The last book recommendation from our #MediaEnvironments series is Samia Henni’s book »Colonial Toxicity«, published last year by If I Can’t Dance.
https://ificantdance.org/product/colonial-toxicity-rehearsing-french-radioactive-architecture-and-landscape-in-the-sahara/
We were so happy to have Samia Henni with us this week for her #MediaEnvironment lecture on the nuclear bomb programme in the #Algeria which was based on the book: https://u-si.de/8wlBX
We highly recommend it!
#Surveillance #ColonialToxicity

This week, we recommend a re-read of Donald MacKenzie’s paper, co-written with Koray Caliskan and Charlotte Rommerskirchen, on »The longest second: Header bidding and the material politics of online advertising«, published in 2023 in Economy&Society. 📄 https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2023.2238463 MacKenzie is an STS sociologist & joined us this week for his online lecture on »Opening Up Opaque Infrastructures« in our #MediaEnvironment series: https://u-si.de/Pot64.
#surveillance #mediastudies #adtech #platforms

UK's news sector faces critical threats to independence and sustainability: House of Lords report warns of media environment fracturing along social and economic lines within 5-10 years. https://ppc.land/uks-news-sector-faces-critical-threats-to-independence-and-sustainability/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #UKNews #MediaIndependence #Sustainability #HouseOfLords #MediaEnvironment

@detritus And what he came to contradict ( #ContradictoryVaudeville politics )

is a quote from a 1988 book titled "Power of Myth" with former White House director #BillMoyers and 82 year old Professor Joseph Campbell of Sarah Lawrence College.

Instead of going offline, escaping the #MediaEnvironment of #RealityMastodon to READ THE BOOK from 1988 - to get details of what Joseph Campbell was saying at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch California in 1987 - immediately contradicts Campbell.