Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures

by Jody Berland

The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks.

From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039605
• ISBN13: 9780262039604
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"