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How digital technologies entrench state power - and a new vision for resistance

As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communities, The Carceral Surround offers a powerful new theory of police and prison power in the digital age. Making sense of the rapid expansion of digital carceral infrastructure in a nation that claims to value freedom and individual rights, R. Joshua Scannell moves beyond familiar debates over privacy to show that understanding digital policing requires confronting the political and racial logics that sustain police power.

Drawing on digital media theory, science and technology studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and carceral theory, The Carceral Surround reveals how twenty-first-century policing is less about managing crime than about governing possibility. Carceral power now operates across every register of daily life through predictive analytics, risk modeling, and algorithmic systems that track, sort, and preempt. From social media archives and facial recognition software to satellite mapping and radiation sensors, Scannell charts how seemingly disparate media converge into an environment of control that links technocratic governance to the maintenance of racial hierarchy and capitalist order.

Tracing today's technoauthoritarian regime from the NYPD's assault on Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 to the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's campaign to end predictive policing contracts, The Carceral Surround is a rare hybrid of critique and refusal, illuminating the digital logic of US authoritarianism while imagining pathways for collective resistance beyond its grasp.

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Creating communities of care in the digital world

Data Fluencies offers a model for enacting theories of data justice, methods of community engagement, and practical approaches to disrupting institutions and infrastructures that have diminished the capacities of everyday digital technology users. Combining humanities-based critical thinking, computational data analyses, arts-based research cocreation, and media making, data fluencies offer creative and imaginative approaches to investigating and countering algorithmic discrimination, digital surveillance, mis- and disinformation, and deep fake versions of reality.

Not fixed or static, data fluencies move with, through, and against data streams to build the worlds we want, not the ones algorithms push on us. Presenting real-world examples, the authors demonstrate how data fluencies transcend difference and counter the proliferation of hate and toxicity online. As they outline visions for disrupting the past to reimagine the future, the authors guide the way in devising new ways to think, act, and imagine - to influence and reshape the currents that flow through our data-driven world.

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This book offers a fresh way of understanding Olympic ceremonies by presenting them as living systems shaped by people, technology, and shared emotion. It argues that these events act as future-making mechanisms, guided by "multitudes" of artists, policymakers, and soft activists who collectively shape what ceremonies can express and imagine.

Across its five chapters, the book shows how Olympic ceremonies operate as "relational machines" in which social groups interact with computational, technological, and audiovisual installations. This perspective reveals the limits placed on creative freedom, while also highlighting the non-utilitarian, atmospheric, and affective nature of ceremonial events. Through examples such as the Paris 2024 opening ceremony, it explores how designers balance official expectations with imaginative storytelling, exposing the tensions that define modern large-scale public gatherings.

The book will appeal to students and scholars of international events and Olympic culture, as well as professional bodies, organisers of major ceremonies, and sports journalists.

Facial recognition technology is one of the defining surveillance technologies of our time, and as the technology continues to develop it is urgently important to consider the ways in which it amplifies and reconfigures power relations.

While much of the critical work on facial recognition technology has focused on bias and accuracy, this book considers the social, cultural, and political implications of a surveillance technology poised to dramatically transform our experience of anonymity in shared and public space. Drawing on a series of case studies to explore how existing logics of digital surveillance are transformed when physical space is equipped with automated recognition, the book develops several defining concepts for understanding what this level of surveillance means for strategies of governance and control. Long the object of physiognomic calculations, the face, as subjected to automated forms of data collection, is now already being used to predict everything from people's future career success to their potential for criminality. Further, as the authors show, as "smart" cameras proliferate, society moves into a post-panoptic realm in which people are actually being watched all the time. This shift from surveillance scarcity to glut allows "pattern-of-life" analysis on a mass scale, aiding in the customization of both physical and informational environments at the level of the individual and enabling the ongoing replacement of human-to-human interactions with automated human-to-machine ones - a process the authors describe as a "social recession."

This book is aimed at social science researchers (e.g., psychology, criminology, sociology) from all levels of study (undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD, and post-doctoral) looking to develop a research project which focuses on a sensitive topic area (e.g., crime, sexual health, sexual habits, drug taking, mental health, eating disorders, domestic violence), and/or are recruiting participants from a sensitive/clinical population (e.g., children, offenders, people who are drug dependent). The book also discusses how to manage emerging issues that can impact on research on sensitive topics (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of artificial intelligence).

This book supports researchers in developing appropriate methodologies as well as thinking critically about ethics when working on sensitive topics. Its authors also offer advice on maintaining professionalism and being part of a successful research collaboration, along with how to share the results of sensitive projects appropriately. There is also a chapter dedicated to looking after yourself as a researcher. As such, this book is centred around encouraging the researcher to take a non-judgemental approach, reinforcing the importance of self-care whilst researching sensitive populations and utilising evidence-based, ethical practice.

