The Anti-capitalist Commons

UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER PRESS 2020 Books and journals, open access & print www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Welcome to the latest catalogue of the University of Westminster Press, an academic open access publisher since 2015. Our logo, an open laptop and an open book forming a W, was intended as a succinct comment and a visual representation of our mission. For UWP the most signficant development in the last year has been the addition of three new journal titles: the first, Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman (p.34) an interdisciplinary title of great range tackling some of the big questions of our age including climate change, species extinction and latterly Covid-19. Likewise we are delighted to welcome the Journal of Deliberative Democracy (p.32). As populism surges across the world, the need for democratic legitimacy and real engagement continues to grow. JDD’s August 2020 relaunch with UWP highlights key debates in participative democracy and public deliberation and considers how new insights might assist politics grapple with mounting challenges. We also look forward, later in the year to the first issue of Active Travel Studies (p.31). Healthier and more environmentally conscious transport is the focus of the journal’s parent research body, the Active Travel Academy at the University of Westminster. Also during this period two of our existing journals Silk Road (p.36) and Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (p.38) are now presented in a new research environment that of ScienceOpen. We welcome ScienceOpen and other new channels assisting readers in discovering our publications. UWP book titles remain available via JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and OAPEN (www.oapen.org), as MARC-21 records for libraries are also now available to download from our home page. Book trade orders and customers can also be set up via an account with Ingrams at www.ingramcontent.com/publishers/lp/introducingipage. This 2020 catalogue features three forthcoming books in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series (pp.4–17) – two focusing on the ‘Commons’ – in Autumn on top of a total of 30 published book titles, 7 CAMRI Policy Briefs (pp.21-23] and the distributed titles in the the History of the ‘University of Westminster’ series. One undoubted highlight in 2020 will be Can Music Make You Sick? (p.18) Sadly the answer to this question appears to be ‘yes’ for musicians, whose mental health is facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of the gig economy, streaming and currently a cessation of the festival season and most live events. Spreadheading a new wave of publications challenging some of the benign assumptions of previous creative industries literature, this title is sure to contribute to an urgent debate in the field. So we hope there’s plenty to engage you in the following pages!. Andrew Lockett, Press Manager, August 2020 University of Westminster Press 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6UW contact: a.lockett@uwestminsterpress.ac.uk Contents 4 MEDIA STUDIES New Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Series 5 The Condition of Digitality 6 The Internet Myth 7 Communication and Capitalism 8 Marx and Digital Machines 9 The Commons: Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age 10 Intellectual Commons and the Law 11 Recently Published Incorporating the Digital Commons 12 Cultural Crowdfunding 13 Bubbles and Machines: Gender, Information and Financial Crises 14 Previously Published 18 OTHER MEDIA STUDIES New Can Music Make You Sick? Recently Published The Media and Communication Study 19 Skills Student Guide 20 Digital Objects, Digital Subjects 21 Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries CAMRI POLICY BRIEFS New 22 Fashion Media and Sustainability 22 Achieving Viability for Public Service Media in Challenging Settings 23 Previously Published 24 LAW AND THE SENSES 25 Touch 26 Taste; See 27 Social Sciences and Humanities, Previously Published Dies Irae – Jean-Luc Nancy; Farewell To Freedom; Reform and Revolution in the City of Dreaming Spires 28 The Blitz Companion; Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World; Developing Educators for the Digital Age 29 Destination London: The Expansion of the Visitor Economy 30 The History of the University of Westminster Series 31 JOURNALS New Active Travel Studies 32 Journal of Deliberative Democracy 34 Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman 36 Other Journals Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development 37 The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal 38 Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 3 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk CRITICAL, DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES EDITED BY CHRISTIAN FUCHS CHRISTIAN FUCHS PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER FORMAT PAPERBACKS 229 x 152mm SERIES ISBN Print ISSN 2517-1585 Online ISSN 2517-1593 The book series Critical, Digital & Social Media Studies publishes books that critically study the role of the internet, digital and social media in society and make critical interventions. Its publications analyse how power structures, digital capitalism, ideology, domination and social struggles, shape and are shaped by digital and social media. They use and develop critical theories, are profoundly theoretical and discuss the political relevance and implications of the studied topics. The book series understands itself as a critical theory forum for internet and social media research. It is also interested in publishing works that are based on methods that challenge digital positivism. It furthermore is interested in digital media ethics that are grounded in critical social theories and critical philosophy. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk ALL TITLES AVAILABLE OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI VERSIONS Available free to download from: https://www. uwestminsterpress.co.uk/ site/books/series/ critical-digital-andsocial-media-studies EDITORIAL BOARD Thomas Allmer Mark Andrejevic Miriyam Aouragh Charles Brown Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay Eran Fisher Peter Goodwin Jonathan Hardy Kylie Jarrett Anastasia Kavada Arwid Lund Maria Michalis Stefania Milan Vincent Mosco Safiya Noble Jack Qiu Jernej Amon Prodnik Sarah Roberts Marisol Sandoval Sebastian Sevignani Pieter Verdegem Bingqing Xia Mariano Zukerfeld 4 THE CONDITION OF DIGITALITY A POST-MODERN MARXISM FOR THE PRACTICE OF DIGITAL LIFE ROBERT HASSAN ROBERT HASSAN researches and teaches at the University of Melbourne. His recent works include Uncontained: Digital Connection and the Experience of Time (2019) and The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares (2017). Since 2009 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Time & Society. David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism’s transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly started – globalisation and postmodernity – whilst highlighting the geospatial limits to accumulation imposed by our planet. However, this landmark publication, author Robert Hassan argues, did not address the arrival of digital technology, the quantum leap represented by the move from an analogue world to a digital economy and the rapid creation of a global networked society. Considering first the contexts of 1989 and Harvey’s work, then the idea of humans as analogue beings, he argues this arising new human condition of digitality leads to alienation not only from technology but also the environment. This condition, he suggests, is not an ideology of time and space but a reality stressing that Harvey’s time-space compression takes on new features including those of ‘outward’ and ‘inward’ globalisation and the commodification of all spheres of existence. Lastly, the author considers culture’s role, drawing on Rahel Jaeggi’s theories to make the case for a post-modern Marxism attuned to the most significant issue of our age. Stimulating and theoretically wide-ranging, The Condition of Digitality recognises postmodernity’s radical new form as a reality and the urgent need to assert more democratic control over digitality. PUBLISHED JANUARY 2020 FORMAT 212 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-67-7 £23.