Contributors
- Contributors
Grant Bollmer is the author of the books Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection (Bloomsbury, 2016), Theorizing Digital Cultures (Sage, 2018), and Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at North Carolina State University and an honorary associate of the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.
Andrew J. Bottomley is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication & Media at SUNY Oneonta. He is author of Sound Streams: A Cultural History of Radio-Internet Convergence (University of Michigan, forthcoming) and winner of the 2018 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award. His research in the areas of sound studies, media history, and the creative industries has been published in journals including Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Popular Music & Society, and Journal of Radio & Audio Media. He is a research associate on the US Library of Congress's Radio Preservation Task Force and cochair of the SCMS Radio Studies Scholarly Interest Group.
Abigail De Kosnik is an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016) and the coeditor of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2019).
Mattias Frey is professor of film and media at the University of Kent. He is general editor of the journal Film Studies and has authored or edited six books, including The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and Film Criticism in the Digital Age (coedited with Cecilia Sayad; Rutgers University Press, 2015). His most recent monograph projects, Algorithm and Curation: Recommender Systems' Remediation of Film Culture and Beyond the Filter Bubble: Use Diversity in VOD Recommender Systems, are due for publication in 2020.
Derek Kompare is associate professor and chair of film and media arts in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches courses on media industries, forms, and history. He is the author of Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television (Routledge, 2005), CSI (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and several articles on television history and form. He is also coeditor of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries (New York University Press, 2014).
