Lisa Parks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lisa Parksis Director of MIT’s Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab.Her research focuses on satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media, militarization, and surveillance. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (2005), Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (2018), and Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies (in progress), and coeditor of Life in the Age of Drone Warfare(2017), Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (2015), Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures (2012), Undead TV (2007), and Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (2003).
A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, she is committed to exploring the global reach of information technology infrastructures and the cultural, political, and humanitarian implications of the flow of information.
The Shulman Lecture Series isorganized in conjunction with a Yale College seminar taught by John Durham Peters (English and Film & Media Studies). The Shulman Lectures are presented under the auspices of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, which is made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke. The series is named after Robert Shulman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and senior research scientist in diagnostic radiology, in recognition of his roles as a Founding Fellow of the Whitney and as an unwavering supporter of the integration of science and the humanities.
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