Research Interests and Recent Publications
Satellite Media
Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual, Durham: Duke UP, 2005.
“Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing the Digital Earth.” In Visual Culture Reader
2.0, Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
“Plotting the Personal: Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.” Ecumene: A
Journal of Cultural Geographies (London UK), vol. 9, no. 2, 2001, pp. 209-222.
“Out There: Exploring Satellite Awareness,” interview of Lisa Parks by Geert Lovink,
Nettime, www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/out_there_explo.html
“Obscure Objects of Media Studies: Echo, Hotbird, Ikonos,” Mediascape, 2007, available at http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/archive/volume01/number03/columns/parks.htm
“Orbital Performers and Satellite Translators: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,”
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24 (2007), 207-216.
Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures, co-edited with James
Schwoch, book in progress
Media and World Conflict
“Planet Patrol: Satellite Images, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security.” In Rethinking
Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror,' eds. Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin, Rutgers University Press, 2006.
“Insecure Airwaves: US Bombings of Aljazeera.” Forum on “Homeland Security,”
Journal of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2007.
“Air Raids: Television and The War on Terror.”In America and the Reshaping of a New
World Order, eds. Giles Gunn and Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.
“Points of Departure: the Culture of US Airport Screening,” Journal of Visual Culture,
Vol 6(2): 2007, 183-200.
“Digging into Google Earth: Humanitarian Intervention in the Digital Age,” Geoforum,
special issue “View from Nowhere,” forthcoming.
Media Infrastructures and “Societies-in-Transition”
“Where the Cable Ends: Television in Fringe Areas.” In Cable Visions, Banet-Wieser,
Cynthia Chris and Anthony Freitas, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
“Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility,” Art Paper
commissioned for Global Eyes exhibition, Siggraph 2007 Electronic Art and Animation Catalog, pp 345-347.
“An Episodic Pattern: U.S./NATO Targets Media Infrastructures” Censored 2006, eds.
Peter Phillips and Project Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006.
Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies (book in progress)
Electronic Waste / Media Ruins and Environments
“Kinetic Screens: Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface.” In MediaSpace: Place,
Scale and Culture in a Media Age,” eds. Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy, London: Routledge, 2004.
“Falling Apart: Electronics Salvaging and the Global Media Economy.” In Residual
Media, Charles Acland, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
“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 in 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. |
