In this virtual talk, Lisa Parks will provide an overview of her book in progress, Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Globalization.

This book talk explores how contemporary American culture constructs youth in the era of digital media as inextricable from creativity, which is the subject of The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy (UMN Press, Dec 2021).

Backyard Theory will focus on Dylan Mulvin’s, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (MIT Press, 2021). Our conversation will be facilitated by Professor Alenda Chang.

Backyard Theory will focus on Kevin Floyd’s, The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism, (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). Our conversation will be facilitated by Professor Naoki Yamamoto

Professor Greg Siegel will facilitate a group discussion of Jonathan P. Eburne's book, Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). If you are interested in participating in this discussion, please contact Tinghao Zhou at tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu

This chapter is the quantitative analysis on whether foreign-born directors show higher film yields than native-born directors in terms of the domestic and international box office, and the number of awards (e.g. Oscars) and award nominations. The study is conducted on a data set that I collected from multiple sources, and the data set includes about 27 thousand US-produced films released between 1925 and 2018.

Professor Bhaskar Sarkar will facilitate a group discussion of Sandro Messadra and Brett Neilson's book, Border as Method: Or the Multiplication of Labor (Duke UP, 2013). If you are interested in participating in this discussion, please contact Tinghao Zhou at: tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu

Why do Black women comprise roughly 1.2% of technical workers in Silicon Valley technology firms? In this talk, Twine examines the 'inequality regimes' that currently operate in Silicon Valley and how recruiting practices shape the recruitment, retention, and treatment of technically-skilled women of diverse ethnic and class backgrounds.

This chapter maps the U.S. cultural Cold War institutions, their context, objectives and investments in Islamist imaginaries and how they collectively helped build information infrastructures for Islamist social worlds. It particularly focuses on the institutions involved in influencing print cultures i.e., the Congress for Cultural Freedom - Pakistan Committee (CCF-Pak) and Franklin Book Programs (FBP) and the physical spaces in Pakistan such as universities, publishing houses and libraries where they constructed alliances and patronage networks.

This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digital media uses and practices. The case studies presented here question many commonly held assumptions around global media ownership, sustainability, and access relevant to countries beyond Latin American contexts.

This roundtable is part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s winter 2021 series “Media, Technology, and Politics under Pressure.” “The New Ethereality” will focus on the contemporary politics of wireless communication, with special attention paid to the cultural and governmental imaginaries that accrue to emerging wireless infrastructures like 5G.

Professor Jennifer Holt will facilitate a group discussion of Jill Lepore's book, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright, 2020). If you are interested in participating in this discussion, please contact Tinghao Zhou at: tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu

This chapter, "Modernist Displacement: Representations of Refugee Students in the Second Sino-Japanese War", focuses on Nieh's recurrent representation of refugee students in the Second Sino-Japanese War and how the literary figures are changing with the writer's transpacific experience.

Professors Cristina Venegas and Lisa Parks co-facilitate a group discussion via zoom of Arturo Escobar's book, Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (Duke University Press, 2018). This event is intended to be informal and fun. Zoom details are below. If you have any questions please contact Tinghao Zhou at: tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu

Presenter, Pujita Guha, will provide a brief overview of her research project (10-15 mins), "Forested Media: Sense, Technology and Indigenous Thought in the Zomia" on December 4, 4-5 pm. Workshop participants will offer comments, questions, and feedback on her draft paper, which will be shared with registered workshop participants via email.

In this one-hour webinar, the GMTaC Lab Director Professor Lisa Parks, and Professor Anna Everett will provide an overview of a letter-writing campaign they led during summer 2020 on the topic of black employees in TV news networks and the coverage of US race relations in TV news.