[Commlist] New book: The Dark Social

Some of you might be interested in the newly published/The Dark Social: 
Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power/. This is part of the 
Routledge Special Issue of Books series, this volume is edited by Toija 
Cinque, Alexia Maddox and Robert W. Gehl.

 From the publisher’s description://

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This book explores how people interact online through anonymous 
communication in encrypted, hidden, or otherwise obscured online spaces. 
Beyond the Dark Web itself, this book examines how the concept of ‘dark 
social’ broadens the possibilities for examining notions of darkness and 
sociality in the age of digitality and datafied life. The authors take 
into account technical, moral, ethical, and pragmatic responses to 
ourselves and communities seeking to be/belong in/of/ the dark.

Scholarship on the Darknet and Dark Social Spaces tends to focus on the 
uses of encryption and other privacy-enhancing technologies to engender 
resistance acts. Such understandings of the dark social are naturally in 
tension with social and political theories which argue that for politics 
and ‘acts’ to matter they must appear in the public light. They are also 
in tension with popular narratives of the ‘dark recesses of the web’ 
which are disparaged by structural powers who seek to keep their 
subjects knowable and locatable on the clear web. The binary of dark 
versus light is challenged in this book. The authors’ provocation is 
that practices of ‘dark’ resistance, motility and power are enacted by 
emerging data cultures. This book draws together scholarship, activism, 
and creativity to push past conceptual binary positions and create new 
approaches to darknet and dark social studies.

/The Dark Social: Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power 
/will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced 
students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, 
research methods, and sociology. This book was originally published as a 
special issue of /Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies./

For more information, and to access an excerpt, 
seehttps://www.routledge.com/The-Dark-Social-Online-Practices-of-Resistance-Motility-and-Power/Cinque-Maddox-Gehl/p/book/9781032593456 
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Dark-Social-Online-Practices-of-Resistance-Motility-and-Power/Cinque-Maddox-Gehl/p/book/9781032593456>Chapters 
1 and 2 are Open Access.

Toija Cinque, Deakin University
(Toija.Cinque /at/ deakin.edu.au) <mailto:(Toija.Cinque /at/ deakin.edu.au)>

Alexia Maddox, La Trobe University
(A.Maddox /at/ latrobe.edu.au) <mailto:(A.Maddox /at/ latrobe.edu.au)>

Robert W. Gehl, York University
(rwg /at/ yorku.ca) <mailto:(rwg /at/ yorku.ca)>


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