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The New Media Studies: Editor's Letter

Arjun Appadurai, Erica Robles-Anderson
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 277–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262807
Published: 01 September 2021
... computer, and the beginnings of the market for rental films were all new subjects for global cultural studies, which until then had been largely preoccupied with literature, and to a lesser extent, with cinema. In the 1990s, many authors and readers of Public Culture were primarily concerned with media...
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The Ends of Media Studies

Nicole Starosielski
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 305–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262835
Published: 01 September 2021
...Nicole Starosielski Abstract This article poses the question: what are the ends of media studies? It discusses a turn to “nature” and the elements that has pushed media studies beyond its traditional objects and subjects. While the conceptualization of environments and bodies as communicative...
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Environmental Visualization in the Anthropocene: Technologies, Aesthetics, Ethics

Allison Carruth, Robert P. Marzec
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 205–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392030
Published: 01 May 2014
... of cultural history, critical theory, and media studies within the environmental humanities. 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. In 1996 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) semi-declassified a series of satellite...
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Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982)

Stephen Best
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 431–439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090173
Published: 01 May 2020
..., in stressing mediation, return orality and literacy to the concerns of Ong’s ostensible field: media studies. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 orality literacy African American poetics mediation noise Undead texts provide grand narratives that have been refuted by experts while...
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The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy

Allison Carruth
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 339–364.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392093
Published: 01 May 2014
... of connectivity and speed. The essay concludes with two case studies: first, Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad , whose PowerPoint chapter works to visualize the energy demands of a rapidly growing social media culture, and, second, the so-called high-frequency traders who today are making use...
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Putting America in Its Place

Arvind Rajagopal
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 387–399.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144679
Published: 01 September 2013
... other multidisciplinary formations in the academy, media studies defines itself around objects rather than as a conventional discipline per se. 1 Object-centered fields of study must presume a theoretical subject, an ideal actor/observer whose norms and values prioritize the evidence to be analyzed...
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Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramović

Sharon Marcus
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 21–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798331
Published: 01 January 2015
...Sharon Marcus How have social media changed celebrity and fandom? Using the case study of Marina Abramović, whose 2010 live performance at the Museum of Modern Art catapulted her into celebrity, “Celebrity 2.0” presents four theses about celebrity in order to identify which features of modern...
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Empty Orchestra: The Karaoke Standard and Pop Celebrity

Karen Tongson
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 85–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798355
Published: 01 January 2015
... aesthetics karaoke media studies reality TV sound studies Celebrity has taken a decisive turn toward the ordinary in recent decades ( Gamson 2011 : 1062), yet karaoke, especially in the United States, is generally construed as so crass an activity that participating in it either constitutes...
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Announcements

Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 359–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-359
Published: 01 May 1993
..., PA 19104 USA. Critical Arts: A Journal for Media Studies Centre for Cultural and Media Studies Call for Papers University of Natal, King George V Avenue Durban 4001 SOUTH AFRICA...
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The Social Internet: Frustrating, Enriching, but Not Lonely

Zeynep Tufekci
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 13–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346322
Published: 01 January 2014
...Zeynep Tufekci Hardly a month passes without a popular news outlet or a pundit asking if the Internet is making us lonely. Meanwhile, social media remains the Internet’s most popular application, and almost every empirical study suggests that Internet use corresponds to more social interaction...
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A Bookmobile Critique of Institutions, Infrastructure, and Precarious Mobility

Jessa Lingel
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310942
Published: 01 May 2018
... at bookmobiles as a way of thinking about the politics of institutional mobility, drawing on case studies in Port au Prince, Haiti, and a Palestinian community in Haifa, Israel. The essay considers the coextensive relationships between institutions and infrastructure as illustrated by the circulation of media...
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Editors’ Letter

Eric Klinenberg, Andrew Lakoff
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 370–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144589
Published: 01 September 2013
... on the parochialism of media studies, “Putting America in Its Place.” Rajagopal argues that contemporary media studies is deeply American in object and method, that scholars generally ignore how media work around the world, and that US scholars invoke colonial metaphors too easily when they look beyond their own...
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Editors’ Letter

Eric Klinenberg, Fred Turner
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 447–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630618
Published: 01 September 2012
... replays, and travel everywhere with our handheld phones. Under these conditions, a new kind of media studies is emerging. In earlier decades, scholars often studied radio and film and television as if the technologies behind them made them simply stand-­ alone devices. Now a growing number...
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International Flows of Television Programming: A Revisionist Research Orientation

Connie McNeely, Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 136–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-1-136
Published: 01 January 1989
... from a Cross-Cultural Study. In P. Drummond and R. Paterson (eds.), Television in Transition . London: British Film Institute. Klein , D. 1988 “What in the World Makes a TV Hit?” Sun Francisco Chronicle , Date Book, August 7. Lee , C. C. 1980 Media Imperialism Reconsidered...
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The Spirit of Christmas: Television and Commodity Hunger in a Brazilian Election

Caroline S. Tauxe
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 593–604.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-593
Published: 01 September 1993
... of World Economics. Gramsci , Antonio . 1971 . Selections from the Prison Notebooks . New York: International. Habermas , Jürgen 1975 . Legitimation Crisis . Boston: Beacon. Hall , Stuart . 1982 . “The Rediscovery of Ideology: Return of the Repressed in Media Studies.” Pages 56...
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Contributors

Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 599–601.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-20-3-599
Published: 01 September 2008
... is assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School. Her research focuses on relationships among media, architecture, and urban planning. She is the author of The New Downtown...
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The Spectacle Today: A Response to RETORT

W. J. T. Mitchell
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 573–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-015
Published: 01 September 2008
... iconoclasm, expressed in its scarcely concealed contempt for mass culture, consumerism, and modernity. Why the disdain for new media studies and the possibilities of freedom in cyberspace? The fact that a few hackers made overly optimistic...
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Film and Television Production in Papua New Guinea: How Media Become the Message

Nancy Sullivan
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 533–555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-533
Published: 01 September 1993
... Communication and Society . Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage. Hall , S. 1982 . “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology’: Return of the Repressed in Media Studies.” Pages 54–90 in M. Gurevitch, T. Bennett, J. Curran, and J. Woollacott, eds. Culture, Society and the Media . London: Routledge. Hannerz , U...
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Contributors

Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-19-2-409
Published: 01 May 2007
... in the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School and the Department of Sociology at the University of Naples. He has a forthcoming article in the journal Law, Culture and the Humanities and is cur- rently completing a monograph titled...
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Network Members

Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 363–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-363
Published: 01 May 1993
... of American Feminism, University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Caron, Bruce. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, U.S.A. 366 Research Interests: Festivity; critical social theory; anthropology of leisure; Public Culture media studies; urban...
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