OUT NOW: TOD#39 Lives of Data edited by Sandeep Mertia

By Chloë Arkenbout, December 15, 2020

Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities of big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding under the long shadows cast by infra/structural inequalities, colonialism, modernization, and national sovereignty. This [...]

Out Now: TOD#37 From Opinions to Images by Ulus Baker

By Eleni Maragkou, October 22, 2020

“Baker’s first extensive translation to English provides us with a much-needed intervention for re-imagining social thought and visual media, at a time when sociology tends to be reduced to an analysis of ‘big data’, and the pedagogical powers of the image are reduced to data visualization and infographics.” From the book’s back cover. Ulus Baker [...]

Out now: Theory On Demand #31-Media Do Not Exist

By Valeria Pugliese, November 4, 2019

Out now: Theory On Demand #31- Media Do Not Exist INC is happy to announce the publication of Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati. You can download and read the book here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod31-media-do-not-exist/

Out Now: TOD #28: Communities at a Crossroads by Annalisa Pelizza

By Barbara Dubbeldam, January 29, 2019

INC is happy to announce the publication of Theory on Demand #28: Communities at a Crossroads: Material semiotics for online sociability in the fade of cyberculture by Annalisa Pelizza.

TOD #47: Failurists – When Things go Awry

By Tommaso Campagna, April 5, 2023

Theory on Demand #47 Failurists – When Things go Awry Edited by Sybille Lammes, Kat Jungnickel, Larissa Hjorth & Jen Rae Failure is a popular topic of research. It has long been a source of study in fields such as sociology and anthropology, science and technology studies, privacy and surveillance, [...]

TOD #46: Economies of Virtue – The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI

By jasmin, December 12, 2022

Theory on Demand #46 Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann AI ethics has never been far from the industries it sought to critique. While originally designed to bring values such as fairness, accountability and transparency to Big Tech and its products, [...]

TOD #45: Overload, Creep, Excess – An Internet from India

By jasmin, October 27, 2022

Theory on Demand #45 Overload, Creep, Excess – An Internet from India Nishant Shah, Ashish Rajadhyaskha, Nafis Hasan Foreword – Chinmayi Arun This book locates India’s flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life. Three essays provide independent perspectives on a common area of inquiry, an [...]

TOD #44: Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses

By Maria van der Togt, July 15, 2022

Theory on Demand #44 Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses edited by Maria van der Togt and 11111 &23%#719 This publication marks the first results of the Tactical Media Room Ukraine project, launched in February 2022 in Amsterdam after the shocking Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tactical Media Room is a network [...]

TOD #43: Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

By Maria van der Togt, June 7, 2022

Theory on Demand #43 Freire and the Perseverance of Hope – Exploring Communication and Social Change Edited by Ana Cristina Suzina & Thomas Tufte. The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st Century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of Education and Social [...]

Out now: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, On Editorialization, TOD #26

By Miriam Rasch, March 13, 2018

We are pleased to announce the publication of On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age by Marcello Vitali-Rosati. The 26th edition in the Theory on Demand series can be freely downloaded as pdf or epub here. In On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Marcello Vitali-Rosati examines how authority [...]