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-68-4 ePub 978-1-912656-69-1 Kindle 978-1-912656-70-7 DOI:10.1699/book44 5 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk THE INTERNET MYTH FROM THE INTERNET IMAGINARY TO NETWORK IDEOLOGIES PAOLO BORY PAOLO BORY is a postdoctoral researcher at the Polytechnic University of Milan and lecturer in Media Studies at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. His research has been published in journals such as New Media & Society, Convergence and Critical Studies in Media Communication. ‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World. The Internet Myth retraces and challenges the myth laying at the foundations of the network ideologies – the idea that networks, by themselves, are the main agents of social, economic, political and cultural change. By comparing and integrating different sources related to network histories, this book emphasizes how a dominant narrative has extensively contributed to the construction of the ‘Internet Myth’ while other visions of the networked society have been erased from the collective imaginary. The book decodes, analyses and challenges the foundations of the network ideologies, looking at how networks have been imagined, designed and promoted during the crucial phase of the 1990s. Three case studies are scrutinized so as to reveal the complexity of network imaginaries in this decade: the birth of the Web and the mythopoesis of its inventor; and the histories of two Italian networking projects, the infrastructural plan Socrate and the civic network Iperbole, the first to give free internet access to citizens. The Internet Myth thereby provides a compelling and hidden sociohistorical narrative in order to challenge one of the most powerful myths of our time. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk PUBLISHED APRIL 2020 FORMAT 170 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-75-2 £20.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-67-7 ePub 978-1-912656-69-1 Kindle 978-1-912656-70-7 DOI:10.16997/ book48 6 COMMUNICATION AND CAPITALISM A CRITICAL THEORY CHRISTIAN FUCHS CHRISTIAN FUCHS is a critical theorist who works on political economy and critical theory of communication, digital media and society: http://fuchsc.net. PUBLISHED MAY 2020 FORMAT 406 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-71-4 £28.99 ‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Assembly. ‘A comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the deepening crisis of communicative capitalism. It is a major work of synthesis and essential reading for anyone wanting to know what critical analysis is and why we need it now more than ever.’ Professor Graham Murdock, Emeritus Professor, University of Loughborough and co-editor of The Handbook of Political Economy of Communication. OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-911534-72-1 ePub 978-1-911534-73-8 Kindle 978-1-911534-74-5 DOI:10.1699/book45 Communication and Capitalism outlines foundations of a critical theory of communication. Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines a communicative materialism that is a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. The book renews Marxist Humanism as a critical theory perspective on communication and society. 7 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk MARX AND DIGITAL MACHINES ALIENATION, TECHNOLOGY, CAPITALISM MIKE HEALY MIKE HEALY is an independent researcher who previously worked as a Senior Lecturer at Westminster Business School, University of Westminster. His published work includes papers on ethics and ICT, diversity and employment in the ICT sector, and teaching the development and problems of e-government, and, using Marx’s theory of alienation to explore the notion of dignity in the IT sector. This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a combination of these. Solutions such as better technology and more effective end-user education are often put into place to solve these failures. The aim of this book is to argue that such approaches are inherently faulty, drawing upon qualitative research informed by Marx’s theory of alienation. The theory considered participants in three distinct settings: information and communications technology (ICT) professionals; scholars concerned with researching the ethical and societal implications of our digital environment; and a group of pensioners living in South East London, UK, undertaking ICT training. By delving beneath the surface of how information technologies are created, how they are researched and how they are experienced, this theory illustrates that the contradictory nature of our digital lives directly arises from the needs of capitalism. FORTHCOMING OCTOBER 2020 FORMAT 166 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-79-0 £19.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-80-6 ePub 978-1-912656-81-3 Kindle 978-1-912656-82-0 DOI:10.1699/book47 The book also places Marx’s theory in contrast to the mainstream approaches derived from Seeman and Blauner. In researching and comprehending ICT, this book reaffirms the superior explanatory power of Marx’s theory of alienation. 8 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk THE COMMONS ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES IN THE DIGITAL AGE VANGELIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS VANGELIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS s a political theorist, social scientist, independent researcher, and editor holding a PhD in political philosophy. Formerly a Research Affiliate and post-doc researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Limerick, he has written extensively on the topic of the commons. This is his first book. This book explores the potential creation of a broader collaborative economy through commons-based peer production (P2P) and the emergent role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The book seeks to critically engage in the political discussion of commons-based peer production, which can be classified into three basic arguments: the liberal, the reformist and the anticapitalist. This book categorises the liberal argument as being in favour of the coexistence of the commons with the market and the state. Reformists, on the other hand, advocate for the gradual adjustment of the state and of capitalism to the commons, while anticapitalists situate the commons against capitalism and the state. By discussing these three viewpoints, the book contributes to contemporary debates concerning the future of commons-based peer production. FORTHCOMING OCTOBER 2020 FORMAT 248 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-83-7 £24.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-84-4 ePub 978-1-912656-85-1 Kindle 978-1-912656-86-8 DOI:10.1699/book46 Further, the author argues that for the commons to become a fully operational mode of peer production, it needs to reach critical mass arguing that the liberal argument underestimates the reformist insight that technology has the potential to decentralise production, thereby forcing capitalism to transition to post-capitalism. Surveying the three main strands of commons-based peer production, this book makes the case for a postcapitalist commons-orientated transition that moves beyond neoliberalism. 