Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait McKinney
"Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies addresses lesbian-feminist information activism in the United States and Canada during the period of transition from paper to digital media technologies from the 1970s to 2010s and subsequent questions on information abundance."
Reviewed by aems emswiler
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bo Ruberg
"How can queer games help reinvent what games can be? This is the leading question of Bonnie Ruberg's The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games. Yet beyond this central issue, the book also offers at least two other, more far-reaching questions for its readers to ponder."
Reviewed by Daniella Gáti
Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World by Ahmed Al-Rawi
"Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World by Ahmed Al-Rawi attempts to map and empirically investigate the role of new media in shaping and facilitating positive change within women's lives in the Arab world."
Reviewed by Walid Ghali
Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure by Hatem El-Hibri
"Hatem El-Hibri's Visions of Beirut takes readers on an intellectual journey through the ways that media infrastructure defines both spaces and their history in cities. Beirut, Lebanon, is the protagonist city in El-Hibri's field research, carried out between 2009 and 2017, depicting a divided country that has strived to define itself since inception."
Reviewed by Aya Jazaierly
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication by Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer
"Few scientists have done more to write histories of their own discipline than data visualization researchers Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer. The Milestones Project (a multimedia database of visualizations coauthored by Friendly) is one of the most comprehensive historiographical resources on the subject."
Reviewed by Crystal Lee
The Digital Black Atlantic ed. by Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs
"In The Digital Black Atlantic, editors Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs offer the first volume of literature centering Black digital studies. This collection asserts the importance of Black digital humanities by putting into conversation the work of practitioners and thought leaders in the field."
Reviewed by Rachel E. Winston