The Media Crease

A landmark collection. The Media Crease takes us on a journey, from danza to misogynoir, from Palestine to Senegal. Along the way, the concept of the media crease is used capaciously and perceptively to illuminate how repetition in digital media can be understood as, on the one hand, a force of entrenchment and oppression and on the other, an invitation to interrupt, disrupt and decolonise. * Bridget Conor, Associate Professor of Communication, Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand *
Building from the fertile concept of the ‘media crease’, the works collected here bring a vital and refreshing perspective on the entanglements of the digital and the physical in our communicative landscapes, and their affective contours. This is a bold, highly original, and rigorous theoretical and empirical contribution that generously invites the reader to imagine theorizing the media otherwise, just at the moment we most need such inclusive and critical perspectives. * Alison Harvey, Professor of Communication Studies, Glendon College, York University, Canada *
Critically urgent and original, The Media Crease is a powerful experiment in communal theorizing as a practice of survival and resistance. Beginning from the insight that repeated media engagement (the stuff of dog-eared pages and worn-out videotape) is no longer personal—but when it enters the digital realm, increasingly social, public, and algorithmic—the collection unfolds a series of incisive essays that reject universalized accounts of media use and center racialized and minoritarian experience. Together, they model transformative methods for understanding media engagement as a lens through which digital subjects navigate recursive systems of colonial, racist, and capitalist power, offering a definitive rejoinder to the question, “Is the color of new media studies white?” * Anna Watkins Fisher, Senior Lecturer of Digital Media and Culture, King’s College London, UK *