9 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk INTELLECTUAL COMMONS AND THE LAW A NORMATIVE THEORY FOR COMMONS-BASED PEER PRODUCTION ANTONIOS BROUMAS ANTONIOS BROUMAS is a technology lawyer, academic researcher and social activist. He practices law in fields relevant to technology and society. He holds postgraduate degrees in philosophy of law and IT & electronic communications law from the Universities of Athens and Strathclyde and has published widely on social movements, commons theory, critical jurisprudence and critical media studies. ‘In this pioneering book, Antonios Broumas argues that philosophically, morally, politically and economically we are in urgent need of a new legal regime that recognizes the intellectual commons, peer production and sharing as the primary practices of intellectual production, distribution and consumption. I cannot imagine a more urgent task today. A legally protected intellectual commons will lead to greater scientific and cultural innovation and creativity and will lead to an urgently needed second Enlightenment. This book should be read by lawyers, critical theorists, economists and the many professionals of science, culture and the academy’ -— Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. ‘Antonios Broumas’ book is an excellent critical analysis of the cultural commons and a must-read for everyone interested in understanding what the commons, the cultural commons, and the digital commons are all about … brilliantly outlines the foundations of an empirically grounded critical theory of the commons’—Christian Fuchs, author of Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory. ‘Broumas takes us on a spellbinding tour of how and why the law could and should change to accommodate the creative multitude, which engages into an emerging mode of production. He tells a vibrant story that makes us shout: “Lawmakers of the world, unite!”’-— Vasilis Kostakis, Professor of P2P Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk FORTHCOMING OCTOBER 2020 FORMAT 204 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-87-5 £24.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-88-2 ePub 978-1-912656-89-9 Kindle 978-1-912656-90-5 DOI:10.16997/ book49 10 INCORPORATING THE DIGITAL COMMONS CORPORATE INVOLVEMENT IN FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE BENJAMIN J. BIRKINBINE BENJAMIN BIRKINBINE is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the co-editor of Global Media Giants (Routledge, 2017). PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2020 FORMAT 154 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-42-4 £19.99 The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in the 1980s. However, both the products and production processes of FLOSS have become incorporated into capitalist production. For example, Red Hat, Inc. is a large publicly traded company whose business model relies entirely on free software, and IBM, Intel, Cisco, Samsung, Google are some of the largest contributors to Linux, the opensource operating system. This book explores the ways in which FLOSS has been incorporated into digital capitalism. Just as the commons have been used as a motivational frame for radical social movements, it has also served the interests of free-marketeers, corporate libertarians and states to expand their reach by dragging the shared resources of social life onto digital platforms so they can be integrated into the global capitalist system. The book concludes by asserting the need for a critical political economic understanding of the commons that foregrounds (digital) labour, class struggle and uneven power distribution within the digital commons as well as between FLOSS communities and their corporate sponsors. OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-43-1 ePub 978-1-912656-44-8 Kindle 978-1-912656-45-5 DOI:10.1699/book39 11 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk CULTURAL CROWDFUNDING PLATFORM CAPITALISM, LABOUR AND GLOBALIZATION EDITED BY VINCENT ROUZÉ VINCENT ROUZÉ is Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Paris 8 and a member of the Cemti research lab. He was the director of the ‘Collab’ programme funded by the French National Research Agency. This book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are potentially reshaping economic, organisational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (and carry out promotional tasks) is a significant shift, especially when supported by morphing public policies, in the name of enhancing cultural diversity and accessibility. The aim of this book is to propose a critical analysis of these phenomena by questioning what follows from decisions to outsource modes of creation and funding to consumers. Drawing on research carried out within the ‘Collab’ programme backed by the French National Research Agency, the book considers how platforms are used to organise cultural labour and/or to control usages, following a logic of suggestion rather than overt injunction. Four key areas are considered: the history of crowdfunding as a system; whose interests crowdfunding may serve; the implications for digital labour and lastly crowdfunding’s interface with globalization and contemporary capitalism. The book concludes with an assessment of claims that crowdfunding can democratize culture. PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2019 FORMAT 128 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-38-7 £19.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-39-4 ePub 978-1-912656-40-0 Kindle 978-1-912656-41-7 DOI:10.1699/book38 12 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk BUBBLES AND MACHINES GENDER, INFORMATON AND FINANCIAL CRISES MICKY LEE MICKY LEE is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Suffolk University, Boston. She is the author of Alphabet: The Becoming of Google (2019) and the co-author of Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age (2018). PUBLISHED MAY 2020 FORMAT 164pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-00-4 £18.99 Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political-economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital’s gendered aspect – even – the ideology of a ‘crisis’. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ‘screens’, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable, they should be recognized as technological. OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-01-1 ePub 978-1-912656-02-8 Kindle 978-1-912656-03-5 DOI:10.16997/ book34 13 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk CRITICAL THEORY AND AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM JEREMIAH MORELOCK (ED.) In this volume, leading European and American scholars apply insights from the early Frankfurt School to present day authoritarian populism, including the Trump phenomenon and related developments across the globe. Chapters are arranged into three sections exploring different aspects of the topic: theories, historical foundations and manifestations via social media. This book is a major contribution towards deeper understanding of populism’s resurgence in the age of digital capitalism. THE PROPAGANDA MODEL TODAY FILTERING PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS JOAN PEDRO-CARAÑANA, DANIEL BROUDY AND JEFFERY KLAEHN Thirty years after Chomsky and Herman elaborated the Propaganda Model, this title aims to introduce a new generation of readers to it. It presents cutting-edge research demonstrating the model’s general validity as well as new attempts – in the light of digital media and 21st century politics – to critically update, expand and refine it. PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2018 FORMAT 298 pages 229 x 152mm HARDBACK 978-1-912656-04-2 £71.99 PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-21-9 £22.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book30 _________________ PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2018 FORMAT 314 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-16-5 £22.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book27 14 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk PEER TO PEER : THE COMMONS MANIFESTO MICHEL BAUWENS, VASILIS KOSTAKIS AND ALEX PAZAITIS As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. What is peer to peer? Why is it essential for building a commonscentric future? How could this happen? These are the questions this book tries to answer. This book argues that peer to peer enables a new mode of production and creates the potential for a transition to a commons-oriented economy. SOCIAL CAPITAL ONLINE: ALIENATION AND ACCUMULATION KANE X. FAUCHER Social Capital Online examines the idea of social capital within the new ‘network spectacle’ of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new understanding of how the spectacularization of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas – alienation and accumulation. THE BIG DATA AGENDA: DATA ETHICS AND CRITICAL DATA STUDIES ANNIKA RICHTERICH This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raise significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on − corporate, institutional and governmental − practices of digital data collection and analysis. It assesses in detail one Big Data research area: biomedical studies, focused on epidemiological surveillance. The Big Data Agenda argues data literacy and discourse ethics may contain solutions as well as a critique. