[ecrea] New book: The Poetics of Digital Media

New book:

The Poetics of Digital Media, by Paul Frosh.

Published by Polity, and available in Paperback, Ebook and Hardback.

For more information please visit the book’s webpage: 
http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745651316

Short excerpt available here 
<https://www.academia.edu/37682296/The_Poetics_of_Digital_Media_-_Cover_and_Excerpt_from_Introduction>.

*Description*

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing 
them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic 
powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are 
also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect 
upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence.

The Poetics of Digital Media explores the poetic work of media in 
digital culture. Developing an argument through close readings 
of overlooked or denigrated media objects – screenshots, tagging, 
selfies and more – the book reveals how media shape the 
taken-for-granted structures of our lives, and how they disclose our 
world through sudden moments of visibility and tangibility. It 
investigates how the "given" world we inhabit is given through media.

*Endorsements*

"The Poetics of Digital Media is a groundbreaking contribution to the 
study of digital media as a technological, social and 
symbolic environment. It will be a key point of reference in the study 
of digital culture for years to come.”
- Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political Science

"When I find myself puzzled by some weird thing in digital visual 
culture, Paul Frosh is my go-to thinker. This book counters the 
wide suspicion that poetics is formalist or frivolous and shows how the 
deepest questions of justice, ethics and the public world are 
poetic ones. It is a guide for the perplexed in these digital times.”

- John Durham Peters, Yale University


*Contents*

Prologue: Monster’s Inc. as a Poetic Manifesto

1. Introduction: Media Poetics

2. Composite: The Morality of Inattention in Pre-digital Media

3. Screenshot: The "Photographic" Witnessing of Digital Worlds

4. Tag: Naming Bodies and Incarnating Selves in Social Media

5. Selfie: The Digital Image as Gesture and Performance

6. Interface: Remediated Witnessing and Embodied Response

7. Conclusion: To Infinity and Beyond


*About the Author*

Paul Frosh in a Professor in the Department of Communication and 
Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His previous books 
include The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual 
Content Industry (2003) and Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of 
Mass Communication (2011, edited with Amit Pinchevski).


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