Media Fields Special Issue: Media Inside Out

This special issue of Media Fields is an archive and critical distillation of the work presented at the Media Inside Out conference (April 2024) honoring the distinguished careers of Constance Penley, Janet Walker, and Charles Wolfe.

The Media Fields research collective formed at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 to advance scholarship on the spatial aspects of a range of media forms, including film, television, radio, and digital media.

“Media Fields” encompasses research on representations of space in media, as well as on spatial and environmental characteristics of media forms and practices. We are interested in critical investigations of the many other dimensions of the term “field,” such as its methodological, disciplinary, and epistemological configurations. The collective convenes a biennial graduate conference held in the spring at UC-Santa Barbara.

Go to the Media Fields website.