Contributors to Volume VI
Charles R. Acland is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies, Montreal. His books include Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (2003), Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (2012), and the co-edited (with Haidee Wasson) collection Useful Cinema (2011). With Katie Russell, Acland edits the Canadian Journal of Film Studies.
Carolina Aguerre is a doctoral candidate in social sciences and scholar of the National Scientific and Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina. She is also a researcher and lecturer at the Center for Technology and Society and the Department of Administration at the Universidad de San Andrés.
Marisa Brandt is a doctoral candidate in communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of researchers developing virtual reality as a therapeutic tool for treating veterans with post-traumatic stress. A second project looks at how the Zapatistas are coordinating an anti-genetically modified maize social movement in Chiapas, Mexico. She has also done research on the politicization of health and medical news in the US news media. She studied English and creative writing at Berkeley, and worked as an editor for two years in Seattle before beginning her doctoral study.
Jack Z. Bratich is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. He authored Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (2008) and co-edited, along with Jeremy Packer and Cameron McCarthy, Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality (2003). He edited a 2011 special issue of Journal of Communication Inquiry titled “Towards an Autonomist Communication Studies: Assessing Hardt and Negri's Trilogy.” His work applies autonomist social theory to such topics as reality television, audience studies, social media, and the cultural politics of secrecy.
Richard Campbell directs the Journalism program at Miami University of Ohio. He is the author of 60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America and co-author of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade and the Reagan Legacy. Campbell has also written for Columbia Journalism Review, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Communication, and Television Quarterly. He is the lead author of Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, the nation's most widely used media survey textbook, and Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction. Campbell earned his PhD in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University, where he was a Danforth Fellow, and worked as print reporter and TV and radio news writer in Milwaukee.
Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies and affiliated faculty in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California at San Diego. Her books include Moral Spectatorship (2008), Screening the Body (1995), and, with Marita Sturken, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (1st ed., 2001; 2nd ed., 2008).
Mia Consalvo is Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University in Montreal. She has co-edited the Handbook of Internet Studies with Charles Ess and is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames. Her current work centers on the role of Japan in the game industry and game culture. She is also investigating social network games and those who play them. When not playing either Dragon Age 1 or 2, Mia can usually be found playing a Facebook game.
Mark Coté is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published extensively on social media, media theory, autonomist Marxism, and Foucault. He is currently researching new materialism/media theory via distributed-embodied dimensions of mobility and location, especially through the use of smart phones. Mark's recent work can be found in Theory & Event, ephemera, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Journal of Cultural Economy.
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 Associate Director 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. She is co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of the book Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces (2009), co-author (with Eric Gordon) of Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (2011), and co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Control, Privacy, and Urban Sociability. She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Max Dawson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern. His research examines television's fraught relationship to new media technologies, exploring the ways in which innovations ranging from the remote control to the mobile phone have unsettled long-standing notions of television's uses and cultural meanings. He is currently working on a book entitled The History of Television's Futures, which traces the various ways in which the television of tomorrow has been represented in popular culture, scientific literature, marketing materials, and policy debates over the course of the medium's history. A graduate of Northwestern's Screen Cultures PhD program, Dawson teaches courses on reality television, new media, digital culture, and videogames.
Martin Eide is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has conducted research and published numerous books within the fields of political communication, the sociology of journalism, and media history. He has published articles in journals such as European Journal of Communication and Media, Culture and Society. He is currently managing a project financed by the Norwegian Research Council: Journalistic Reorientations: The Online Challenge to Journalistic Ontology.
Greg Elmer is Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the Infoscape research lab, Ryerson University, Toronto. He also teaches in the graduate program in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities and the School of Radio, TV Arts. He has previously held faculty appointments at Florida State University, Boston College, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has lectured, published, and consulted widely on contemporary surveillance technologies, social and political networking on the Internet, and the growth of Canadian TV and film production industries. Greg's most recent articles have appeared in the scholarly journals New Media and Society, Screen, Convergence, and Topia.
Radhika Gajjala is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and currently director of the American Culture Studies program. Her book, Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women, was published in 2004. She has co-edited collections on South Asian Technospaces, Global Media Culture and Identity, and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice. Her latest book is titled Weavings of the Real and Virtual: Cyberculture and the Subaltern (2012). She is currently continuing work on two interrelated projects: one on microfinance online, money in virtual worlds, and social media in relation to global, socioeconomic work and play environments, and the other on “Coding and Placement of Affect and Labor in Digital Diasporas.” She is also working on an edited collection titled Digital Diasporas and Globalization.
