📣 Exciting News! "Perfect" by Rosalind Gill is Now Available Worldwide! 🌍📚
👁️🗨️ Social media is filled with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough, not pretty enough, not cool enough. Try too hard, and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’, don't try hard enough, and you're slacking.
🙌 In this thought-provoking book, Gill challenges polarized perspective that young women are either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives. The reality is much more complex.
👩💻 Gill's research uncovers the raw emotions of young women, constantly feeling watched, fearing missteps, and simultaneously grappling with the pressure to be both 'perfect' and 'real'.
🚨 "Perfect" is the wake-up call we all need in the age of social media! It's time to rethink our perspectives and understand the profound impact of these platforms on our lives.
Have you ever felt anxious when posting online?
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=perfect-feeling-judged-on-social-media--9781509549702
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What on earth IS going on in the House of Commons?: The book
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Science isn't just for scientists
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The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage became the setting where gods made their poetic interventions, resolving human impasses and contributing to the emotional synchronization of the public life of the city.
Drawing on a wide range of examples from Ancient Greek theatre to the present, Sloterdijk develops a new interpretation of religion and poetry.
His new book offers a fresh perspective on our current age in which narratives, facts and alternative facts compete with one another.
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=making-the-heavens-speak-religion-as-poetry--9781509547494
#religion #theology #literature #poetry #books
After reading this book, you will never see lichens, or the world, in the same way again.
Lichens can live everywhere, even in very harsh environments. They persist when almost all other traces of life have disappeared.
Does this mean that, despite their fragility, lichens are a force of resistance?
Can their way of life help us think afresh about the climate crisis?
The result of several years of investigation carried out on several different continents, this remarkable book offers an original, radical, and, like its subject matter, symbiotic reflection on this common but mostly invisible form of life.
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=lichens-toward-a-minimal-resistance--9781509553440
In this new book, Norman Ajari examines the ethical dimension of Black existence by using dignity as a touchstone.
Recent events like the brutal murder of George Floyd demonstrate that the Black condition is defined by indignity, that indignity is what white people try to abolish when they exert violence against Black people, and that dignity is what Black people affirm when they resist white domination.
Offering a staunch critique of the European philosophical canon, Ajari aims to recover the misunderstood history of radical Black thought and pave the way for a political ontology of emancipation.
Out now!
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=dignity-or-death-ethics-and-politics-of-race--9781509548651
“Sweeping and exquisitely composed, this book should be the first stop for anyone interested in race and digital media. Lopez deftly synthesizes the problems and possibilities that emerge in our digital world. Lovingly worn, dog-eared, and adorned with colorful tabs ‒ this is how I expect to find this book in the hands of new students and long-time scholars alike!”
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University
Lori Kido Lopez’s ‘Race and Digital Media: An Introduction’ is OUT NOW!
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=race-and-digital-media-an-introduction--9781509546923
May be of interest to: ICA Communication and Technology Division, IAMCR,Association of Internet Researchers,
“Crisp, refreshing, dramatic, informative, thoughtful, and ambitious, this is a must-have for the modern period in Spain. It breaks new ground through its energetic and even-handed attention to the four cultures of the Peninsula, changes the landscape, and opens new doors for all.”
Alison Sinclair, University of Cambridge
Jo Labanyi & Luisa Elena Delgado Delgado’s ‘Modern Literatures in Spain’ is out now! With contributions from Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, Mari Jose Olaziregi.
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=modern-literatures-in-spain--9780745634951
May be of interest to: Basque Studies, Minor Literatures, Modern Language Association
“’Semantic Media’ is an exceptional primer on the meaning-making power big tech exerts through the seemingly innocuous technologies of online search and personal assistants. Iliadis deftly demonstrates how efforts to deliver information to the consumer have far-reaching cultural consequences. A must-read for scholars and students seeking to address contemporary challenges in information and technology.”
- Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University
Andrew Iliadis’ ‘Semantic Media’ is out now!
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=semantic-media-mapping-meaning-on-the-internet--9781509542574
May be of interest to: ICA Communication and Technology Division, IAMCR, Society for Social Studies of Science - 4S
What do consumer capitalism, industrial capitalism, and plantation capitalism all have in common?
They were all fundamentally shaped by – and have catastrophically re-shaped – the environment.
In a story of ingenuity and villainy that begins in the Doge’s palace in medieval Venice and ends with Jeff Bezos aboard his spacecraft, Mark Stoll tracks the history of industrial and consumer capitalism and shows how it went hand in hand with the degradation of the environment.
See more: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=profit-an-environmental-history--9781509533237
#profit #capitalism #history #environmentalhistory #consumercapitalism #climatecrisis #book
May be of interest to: Environmental History, Environmental History, Environmental History Timeline, American Society for Environmental History, European Society for Environmental History - ESEH, Economic History, World Economic Forum, Anthropocene magazine
Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time.
The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality.
Algorithms train themselves on our data; they then train us by feeding us more of what they determine we like. They map out a space of our own for us to inhabit and discourage us from leaving that comfortable algorithmic home. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes brought about by hyperconnectivity.
Out now: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=hyperconnectivity-and-its-discontents--9781509554522
#Hyperconnectivity #digitallife #socialmedia #algorithms #culture #sociology #media #communications
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In re-focusing the discussion on violence against women and girls, Karen Ingala Smith’s new book disrupts current orthodoxies in feminism and explains why biological sex is still relevant to us all.
Out this week in the UK ↓
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=defending-womens-spaces--9781509554430
#Gender #genderidentity #biologicalsex
May be of interest to: The Radical Notion, The Gender Critical, Gender Critical Humans, Gender Critical Action Center, Women Are Human, TerfSlurred, Woman's Place UK, Fair Play For Women, ReSisters United, mumsnet.com, Radical Feminism Resources, Radical Feminists, RadFem Collective
Why do we eat what we do, when we do and where we do?
What important role does eating play in relationships?
Where is our food from, and why are some cuisines favoured over others? What are the social causes and consequences of healthy eating promotion and dieting? Why do more women than men prepare food at home, but more top chefs are male?
This is an indispensable introduction to the far-reaching role food plays in our lives.
See more 👉 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=food-society-principles-and-paradoxes-3rd-edition--9781509542239
#food #foodstudies #foodculture #agriculture #foodindustry #foodmedia #cooking #nutrition #culturalanthropology #socialanthropology #anthropology #sociology #diet #igbooks #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #indiepublishing #indiebooks #nonfiction
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