Professor of Communications (Department of Media & Cinema Studies and Institute of Communications Research)
Education
- Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin (1982)
- Degree Certificate, University of Milan, Italy (1979)
- B.A., University of Texas-Austin (1975)
Affiliations
- Professor of Media & Cinema Studies and the Institute of Communications Research
- Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Course Specialties
- Theory and Studies of Communication Media
- Theory and Studies of Television
- Communication/Media Technology
- History and Historiography of Communication/Media
- Cultural Studies
- Media/Space (Geography, Architecture, Urban Studies)
- Media & Mobility
- Globalism and Media/Communication
- Media & Power
- Cultural Policy and Citizenship Studies
- Studies of Modernity
Research and Creative Endeavor
My research concerns a wide variety of media and contexts鈥攆rom popular media of the 20th century (cinema, television, telephony, radio) to 鈥渘ew media鈥� and forms of 鈥渕edia convergence鈥� to technologies and appliances that are not usually considered 鈥渕edia鈥� (such as cars, buildings, clothes, garage doors, and refrigerators). The forms of analysis that I typically use are interdisciplinary, and informed by a wide variety of theories. Much of my research over the last fifteen years has occurred at the intersection of studies about citizenship and governmentality, media/space (with an interest in architecture, urbanism, design, and geography), Science Studies, and Cultural Studies. My research is oriented as much to past as to the present鈥攁s much to residual as to emergent media and their relation to everyday life. Although much of my research is about the U.S. context, some of my research concerns 鈥済lobal鈥� media networks, and some has focused on Italy and Europe.
