Published on May 24th, 2018In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact […]
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Published on January 5th, 2018Prof. Lisa Parks was interviewed by ABC News for the article, “5 things that could disrupt the global status quo in 2018“. “Coverage of global affairs in 2017 focused on the big flashpoints — North Korea, the fight against ISIS and the aftershocks of Russia’s election […]
Published on October 20th, 2017 Lisa Parks, Professor in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Posted by Elise Chen / in news / Published October 20, 2017 The concept of drone warfare frequently conjures images of video game-like interfaces, where desensitized soldiers sit at a desk moving a joystick, searching for their target from a far away […]
Published on September 5th, 2017The new book Life in the Age of Drone Warfare , co-edited by Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, will be published by Duke Press in October 2017. You can read the introduction to Life in the Age of Drone Warfare here.
Published on August 30th, 2017Lisa Parks, Hannah Goodwin, & Lisa Han published the paper “‘I have the government in my pocket…’: Social Media Users in Turkey, Transmit-Trap Dynamics, and Struggles over Internet Freedom”. It can be viewed at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cccr.12173/abstract
Published on August 9th, 2017Lisa Parks delivered a colloquium at the Microsoft Research Collective about the FlowNet Research Project, an international study of social media use and internet freedom issues in Mongolia, Turkey and Zambia.
Published on April 4th, 2017The article “Limits to Internet Freedom: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World,” by Michael Nekrasov, Lisa Parks and Elizabeth Belding was accepted by The Third Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS ’17). Download the article here: http://acmlimits.org/2017/papers/limits17-nekrasov.pdf
Published on March 29th, 2017Daniel Grinberg gives a guest lecture on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the Current Debates in Media course on April 4, 2017 at MIT. “Daniel Grinberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa […]
Published on March 3rd, 2017Prof. Lisa Parks delivered the keynote at the Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume & Infrastructure Symposium at the University of Oslo. See http://www.kunstkritikk.no/nyheter/vertikal-makt/ for more details (in Norwegian).