[Commlist] New book: Media Imaginaries: a critical playbook

New book

Media Imaginaries: a critical playbook
Edited by Annette Hill, Joke Hermes and Simon Dawes
ISBN 9781835954652 Paperback 242pp
https://www.intellectbooks.com/media-imaginaries

How do media shape ways of being in the world? This collection explores 
media imaginaries as a tool for reflection.

Media imaginaries are shapeshifters. The term refers to the cultural and 
infrastructural work of texts and artifacts, audience engagement and 
experiences, and commercial and civic organizations. The authors in this 
volume empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries in all 
their diversity, providing space for dialogue on themes of 
political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological imaginaries, and 
reflecting imaginaries.

The volume explores how media affect both real and imagined experiences, 
examining the interplay of media practice, culture, and imagination 
across past, present, and future contexts. It highlights the impact of 
AI-enabled content and media ecologies on everyday life globally, 
offering fresh insights for media and cultural studies.

Annette Hill is professor of media and communications at Jönköping 
University, Sweden. Joke Hermes holds the Erik de Vries chair at the 
University of Amsterdam, and she is professor of inclusion and creative 
industries at Inholland University, Netherlands. Simon Dawes is a senior 
lecturer at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

Media Imaginaries: An Introduction

Annette Hill, Joke Hermes, and Simon Dawes


PART 1: SOCIAL-POLITICAL IMAGINARIES

1. The Liberal Media Imaginary
Simon Dawes

2. Imagining the Democratic Role of News: A Comparative Study of UK and 
German News Websites during COVID-19
Imke Henkel and Tim Markham

3. ‘Everybody Frames’: Uncovering the Media Imaginaries Beneath 
Divergent News Repertoires
Maria Bakardjieva and Jian Chung Lee

4. ‘Meme-aginaries’ of Political Violence: Analysing Audience Engagement 
with Memetic Imaginaries of Northern Ireland
Martin Lundqvist


PART 2: CULTURAL-TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGINARIES

5. Imagining, Layering and Streaming Infrastructures
Annette Hill, Niloufar Hajirahimikalhroudi, and Long Nguyen

6. The AI Popular Music Imaginary: Issues of Copyright, Agential 
Creativity, and Anthropocentrism in YouTube Discourse
Melissa Avdeeff

7. Like Unfulfilling Work: Swedish Parents, Everyday Life and the Media 
Imaginary around Screen Time
Magnus Johansson

8. Researching ‘Imaginaries’ in Media, Communication and Cultural 
Studies: Emerging Methodological Reflections
Rebecca Bramall and Mercè Oliva


PART 3: REFLECTING IMAGINARIES

9. Reaction Media Imaginaries
Michael Rubsamen and Joanna Doona

10. Probing Our Memory Ecology
Christian Hviid Mortensen

11. The Decolonial Imaginaries-Work of Indigenous Futurisms
Ian Reilly

12. Queering Media Suggestion from Mass Hysteria to AI Deception: 
Inventing Imaginaries for More Just and Equitable Media Futures
Lisa Blackman
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