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk PUBLISHED MARCH 2019 FORMAT 102 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-77-8 £13.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS See uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book33 _______________ PUBLISHED MAY 2018 FORMAT 194 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-56-3 £19.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS See uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book16 _________________ PUBLISHED APRIL 2018 FORMAT 154 pages 229 x 152mm HARDBACK 978-1-911534-72-3 £46.00 PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-97-6 £18.99 DOI: 10.16997/ book14 15 CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION NEW READINGS OF LUKÁCS, ADORNO, MARCUSE AND HABERMAS IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET CHRISTIAN FUCHS One of the world’s leading theorists of digital media, Professor Christian Fuchs, explores how the thought of the Frankfurt School can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays form the heart of this book reviewing the works of Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Jürgen Habermas. The book offers a vital set of new insights on how communication works and can be understood via critical theory. PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2016 FORMAT 240 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-04-4 £18.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books THE SPECTACLE 2.0: READING DEBORD IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM MARCO BRIZIARELLI AND EMILIANA ARMANO (EDS.) ‘A much needed and valuable reelaboration of a classic situationist concept.’ Tiziana Terranova. The Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord’s theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary capitalism and of digital and media labour. Spectacle 2.0 operates as an singular contradictory interactive network. It thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk DOI:10.16997/book1 _________________ PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2017 FORMAT 264 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-44-0 £20.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book11 16 POLITICIZING DIGITAL SPACE: THEORY, THE INTERNET AND RENEWING DEMOCRACY TREVOR GARRISON SMITH ‘[A]n important challenge to the current political theory of democracy’ R. Süß, tripleC. The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated through the use of the internet. Raising awareness of what ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a view of how IT can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of truly democratic politics. CAPITAL, STATE, EMPIRE: THE NEW AMERICAN WAY OF DIGITAL WARFARE SCOTT TIMCKE This book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies. At the same time it demonstrates how the American security state represses activists – for instance those in Black Lives Matters – who resist this emerging security leviathan. With Big Data now conditioning so much of social life, the book critiques the digital positivism used to control labour and further diminish prospects for human flourishing for the ‘99%’ worldwide. KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM: AN INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE MATERIALISM MARIANO ZUKERFELD Winner of the ESCOCITE Amilcar Herrara Prize for ‘Best Book’ by an established author in field of social studies of science and technology. ‘A bold, comprehensive theoretical book, offering a new understanding of knowledge and its role in capitalism, historically, and today.’ Dr Eran Fisher Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism, knowledge, labour, IP and information. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk PUBLISHED JULY 2017 FORMAT 154 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-40-2 £18.99 DOI:10.16997/book5 _______________ PUBLISHED JULY 2017 FORMAT 206 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-36-5 £19.99 DOI:10.16997/book6 _______________ PUBLISHED MAY 2017 FORMAT 272 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-24-2 £20.99 DOI:10.16997/book3 17 CAN MUSIC MAKE YOU SICK? ! NEW MEASURING THE PRICE OF MUSICAL AMBITION SALLY ANNE GROSS AND GEORGE MUSGRAVE SALLY ANNE GROSS is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Westminster and the course leader of the MA in Music Business Management. She is also a music manager and music business affairs consultant, and has worked in the music industry for over three decades. GEORGE MUSGRAVE is an academic based at both the University of Westminster and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a musician who has been signed to Sony/EMI/ATV. It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head. By listening to how musicians understand and experience their working lives, this book proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors show how careers based on an allconsuming passion have become more insecure and devalued. Artistic merit and intimate, often painful, self-disclosures are the subject of unremitting scrutiny and data metrics. Personal relationships and social support networks are increasingly bound up with calculative transactions. Drawing on original empirical research and a wide-ranging survey of scholarship from across the social sciences, their findings will be provocative for future research on mental health, wellbeing and working conditions in the music industries and across the creative economy. Going beyond self-help strategies, they challenge the industry to make transformative structural change. Until then, the book provides an invaluable guide for anyone currently making their career in music, as well as those tasked with training and educating the next generation. PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2020 FORMAT 208 pages 229 x 152mm HARDBACK 978-1-912656-65-3 £64.99 PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-64-6 £14.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-61-5 ePub 978-1-912656-62-2 Kindle 978-1-912656-63-9 DOI:10.16997/ book43 18 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS STUDY SKILLS STUDENT GUIDE DOUG SPECHT The Media and Communications STUDY SKILLS STUDENT GUIDE DOUG SPECHT is a senior lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. He has taught for 15 years across a range of sectors and countries, and now teaches digital media and communications at both undergraduate and postgraduate and is a Senior Fellow of the HA holding an MAHE and PGCE. Doug Specht All the tips ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively. Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts, it covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications. Includes Goal-setting and listening skills Introduction Reading and notetaking 1. Why we Study and Setting Goals Reflective learning and time 2. Listening Skills and Getting the Most from Lectures and management Writing: from basics to excellence; Lecturers 3. Reading and Notetaking 1: Referencing and Plagiarism academic language Methods from interviews to 4. Seminar Skills sampling 5. Developing a Reflective Approach to Learning Writing a dissertation 6. Writing – Getting Started Features 7. Reading and Notetaking 2: Combining Sources Student tips 8. The ‘I’ in Academic Writing Summary and tracking sheets for 9. Writing – From the Basics Towards Excellence reference 10. Writing Questions for Research Topics Diagrams, boxes and highlight 11. Empirical Research Skills quotes Online Appendices: Checklists and 12. Putting it all Together: Writing a Dissertation Summaries Index Contents PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2019 FORMAT 188 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-56-1 £17.