With a lethal cocktail of a global pandemic, strong man politics and rampant inequality, the summer of 2020 wasn't great. But something unexpected was afoot: sparked by the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, an unprecedented national conversation unfolded in Britain that summer about racism, social injustice and the legacies of the British Empire.

Taking the reader back to those tumultuous days, Tom Bentley frames the culture war over the British Empire as a struggle over common sense. Scrutinising the arguments of self-styled moderates, Bentley examines the pitches for common sense offered by those in the business of taming critical perspectives. At its heart, this is an optimistic book, and Bentley exposes the brittleness of these supposedly commonsense narratives. In doing so, he captures how apologists for the British Empire are increasingly finding themselves on the back foot.

The definitive history of go-go music and culture

Go-go is the heart and soul of Washington, DC's African American culture-a source of resilience for the community and a way to celebrate Black lives. As the soundtrack of the District since the mid-1970s, go-go was designated the official music of Washington in 2020, and it has been incorporated into music genres such as hip-hop and R&B for decades.

Crankin! offers a rich narrative packed with photos that highlight go-go's key figures, bands, and moments-spanning fifty years from its beginnings all the way to its central role in the #BLM protests in 2020 and the #DontMuteDC and Moechella movements. This sweeping history of go-go music culture details the life of Chuck Brown, the "godfather of go-go," and documents the history of the genre's early pioneers, Trouble Funk, Rare Essence, and Experience Unlimited (EU). The book also covers EU's 1988 number one hit, "Da Butt," go-go's gospel and grown 'n' sexy subgenres, go-go's international impact, the bouncebeat sound, go-go lifestyles, activism, and, finally, the homecoming as go-go artists brought Chuck Brown's African-inspired beat to Africa.

Crankin! will entertain and inform fans of go-go as well as African American and American-created music; musicologists; scholars of American culture and subcultures; and readers interested in DC history.

The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink chronicles the rise of the press through the Civil War and how its coverage of Gettysburg not only misled the people of two warring factions but also misshaped the battle's meaning for generations to come. As Matthew J. Larson reveals, newsmen on both sides transformed the battle into what they needed it to be rather than what it truly was. While the Northern press elevated Gettysburg into America's Waterloo, the Southern press polished it into another hard-won success for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In both cases, facts bent to bias, narrative eclipsed reality, and Gettysburg itself became the final casualty.

Effective oral academic communication is central to multilingual students' engagement as learners and their success in academic and professional domains. This Brief Instructional Guide provides readers with an established set of principles and a pedagogical toolkit for teaching oral academic communication to multilingual international students with a specific focus on genre-based instruction and multimodality. It covers standard oral genres such as presentations and class discussions, as well as a wide variety of communicative genres that enable students to gain rhetorical awareness and communicative competence.

This book introduces a model course design and its guiding principles, then explicitly describes a variety of oral communication assignments that promote engaged learning, including steps in the instructional sequence, tips for teaching, and sample guidance to be shared with students. It emphasizes the importance of leveraging students' cultural and linguistic strengths and global experiences to promote their agency as learners. The principles and practices described in this book are grounded in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) context, but are easily adaptable to other instructional settings and teaching modalities. Implementing a genre-based and multimodal approach helps build students' rhetorical awareness, increases their communicative capacity, and enables them to participate actively in their academic discourse communities.

This book attempts to understand the impact of context collapse on the process of interpersonal interaction by applying an interdisciplinary and interactive perspective. This book systematically explains the impact of context collapse on social behavior by cognitive communication mechanism. Social science and computer system research is the general scope. Social media technology mixes originally heterogeneous audiences into the same context. As a result, people cannot manage multiple identities for online interactions using traditional offline conversation methods. The lack of boundaries in social media platforms in terms of space, time, and social psychology makes it difficult for people to maintain different social environments simultaneously online. Scholars use the concept of "context collapse" to describe how people, information, and norms permeate from one context to another in social media. Context collapse has both advantages and disadvantages and may bring potential positive or negative consequences.

This book provides a thorough analysis of the notion of social wrong and the idea of social pathology. It addresses questions such as: What does it mean for something to be socially wrong? Why do social philosophers keep "diagnosing" wrongs as "social pathologies"? And is something a pathology because it is wrong, or is it rather a wrong because it is pathological? By constructing an analytical framework of social wrongs and developing the idea of wrongness-with, the book seeks to support critical social thought. While taking societal and structural injustices seriously as paradigm cases of social wrongs, it also offers a comprehensive elaboration of social pathologies as social wrongs. It provides a map of four conceptions of social pathology and contends that only one of them, organicism, must be completely rejected, while the other views may contribute to a critical understanding of social reality. It further elaborates a "natural-historical" view according to which social pathologies as well as their diagnosis and cure are part and parcel of social life. It tests the usefulness of this conception by examining diagnoses of contemporary capitalism in terms of metabolic rift, economic compulsion, and capitalist cannibalization. These diagnoses exemplify three types of pathologies of social life: pathologies of reproduction, pathologies of transformation, and pathologies of mediating the reproductive and transformative pressures of social life.

