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03/2018 DP www.press.uillinois.edu Geopolitics of Information Jack Linchuan Qiu A Manifesto for Digital Abolition Sign up for our Book News emails! Goodbye iSlave A Manifesto for Digital Abolition JACK LINCHUAN QIU Lifting the silicon heel from workers’ lives. “This remarkable dissection of twenty-first cen- tury global iSlavery, rooted in Qiu’s on-the-ground and comparative historical research, gives a high-voltage jolt to complacent iCitizens—and examples of what to do next.” —John D.H. Downing, editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media 248 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 7 b & w photos, 6 line drawings, 1 chart. 2016. Paperback 978-0-252-08212-2. $24.95; E-book Signal Traffic Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures EDITED BY LISA PARKS AND NICOLE STAROSIELSKI “Finally, a definitive collection on infrastructure studies. Moving from compression to geopolitics to platforms, this book crystalizes what’s at stake in moving media studies away from focusing on what appears on our screen towards how content travels.”—Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics 304 pp. 6 x 9. 36 b & w photos, 2 charts, 1 table. 2015. Paperback 978-0-252-08087-6. $28.00; E-book Best Edited Collection Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Media in New Turkey The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State BILGE YESIL “A very timely and enlightening book. . . . Yesil uses considerable informal interview content as well as reference to abundant published sources to pro- vide an excellent review of the processes that have undermined the rule of law in Turkey.”—Choice “A very well-researched book. Everyone interested in contemporary Turkey’s grim media landscape should read it.”—Hurriyet Daily News 230 pp. 6 x 9. 2 tables. 2016. Paperback 978-0-252-08165-1. $28.00; E-book Geopolitics of Information SERIES EDITORS: Dan Schiller, Yuezhi Zhao, Amanda Ciafone PLEASE DIRECT ALL QUESTIONS AND SUBMISSIONS TO: Daniel Nasset , Senior Acquisitions Editor University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak St. Champaign, IL 61820-6903 [email protected] Networking China The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy YU HONG “In great detail and with the careful reflection of a seasoned scholar, Yu Hong describes the as- tounding growth of digital technology in China and its complex and powerful ramifications at home and abroad.”—Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World 238 pp. 6 x 9. 3 charts, 12 tables. 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08239-9. $28.00; E-book The Media Commons Globalization and Environmental Discourses PATRICK D. MURPHY ”Murphy skillfully unpacks the links among the in- stitutions, ideology, and messages of global media systems and our imaginaries of the environment. The result is a scathing critique of the absorp- tive capacity of a market-driven, ‘Promethean’ discourse that elides social agency in response to our global ecological tensions.”—Robert Cox, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environ- ment and Communication 208 pp. 6 x 9. 1 table. 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08253-5. $28.00; E-book Digital Depression Information Technology and Economic Crisis DAN SCHILLER “Schiller has outdone himself this time . . . . Schiller puts on an amazing performance juggling his well-placed emphasis on the role of the U.S. policy system, with the need to take note of changes taking place within the European com- munity, and the rapidly rising power and influence being exercised on a global scale by government and corporate actors in China and India.” —Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 376 pp. 6 x 9. 2014. Paperback 978-0-252-08032-6. $28.00; E-book Media, Geopolitics, and Power A View from the Global South HERMAN WASSERMAN “Wasserman’s book would surely be deemed as one of the most powerful articulations from the Global South, urging media professionals and scholars to rethink and recontextualize global journalism in this post-West, post-order, post-truth world.”—Anbin Shi, Tsinghua University 232 pp. 6 x 9. 2018. Paperback 978-0-252-08326-6. $28.00; E-book
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Geopolitics of Information
Jack Linchuan Qiu
A Manifesto for Digital Abolition
Sign up for our Book News emails!
Goodbye iSlaveA Manifesto for Digital AbolitionJACK LINCHUAN QIULifting the silicon heel from workers’ lives.
“This remarkable dissection of twenty-first cen-tury global iSlavery, rooted in Qiu’s on-the-ground and comparative historical research, gives a high-voltage jolt to complacent iCitizens—and examples of what to do next.” —John D.H. Downing, editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
248 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 7 b & w photos, 6 line drawings, 1 chart. 2016. Paperback 978-0-252-08212-2. $24.95; E-book
Signal TrafficCritical Studies of Media InfrastructuresEDITED BY LISA PARKS AND NICOLE STAROSIELSKI“Finally, a definitive collection on infrastructure studies. Moving from compression to geopolitics to platforms, this book crystalizes what’s at stake in moving media studies away from focusing on what appears on our screen towards how content travels.”—Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
304 pp. 6 x 9. 36 b & w photos, 2 charts, 1 table. 2015. Paperback 978-0-252-08087-6. $28.00; E-bookBest Edited Collection Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Media in New TurkeyThe Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal StateBILGE YESIL“A very timely and enlightening book. . . . Yesil uses considerable informal interview content as well as reference to abundant published sources to pro-vide an excellent review of the processes that have undermined the rule of law in Turkey.”—Choice
“A very well-researched book. Everyone interested in contemporary Turkey’s grim media landscape should read it.”—Hurriyet Daily News
230 pp. 6 x 9. 2 tables. 2016. Paperback 978-0-252-08165-1. $28.00; E-book
Geopolitics of InformationSerieS editorS: Dan Schiller, Yuezhi Zhao, Amanda Ciafone
PleaSe direct all queStionS and SubmiSSionS to:
Daniel Nasset , Senior Acquisitions Editor University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak St. Champaign, IL 61820-6903 [email protected]
Networking ChinaThe Digital Transformation of the Chinese EconomyYU HONG“In great detail and with the careful reflection of a seasoned scholar, Yu Hong describes the as-tounding growth of digital technology in China and its complex and powerful ramifications at home and abroad.”—Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World
238 pp. 6 x 9. 3 charts, 12 tables. 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08239-9. $28.00; E-book
The Media CommonsGlobalization and Environmental DiscoursesPATRICK D. MURPHY”Murphy skillfully unpacks the links among the in-stitutions, ideology, and messages of global media systems and our imaginaries of the environment. The result is a scathing critique of the absorp-tive capacity of a market-driven, ‘Promethean’ discourse that elides social agency in response to our global ecological tensions.”—Robert Cox, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environ-ment and Communication
208 pp. 6 x 9. 1 table. 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08253-5. $28.00; E-book
Digital DepressionInformation Technology and Economic CrisisDAN SCHILLER“Schiller has outdone himself this time . . . . Schiller puts on an amazing performance juggling his well-placed emphasis on the role of the U.S. policy system, with the need to take note of changes taking place within the European com-munity, and the rapidly rising power and influence being exercised on a global scale by government and corporate actors in China and India.” —Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
376 pp. 6 x 9. 2014. Paperback 978-0-252-08032-6. $28.00; E-book
Media, Geopolitics, and PowerA View from the Global SouthHERMAN WASSERMAN“Wasserman’s book would surely be deemed as one of the most powerful articulations from the Global South, urging media professionals and scholars to rethink and recontextualize global journalism in this post-West, post-order, post-truth world.”—Anbin Shi, Tsinghua University
232 pp. 6 x 9. 2018. Paperback 978-0-252-08326-6. $28.00; E-book
