Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures

Contributors

contributors @ ben aslinger is an assistant professor of media and culture in the Department of English at Bentley University. His work has appeared in the journal Popular Communication and the anthology Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom. He has also served as a columnist for the online journal Flow. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the licensing of popular music for television series and video games. martin collins is a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He is author of Cold War Laboratory: Rand, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945–1950 and serves as editor of the journal History and Technology . His current research interest concerns the relations between satellite communications and globalization. christy collis is a senior lecturer in media and communication at Queensland University of Technology (UQ) and has been a researcher in cultural geography and a lecturer in the creative industries faculty there since 2005. In her three theses, her postdoctoral research fellowship at UQ (2000–2003), her research fellowship at the Australian National University (2004), and her visiting fellowships at Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University (2003 and 2004), she studied the cultural and legal ways in which vast and sparsely populated geographies—the Canadian high Arctic, the Australian central deserts, and Antarctica—have been made into possessions . She has also published on the legal geographies of outer space. andrew s. erickson is an assistant professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College and a founding member of the department’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). He is an associate in research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a fellow in the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program (2008–2011), and a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). His research on East Asian defense, foreign policy, and technology issues has been published widely in journals such as Orbis, Journal of Strategic Studies, Joint Force Quarterly, and Proceedings. james hay is a professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Department of Media & Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois– Champaign-Urbana. He has written extensively about communication media, governmentality, and space. Most recently, he coauthored Better Living through Reality TV. bill kirkpatrick is an assistant professor of media studies in the Communication Department at Denison University in Ohio. He specializes in broadcast history and policy, and is currently working on a book on localism in American thought and media policy. michael murphy teaches new media production, digital audio, and emerging technologies in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and has been a visiting professor at the Hochschule der Medien, in Stuttgart, Germany. brian o’neill is head of the School of Media at Dublin Institute of Technology , Ireland. He is a member of the Digital Radio Cultures in Europe research group (www.drace.org) and deputy head of the Audiences Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). trevor paglen is a geographer and artist. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (2009), and his M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paglen is the author of four books. The first of these, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (coauthored with A. C. Thompson) was the first book to systematically describe the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program. His second book, I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me, offered an examination of the visual culture of “black” military programs. His third book was Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Secrets of the Pentagon’s Secret World, and in 2010 he published his first photographic monograph, Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes. lisa parks is a professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual and coeditor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader and Undead TV. She is currently finishing two new books: Coverage: Media, Space and Security after 9/11 and Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies. alexander russo is an associate professor of media studies at the Catholic University of America. His research interests include the cultural contributors 294 history of media technologies...