This edited book provides a structured introduction to the key sociological theorists and theories relevant to understanding the phenomenon of school bullying. Each chapter includes an introduction to the theorist and key concepts, an overview of previous research, an analysis of one or more empirical examples using the concepts, and a discussion of implications and potential for future research. The book will be a much-needed resource for researchers, students and practitioners interested in school bullying from a sociological perspective.

A compelling call to transform isolation into solidarity and turn shared action into lasting change

Liberation Is Other People offers a bold and timely exploration of how we confront the immense, interconnected challenges of our time. It begins with the truth that many of the crises we face - climate collapse, war, systemic inequality - are human-made and therefore humanly transformable. Yet such "wicked problems" cannot be solved by individuals alone. Every attempt to repair exposes how deeply our lives are entangled across histories of power, privilege, and vulnerability.

Rejecting the idea that personal virtue or guilt can solve the world's problems, Alexis Shotwell offers a philosophy and practice of collective freedom through collective struggle. Drawing on thinkers such as Angela Davis and Ursula K. Le Guin, she argues that freedom is not the power to act alone but the capacity to shape the world with others. Through sustained engagement with climate politics, white settler responsibility, and the reimagining of sexuality and gender, Liberation Is Other People shows how embracing complicity and acknowledging that none of us stand outside the systems we wish to change can open new possibilities for solidarity and transformation.

Rather than a call to purity or perfection, Liberation Is Other People is a vision of politics as a shared, necessarily imperfect process of creation. Shotwell builds a compelling case that solidarity can be a source of joy, inspiration, and political power. In an age of division and isolation, Shotwell insists that our greatest possibility lies not in fixing the world by our individual selves but in remaking it-together.

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This book offers a pioneering investigation into how multimodal speech acts, particularly compliments, are perceived, interpreted, and evaluated across cultural and technological contexts. Introducing the Multimodal Compliment Perception Model, it offers a fresh framework for understanding evaluative practices in everyday interaction.

Drawing on pragmatics and (im)politeness research, it examines how factors like culture, age, gender, and personality shape compliment perception, and how different modalities-text, emoji, audio, video, gesture-impact evaluations in digital and face-to-face settings. Using mixed methods and data from over 400 participants across Chinese, Swiss German, and English-speaking backgrounds, the study develops three innovative tools to measure perceptions of sincerity, politeness, and emotional authenticity. The book contributes to multimodal pragmatics by extending facework and relational work into dynamic, culturally sensitive environments. It offers practical tools for researchers in speech act theory, intercultural pragmatics, and digital sociolinguistics.

Aimed at scholars in pragmatics, especially (im)politeness, speech act theory, and multimodal interaction, this book offers both theoretical insights and practical tools for analyzing digital and embodied communication. It's also a valuable resource for researchers in intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, gesture studies, multimodal analysis, and digital sociolinguistics.

This essential work collects Susan Taubes's philosophical and critical writings, establishing her as one of the most remarkable philosophical minds of the 20th century. At the centerpiece of the volume is Susan Taubes's dissertation on Simone Weil, "The Absent God", and also included are her previously published essays and reviews on Weil, Heidegger, Jean Genet and Albert Camus, as well as an unpublished fragment on Franz Kafka. Taken together, these rigorously philosophical works show Taubes to be a thinker preoccupied with seeking out a lexicon - of myth and symbol, image and narrative - by which to articulate the conundrum of how to live and die in a cosmos saturated with meaning but devoid of divinity. There has been a surge of interest in Taubes following the recent republication of her novels Divorcing and Lament for Julia. With an incisive introduction by Sarah Hammerschlag, this volume provides the necessary supplement to her fictional corpus, tracking Taubes's transformation from philosopher to novelist, while revealing Taubes to be not only an extraordinary literary voice but a profound scholarly one as well.

This book approaches non-monogamy and mononormativity with a cultural studies sensibility. Drawing on interviews with people in non-monogamous relationships as well as media and political discourse, legal case studies, blogs and self-help texts, it explores how intimate cultures emerge within specific contexts. The way mononormativity appears in contemporary Australian intimate culture is used as an occasion to explore how intimate practices are situated: local institutions, discourses and cultural dynamics shape the way people think about, experience and practice intimate relationships.

