Books
Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).
MEDIA: Feeding the imagination, desires, and emotions of increasingly mobile and displaced lives, transnational media landscapes take shape.
FEMINISM: The message in the new and well-written book by the French political scientist Françoise Vergès is that Western feminists must lift their gaze…
MIGRANTS: An uneven book about people who move with a desire for a better life but encounter problems when they move «home» again.
MEDIA: Analyzing contemporary social media practices likes fake news, Geert Lovink looks toward a possible end to «platform nihilism».
MEDIA: Author Jay David Bolter provides a comprehensive description of contemporary digital culture where digital technologies facilitate and shape the creation of many diverse…
MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book…
CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings the revolutionary cinema of the 1960s alive and reminds us of the necessity of battling the ruling representations.
WAR REPORTER:Marie Colvin covered all the main conflicts of our time, always with the same aim: not only to bear witness, but to bring…
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.