Media Infrastructure Studies

In preparation for my talk in the InfoStructure lecture series on February 25, 2010 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I am listing some of my infrastructure-related articles that might be of interest for further reading.

“Signals and Oil: Satellite Footprints and Post-Communist Territories in Central Asia,” European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12(2), 137-156, 2009.

“Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility,” Flow, March 2009, available at http://flowtv.org/?p=2507.

“Where the Cable Ends: Television in Fringe Areas.” In Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris and Anthony Freitas, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2007, 103-126.

“Postwar Footprints: Satellite and Wireless Stories in Slovenia and Croatia.” In B-Zone: Becoming Europe and Beyond, Anselm Franke, ed. Barcelona: ACTAR Press, 2005. Reprinted as an expanded version with “Afterthougts” and translated into Spanish in Political Typographies: Visual Essays on the Margins of Europe, Barcelona: Fundacio Antonio Tapies, 2007, pp. 87-140.

“Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird, Ikonos,” in Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity, eds. Amanda Lagerkvist and Andre Jansson, Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

"Kinetic Screens: Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface," in Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age, eds. Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy, London: Routledge, 2004, 37-57.

"Insecure Airwaves: US Bombings of Al Jazeera." Forum on Homeland Security, Journal of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 4:2, June 2007, 226,-231.