... imperative of the nation‐state. It then turns to a lesser‐known speculative project that reimagines the borderlands from the perspective of underground tunnels through a multimedia model. The essay draws on the insights of critical environmental media studies to illustrate the affordances of specific media...

... new media across lines of race, nation, gender, etc.); disability studies’ notions of access as intimately tied to political power and infrastructure; and postcolonial studies’ criticisms of colonial access in tourism and resource extraction of the global South. The article brings together...

... of “civil society.” It also reconsiders questions about the political role of mass media—to what extent are citizens manipulated as objects of the television media, and can they become subject-participants in their own representation? Finally, this study provides a critical examination of the formally...

... Arvatov It is to the credit of recent research in historical and cultural studies of “the book” and the practitioner field of book arts that the rich and dynamic materiality of print media has emerged to critical percep- tion from beneath the surface of the linguistic...

... aesthetics”—an analytic that informs a wide range of contemporary theory, fiction, film, and new media, and that is a necessary corollary to an era in which interconnection has become a dominant architectural mode, a multivalent metaphor, and even a weapon. A reading of several post–9/11 texts, including...

... or media or explicitly theorized in most queer or trans theory: the move from the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to the present moment of trans hailing by the US state. Such a trajectory helps map the ways that neoliberal mandates regarding productive, capacitated bodies entrain the trans body...

..., Oberhausen, Viennale, and in Rotterdam. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship. More information about the Mass Observation movement can be found in her article in the fall 2004 issue of Cabinet. Kelly A. Gates is professor of media studies at Queens College of the City University...

... of Intimacy (Duke University Press, forthcoming). He is coeditor of Loss: The Politics of Mourning, Q & A: Queer in Asian America, and “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (Social Text 84/85). Allen Feldman is a cultural/political/medical anthropologist and associate professor of media, culture...

.... Mandana E. Limbert is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and Near Eastern studies at the University of Michigan. She is currently a fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Middle Eastern studies at New York University. Arvind Rajagopal teaches media...

... candidate in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is cur- rently completing a dissertation titled “Projecting Beijing: Screen Cultures in the Olympic Era.” He coedited the inaugural issue of the Media Fields Journal (“Video Stores,” 2011...

... and Southeast Asia. Her collection of essays, entitled Wars I have (Not) Seen, is forthcoming from Seagull Books in 2010. Jared Sexton is associate professor in the Program in African American Studies and the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author...

... in African American, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Latino com- munities is available for free on-line at www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.htm. Anna Everett is an associate professor of film, TV history and theory, and new media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author...

... and community development, and Sarah was aware of my research inter- ests in youth studies, media, and representational theory in my graduate pursuits at Stanford. I agreed, and earlier that spring we had begun to conduct workshops...

..., transitioning to an online space was a logical extension of grassroots organizing media work. The H-Afro-Am listserv was one of many eBlack Studies initiatives. A mailing list and global community of subscribers of all ages from inside and outside of academia, H-Afro-Am distributes information about black...

... development as a scholar and thinker, at the time my rationale for teaching them lay entirely in the sphere of middle management's instrumental reason: curriculum revision. Graduate students in cinema and media studies were expected to read works that drew heavily on concepts derived from Capital , but only...

... and interiorizes as ‘distraction’ or ‘entertainment.’” 6 In fact, it’s better to say that Jameson historicizes a particular view of reception and spectatorship attributed to Horkheimer and Adorno that emerged in academic cultural studies and media studies in the 1980s, writing that was keen to validate ideas...

... led to corporate efficiency measures that would eventually include information theory and digital signal processing.8 The telephonic medium — by which I mean its history, infrastructure, techni- cal components, and cultures — thus deserves a more prominent place in media studies...

... (“real presence”) lies at the root of this elective affinity between Christianity and the mass media, consequently radio and other electroacoustic technologies deserve more attention than is given in many studies about Pentecostalism...

.... theoretically informed, and he draws on the work of $18.95 paper • $52.95 cloth • 224 pages cultural critics, postmodernist theorists, and scholars Theory Out of Bounds Series, volume 22 in ethnic, gender, gay, and media studies...

... The real not-capital is labor. Tiziana Terranova —Karl Marx, Grundrisse Working in the digital media industry is not as much fun as it is made out to be. The “NetSlaves” of the eponymous Webzine are becoming increas...