...Hannah Zeavin “Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous, if not persistent, of these diagnoses...

... media intervention, in which “animal art” stands in as a rallying cry for “animal rights,” is the subject of my inquiry in this article. What theories regarding incarceration, freedom, and progress propel the humanitarian—or rather...

... revolutionaries. Providing a media history and theory of this event, the article argues that the typewriter—both woman and machine—was an active militant who cut texts and bodies to advance the revolutionary cause. The typewriter denaturalized assumptions about the newspaper’s colonial appearance, thus bringing...

... contexts, a portioning off that also plays out in the increasing specialization of academic fields and even in the formation of many modes of identity politics. We need conceptual models for the digital humanities and for digital media studies that integrate theory and practice as well as technology...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This article probes a set of problems in the theory and practice of the postcolonial archive that has emerged as the author and her Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues have struggled to create a new media archive in rural northwest Australia. This archive does not as yet...

.... Negative Dialectics . Trans. Ashton E. B. . London : Routledge , 2004 . Agre Philip . Computation and Human Experience . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1997 . ———. “ Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy .” The New Media Theory Reader . Ed. Wardrip-Fruin Noah Monfort...

..., benefitting from mass media like television and the Internet, and vice versa. While a capitalist logic is at work in Li Yugang’s rise as a national and international star and icon of Chinese popular culture, his popularity may also be read positively as a symbol of liminality for progress and liberalization...

... technology and critical theory, this essay serves both as a meditation on the contemporary cybernetic world and as a proposal for what ought to be done about it. alexander r. galloway is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His books include The Interface...

... that performatively presence the actresses and singers who animate them, in other words morally charged acts for which such animators are held accountable. Drawing on linguistic anthropology and film theory, this article explores vision-image and sound-image as distinct modes of performative presence, noting...

...: Essays in the Study of Religion . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 2004 . 179 -96. Stolow, Jeremy. “Religion and/as Media.” Theory, Culture, and Society 22 .4 ( 2005 ): 119 -45. Styers, Randall. Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World . New York: Oxford up, 2004 . Sullivan...

..., with all three operating in varying degrees in specific signs. However, (with the excep- tion of Gilles Deleuze, for whom Peirce’s system, rather than the index, is primary) within theories of cinema, photography, and new media...

... is also a coeditor of Critical Inquiry . Jagoda’s research concerns network aesthetics, new media theory, and game studies. His art practice focuses on transmedia game design and digital storytelling in a number of contexts, including the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab cofounded with Melissa Gilliam...

... approaches that blend media theory, race, gender, and cultural studies, and political critique about tech- nology and culture. Lisa Nakamura’s work, for example, which has explored the embeddedness of racial identities on virtual...

... for conjunction and disjunction. Mediating fire is the basis of social and cultural order and stability. We are used to discourses of the raw and the cooked in media theory, in both its academic and vernacular versions. Crusty...

... and written four books: Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11 (Palgrave, 2010); Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks (Cambridge University Press, 2004); with Jay David Bolter, Remediation: Understanding New Media (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1999...

... that information theory “disembodied” information from its carrier media, conceiving of it as “a pattern rather than a presence” and thus creating “the illusion of erasure” of “the material world” (28). Her argument encompasses posthuman...

... and Media at Brown University. She is the author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, 2002), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1991), and The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Indiana...

... . Kaplan E. Ann , ed. Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 2005 . Knox Emily J. M. , ed. Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context . Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield , 2017 . LaCapra Dominick . Writing History...

... Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, 2002), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory...

..., theories of the affective are springing up with par- ticular intensity in media studies. These theories examine the media’s appeal to the senses, a perspective neatly summarized in Vivian Sobchack’s postulate that “our aesthetic...