Information disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making
In today’s digitally-connected and polarized world, this report presents a new framework for addressing the challenges of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. It highlights the need for collaborative efforts among policymakers, legislators, researchers,…
Climate change communication: what can we learn from communication theory?
This article explores several approaches and theoretical frameworks used within the climate change communication literature for conveying climate science to the public. It argues that communication theories are often used inconsistently, treating…
Climate and environmental science denial: A review of the scientific literature published in 1990–2015.
This paper is a review of 161 scientific articles on environmental and climate science denial, emphasizing the need for more intensive research across different issues and geographic areas. It argues that while…
Post‐truth and anthropogenic climate change: Asking the right questions
This paper discusses the intense debates around climate skepticism and denial within the context of post-truth culture and argues that these are misguided. It posits that there was never a straightforward relationship…
The cinematic mode of production: Attention economy and the society of the spectacle
Through an analysis of films since the late 1920s, this book explores how cinema exemplifies the transformation of looking into productive labor under capitalism.
Informatic labor in the age of computational capital.
The author discusses how the digital image within neoliberal capitalism exploits viewer attention, shapes profitable patterns of spectatorship, and connects communication to financial speculation.
The message is murder: Substrates of computational capital.
The book examines the misrecognition of “information wants to be free” within screen-mediated contexts. It analyzes how computational capital reshapes representation, finance, identity, and sociality from the mid-twentieth century onward.
The world computer: Derivative conditions of racial capitalism.
This book explores how information, transformed into derivatives surpasses reality in societal wealth and significance.
Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new jim code
This paper explores how automation perpetuates and conceals racial discrimination through the concept of the “New Jim Code,” revealing how neutral technologies can reinforce racial hierarchies and social divisions.
Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means
This collection examines how digital technologies exploit emotions, particularly through social media, exacerbating conflicts related to racism, misogyny, and nationalism.
