[Air-L] New Book Series: Materializing the Digital

Adam Fish rawbird at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 04:05:34 PST 2016


Dear AOIR,

I'd like to invite interested parties to submit to us their book ideas
for our new series, Materializing the Digital.

Materializing the Digital seeks to interrogate the infrastructures,
relationships and imaginaries of digital technologies through
situated, empirical analyses of the production, circulation and use of
digital devices and systems.

Series Editors: Hannah Knox, University College London and Adam Fish,
Lancaster University

Positioned at the intersection of media studies, STS, anthropology and
sociology, the series will provide original, critical and
theoretically innovative understandings of the implications of digital
technologies for contemporary social life. Our intention is that this
series will provide a solid ground from which to engage and critique
the persistence of utopian, functionalist and dystopic visions of
technological futures.

We are particularly looking for projects that:

attend to the specific processes by which digital technologies are
produced, circulated and used;
analyze the nature of the infrastructures that digital systems rely
on, and the unforeseen material consequences and effects of digital
technologies (e.g. e-waste);
draw attention to materiality is to broaden the usual focus of ‘media’
(i.e. text and representation) to include issues like signal,
transmission and storage;
interrogate the interplay between material processes and social dynamics;
present theoretically informed ethnographic monographs that detail the
social, material and cultural relationships that structure the
production and circulation of digital media.

Proposal Guidelines:

To submit a proposal, please complete the MUP proposal form: Proposal Form PDF

Send completed proposal forms to Tom Dark, senior commissioning editor
at tom.dark at manchester.ac.uk

For more information about the review process, please click here: Review Process

Forthcoming books:

Memory ecologies by Mél Hogan (coming September 2017)

Best,


Dr. Adam Fish

Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Lancaster University

+44 (0)1524 592699

adamfish at protonmail.ch

@mediacultures

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