Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using
media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that …

To date, little attention has been given to the impact of big data in the Global South, about
60% of whose residents are below the poverty line. Big data manifests in novel and …

In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere,
Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a …

Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media by Marianne van den Boomen
is a material-semiotic inquiry into the constitutive role of metaphors in our daily encounters …

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove examines the entwinement of
material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record …

The emergence of the hominids, more than five million years ago, marked the start of the
human odyssey through space and time. This book deals with the last stage of this …

On February 27, 2004, 1 I contributed to the–at that moment rather heated–Dutch debate on
multiculturalism with an essay in NRC Handelsblad, one of the prominent Dutch national …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the origin and development of
“Baobáxia,” a digital network for sharing community-produced content. Baobaxia emerged in …

If the concept of the sublime had previously been used to articulate the inadequacy that the
human subject felt upon trying to represent Nature, the postmodern condition–in which …

Almost one century after Walter Benjamin's dissertation on the value of the work of art under
the impact of its technological reproduction on the roots of globalization and mass media …