Book Review: Mixed media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics

Feminist theory, feminist and anti-racist politics, and restorative justice

Book review: Mobility and Locative Media

Locative media have been on the public agenda since the mid2000s when GPS became available in smartphones, spawning applications such as GoogleMaps, Foursquare, Runkeeper, etc. They are becoming increasingly significant in the everyday routines of smartphone users, and in media design and innovation. While these issues are clearly important, and the individual contributions in this book deal wi...

Book Review: "New Geographies of Language: Language Culture and Politics in Wales"

The book New Geographies of Language: Language, Culture and Politics in Wales is naturally seeking a very interesting goal rarely been witnessed before. For one thing, it is trying to mix language and linguistics with a totally distinct science, geography. For another, geography happens to be a literally exotic science. Students all around the world might be generally of two types: Those who lo...

Book review: Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

Iran and blogging. Most of us, when encountering the relationship between the two, would probably think about conservatism and the extent of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arrests of some prominent Iranian bloggers, such as Hussein Derakshan, popularised through the Western media would also spring to mind. But not many of us would know that Persian is one of the most used languages...

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