Contributors

V. William Balthrop is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina. He is currently completing a book project with Carole Blair and Neil Michel on the American Cemetery and Memorial in Suresnes, France. He was formerly the President of the National Communication Association and the American Forensic Association.

Tabita Moreno Becerra is a Ph.D student in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program at North Carolina State University. She received her B.A. in Social Communication, University of Concepción, Chile, and her Masters in Communication and Multimedia Design, Tracor, Chile. Her research interests include digital culture, new media, interpersonal communication, and social change.

Carole Blair is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina. She is currently completing book projects on the Civil Rights Memorial and Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama; and, with Bill Balthrop and Neil Michel, Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial in France. Other recent publications are ‘‘Communication as Collective Memory’’ in Communication As… : Perspectives on Theory (Sage, 2005), and ‘‘The Rushmore Effect: Ethos and National Collective Identity’’ (with Neil Michel) in The Ethos of Rhetoric (South Carolina, 2004). She is also the Recipient of the National Communication Association’s 2005 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award.

Jordan Frith is a Ph.D student in North Carolina State’s Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program. He received his M.S. in Technical Communication from James Madison University. His main research interests are locative media and space, particularly how locative media may change perception of how people interact in urban spaces. He is also interested in how digital media are changing political communication and how older understandings of intellectual property are inappropriate for the digital age, and might be hurting growth in less developed areas.

Bernd Frohmann is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at The University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Deflating Information: From Science Studies to Documentation (University of Toronto, 2004) and various articles and book chapters on documentation and information studies. His current research interests are in contemporary German media studies and in the documentary practices of ethical self-formation under conditions of bare life.

Victoria J. Gallagher is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in rhetorical criticism, particularly of civil rights-related discourse, commemorative sites (museums and memorials), visual images, and public art. Most recently, her co-authored essay (with Kenneth S. Zagacki) ‘‘Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art,’’ appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and she is editing The Urban Communication Reader, Volume III (with Susan Drucker and Matthew Matsaganis).

Ronald Walter Greene is the Donald V. Hawkins Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include rhetorical theory, argumentation studies, and screen studies.

Joshua Gunn is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and an Affiliated Faculty with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the author of Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (Alabama, 2005).

Mark B. N. Hansen is a Professor of Literature and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, where he is also a member of the Visual Studies Initiative and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image. His work focuses on the experiential and nonrepresentational effects of technologies and, more broadly, on the role of technics in the social and cultural constitution and evolution of the human. He is the author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (University of Michigan, 2000), New Philosophy for New Media (MIT, 2004), and Bodies in Code (Routledge, 2006). He has co-edited three volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (with T. Carman, Cambridge, 2005), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (with Bruce Clarke, Duke University Press, 2009), and Critical Terms for Media Studies (with W.J.T. Mitchell, Chicago, 2010).

Byron Hawk is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are histories and theories of composition, rhetorical theory and technology, and rhetorics of popular music. He is the author of A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), which won JAC’s W. Ross Winterowd Award in 2007 and received honorable mention for MLA’s Mina Shaughnessy Prize in 2008.

James Hay is a Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the Institute for Communication Research at the University of Illinois. He has written extensively about communication/media, social space, governmentality, and citizenship. His most recent book is Better Living Through Reality TV (Blackwell, 2008) with Laurie Ouellette.

N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature at Duke University, teaches and writes on the relations of literature, science, and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998–99, and her book Writing Machines won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her most recent book, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2012.

Ken Hillis is Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book, Online a Lot of the Time (Duke University Press, 2009), examines how age-old understandings of ritual communication as the vehicle by which people come together to produce meaning are increasingly subject to conflation with a competing definition of communication as the transmission of messages between individuals across space. He is also co-editor of Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire (Routledge, 2006) and author of Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality (Minnesota, 1999). He is currently completing Google and the Culture of Search (Routledge, 2012).

Kelly Norris Martin is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on visual communication, visual research methods, design, and digital media. In her latest research project, she is developing a schema that textually and graphically maps the hierarchical relationships of numerous visual research methods.

Neil Michel is a partner at Axiom, a creative services firm in Davis, CA. He is currently director of eMedia at Prosper Magazine. His work has appeared in such venues as The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post. His academic work blends rhetoric, cultural studies, and photography. His research on the history and evolution of American memorials appears in numerous journals and anthologies.

Kathleen F. Oswald holds a Ph.D in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from North Carolina State University. Her dissertation is titled “Smarter, better, faster, stronger: The informationalized infrastructural ideal.” Her research interests include space and mobility, analog and digital technologies, and communication infrastructures. She received a M.A. in Communication from Villanova University.