This book is a collection of contributions by researchers working in various fields of humanities and cultural studies with a focus on the most important contemporary terms needed to understand the Korean Wave (Hallyu) and Korean studies. In recent decades, Hallyu has evolved far beyond the export of Korean popular culture or the commercial success of individual media products. It has become a complex, multilayered cultural formation-one that no longer lends itself to simple explanations. As such, Hallyu persistently raises new questions, inviting scholars to rethink existing frameworks and stimulating fresh intellectual engagements around the world. Twenty-nine researchers across a diverse range of subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences have contributed their expertise. Their academic work, conducted across Korea, the United States, Italy, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and beyond, lends this volume its breadth and depth. The entries assembled here encompass both the core concepts that currently anchor Hallyu scholarship and the emerging keywords that offer promising avenues for future research.

This work was supported by the Fostering a New Wave of K-Academics Program of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS) at the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2021-KDA-1250004).

This book investigates the spatial relations between digital media and society, relying on Marshall McLuhan's probes into the effects of communication technology. It argues that McLuhan's ideas may be relevant to understanding how contemporary space, digital media, and society adapt to one another. This aim is pursued in three steps. First, McLuhan's media theory is discussed with a focus on the effects of media in structuring the conditions of space perception at both the individual and the social levels. The concepts of visual and acoustic space are examined in relation to mechanical and electric media, respectively. Second, McLuhan's lifelong interest in the city as a learning environment is contrasted with his claim that cities are obsolete vis-a-vis the global village of instant electronic communication. The contradiction is more apparent than real, as McLuhan imagined a future for cities as programmed environments for the sensory training of citizens and actively engaged in discussions with urban planners and designers. Third, McLuhan's insights are extended beyond his time to make sense of the current relationship between digital media, space, and urban society. The evolution of cyberspace from a virtual realm to its hybridisation with physical space is traced across both literary and scholarly sources. The effects of a hybrid space concept on urban planning and design approaches in the digital age are explored. McLuhan's legacy, with its humanistic breadth, enables an understanding of the present media ecology that moves beyond the efficiency-oriented paradigm of the smart city discourse. The book bridges technological consciousness and social responsibility in the fields of space theory and spatial planning. It targets an audience that is open to interdisciplinary dialogue between science and the humanities to promote sustainable cities and communities.

This edited collection aims to identify memories and perceptions of African subjects who lived the process of struggle for independence and the experience of colonial wars, shaping their identity on the negotiation between personal memory and the narrative proposed by official history. It also includes memories of those who have experienced these periods in the colonial metropolis, which allow the contributors to compare the narratives centered on European memories of Africa and what was experienced in the African continent. The book explores how oral culture can become the domestic space of people who had to leave the African continent and had to recreate their identities inside a different society, quite often the colonizers' one, and how their life abroad has been shaped by the recreation of their linguistic social and culture paradigm through the memory of their oral culture.

Modern sociology and modern socialism were born at the same time and developed in conversation with each other - a link that is obvious in the work of Marx, but also visible in that of Durkheim, Weber, and Du Bois, among others. However, the extent of this overlap is yet to be fully realized. Theories of Emancipation: Sociology and Socialism at the turn of the Twentieth Century uncovers this relationship to argue that the concepts, questions, and theories that are foundational to the discipline emerged in conversation with, and in reaction to, the political and intellectual movements of the turn of the twentieth century socialist left.

Aaron Major argues that paying attention to the early influence of socialism on the discipline opens a new pathway for advancing central debates around personhood and agency. This book places canonical texts within their broader political and intellectual context, and in so doing offers novel insight into some of the discipline's most pressing concerns. A reimagining of sociology's history also informs current conversations about its future trajectory by reasserting its aspirations to higher, moral ends. Theories of Emancipation recovers a relationship between social science and human emancipation that has largely been displaced or forgotten.

In recent years, the term "mission-driven" has become so ubiquitous, it is difficult to determine what organizations are not mission-driven. Its ubiquitousness signals something important, however: that we expect organizations to be moral actors that hold beliefs.

In this book, Sorcha A. Brophy describes organizational politics that occur around the creation of policies on hot button topics like gay marriage, racial diversity, and abortion, arguing that regardless of whether or not members of organizations abide by ethics standards, the creation of these standards matters a great deal. Rather than serving primarily as a resource for guiding daily practice, organizational ethics standards are chiefly important because their creation (or adjustment) provides opportunities for organization members to engage with an imagined moral infrastructure. By creating and repairing ethics standards, members are able to understand their actions as guided by a systematic design and undergirded by stable principles.

In practice, these moral infrastructures are not actually comprehensively designed, or truly stable. Consequently, there is ongoing work that organizations must engage in to repair perceived inconsistencies in the moral infrastructure. Brophy shines a light on this backstage work done by "custodians" at the center of organizations to maintain, and repair underlying moral infrastructures.