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-57-8 ePub 978-1-912656-58-5 Kindle 978-1-912656-59-2 DOI:10.16997/ book42 19 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk DIGITAL OBJECTS, DIGITAL SUBJECTS INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON CAPITALISM, LABOUR AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA EDITED BY DAVID CHANDLER AND CHRISTIAN FUCHS DAVID CHANDLER is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (2018). CHRISTIAN FUCHS is a Professor at the University of Westminster, where he is Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) and the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He is the editor of the journal tripleC. This volume explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims – in theory and via dialogue – and of the digital’s impact on society and the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society. PUBLISHED JANUARY 2019 FORMAT 264 pages 229 x 152mm HARDBACK 978-1-912656-08-0 £69.99 PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-20-2 £20.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-09-7 ePub 978-1-912656-10-3 Kindle 978-1-912656-11-0 DOI:10.16997/ book29 CONTRIBUTORS An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU’s Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Joanaa Boehnert Elisabetta Brighi David Chandler Robert Cowley Jodi Dean Christian Fuchs Paolo Gerbaudo Peter Goodwin Kylie Jarrett Anastasia Kavada Phoebe Moore Toni Negri Jack Linchuan Qiu Paul Rekret Pauliina Tamabakaki 20 COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES James Graham and Alessandro Gandini (eds.) ‘This volume makes a significant contribution to existing debates on the creative industries … providing important insights.’ Daniel Ashton, University of Southampton, UK. This collection develops a critical understanding of the integral role collaboration plays in contemporary media and culture. It draws attention to diverse kinds of creative collaboration afforded via the intermediation of digital platforms and networked publics. It considers how these are incorporated into emergent market paradigms and investigates the complicated forms of subjectivity that develop. But it also acknowledges historical continuities, in terms of continued exploitation as well as alternative models of contemporary cultural work. PUBLISHED MAY 2017 FORMAT 240 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-28-0 £19.99 DOI:10.16997/book4 CAMRI POLICY BRIEFS CAMRI POLICY OBSERVATORY, COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER SERIES DESCRIPTION: The CAMRI POLICY BRIEF series disseminates in short form the results of its media and communications research to a broad audience, comprising both policymakers and the public, in a language and format that is accessible and engaging. Briefs are written for institutional actors engaging with the relevant areas of policymaking and a wider public including policymakers and politicians, civil society organisations, consumer associations, as well as journalists and the media. Each brief has the following structure: Executive summary Explanation of the context of the issue in question Presentation of research evidence (incl. relevant graphs/tables) Critique of the policy options Sources All briefs are available free in digital versions of between 28-38 pages but are not available for purchase in print. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books EDITORIAL BOARD Steve Barnett Christian Fuchs Anastasia Kavada Maria Michalis 21 CAMRI POLICY BRIEFS CAMRI POLICY OBSERVATORY, COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER ! NEW FASHION MEDIA AND SUSTAINABILITY: Encouraging Ethical Consumption via Journalism and Influencers Anastasia Denisova A garment spends 2.2 years on average in a UK wardrobe. Fashion is among the biggest polluters, yet the media still promote throwaway fast fashion. The growing fashion public relations industry encourages and enables this media coverage. This Policy Brief identifies patterns in the way journalists and influencers cover fashion which contribute to unsustainable buying behaviours. Identifying numerous patterns of unstainable media coverage, it offers practical solutions encouraging a sustainable approach to fashion. These include modifying vocabulary, regulating the use of affiliated links in journalism and on social media – and positive incentives for social media platforms and their influencers to promote ethical influencers and sustainable hashtags. ! NEW ACHIEVING VIABILITY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA IN CHALLENGING SETTINGS: A Holistic Approach James Deane, Pierre François Docquir, Winston Mano, Tarik Sabry, Naomi Sakr In the face of challenges posed by a shifting digital media landscape, an array of international bodies continue to endorse public service media (PSM). Yet how can PSM achieve viability in settings where models of media independence and credibility are unfamiliar or rejected by political leaders? The answer lies in a holistic approach that is neither media-centric nor defeatist about PSM’s place in a landscape marked by younger generations’ widespread preference for social media platforms. This Policy Brief considers the issues, research and policy options around achieving viability for PSM. It concludes with six recommendations that are relevant to policymakers, practitioners and media studies specialists. FORTHCOMNG OCTOBER 2020 FORMAT 229 x 152mm 34 pages OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-91-2 ePub 978-1-912656-92-9 Kindle 978-1-912656-93-6 DOI: 10.16997/ book50 PUBLISHED MARCH 2020 FORMAT 229 x 152mm 38 pages OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-51-6 ePub 978-1-91265652-3 Kindle 978-1-912656-53-0 DOI: 10.16997/ book41 22 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk THE ONLINE ADVERTISING TAX: A Digital Policy Innovation Christian Fuchs DOI: 10.16997/book24 June 2018 33 pages ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS: UK Policy Opportunities and Challenges Mercedes Bunz and Laima Jancuite DOI: 10.16997/book25 June 2018 31 pages OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI Available free From uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books APPEARANCE, DISCRMINATION AND THE MEDIA: Portraying Facial Disfigurement Fairly in the News Diana Garrisi, Laima Jancuite and Jacob Johanssen DOI: 10.16997/book31 July 2018 28 pages WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH IN THE GIG ECONOMY: Policy Perspectives on Precarity Sally-Anne Gross, George Musgrave and Laima Janciute DOI: 10.16997/book32 August 2018 37 pages THE ONLINE ADVERTISING TAX AS THE FOUNDATION OF A PUBLIC SERVICE INTERNET CAMRI EXTENDED POLICY REPORT CHRISTIAN FUCHS CHRISTIAN FUCHS is Professor and Director CAMRI (Communications and Media Research Institute) University of Westminster. This extended CAMRI policy report examines the arguments concerning where Google and Facebook should be taxed and where the value of its activities is actually created. It argues that tax should be levied in countries where these companies’ advertisements were personalised with the help of users’ data. Moreover, it examines the practical steps needed to ensure transparent accounting of taxed transactions in order to avoid long term negative effects for media. The author concludes that an online advertising tax in combination with a public service internet strategy could form the basis for viable platforms and head off the dangerous trend towards duopoly or oligopoly in the sector as a whole under the current business model. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk PUBLISHED JUNE 2018 FORMAT 229 x 152mm 102 pp PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-93-8 £12.