Really

Really Fake takes up story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity to explore socio-technological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing.

Really Fake

With anchors in feminist theory, queer discourse, and digital politics, Really Fake rescues “fakeness” from the morass of “fake news” and rejuvenates “fake” as a material and tactical reality. This book treats fakeness as a media object itself: “Fakes” are things that travel and circulate through our bodies, sociality, and the technologies that envelop them. Punctuated with anecdotes, experiences, poetry, stories, and a strong feminist ethic and ethos of care, intimacy, and collectivity, Really Fake offers a series of entry points into reframing the debates of fakeness beyond polarized positions of performative outrage.

Publishing Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
128
Series
Print Edition Price
$ 18.00 RRP
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License
CC BY-NC 4.0
ISBNs
978-1-5179-1101-0 (Print)
978-3-95796-154-9 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/154-9
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The Authors

Alexandra Juhasz is distinguished professor of film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her books include Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video, coedited with Jesse Lerner (Minnesota, 2001), F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing (Minnesota, 2006) and Learning from YouTube.

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Ganaele Langlois is associate professor in communication studies at York University, Canada, and associate director of the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media (www.infoscapelab.ca). She is author of Meaning in the Age of Social Media and coeditor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data.

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Nishant Shah is director of research and outreach and professor of aesthetics and cultures of technology at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands. He is coeditor of Digital Activism in Asia Reader (meson press, 2015).

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