In this virtual talk at Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, University of Cambridge, Lisa Parks will provide an overview of her book in progress, Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Globalization.

Building on research on “invisible users” (Burrell, 2012) and “informal media” (Thomas & Lobato, 2015), Parks expands critical vocabularies to account for the uneven material conditions, varied sociotechnical relations, and diverse epistemologies that shape people’s knowledge and experiences of media infrastructures in different parts of the world. 

People’s media experiences, Parks argues, demand more situated, phenomenological, and conceptual approaches that can help to bring forth the everyday social struggles, agencies, and creativities that are vital to understandings of media globalization.

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