is YouTube free from commercial influences, these videos provide various reasons for their moving out, chapters of their integration into the new reality and plans for the post-settlement life. Most content makes sound evidence for understanding self-mediatized migration as interspersed with the capitalist underpinnings of social media platforms while casting genuine aspirations of a better life that contest the current stereotypical coverage.

The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age-and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans-and the records that document them-from slavery through the social media age, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the right and desire to be forgotten. From the popular image of Gordon (also known as ";Whipped Peter";), photographs of the lynching of Jesse Washington, and the video of George Floyd's murder to DNA, holograms, and posthumous communication, this book traces the commodification of Black bodies and lives across time. Through the lens of (anti-)Blackness in the United States, Sutherland interrogates the intersections of life, death, personal data, and human autonomy in the era of Google, Twitter, and Facebook, and presents a critique of digital resurrection technologies. If the Black digital afterlife is rooted in bigotry and inspires new forms of racialized aggression, Resurrecting the Black Body asks what other visions of life and remembrance are possible, illuminating the unique ways that Black cultures have fought against erasure and oblivion