Books

Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).

  • The magic of documentary filmmaking

    CINEMA: Some of the most talented documentary directors from around the world offer perspective on their approach to filmmaking.

  • Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa

    CORRUPTION: We haven't heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent…

  • About white men and machines

    AI: Recent developments in the field of intelligent machines clearly demand a reflection. The latest book by Arthur I. Miller is dedicated to this,…

  • Conversations behind the movie camera

    CINEMA: Through long-form conversations, Pamela Cohn offers a global collection of discussions on film and video as an essential medium for conveying the world's…

  • Promoting social connection

    MEDIA: Hacked Transmissions is a timely analysis of the capacity of media to foster social connection.

  • Four measures against the use-and-throw culture

    CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.

  • Filmatic rebellion

    CINEMA: Morgan Adamson's Enduring Images brings new life to the 1960s revolutionary film and reminds us of the need to fight the prevailing forms…

  • Man is like a flower

    TECHNOLOGY: We live in MODERN TIMES where artificial intelligence evolves on its own and can become our rescue, not our death.

  • Italy’s fifth mafia

    MAFIA: The Nigerian mafia smuggles both people and drugs, while threats, violence and voodoo rituals are used to force girls into prostitution.

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