Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age

I) Mashup/Remix/Repurpose; 1. Richard Edwards - Flip the Script: Political Mashups as Transgressive Texts; 2. David Gunkel - Audible Transgressions: Art and Aesthetics after the Mashup; 3. Mark Amerika - Source Material Everywhere [[G.]Lit/ch RemiX]: A Conversation with Mark Amerika; 4. Paul Booth - Saw Fandom and the Transgression of Fan Excess; II) Pornography and Beyond; 5. Stephen Maddison - Is the Rectum Still a Grave? Anal Sex, Pornography and Transgression; 6. Sarah Neely - Making Bodies Visible: Post-Feminism and the Pornographication of Online Identities; 7. Grant Kein - BDSM and Transgression 2.0: The Case of Kink.com; 8. Julian Petley - Sick Stuff: Law, Criminality, and Obscenity; III) Media 2.0 - Legitimacy, Power, and Information; 9. Mark Nunes - Abusing the Media: Viral Validity in a Republic of Spam; 10. Ted Gournelos - Breaking the News: Wikileaks and Secrecy in the Age of the Internet; 11. Vanessa Au - My day of fame on Digg.com: Race, Representation, and Resistance in Web 2.0; 12. Henry Jenkins - An Interview with Henry Jenkins; IV) Law, Social Disturbance and Political Unrest; 13. Jack Bratich - Sovereign Networks, Pre-emptive Transgression, Communications Warfare: Case studies in Social Movement Media; 14. Debra Shaw - Monsters in the Metropolis: Pirate Utopias and the New Politics of Space; 15. Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste - On the Mexican State's War on Drug Violence: Transgression in the Representation and Circulation of Los Perro Salvajes; 16. Mike Truscello - Social Media and the Representation of Summit Protests: YouTube, Riot Porn, and the Anarchist Tradition; Index.

David J. Gunkel is Presidential Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University.. Ted Gournelos is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at Rollins College, FL.

Transgression 2.0 is a carefully crafted and nuanced collective account of transgression in an age of social networks feeding revolutions, of the reign of software in election campaigns, of omnipresent porn and spam, the 'triumph' of Wikileaks, and of the endless amateur cultural production of everything. Full of tasty detail covering a range of highly contemporary issues, the book avoids hyper-optimistic or dismissive claims and offers new ways of understanding the dynamics of resistance and appropriation, creativity, emancipatory change and enclosure, that are core to transgression.

This is a rare find for anyone looking for a balanced account of today's network- and software-reliant cultures in terms of their convoluted aesthetic and political powers.

Dr Olga Goryunova, Senior Lecturer in Media Practice, London Metropolitan University