Media Distortions Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media

"Media Distortions provides an original, insightful and engaging counter-account of spam and noise as deviant media which have been paradoxically constituted as such to bring about a series of crucial transformations in our technologies and cultures of communication. Drawing on specific historical case studies and extending right into our present, by reverse engineering of the history of spam, Elinor Carmi brings a fresh perspective to bear on a media phenomenon which has received little critical attention."-Tiziana Terranova, University of Naples, author of Network Culture: Politics For the Information Age (2004)