Index
Contents
Introduction: The Future of Media – Goldsmiths Media
HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE
1 The Future and the ‘Poetry of the Past’ – Gholam Khiabany 7
THE FUTURE OF MEDIA REFORM
2 Media Reform and the Politics of Hope – Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman 25
THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
3 An End to Futility: A Modest Proposal – James Curran 45
THE FUTURE OF TRUTH
4 Future Faking, Post-Truth and Affective Media – Lisa Blackman 59
THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
5 How Will the Future Cope With(out) Television? – David Morley 81
THE FUTURE OF MEDIA WORK
6 Our Platformised Future – Clea Bourne 99
THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
7 The Celebrity Selfie: Gender, Race and ‘New’ Old Ways of Seeing – Milly Williamson 113
THE FUTURE OF ‘DIVERSITY’ IN MEDIA
8 Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – Anamik Saha and Sandra van Lente 135
THE FUTURE OF FEMINISM
9 Exit Wounds of Feminist Theory – Sarah Cefai 157
THE FUTURE OF QUEER MEDIA
10 Queerama: Re-Imagining Queer Pasts and Futures – Daisy Asquith 177
THE FUTURE OF DANCE
11 New Telematic Technology for the Remote Creation and Performance of Choreographic Work – Daniel Strutt,Andreas Schlegel, Neal Coghlan, Clemence Debaig and Youhong ‘Friendred’ Peng 197
THE FUTURE OF AUDIO
12 Everywhere in Particular: Some Thoughts on the Practice and Potential of Transpositional Locative Sound Art – NG Bristow 225
13 If 6 Were 9 (or 2 x 108): A Case Study of the One Oh Eight Project – Richard M. Shannon, NG Bristow and Mathapelo Mofokeng 239
THE FUTURE OF ACTIVISM
14 How Smartphones and Digital Apps are Transforming Activist Movements – Sue Clayton 253
THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL HUMANITARIANISM
15 Technological Futures as Colonial Debris: ‘Tech for Good’ as Technocolonialism – Mirca Madianou 281
THE FUTURE OF THE CITY
16 The Smart City and the Extraction of Hope – Richard MacDonald 297
THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
17 Does Photography Have a Future? (Does Anything Else?) – Joanna Zylinska 315
THE FUTURE OF ‘THE FUTURE’
18 Astronoetic Voyaging: Speculation, Media and Futurity – James Burton 333
Afterword: Forward – Sean Cubitt 353
363 Notes
371 Contributors
377 Index
