Rethinking Media Coverage
In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the co...
Media Backends
Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional criticism to engage with infrastructural and industrial issues. This focus reflects a concern about the systemic inequalities that emerge when tech companies and designers fail to address workplace discrimination and algorithmic violence and exclusions. Moving from smart phones to smart dust, the essayists examine topics like artificial intelligence, human-machine communication, and links between digital infrastructures and public service media alongside investigations into the algorithmic backends at Netflix and Spotify,
Cultures in Orbit
In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmi...
Mona Lisa
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Planet TV
From the 1967 live satellite program "Our World" to MTV music videos in Indonesia, from French television in Senegal to the global syndication of African American sitcoms, and from representations of terrorism on German television to the...
Down to Earth
Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, technological innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of the satellite industry. Satellite projects that...
Signal Traffic
The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and...
Undead TV
When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release, and merchandising, as well as in the memories o...
Star Trek Cats
Captain's log: We have entered a galaxy where beloved illustrator Jenny Parks has conjured an astonishingly vivid homage to the original Star Trek series with an unexpected twist: a cast of cats. Featuring a hilarious new take on iconic characters...
Field Folly Snow
The poems in this collection are meditations on the natural world, written from the perspective of what Li-Young Lee has aptly termed "a passionate interiority." The history and geography of the American West inspire many of the poems' i...
BraveTart
If you have ever marvelled at a flawless slice of cherry pie in a television bake-off and wondered if you could re-create it at home, BraveTart is for you. Here are recipes for one-bowl Devil's Food Layer Cake, Blueberry Muffins, Glossy Fudge Brow...
Date Knight
'An enchanting blend of Olivia Dade's warmth and the adventurous spirit of A Knight's Tale, all wrapped up in a spicy romcom that left me grinning from ear to ear.' NetGalley Reader on You've Got Chain Mail **The brand new gaming romcom for 2025 is available to pre-order now! And if you haven't read You've Got Chain Mail, it's available now.** Each book in the Roll for Romance series can be read as a standalone. A side quest he never saw coming... Phil Owen has it all figured out - or rather his character in his weekly role-playing game does. In real life? Not so much. When his best friend's sister Amy Evans returned home broken hearted six months ago, inviting her to join the game seemed like the kind thing to do. But now, all it's done is given her another way to drive him crazy, in more ways than one. Yet when an unwelcome character from Amy's past turns up in her present, Phil gets to play the hero in real life. His quest? Three months as Amy's fake boyfriend, and a chance to turn fantasy into reality... Readers love the Roll for Romance series: 'The characters are loveable, the humour is spot-on, and the romance is heartwarming. A perfect feel-good read!' 'This book was so entertaining that I read it in a single day. Short but sweet and I loved the role-playing game part' 'This book felt like it was made for me: D&D, Renaissance Faire, costumes, romance, competency' 'A cute feel good plot with some nice chemistry' 'What a fabulous slow burn!! This is completely different to any romance book I've ever read... loved the story line along size the sweet romance' 'The characters were complex. The plot was well written and compelling, and the story was interesting.' 'THIS IS LITERALLY SO GOOD. I can't express how much I love this. Cheers to the author for writing this masterpiece'
Italian Life
'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The Times How does Italy really work? When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she h...
Season With Verona
'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' Guardian Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguise...
Out of My Head
Is my experience real? Or just a movie in my head? Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens in there. Yet even the most sophisticated brain scan cannot tell us who we are. Nothing in our n...
Hotel Milano
From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past, he flies, oblivious, into the epicentre of a crisis he has barely registered on the news.It is spring, his luxury hotel offers every imaginable comfort; perhaps he will be able to weather the situation and return home unscathed? What Frank doesn't know is that he's about to make a discovery that will change his heart and his mind.Hotel Milano is a universal story from a unique moment in recent history: a book about the kindness of strangers, and about a complicated man who, faced with the possibility of saving a life, must also take stock of his own.
Italian Ways
'All Italy is here' Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty y...