Kelly Gates is Associate Professor of Communication, Science Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research examines the social and historical dimensions of new media technologies, as well as the politics of computerization and surveillance system development in postwar United States. Her first book, Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance (2011), examines the effort underway since the 1960s to program computers to “see” the human face. She is also co-editor, with Shoshana Magnet, of The New Media of Surveillance (2009).
David Golumbia writes about digital culture, the philosophical foundations of computational theory, and linguistic diversity. He worked as a software designer in the financial information industry in New York City. He teaches in the Department of English and the PhD program in Media, Art, and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of The Cultural Logic of Computation (2009) and of many articles, and maintains the digital culture blog uncomputing.org as well as the widely exhibited net.art project uiuuii.com.
Eric Gordon is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. His research focuses on location-based media, games, and civic engagement. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College where he directs the Engagement Game Lab (http://engagementgamelab.org) – an applied research lab that develops games and social media for local community engagement. He is the author of two books, Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (with Adriana de Souza e Silva, 2011) and The Urban Spectator: American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google (2010).
Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She performs and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995), Women of Vision (2001), F is for Phony, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005), and a born-digital online “video-book” about YouTube available for free at MIT Press (2011). She is the producer of 20 or so activist documentaries on issues from AIDS to the feminist family, and is the producer of the lesbian features The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010).
Justin Lewis is Head of the School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He has written widely about media, communication, culture, and politics. The argument in his chapter for this volume will be developed further in his next book for Polity.
Rich Ling is a Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and has a position at the Telenor research institute located near Oslo, Norway. He has also been the Pohs Visiting Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan and now holds an adjunct position in that department. He is the author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion (2008) and The Mobile Connection (2004), and, with Per E. Pederson, editor of Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere (2005). With Scott Campbell he edits the Mobile Communication Research series and Ling is the founding editor of the Sage journal Mobile Media and Communication. He has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from Rutgers University and Telenor (most recently with the Telenor research award for 250,000 Norwegian kroner). In addition he has received the Goffman Award from the Media Ecology Society.
Geert Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and Net critic. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and in 2003 was postdoc at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. In 2004 Lovink was appointed Research Professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) where he founded the Institute of Network Cultures. He is also Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Professor in Media Theory at the European Graduate School. He is the founder of Internet projects such as nettime and fibreculture and recently organized research networks, conferences, and publications on topics such as the culture of search, online video, urban screens, critique of creative industries, digital publishing, and global Wikipedia research. His recent book titles are Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny Networks (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), and Networks without a Cause (2012).
Lev Manovich (www.manovich.net) is a Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego, where he teaches courses in digital art, history and theory of digital culture, and digital humanities. He also directs the Software Studies Initiative (www.softwarestudies.com) at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2). Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (2008), Black Box – White Cube (2005), Soft Cinema DVD (2005), The Language of New Media (2001), Metamediji (2001), and Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (1993) as well as over 100 articles that have been published in 30 countries and reprinted over 400 times.
Richard Maxwell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the City University of New York, Queens College. He is the author of Herbert Schiller and The Spectacle of Democracy: Spanish Television, Nationalism, and Political Transition. In addition, he is co-author of Global Hollywood 2 (with Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Ting Wang) and editor of Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture.
Toby Miller is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. You can follow his adventures in fair use at http://www.tobymiller.org/.
Majia Holmer Nadesan is Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University's west campus. She has authored three books on biopolitics and economics and is currently working on a book project addressing the rise of the neofeudal economy and the politics of dispossession. She has conducted research and written books on the biopolitics of autism (Constructing Autism, 2005) and biopolitical approaches to governing populations' economic productivity, health, and citizenship (Governmentality, Biopower and Everyday Life, 2008 and Governing Childhood into the 21st Century, 2010).
Lisa Nakamura is the director of the Asian American Studies program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies and Cinema Studies Department, and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2008) and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet (2002), and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (2000) and Race After the Internet (2011).
