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China and the Internet: Using New Media for development and Social change
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2024), 368 pp.
"Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dyna
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Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia
Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. B
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Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora
Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 205 pp.
"Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspi
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Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 171 pp.
"With the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this
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Branding Brazil: Transforming citizenship on Screen
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 207 pp.
"Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. A utopian impulse drove the reproduction of Brazilian cultural identity for local and glo
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All my Friends Live in My Computer: Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), xi, 157 pp.
"All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people
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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 142 pp.
"Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda
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Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), ix, 301 pp.
"Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today
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Radio's Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2020), xiv, 301 pp.
"One of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio's Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio's past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dom
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Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2020), 241 pp.
"Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world's population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values
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The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London: Rutgers University Press (2016), ix, 216 pp.
"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern
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Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2013), viii, 149 pp.
"Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural p
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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World
New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.
"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es
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Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes and the Question of Technology
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2009), ix, 282 pp.
Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2006), ix, 220 pp.
Give me That Online Religion
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2004), 203 pp.
The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2003), xvi, 258 pp.
"India produces more films than any other country in the world, and these works are avidly consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by the Indian communities in Australia, Britain, the Caribbean Islands, and North America. Jyotika Virdi focuses on how this dom
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