The Digital Banal New Media and American Literature and Culture
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1429
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- ISBN
- 9780231545402
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Digital Banal is the first major study in literature and digital media to address the ways digital media operate as a banal logic in contemporary culture. It offers an original formulation of ?banality? as an affective condition that treats novelty as expectation rather than as disturbance, and locates this formulation operating in society today at a cultural level (novels, film, TV), and at a technical level (software, internet infrastructure, devices). The research took place over a seven-year period and brings together multiple disciplines (History, STS, Media and Literary Studies) to forge a new understanding of banality in contemporary life.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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