Professor Philip Auslander's Reactivations: Performance and its Documentation received strong reviews from the publications The Drama Review and Theater.

Wesley Chair of New Media Jay Bolter's book Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media, received positive reviews this spring from the publications The Velvet Light Trap and Afterimage.

Associate Professor Gregory Zinman's book Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts, an exploration of how filmmakers can generate new artistic expressions by physically altering the medium, was reviewed in the magazine Film Comment. "Devoid of zeitgeisty romanticization of the analog, [Zinman's book] presents a defiant yet clear-eyed alternative history of the origins of cinema," the review said.

Associate Professor Yanni Loukissas' monograph All Data are Local was reviewed by Information, Communication & Society in September, with the reviewer stating that the publication was "an engaging read, using the contexts to approach an understanding of the data, rather than using the data to understand the context."

Associate Professor André Brock's book Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures garnered a glowing assessment from Lesley Williams in Booklist.