“<i>Media Distortions</i> provides an original, insightful and engaging counter-account of spam and noise as deviant media which have been paradoxically constituted as such to bring about a series of crucial transformations in our technologies and cultures of communication. Drawing on specific historical case studies and extending right into our present, by reverse engineering of the history of spam, Elinor Carmi brings a fresh perspective to bear on a media phenomenon which has received little critical attention.”—Tiziana Terranova, University of Naples, author of <i>Network Culture: Politics For the Information Age</i> (2004)

“Elinor Carmi offers a lucid and detailed examination of the taken-for-granted ‘deviant’ categories and processes of spam and noise. Significantly, through the focus on seven strategies of practitioners, the book convincingly demonstrates how common sense perceptions of these two categories are produced by power relations that make up both online and offline spaces of the everyday.”—Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of <i>Being Digital Citizens</i> (2015)

“‘Distort and deviate’ is the best summary for the mode of power Elinor Carmi’s exciting book analyses. The book’s rhythmic approach to noise and spam demonstrates how those seemingly unwanted aspects are at the centre of how contemporary territories and subjectivities are being formed and trained, measured and counted. <i>Media Distortions</i> is essential reading to understand contemporary network culture through a new pair ears, and many many new ideas.”—Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, author of <i>Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses</i> (Peter Lang, 2016)