[ecrea] Digital Orientations (New Book)

If you've received this email it's because I hope - based on what I know 
of your work (in various fields or disciplines) - that you might be 
interested in a newly published book of mine, which I'd like to bring to 
your attention...

Digital Orientations: Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and 
Non-Representational Theories of Practice (New York: Peter Lang, Digital 
Formations Series, 2018).

Digital Orientations is a book that's as much about the deft movements 
of fingers or 'digits' as it is about digital media technologies, and 
readers are encouraged to understand 'digital' media as manual media 
(think of hands that manipulate a computer keyboard or the finger that 
routinely slides and taps on the touch-screen of a smart-phone). It's 
also a book that insists on situating media and their uses in relation 
to a far broader range of quotidian technologies and practices - 
calling, in what might appear to be a contradiction in terms, for 
'non-media-centric' media studies, and ultimately for the institutional 
establishment of an interdisciplinary field of everyday-life studies. 
There's a bold call, too, for non-media-centric media studies of a 
particular sort - with a 'non-representational' theoretical emphasis - 
arguing that greater attention needs to be paid to 
bodily-knowledge-in-movement or to matters of orientation and habitation 
(with rather less attention being paid to matters of symbolic 
representation and cognitive interpretation).

The book engages with writings from across the humanities and social 
sciences, drawing on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological philosophy, 
Ingold's anthropology, the geographies of Massey, Seamon and Thrift, and 
the sociologies of Bourdieu, Sudnow and Urry. It makes the case for a 
perspective that de-centres media whilst acknowledging their distinctive 
affordances, and for an approach which is both anti-structuralist and 
anti-rationalist (but in a way that remains committed to the 
investigation of cultural meanings and social differences).

Peter Lang Website:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/83228?tab=aboutauthor&format=PBK

Amazon Books (with 'Look Inside' facility):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Orientations-Non-Media-Centric-Non-Representational-Formations/dp/1433145642/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523548217&sr=1-1&keywords=digital+orientations

Shaun Moores
Professor of Media and Communications
Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of 
Sunderland, England

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