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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 15 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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Over*Flow: “Effort is Overrated: The Dissonance of AI Integrations with the 2024 Olympics”
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From Squid Game pop-ups to Netflix House installations, Hyun-Jung Stephany Noh traces how dystopian K-dramas become immersive, branded experiences. Her essay shows how Netflix turns speculative fiction into a global marketing spectacle
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Helen Piper examines the show The Assembly and compares the UK & Australian versions. In doing so, she reveals how format and post-production choices shape risk, reciprocity, and the politics of inclusion.

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Guillermina Zabala Suárez asks: Can digital media become a device to create awareness of health issues in out communities?

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In a new essay, @LaurelPRogers examines the role of the fanboy auteur in HBO's backstage comedy "The Franchise," which satirizes Hollywood's superhero industrial complex. Read: https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/07/fanboy-auteur-hbo-franchise/

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