by Raizel Liebler Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman is another great addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. This book doesn’t dive…
26 Jul: I Read A Book: Christine R. Yano’s Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific
by Raizel Liebler State of the world kawaii! One of the inspirations for our starting this blog was trying to explain Japanese culture, especially anime…
Matt Stahl’s Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work is an interesting book about the ways recording artists have been treated by California…
Kembrew McLeod & PeterDiCola’s recent book, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling is a truly excellent overview of the complicated aspects of…
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…