[Air-L] My new book - Media Distortions - is OUT and OPEN ACCESS

[D. Elizabeth Cohen]

Yes, thank you!

As Cuenca, Ecuador - where I currently am - is in lockdown, I may actually
get a chance to read it. Looking forward to it and thanks again for the
open access, Elinor.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:42 AM Bilyana Todorova <b_stoianova at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Congratulations! And thanks for the open access!
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> Bilyana Todorova, PhD
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> Department of Bulgarian language, Faculty of Philology,
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> South-West University, Bulgaria
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> +359 898 568 951
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> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7854-3425
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> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Carmi, Elinor <
> Elinor.Carmi at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:07 PM
> To: air-l at aoir.org <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] My new book - Media Distortions - is OUT and OPEN ACCESS
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> Hi everyone,
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> In what seems to be the worst time in a century, I'm mildly excited to
> announce my book is finally out, and it is OPEN ACCESS!
>
> Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise and Other
> Deviant Media (Digital Formation Series, Peter Lang)
>
> Here's the blurb:
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> Media Distortions is about the power behind the production of deviant
> media categories. It shows the politics behind categories we take for
> granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader
> understanding of, and engagement with media. The book synthesizes media
> theory, sound studies, science and technology studies (STS), feminist
> technoscience, and software studies into a new composition to explore media
> power. Media Distortions argues that using sound as a conceptual framework
> is more useful due to its ability to cross boundaries and strategically
> move between multiple spaces—which is essential for multi-layered mediated
> spaces.
>
> Drawing on repositories of legal, technical and archival sources, the book
> amplifies three stories about the construction and negotiation of the
> ‘deviant’ in media. The book starts in the early 20th century with Bell
> Telephone’s production of noise, tuning into the training of their
> telephone operators and their involvement with the Noise Abatement
> Commission in New York City. The next story jumps several decades to the
> early 2000s focusing on web metric standardization in the European Union
> and shows how the digital advertising industry constructed web-cookies as
> legitimate communication while making spam illegal. The final story focuses
> on the recent decade and the way Facebook filters out antisocial behaviors
> to engineer a sociality that produces more value. These stories show how
> deviant categories re-draw boundaries between human and non-human, public
> and private spaces, and importantly, social and antisocial.
>
> Check out the book's website - https://media-distortions.net/ - where you
> can find:
>
> 1. A link to download the book for FREE.
>
> 2. More info about the book.
>
> 3. What the wonderful endorsers - scholars who have inspired my work since
> the beginning - had to say about the book, THANK YOU Tiziana Terranova,
> Evelyn Ruppert, Jussi Parikka and Robert W. Ghel!
>
> 4. The book's playlist with songs/tracks that will bring the dark
> atmosphere of the book to you, so you can dance in between the sections.
> For the advanced music snobs who think they can create a better playlist -
> this is the time to make a positive use of your reviewer 2 energy and send
> me your playlist interpretation of the book so I can add them to the
> website!
>
> 5. I also kept my shattered dreams, I mean USA book tour that had to be
> cancelled due to the Coronavirus but which will be rescheduled for the
> fall, if humanity will survive.
>
> 6. More info about me.
>
> If you're interested in an inspection/review copy please write back to
> (don't 'reply all' although spamming everyone is a duty when it comes to
> this book 😉 me and I'll connect you with the publisher to get your copy.
>
> I want to thank Liverpool University for making this book open access!
>
> I hope you enjoy and May the Schwartz be with you.
> Stay healthy and take care in your social distancing.
>
> Dr. Elinor Carmi,
> Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society,
> Department of Communication and Media,
> Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
> School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK.
> https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/>
> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi
>
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