In 2018, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies re-launched with two new editors: Sarah Atkinson (Kings’ College London) and Helen W. Kennedy (University of Brighton). The new editors wanted to revive the journal’s former book reviews section and they kindly hired me to do this.
During my tenure (2018-2021), I oversaw the publication of the following reviews:
- Zeynep Tufekci’s Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, reviewed by Eleonore Fournier-Tombs
- Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, reviewed by Daniëlle Flonk
- Mark Andrejevic’s Automated Media, reviewed by Jill Walker Rettberg
- Bonnie Brennan’s Opting Out of Digital Media, reviewed by Kelechi Okechukwu Amakoh
- Sarah T. Roberts’ Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, reviewed by Francesca Sobande
- Tero Karppi’s Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds, reviewed by Melanie M Wong
- Nathaniel O’Grady’s Governing Future Emergencies: Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service, reviewed by Sam Hind
- Mercedes Bunz and Graham Meikle’s The Internet of Things, reviewed by Sam Lehman-Wilzig
- Jaime E Settle’s Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America, reviewed by Jane Cronin
- Nanna Bonde Thylstrup’s The Politics of Mass Digitization, reviewed by Lizzie Martin
- Fenwick McKelvey’s Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed, reviewed by Sabrina Wilkinson
- Zizi Papacharissi’s A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites, reviewed by Tatiana Mendonça de Sousa e Silva
- Jacqueline Ryan Vickery’s Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World, reviewed by Victoria Jaynes
- Zizi Papacharissi’s A Networked Self and Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience, reviewed by Neal Thomas
- Virginia Eubanks’ Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, reviewed by Nathan Fisk
- Zizi Papacharissi’s A Networked Self and Love, reviewed by Chrysi Dagoula
- Suzanne Scott’s Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry, reviewed by Amanda C Cote
- John Tinnell’s Actionable Media: Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop, reviewed by Cory Barker
- Tarleton Gillespie’s Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media, reviewed by Joseph Seering
- Marie Hicks’ Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost its Edge in Computing, reviewed by Ofra Klein
- Helen Kennedy’s Post, Mine, Repeat: Social Media Data Mining Becomes Ordinary, reviewed by Alisha Karabinus
- Maria Eriksson et al’s Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music, reviewed by Ellis Jones
- Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner’s The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online, reviewed by Simone Driessen
- Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts’ Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics, reviewed by Julia Rose DeCook
- Paul Dourish’s The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information, reviewed by Austin Ruckstuhl
- Rhiannon Bury’s Television 2.0: Viewer and Fan Engagement with Digital TV, reviewed by Deborah Castro
- Brooke Erin Duffy’s (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work, reviewed by Zoë Glatt
If you are contracted to review a book and aren’t sure where to start, check out the final section of my Editorial.
Dr. Ysabel Gerrard 