{"product_id":"reparative-media-aymar-jean-escoffery-9780262553261","title":"Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow to repair our culture by reimagining how we make media and use technology to connect with one another.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In \u003ci\u003eReparative Media\u003c\/i\u003e, Aymar Jèan Escoffery argues that this is exactly how we repair our culture and heal harms from racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and religious discrimination: by reconsidering how we make media, how we connect through technology, and how we generate knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on five years of deep, complex work cocreating an independent alternative to platforms like Netflix and YouTube, the author reveals the process behind developing OTV Open Television to stream stories by diverse creators. The book shows that planting seeds for a more community-based media and tech ecosystem can also reform corporate systems better than so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, as the platform helped elevate creators on social media and in Hollywood at companies like HBO, Netflix, and more. Combining theory and practice, local production and global distribution, Chicago and Hollywood, the book paints a portrait of what a healing media ecosystem looks like--and shows how communal ways of knowing can cultivate reparative media, technology, and research that benefit everyone no matter how they identify.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aymar Jean Escoffery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262553260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262553261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs","brand":"Aymar Jean Escoffery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47757338509567,"sku":"9780262553261","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f08f152-1da6-42a1-a081-ae962637ee2e.jpg?v=1765510181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reparative-media-aymar-jean-escoffery-9780262553261","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}