Yeon Ju Oh is a PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests encompass women in technology, social shaping of technology, labor in the information society, and feminist knowledge production. Her dissertation examines female software programmers and their ethics and politics in producing digitally mediated knowledge. She was involved in the War and Women's Human Rights Center in South Korea as a researcher and an activist, co-editing a testimony book of “Comfort Women” survivors. She is also co-editor, with Radhika Gajjala, of Cyberfeminism 2.0 (2012).
Andy Opel is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Florida State University, teaching documentary video production and critical media studies. His research interests include environmental communication, alternative media, and the emerging media reform movement. Opel is author, with Greg Elmer, of Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future, and his previous work includes the book Micro Radio and the FCC: Media Activism and the Struggle Over Broadcast Policy, in which he examines the struggle over FCC policy as a site where an emerging social movement can be witnessed.
Lisa Parks is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores uses of satellite, television, and computer technologies in different cultural contexts. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (2005) and co-editor of Planet TV (2003), Undead TV (2007), and Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures (2012). She is currently working on two new books: Coverage: Media Space and Security after 9/11 and Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies.
Victor Pickard is an Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he worked on media policy in Washington, DC as a policy fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson, and as a senior research fellow at the media reform organization Free Press and the public policy think tank the New America Foundation. He has published widely on media activism and politics, the history and political economy of media institutions, and the normative foundations of media policy. He is the co-editor, with Robert McChesney, of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (2011). Currently he is finishing a book on postwar media reform activism and the future of news media.
Jack Linchuan Qiu is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He conducts research on information and communication technologies (ICTs), class, globalization, and social change. His publications include Working-Class Network Society (2009) and Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (2006).
Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication in the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, where he is also a member of the Centre for Cultural Research. He is author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006) and co-editor of numerous volumes. His essays on labor, media theory, electronic waste industries, and logistics have appeared in Fibreculture Journal; Cultural Politics; Theory, Culture and Society; Topia; ephemera; borderlands; Edu-Factory Journal; and International Review of Information Ethics. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council-funded project with Brett Neilson and others entitled Transit Labour: Circuits, Border, Regions (http://transitlabour.asia/).
Damien Spry is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney, where he teaches in the Department of Media and Communications. His work is concerned with the representations of childhood and youth media use in the public arena and in the policymaking process. He has presented his work at Chuo University, the University of Sydney, the University of Tokyo, Temple University in Tokyo, the Communications Policy and Research Forum at the University of Technology, Sydney, at the Prix Jeunesse (Children's Television Awards) in Munich, and at the Gender in Media Conference hosted by the Geena Davis Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is the co-editor (with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Theresa Dindorfer Anderson) of Youth, Sociality and Mobile Media in Asia (2010).
Charles Thorpe is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Science Studies program at UCSD. He works on the sociology of science and technology and social theory. His book, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, a sociological biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was published in 2007. His articles have appeared in journals such as Anarchist Studies, British Journal of Sociology, Minerva, Modern Intellectual History, Science as Culture, Social Studies of Science, and Theory, Culture and Society.
Raúl Trejo Delarbre is Senior Researcher in the Social Research Institute in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is author of 17 books and a contributor to another 105 books. Among his more recent titles are Viviendo en El Aleph: La Sociedad de la Información y sus laberintos (2006) and Simpatía por el rating: La política deslumbrada por los medios (2010). He was chairman of the Mexican Association for the Right to Information (2009–2011).
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is a Reader in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. She is the author of Journalists and the Public (2007) and co-author of Disasters and the Media (forthcoming, with Mervi Pantti and Simon Cottle) and of Citizens or Consumers? (2005). She has edited several books, including The Handbook of Journalism Studies (2009, with Thomas Hanitzsch). She is currently hard at work on a book titled Emotion, Politics and the Media.
Cara Wallis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. She studies new media technologies and issues of power, difference, subjectivity, and social change, particularly in China. Her book, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones, is an ethnographic exploration of the use of mobile phones by young rural-to-urban migrant women working in the low-level service sector in Beijing.
Rosalía Winocur has a PhD in anthropology and is Professor and Researcher in the Department of Education and Communication of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico (UAM). She is a member of the National Research System and specializes in the everyday appropriation of media and new technologies in family settings. Her last book is Robinson Crusoe ya tiene celular: La conexión como espacio de control de la incertidumbre (2009), Siglo XXI, México.