In Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare, Klaus Hoeyer examines the paradoxes surrounding healthcare data, looking at Denmark as a case study, arguing that increased data collection does not always result …
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: OK by Michelle McSweeney
In OK, Michelle McSweeney charts the history of the word ‘OK,’ from its origins in the steam-powered printing press through inventions like the telegraph and telephone and into the digital age. McSweeney illustrates how the linguistic creativity accomp…
Book Review: How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy edited by Syahirah Abdul Rahman et al.
In How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy, editors Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Tim Vorley and Phil Wallace compile advice from a varied range of contributors on how academics can achieve r…
Book Review: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
In Being You, Anil Seth takes us on a comprehensive tour through the science of consciousness, drawing on the most up-to-date data, lessons and theories in the field. This is a compelling book that will leave readers pondering whether new technologies …
Book Review: How Misinformation Acts Like a Virus
In ‘Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity.’ Sander van der Linden expertly lays out strategies for counteracting misinformation, but also highlights how difficult creating a better information environment…
Book Review: Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession by Ann Mari May
In Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession, Ann Mari May explores the historical roots of gendered inequalities within economics. This is an excellent feminist reading of institutionalised discrimination with…
Book Review: Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History by Andie Tucher
In Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History, Andie Tucher explores how journalistic practice has often pivoted on disinformation throughout US history. This is a first-rate study that will give readers a greater understandin…
Book Review: Digital Lethargy: Disparities from An Age of Disconnection by Tung-Hui Hu
In Digital Lethargy: Disparities from An Age of Disconnection, Tung-Hui Hu explores digital lethargy as the burnout, exhaustion and restlessness experienced under digital capitalism. Neo Yee Win recommends this thought-provoking and innovative book to …
From research to the mainstream – Judging the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
As nominations for this year’s prize open, Madawi Al-Rasheed reflects on the experience of judging the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and considers how research based non-fiction writing can reach beyond local and discipli…
Book Review: New Mediums, Better Messages? How Innovations in Translation, Engagement and Advocacy are Changing International Development edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock
In New Mediums, Better Messages?, editors David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock explore how international development is being represented and understood through new insights from practitioners working across a range of communications media….