Media and the Affective Life of Slavery by Allison Page
"Allison Page's Media and the Affective Life of Slavery embarks on a less-discussed aspect of the legacy of slavery—that of how its narrative can be used to regulate the emotions, including guilt, of its consumers and thus to implicitly suggest that its legacy is no longer an issue in the present day."
Reviewed by Nicole A. Cooke
Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization ed. by Melody Devries, Judith Bessant, and Rob Watts
"Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization is a significant and most welcome contribution to the noticeable uptick in academic work on extreme ideologies propagating on social media platforms."
Reviewed by Tomás Dodds
Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire and Will Slauter
"Copyright is often posited in terms of a simple binary: creators' rights versus violators' theft. Alterations to this formula generally just reverse the appraisal to pit corporate avarice against the common good."
Reviewed by Priti Joshi
Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics: A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton around 1900 by Simon R. Frost
"Erudite and experimental at once, Simon Frost's Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics aims to offer a new interpretative key to the historical understanding of readers' dreams, drives, and desires as they browsed the shelf of a bookshop at the turn of the twentieth century."
Reviewed by Anna Lanfranchi
Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control by Yuriko Furuhata
"Many recent works, including Yuriko Furuhata's Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, have emerged from a deep concern for our present time, which is marked by both planetary climate crisis and dependency on computational media."
Reviewed by Weixian Pan
Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele
"Catherine Knight Steele's Digital Black Feminism has two goals. The first is one of recovery: Digital Black Feminism contributes to a growing area of scholarship that attempts to uncover and, in doing so, center the role of women and minorities in the development of digital tools and practices."
Reviewed by Rachel Pierce
When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture by Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
"We all love a good success story, especially our own. Yet histories of achievement can foster a kind of presentism that ignores just how unpredictable and haphazard historical development often is."
Reviewed by David Reagles