Research

  • Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cultural Studies on Infrastructural Politics Issue Editors: Blake Hallinan Department of Communication University of Colorado Boulder blake.hallinan@colorado.edu James N. Gilmore Department of Communication Clemson University jngilmo@clemson.edu John Durham Peters’ 2015 book The Marvelous Cloudsdevelops the concept infrastructuralism to describe a fascination “for the basic, the boring, the mundane, and

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  • Dissertation Abstract

    Dissertation Title: Knowing the Everyday: Wearable Technologies and the Informatic Domain My dissertation is available to read Open Access via ProQuest. You may access it here. Abstract  This dissertation investigates how wearable technologies have come to matter for a variety of individuals, companies, and governments in the decade from 2007-2017. In particular, this dissertation argues that

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  • Superhero Synergies: Comic Book Characters Go Digital, co-edited with Matthias Stork (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Buy the book: Amazon | R&L Superhero Synergies is a collection of essays I co-edited with my colleague and friend, Matthias Stork, from 2012-2014. This collection takes a far-reaching, interdisciplinary, and intermedial look at the contemporary superhero genre from a multitude

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