Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media (1st edition.)

"Forget everything you know about spam. Now, let's talk about spam. Digital Distortions is about the power behind producing deviant media categories.

This book explores the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what this power means for our broader understanding of media.

Despite being an inseparable part of our lives, we know very little about these media categories.

The book synthesizes approaches such as media theory, sound studies, feminist technoscience and software studies into a new composition to explore media power.

Through the concepts of processed listening and rhythmedia, Digital Distortions draws on sound and sound's ability to cross boundaries as a conceptual framework to think and examine media power more productively.

Drawing on repositories of legal, technical and archival sources, Digital Distortions amplifies three stories about media distortions.

The book shows that spam received