[Commlist] New book: The Politics of Media Scarcity

Greg Elmer & Stephen Neville are announcing the publication of their new 
book 'The Politics of Media Scarcity'. A description of the book follows 
below.  Use the code AFLY01 to receive a 20% discount from Routledge. Or 
receive 25% off the inexpensive ebook version. More details here: 
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This book questions the predominance of “media abundance” as a guiding 
concept for contemporary mediated politics. The authors argue that media 
abundance is not a universal condition, and that certain individuals, 
communities, and even nations can more accurately be referred to as 
media scarce – where access to media technologies and content is 
limited, highly controlled, or surveilled.

Through case studies that focus on guerilla militants, incarcerated 
Indigenous people, and cold war‑era infrastructure, including Soviet 
“closed” or “secret” cities and Canadian nuclear bunkers, the book’s 
chapters interrogate how the once media scarce later “speak” to – and 
can be heard by – the predominant, abundant media culture. Drawing from 
several art projects and diverse cultural sites, the book highlights how 
media scarce communities negotiate and otherwise narrate their place in 
the world, their past experiences and lives, and escape from 
subjugation. To better understand media scarce politics, the book asks 
how and when communities become – by accident or force, by choice or 
necessity – media scarce.

This innovative and insightful text will appeal to students and scholars 
around the world working in the areas of media and politics, art and 
politics, visual studies, surveillance studies, and communication studies.


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