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI PDF 978-1-911534-94-5 ePub 978-1-911534-95-2 Kindle 978-1-911534-96-9 DOI: 10.16997/ book23 23 WESTMINSTER LAW AND THEORY LAB LAW AND THE SENSES SERIES SERIES EDITORS: LAW AND THE SENSES SERIES . LAW AND THE SENSES SERIES . PROFESSOR ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER LAW AND THE SENSES SERIES . DR ANDREA PAVONI ISCTE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LISBON LAW AND THE SENSES SERIES . DR CATERINA NIRTA ROEHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LAW AND THE SENSES SERIES . DR DANILO MANDIC UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER T O U C H S E E H E A R S M E L L T A S T E SERIES DESCRIPTION: The LAW AND THE SENSES series aims to reflect critically on the relationship between law and the senses by gathering contributions from a wide range of critical fields, and intersecting contemporary debates alimented by spatial, material, affective and post-human turns in philosophy, social and legal theory, critical geography, arts and the humanities. FORTHCOMING SEE 2018 TASTE 2018 TOUCH 2020 HEAR 2021 SMELL tbc FORMAT All books 108 x 178mm OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books The growing ‘sensory turn’ across different scholarly disciplines has been followed by an increasing number of publications that engage with the senses. The series contributes to the developing scholarship investigating law and the senses. The established literature deals with the relation between law and the senses from phenomenological positions, or taking the senses as objects of legal regulation. In contrast, this series makes an important contribution by taking a trans-disciplinary approach that is critically underpinned with a main purpose to introduce new perspectives and engage in shaping future debates on the topic. In that regard, books in the series provide original and diverse research that will appeal to scholarly communities and students from across different disciplines, in particular: law, anthropology, art, philosophy, cultural studies and social sciences. 24 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk TOUCH LAW AND THE SENSES EDITED BY CATERINA NIRTA, DANILO MANDIC, ANDREA PAVONI AND ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS PUBLISHED JANUARY 2020 FORMAT 296 pages 108 X 178mm HARDBACK 978-1-912656-66-0 £62.50 PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-34-9 £17.99 Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch the most essential of all senses. This volume of Law and the Senses attempts to illuminate and reconsider the complex and interflowing relations and contradictions between the tactful intrusion of the law and the untactful movement of touch. Compelling contributors from arts, literature and social science disciplines alongside artist presentations explore touch’s boundaries and formal and informal ‘laws’ of the senses. Each contribution unveils a multi-faceted new dimension to the force of touch, its ability to form, deform and reform what it touches. In unique ways, each of the several contributions to this volume recognises the transcorporeality of touch to traverse the boundaries on the body and entangle other bodies and spaces, thus challenging the very notion of corporeal integrity and human being. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good: www. knowledgeunlatched.org. OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-35-6 ePub 978-1-912656-36-3 Kindle 978-1-912656-37-0 DOI: 10.16997/ book37 CONTRIBUTORS Jan Hogan Erin Manning Nicole Nyffenegger Caterina Nirta Naomi Segal Moritz von Stetten Tolis Tatolas Barbara Zanditon 25 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk TASTE EDITED BY ANDREA PAVONI, CATERINA NIRTA, DANILO MANDIC AND ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS LAW AND THE SENSES Edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy. Yet it is indissolubly tied to knowledge. This second title in the Law and the Senses series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to open up directions away from legal certainties and a promising tool with which to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume dedicated to a rarely explored intersection with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists. SEE EDITED BY ANDREA PAVONI, CATERINA NIRTA, DANILO MANDIC, AND ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS LAW AND THE SENSES Edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. This first title in a new interdisciplinary series Law and the Senses asks how can we develop theoretical approaches to law and seeing that would go beyond simple critique of its pretension of bringing us truth. It is also explores devices and practices of visibility, how iconology and iconography have evolved and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice. PUBLISHED JULY 2018 FORMAT 300 pages 108 X 178mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-32-7 £16.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book21 PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2018 FORMAT 226 pages 108 X 178mm PAPERBACK 978-1-911534-04-4 £14.99 OPEN ACCESS VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books DOI:10.16997/ book12 26 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk DIES IRAE JEAN-LUC NANCY DIES IRAE What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? This is the first publication of an English translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. JULY 2019 Paperback: 106 pages 108 X 178mm 978-1-912656-30-1 £13.99 Open Access: DOI: 10.16997/book36 FAREWELL TO FREEDOM A WESTERN GENEALOGY OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI All titles available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books OF LIBERTY RICCARDO BALDISSONE ‘[A] compelling work and a real tour de force … shows an admirable and indeed exceptional knowledge across a range of sources and languages and offers an insightful way of approaching the question of freedom both in terms of a genealogy of its origins and an engagement with contemporary theories of power, individuation, and the self.’ Professor Nathan Widder JULY 2018 Paperback: 218 pages 203 X 133 mm 978-1-911534-60-0 £20.99 Open Access: DOI: 10.16997/book15 REFORM AND REVOLUTION IN THE CITY OF DREAMING SPIRES RADICAL, SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST POLITICS IN THE CITY OF OXFORD 1830–1980 DUNCAN BOWIE ‘… a fascinating read. There is a wealth of detail regarding meetings, elections and personalities, following social and political developments within parties, factions and movements through 150 years.’ Ann Black, The Chartist. ‘Oxford and Oxford university both have a radical, left-wing history that deserves to be better known.’ Urban History. DECEMBER 2018 Paperback: 354 pages 229 X 152mm 978-1-912656-12-7 £22.99 Open Access: DOI: 10.16997/book28 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk 27 THE BLITZ COMPANION AERIAL WARFARE, CIVILIANS AND THE CITY SINCE 1911 MARK CLAPSON The Blitz Companion is an overview of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them from the earliest bombing raids through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings to the aftermath of 9/11. Uniquely accessible and comparative, it draws conclusions about civilian experience and implications for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved. APRIL 2019 Paperback: 354 pages 203 X 133 mm 978-1-911534-48-8 £14.99 Open Access: DOI: 10.16997/book26 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB & MOBI All titles available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books NAVAL LEADERSHIP IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD THE AGE OF REFORM AND REVOLUTION, 1700– 1850 RICHARD HARDING AND AGUSTÍN GUIMERÁ (EDS.) ‘Harding’s contributions especially forge a new agenda for the study of historical naval leadership …’ Mariner’s Mirror This book examines naval leadership in Europe between 1700-1850. MARCH 2017 Hardback: 354 pages 229 X 152mm 978-1-911534-08-2 £48 Paperback: 978-1-911534-76-1 £19.99 Open Access: DOI: 10.16997/book2 DEVELOPING EDUCATORS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE A FRAMEWORK FOR CAPTURING KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION PAUL BREEN This book provides a narrative account of teacher development geared towards the further usage of technologies. This book will be of interest to the growing body of scholars interested in TPACK theory, or ‘communities of practice’ theory. DECEMBER 2018 Paperback: 354 pages 229 X 152mm 978-1-911534-68-6 £19.99 Open Access: DOI: 10.16997/book13 28 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk DESTINATION LONDON THE EXPANSION OF THE VISITOR ECONOMY EDITED BY ANDREW SMITH AND ANNE GRAHAM ANDREW SMITH is a Reader in Tourism and Events at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Events and Urban Regeneration (2012) and Events in the City (2016). ANNE GRAHAM is Professor of Air Transport and Tourism Management at the University of Westminster. Her most recent books include Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management (2018). London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors than ever before. However, detailed accounts of the city’s visitor economy are conspicuously absent. This book analyses how the capital is developing as a destination through the expansion of tourism and events into new urban spaces. The book outlines how parts of London not previously regarded as tourist territory are now subject to the visitor gaze with tourism spreading beyond established central zones into peripheral, suburban and residential areas – in part propelled by a big rise in peer to peer accommodation use. Simultaneously, London’s airports and sports stadiums and their surrounds are becoming destinations in their own right. New vantage points have been created, allowing tourists to explore the city: from above, at night-time or through tours given by the homeless; via the opening up of the River Thames; or through the transformation of local parks into eventscapes. The book explores these trends and shows how urban destinations expand. