...Paul Flaig This essay offers a feminist critique and correction of media archaeology. Media archaeology has developed over the last two decades as a historiographic response to increasingly advanced contemporary media technologies and, with them, changing accounts and archives of earlier analog...

...Pooja Rangan This article investigates the contemporary phenomenon of “child media advocacy,” or the practice of “empowering” child subjects by providing them with media technologies as a means of self-representation. Tracing the genealogy of this practice to an older ethnographic tradition of...

... analyzing not only television but also online media and print and digital tabloids and the audience discourses involved with them. It further argues that transmediation incorporates gender and sexuality as well as media. In this, the body also functions as a medium, simultaneously grounded in materiality...

...Katherine Fusco This article argues that Virtual 2Pac , created in 2012 by Digital Domain Media Group in collaboration with Dr. Dre for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, represents an important twenty-first-century challenge to the relationships between performance and performer, film...

.... Jacob Gaboury is an assistant professor of digital media and visual culture in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. His forthcoming book, Image Objects, offers an archaeology of early three-­dimensional computer graphics and visualization in the 1960s and...

...Diana Pozo; Bonnie Ruberg; Chris Goetz Queer gamers have always been a part of video game culture. However, since the mid-2000s, the growing importance of fans to media consumption and the rise to prominence of the independent game industry have helped bring public recognition and awareness to...

..., archaeologized layerings of the rote realities of the entire epidemic. It aims to account for the contexts and styles that were produced along with what was felt, the connections of all of memory to media technologies, the continuities and discontinui- ties between technology and memory, and their variant...

...Julie Levin Russo This article returns to Sigmund Freud's and Jacques Lacan's theories of scopophilia to intervene in a pessimistic thread of new media criticism. By complicating doomsday scenarios, it unpacks the complexities of exhibitionism iterated as online self-display, including aspects not...

... spectator in such global and inflexible terms. I felt that ideo- logical analysis had to advance into more socially specific terrains to answer pressing questions about other substantive variables involved in the spectator’s day-to-day commerce with the media. These problems led me to reorient my...

...Laura U. Marks Camera Obscura 2003 Laura U. Marks , a theorist and curator of independent and experimental media, is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and...

... Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. Tom Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). 4. See, for example, Jussi Parikka, Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (New York: Lang, 2007); Tony D. Sampson, Virality: Contagion Theory...

...Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Camera Obscura 2009 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is associate professor of modern culture and media at Brown University. She has studied both systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author...

... media have already rendered this distinction ob- solete, creating new systems of spatialization and temporality -indeed, new forms of thought-that modern philosophy is ill-equipped to describe or understand. New modalities of expression have been in- augurated by the accelerated development...

...-inspired analyses tend to hover in the background of much film scholarship, and Foucault’s work might be said to have had an influence on studies which attempt to make archaeological or genealogical claims. And while there are certainly exceptions to the tendency to use...

... 1978 Annual Confer- ence of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) held at Brighton, England. It refers primarily to the cinema— that is, films as well as media intertexts, industry, and market— between 1895 and 1917. Early cinema has also been alternatively called the “primitive...

..., 2003); and The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo (University of Texas Press, 2001). Fregoso teaches courses on human rights, culture, feminism, and media. Carmen Durán and other factory workers display the products they assemble. From Maquilapolis, directed by Vicky Funari...

... During the early 1990s in British culture and politics, the lone mother was a hotly contested single woman’s subject position. On the one hand, polit- ical and media discourses on the lone mother constructed her as a deviant, feckless, social, and economic leech who did not deserve access to...

.... Anne Kustritz is an assistant professor in media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her teaching focuses on convergence culture and queer and feminist theory. Her work deals with creative fan communities and representational politics. She also serves on the editorial board of Transformative...

... more real than reality itself or the so-called reality of facts. I am interested in the power and fascination of the fantasmatic discourse, 107 its effects on, its workings within and in between, cultures, in other words, in the “empiricism” of case histories4 and of history as an archaeology...

... structuralism assigns to the male. To unearth several histories leading to this ob- session with the male body and to this difficulty with the feminine is the project of my forthcoming book, The Body in the Mirror: An Archaeology of Histories in Italian Cinema, from the Silent Period...