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Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara

Media Infrastructures and Affect
Lisa Parks/ University of California at Santa Barbara

May 19, 2014 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 2 comments

An Exploration of Infrastructure and Affect.

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Energy-Media Vignettes
Lisa Parks / University of California, Santa Barbara

March 17, 2014 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 2 comments

A critical examination of the interdependencies of natural and cultural resources, coordination of networked infrastructure, and subjectivities formed in their spaces.

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Media Fixes: Thoughts on Repair Cultures
Lisa Parks / University of California, Santa Barbara

December 16, 2013 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara Leave a comment

An exploration of “Repair Culture” in Macha, Zambia.

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Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

March 5, 2010 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 9 comments

Lisa Parks’ article revisits the infrastructure of communications media and examines the stakes of devices masked as “nature.”

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When Satellites Fall: On the Trails of Cosmos 954 and USA 193
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

June 12, 2009 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 8 comments

What happens when falling satellites become high profile events.

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Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

March 6, 2009 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 14 comments

An examination of what is at stake when technological infrastructures are hidden.

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Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Thoughts About the Digital TV Transition
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

December 11, 2008 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 6 comments

Thoughts about how digital television conversion will affect television studies and the public.

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The 2004 Presidential Election and the Dean Scream

February 4, 2005 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 9 comments

by: Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
What was missing in this campaign in my opinion was the lack of discussion of media industry reform, which is surprising given all the ammunition on the democratic side to address such issues.

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In "Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”" Andrew Stubbs-Lacy explores representation & construction of management in football with a focus on Welcome to Wrexham. Read: http://tinyurl.com/4z7wkuk8

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.@mediated1 argues that advertising’s integration of AI media technologies is not driven by natural market tendencies but from systemic commodification & political-economic forces, analyzed through the Political Economy of Media & Communications framework. http://tinyurl.com/3yajfcmb

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