Transgression 2.0 Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age

by Gournelos, Ted; Gunkel, David J.

• ISBN13: 9781441149978
• ISBN10: 144114997X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

One doesn't need to look far to find examples of contemporary locations of cultural opposition. Digital piracy, audio mashups, The Onion and Wikipedia are all examples of transgression in our current mediascape. And as digital age transgression becomes increasingly essential, it also becomes more difficult to define and protect. The contributions in this collection are organized into six sections that address the use of new technologies to alter existing cultural messages, the incorporation of technology and alternative media in transformation of everyday cultural practices and institutions, and the reuse and repurposing of technology to focus active political engagement and innovative social change.

Table of Contents

I) Mashup/Remix/Repurpose1. Richard Edwards - Flip the Script: Political Mashups as Transgressive Texts 2. David Gunkel - Audible Transgressions: Art and Aesthetics after the Mashup3. Mark Amerika - Source Material Everywhere [[G.]Lit/ch RemiX]: A Conversation with Mark Amerika4. Paul Booth - Saw Fandom and the Transgression of Fan Excess

II) Pornography and Beyond5. Stephen Maddison - Is the Rectum Still a Grave? Anal Sex, Pornography and Transgression6. Sarah Neely - Making Bodies Visible: Post-Feminism and the Pornographication of Online Identities7. Grant Kien - BDSM and Transgression 2.0: The Case of Kink.com8. Julian Petley - Sick Stuff: Law, Criminality, and Obscenity

III) Media 2.0—Legitimacy, Power, and Information9. Mark Nunes - Abusing the Media: Viral Validity in a Republic of Spam10. Ted Gournelos - Breaking the News: Wikileaks and Secrecy in the Age of the Internet11. Vanessa Au - My day of fame on Digg.com: Race, Representation, and Resistance in Web 2.012. Henry Jenkins - An Interview with Henry Jenkins

IV) Law, Social Disturbance and Political Unrest13. Jack Bratich - Sovereign Networks, Pre-emptive Transgression, Communications Warfare: Case studies in Social Movement Media14. Debra Shaw - Monsters in the Metropolis: Pirate Utopias and the New Politics of Space15. Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste - On the Mexican State's War on Drug Violence: Transgression in the Representation and Circulation of Los Perro Salvajes16. Michael Truscello - Social Media and the Representation of Summit Protests: YouTube, Riot Porn, and the Anarchist Tradition

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