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of London and highlights the growing significance of tourism and events in global cities. PUBLISHED MAY 2019 FORMAT 264 pages 229 x 152mm PAPERBACK 978-1-912656-26-4 £22.99 OPEN ACCESS PDF, EPUB AND MOBI VERSIONS Available free from uwestminsterpress. co.uk/site/books PDF 978-1-912656-27-1 ePub 978-1-912656-28-8 Kindle 978-1-912656-29-5 DOI:10.16997/ book35 CONTRIBUTORS Simon Curtis Claudia Dolezal Adam Eldridge Anne Graham Clare Inkson Jayni Gudka Claire Humphreys Robert Maitland Ilaria Pappalepore Andrew Smith 29 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER DISTRIBUTED TITLES AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS PDFS AND PAPERBACKS † All series titles 269 x 200mm THE EDUCATION OF THE EYE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION 1838-1881 BRENDA WEEDEN Paperback £20 110 pages 2008 OPEN ACCESS PDF DOI: 10.16997/book7 ISBN 978-1-911534-20-4 AN EDUCATION IN SPORT COMPETITION, COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER SINCE 1864 MARK CLAPSON Paperback £20 126 pages 2013 OPEN ACCESS PDF DOI: 10.16997/book8 ISBN 978-1-911534-14-3 EDUCATING MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT THE LEGACY OF QUINTIN HOGG AND THE POLYTECHNIC, 1864-1992 HELEN GLEW ET AL. Paperback £25 276 pages 2013 OPEN ACCESS PDF DOI: 10.16997/book9 ISBN 978-1-911534-17-4 THE MAGIC SCREEN: A HISTORY OF REGENT STREET CINEMA JOOST HUNNINGHER ET AL. Paperback £20 174 pages 2015 OPEN ACCESS PDF DOI: 10.16997/book10 ISBN 978-1-911534-23-5 EDUCATING FOR PROFESSIONAL LIFE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER ELAINE PENN Paperback £20 148 pages 2017 OPEN ACCESS PDF DOI: 10.16997/book18 ISBN 978-1-911534-23-5 † Print paperbacks of these books can only be purchased direct from the University of Westminster when the university is open using this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/ historybooks. Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price. www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk 30 ACTIVE TRAVEL STUDIES EDITED BY TOM COHEN AND RACHEL ALDRED, UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER NEW F OR 2020! FORTHCOMING AUTUMN 2020 EDITORIAL BOARD Esther Anaya Boig Andy Cope Sonja Haustein Giulio Matitoli Active Travel Studies is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal intended to provide a source of authoritative research on walking, cycling and other forms of active travel. In the context of a climate emergency, widespread health problems associated with inactivity and poor air quality caused in large part by fossil-fuel transport, the journal is relevant and timely. It will perform the critical function of providing practitioners and policy makers with access to current and robust findings on all subjects relevant to active travel. The journal is produced by the Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster. ARTICLE TYPES Research Articles Commentaries Review Articles Debates Interviews Unpublished original research – up to 8,000 words Reflection on or critique of a specific ‘happening’ – up to 3,000 words Cover topics such as current controversies historical development of studies, issues of regional or temporal focus – up to 8,000 words A range of views by at least two authors taking contrasting positions – up to 5,000 words Will present the opinions of influential figures from the world of active travel – up to 5,000 words FORMAT Digital. Articles are usually published on an iterative rolling basis every year. This means the journal can be very swift to publish, – subject to peer review – on topical and contemporary matters. E-ISSN: 2732-4184 OPEN ACCESS Available free from the University of Westminster Press from the journal’s website. activetravelstudies.org 31 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk JOURNAL OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY EDITED BY NICOLE CURATO, KIM STRANDBERG, ANDRÉ BÄCHTIGER, GRAHAM SMITH The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) publishes articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy. This journal was previously published as the International Journal for Public Participation (20072010) and, in November 2010, merged with the Journal for Public Deliberation as a joint venture between the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and IAP2. This initiative aimed to extend the discourse in the field benefiting from first-hand experience of public participation practitioners. In 2020, the journal was relaunched as the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. It is the forum for the latest thinking, emerging debates, alternative perspectives, as well as critical views on deliberation. The journal welcomes submissions from all theoretical and methodological traditions. It aims to be the platform to broker knowledge between scholars and practitioners of citizen engagement. The journal is supported by the newDemocracy Foundation, the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and the International Association for Public Participation. It is hosted at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra and co-edited by Nicole Curato with Kim Strandberg, Åbo Akademi University, André Bächtiger, University of Stuttgart and Graham Smith, University of Westminster. ARTICLE TYPES Research articles are full-length manuscripts that present an original contribution to the field of deliberative democracy. The length ranges from 6,000 to 8,000 words. Commentaries are short, thoughtful pieces that take stock of recent developments in deliberative democracy. Commentaries are usually solicited, not longer than 3,000 words. Book reviews are welcomed and may run up to 3,000 words if the author is reviewing two to three related books. The upper limit for reviews about one book is 800 words. Creative content is usually solicited, which includes interviews, conversations, roundtables and reflections from the field. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Emmanuel Ani Edana Beauvais Lori Britt Henrik Christensen Tamirace Fakhoury Marina Lindell Timothy Shaffer Jane Suiter BOOK REVIEW EDITORS Patricia Mockler Filipe Motta Kei Nishiyama John Rountree EDITORIAL BOARD Hans Asenbaum Emily Beausoleil John Boswell John Dryzek Selen Ercan David Farrell John Gastil Rachel Gibson Kimmo Grönlund Zeynep Gülru Göker Marit Hammond Cassandra Hemphill Carolyn Hendriks Kaisa Herne Jonathan Kuyper Peter MacLeod Rousiley Maia Sofie Marien Simon Niemeyer Jonathan Rose Paromita Sanyal Molly Scudder Maija Setälä William Smith Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian delibdemjournal.org 32 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk JOURNAL OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY NEW F OR 2020! EDITED BY NICOLE CURATO, KIM STRANDBERG, ANDRÉ BÄCHTIGER, GRAHAM SMITH FORMAT Digital. The journal normally publishes two issues a year (January to June, July to December). Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available. FORTHCOMING ARTICLES from JOURNAL OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY include E-ISSN: 2634-0488 2020 OPEN ACCESS Available free from the University of Westminster Press from the journal’s website. from Vol 16(1): Frontiers of Deliberative Democracy Deliberation in an Age of (Un)Civil Resistance William Smith Deliberative Theory and African Philosophy Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian Can Deliberation Reduce Political Misconceptions? Staffan Himmelroos and Lauri Rapeli Rethinking Representation and Diversity in Deliberative Minipublics Daniel Steel, Naseeb Bolduc, Kristina Jenei, Michael Burgess from Vol 16(2): Democracy Without Shortcuts Commentary on: Cristina Lafont, Democracy without Shortcuts Jurgen Habermas Participatory Deliberative Democracy in Complex Mass Societies Mark Warren delibdemjournal.org 33 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk NEW! ANTHROPOCENES – HUMAN, INHUMAN, POSTHUMAN EDITED BY DAVID CHANDLER, JANE LEWIS AND ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS Anthropocenes –Human, Inhuman, Posthuman is a global interdisciplinary journal. Our core contributor base and readership will be in the social sciences, arts and humanities although often social and political thought will be applied to aspects of the natural or ‘hard’ sciences. Moving beyond concerns around around global warming and the environment, it focuses on diverse theoretical approaches to the anthropocene from social sciences and humanities. Drawing upon the University of Westminster’s unique strengths across diverse fields from the arts and media to the human sciences, via law, architecture and politics, Anthropocenes will engage and work with leading and upcoming international academics and practitioners looking for an interdisciplinary outlet and keen to develop and initiate debate through traditional and non-traditional forms of publication including visual and audio links. The journal is about the invitation to rethink notions such as abstraction, art, architecture, design, governance, ecology, law, politics and discourses of science in the context of human, inhuman and posthuman framework. JOURNAL ARTICLE TYPES Commentaries; Interventions; Interviews; Reviews; Visual Essays; Audio Essays; Practice Pieces. EDITORIAL BOARD Harshavardhan Bhat Farai Chipato Lewis Dartnell Hannah Fair Anna Grear Elizabeth Johnson Francesco Forzani Thiago Hoshino Jennifer Lawrence Mirko Nikolic Jane Norris Andrea Pavoni Doug Specht Tamara Trownsell Stephanie Wakefield FORMAT Digital. Articles are usually published on an iterative rolling basis every year. This means the journal can be very swift to publish, – subject to peer review – on topical and contemporary matters. E-ISSN: 2633-4321 OPEN ACCESS Available free from the University of Westminster Press from the journal’s website. anthropocenes.net 34 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk ANTHROPOCENES – HUMAN, INHUMAN, POSTHUMAN EDITED BY DAVID CHANDLER, JANE LEWIS AND ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS RECENT ARTICLES from ANTHROPOCENES include 2020 The Anthropocene Eel: Emergent Knowledge, Ontological Politics and New Propositions for an Age of Extinctions Casper Bruun Jensen Constructing Human Versus Non-Human Climate Migration in the Anthropocene: The Case of Migrating Polar Bears in Nunavut, Canada Julian Reid Walking with a Ghost River: Unsettling Place in the Anthropocene Tricia Toso, Kassandra Spooner-Lockyer, Kregg Hetherington Frontier Technologies and Digital Solutions: Digital Ecosystems, Open Data and Wishful Thinking Jessica McLean Hyperobjects, Hyposubjects and Solidarity in the Anthropocene: Anthropocenes Interview with Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman anthropocenes.net 35 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk SILK ROAD: A JOURNAL OF EURASIAN DEVELOPMENT PIPPA CATTERALL AND CHARLES BECKER (JOINT EDITORS-IN CHIEF). BAKROHM MIRKASIMOV (MANAGING EDITOR). ASSOCIATE EDITORS Kathryn Anderson Kamiljon Karimov EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS SILK ROAD exists to promote evidence-based scholarly research in social sciences and public policy studies that make the affairs of the Great Silk Road countries an area of significant interest, scholarship and impact. RECENT ARTICLES from SILK ROAD include Renewable Electricity Production and Sustainability of the National and Regional Power Systems of Kazakhstan Nazym Temirgaliyeva, Madina Junussova Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Secondary Schools: A Case Study Lixun Wang Going Beyond the Local: Exploring the Role of Transnational Higher Education in Shaping Students’ Life Trajectories in Uzbekistan Andre Celeti, Rano Nurmanova, Nora Gavalyan From Employment to Employability: Uzbekistan and the Higher Education Skills Agenda Richard Paterson Victor Agadjanian Muzaffar Ahunov Kamiljon Akramov Tanika Chakraborty Damir Esenaliev Ichiro Iwasaki Katrina Kosec Peter Malvicini Roman Mogilevskii Ziyodullo Parpiev Francesco Pastore Lyaziza Sabyrova Olga Shemyakina Susan Steiner Nurmukhammad Yusupov Zhong Zhao FORMAT Digital. Articles are published on an iterative rolling basis every year. E-ISSN: 2631-682X OPEN ACCESS Available free from the University of Westminster Press from the journal’s website. silkroadjournal.online 36 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS LAW JOURNAL EDITED BY STEVE GREENFIELD, MARK JAMES AND GUY OSBORN EDITORIAL BOARD Simon Boyes Catherine Easton Peter Robson Clare Sandford- Couch ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS Richard Collier Ken Foster David Fraser David Wall RECENT ARTICLES from ESLJ include 2020 The Night and Cultural Benefit: The Case for A Holistic Approach to Licensing Marion Roberts, Adam Eldridge, Guy Osborn, Simon Flacks Doctor Who, Family and National Identity Danny Nicol The Good, the Gothic and the Transnational Rules of the Afterlife in The Good Place Allison Craven The Creation and Regulation of Sports Equipment: Implications for the Future James Brown An Analysis of the Service Provider’s Legal Duty to Make Reasonable Adjustments: The Little Mix Saga Stephen Bunbury Global Sports Law Revisited Ken Foster entsportslawjournal.com FORMAT Articles are published on an iterative rolling basis every year. This means the journal can be very swift to publish, subject to peer review. E-ISSN: 1748-944X OPEN ACCESS Available free from the University of Westminster Press from the journal’s website. Special collections in ESLJ – on football, music and Ken Foster/ global sports law, television drama, national identity and law – are now available presenting material on related topics, together for readers’ convenience. twitter @ESLJournal_new 37 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk WESTMINSTER PAPERS IN COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE LATEST ISSUE JULY 2020 15(2): ADVERTISING FOR THE HUMAN GOOD ISSUE EDITOR: CARL JONES PUBLISHED JULY 2020 FORMAT Digital E-ISSN: 1744-6716 OPEN ACCESS Available free from the University of Westminster Press from the journal’s website Inaugurated in 2004, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) engages international scholars in a critical debate about the relationship between communication, culture and society in the 21st century. WPCC is a peer-reviewed journal, published online. Contributions from both established scholars and those at the beginning of their academic career are equally welcome. It is published by the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) in the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, with the University of Westminster Press. RECENT ISSUES 2020 15(1) VIRAL MEDIA 2019 14(1) MEDIA ACTIVISM 2018 13(2) GEOGRAPHY AND COMMUNICATIONS 2018 13(1) RE-EVALUATING CHINA’S GLOBAL MEDIA EXPANSION 2017 12[3] REDESIGNING OR REDEFINING PRIVACY? 2017 12[2] RADIO AND REVOLUTION 2017 12[1] REFRAMING MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL CRISIS FORTHCOMING 2020 14[3] PUBLISHING, THE INTERNET AND THE COMMONS EDITOR: Anthony McNicholas EDITORIAL BOARD: Anastasia Denisova, Rikke Jensen, Hannu Nieminen, Kristin Skoog, Colin Sparks, Doug Specht, Dinara Tokbaeva Special collections in WPCC – on Journalism and the Digital Challenge; Television Studies and Censorship and Propaganda – are now available presenting material on related topics, together for readers’ convenience. westminsterpapers.org twitter@WPCC_journal 38 www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk