Mixed Signals by Lisa Parks: New Essay

Thursday, May 31, 2007

New Essay

Check out my essay "Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird and Ikonos" which was just published in the online journal Mediascape.

You can find it here:
www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/archive/volume01/number03/columns/parks.htm

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My Upcoming/Recent Lectures

Invited speaker, Information Studies Colloquium Series, UCLA, April 10, 2014
Invited speaker, Context Collapse Symposium, Annenberg School, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dec. 5-6, 2013
Invited speaker, Militarization Research Cluster & Mellon Research Group on Digital Cultures, UC Davis, Nov. 8, 2013
Panelist, American Studies Association, Wa DC, Nov 23, 2013
Invited speaker, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Nov. 7, 2013
Invited speaker, Centre for the Study of the United States' F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Speaker Series, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Oct. 18, 2013
Plenary speaker, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, June 28-30, 2013
Keynote speaker, Conditions of Mediation Conference, Birbeck University of London, June 17, 2013

Recent Publications

L. Parks. “‘Stuff You Can Kick’: Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures,” Humanities and the Digital, David Theo Goldberg and Patrik Svensson, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.
L. Parks “Walking Phone Workers in Mongolia,” The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, Peter Adey, Mimi Sheller, et al, eds., forthcoming 2014.
L. Parks. "Earth Observation and Signal Territories: Studying U.S. Broadcast Infrastructure through Historical Network Maps, Google Earth, and Fieldwork," Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 38 (2013) 285-307.
L. Parks. "Mapping Orbit: Toward a Vertical Public Space," Media Space Public Space, Chris Berry, et al, eds. Palgrave, 2013.
L. Parks. "Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure," Cultural Technologies, Goran Bolin, ed. Routledge, 2012.
L. Parks. "Footprints of the Global South: RascomQAF/1R & Venesat-1A as Counter-hegemonic Satellites," Handbook of Global Media Research, Ingrid Volkmer, ed. Sage, 2012.