Jeremy Packer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University and a faculty member in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D program. He is the author of Mobility Without Mayhem: Cars, Safety, and Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2008), the editor of Secret Agents: Popular Icons Beyond James Bond (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-editor (with Criag Robertson) of Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History (Peter Lang, 2006), and the co-editor, with Jack Bratich and Cameron McCarthy, of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality (SUNY, 2003).

Lisa Parks is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her research explores uses of satellite, computer, and television technologies in a transnational context. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke University Press, 2005) and co-editor of Planet TV (NYU, 2003), Undead TV (Duke University Press, 2007), and Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures (Rutgers University Press, 2012). She also is finishing a new book entitled Coverage: Media Space and Security After 9/11 (forthcoming from Routledge).

John Durham Peters is A. Craig Baird Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (Chicago, 2005) and Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (Chicago, 1999) and co-editor of Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? (with Elihu Katz, Tamar Liebes, and Avril Orloff) (Polity, 2003) and Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919–1968 (with Peter Simonson) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

Jeff Rice is Associate Professor and Martha B. Reynolds Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at The University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media (SIUP, 2007) and the co-editor of New Media/New Methods: The Turn From Literacy to Electracy (Parlor Press, 2008) and From <A> to A: Keywords in Markup (University of Minnesota, 2011). He has also published numerous essays on pedagogy, rhetoric, writing, and new media.

Sarah Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on cultural and materialist approaches to media-technology, more specifically the politics of space and time. She has recently published on metropolitan taxi drivers and the production of brown space post 9–11 (Cultural Studies, 2010), biopolitics and the modern airport (Cultural Studies, 2009), media, materiality, and the taxi-cab (Social Identities, 2008), and the politics of Stillness (Journal of Media and Culture, 2009). She is currently completing a book on the cultural politics of time to be published by Duke University Press.

Mimi Sheller is a Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication, and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University. She is the author of Citizenship From Below (Duke University Press, forthcoming), Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (Routledge, 2003), Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan, 2000), and co-editor of Mobile Technologies of the City (Routledge, 2006), Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play (Routledge, 2004), and Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration (Berg, 2003).

Adriana de Souza e Silva is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and a faculty member of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU. Dr. de Souza e Silva’s research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people’s interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games, and Internet studies. Dr. de Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes – Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of Net-Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (Blackwell, 2011), and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Control, Privacy, and Urban Sociability (Routledge, 2012). She holds a Ph.D in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jennifer Daryl Slack is a Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the Michigan Institute for Technology. She is author of Culture + Technology | A Primer (with J. Macgregor Wise) (Peter Lang, 2005), Communication Technologies and Society (1984) and editor of The Ideology of the Information Age (with Fred Fejes, 1987), Thinking Geometrically (by John Waisanen, Peter Lang, 2002), and Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari) (Peter Lang, 2003).

John Sloop is a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies. He is the author of The Cultural Prison (Alabama University Press, 1996), Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California’s Proposition 187 (Temple University Press, 2002), and Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary US Culture (UMASS, 2004).

Daniel M. Sutko is a doctoral candidate in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at North Carolina State University. His research interests include cultural approaches to media/technology, mobilities studies, critical theory, and asking what’s new about new media. He teaches media history, theory, and writing in the Department of Communication and is dissertating about sea and media piracy, media-technologies, governance and power. His recent publications focus on mobile media and the role of ICTs in the social production of spaces and mobilities. He is co-editor, with Adriana de Souza e Silva, of Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009).

Stephen B. Crofts Wiley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. His work examines social space as assemblage, focusing especially on technology, culture, and globalization in Latin America. He is working on a book based on recent research on sense of place in southern Chile.

J. Macgregor Wise is Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He is the author of Exploring Technology and Social Space (Sage, 1997) and Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), co-author, with Jennifer Slack, of Culture and Technology: A Primer (Peter Lang, 2005), and co-author, with Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney, of the second edition of Mediamaking (Sage, 2005). He is currently working on a manuscript examining the cultural dimensions of new mobile communication and computing technologies.

Kenneth S. Zagacki is the Head of, and a Professor in, the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in rhetorical theory and criticism. His essays examine the rhetoric of public scientific disputes, presidential foreign policy speeches, environmental controversies, civil rights-related visual images, and public art. Most recently, his co-authored essay (with Victoria Gallagher) “Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art” appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Currently he and Gallagher are examining the popular museum program, “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit,” as a new genre: the museum as therapeutic rhetoric.