Virtual Menageries
Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures
$62.74
- Paperback
324 pages
- Release Date
26 November 2024
Summary
From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menagerie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553438 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553430 |
| Author: | Jody Berland |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 324 |
| Release Date: | 26 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Leonardo |
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About The Author
Jody Berland
Jody Berland is Professor in the Department of Humanities and in Graduate Programs in Communication and Culture, Social and Political Thought, Science and Technology Studies, and Music, at York University, Toronto, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of North of Empire - Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space.
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