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Children's digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 175 pp.
"This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children's social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, ci
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Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 312 pp.
"Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that n
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Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 346 pp.
"Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound impli
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The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 158 pp.
"Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin’s Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to mod
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Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 226 pp.
The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 246 pp.
"In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on disp
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Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 240 pp.
"Amid the proliferation of a range of new and ubiquitous online platforms, YouTube, a video-based platform, remains a key driver in the democratisation of creative, playful, vernacular, intimate, as well as political expressions. As a critical node of contemporary communication and digital cultures,
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Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 161 pp.
"This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is si
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Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 410 pp.
"This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around
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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.
"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com
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Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 323 pp.
Game Production Studies
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 355 pp.
"In Game Production Studies, an international group of established and emerging researchers takes a closer look at the everyday realities of video game production, ranging from commercial industries to independent creators and cultural intermediaries. Across sixteen chapters, the authors deal with i
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Persuasive Gaming in Context
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 264 pp.
"The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called 'persuasi
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The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice
Key Guidance
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 415 pp.
"The Data Journalism Handbook provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the ne
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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 334 pp.
"This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary appr
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Exploring the Political, Economic, and Social Implications of the Digital Silk Road Into East Africa: The Case of Ethiopia
In: Global Perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), pp. 315-346
"Chapter 13 analyses various causal relations through which Ethiopian and Chinese actors interact in the context of the Digital Silk Road initiative. What is playing out in Africa is part of a larger contest between the West and China for dominance over technology and global influence. From a Chines
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Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship Through Data
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 205 pp.
"In this book, we have investigated the evolving intergenerational media practices over three years to reflect on the quotidian (and often invisible) forms of care at a distance enacted as part of contemporary Digital Kinship. As we have explored, within different cultural contexts we are seeing div
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Data Visualization in Society
Top Insights
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 464 pp.
"This book is a contribution to the multi-disciplined and multi-faceted conversation concerning the forms, uses and roles of data visualization in society. Do data visualizations do 'good' or 'bad'? Do they promote understanding and engagement, or do they do ideological work, privileging certain vie
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Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 266 pp.
"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati
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Independent Filmmaking Across Borders in Contemporary Asia
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 278 pp.
"Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant ye
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