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Media Fields Journal Media Fields Journal is a platform for the dissemination of current research on the spatial dimensions of media.

The Media Fields research collective formed at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 to advance scholarship on the spatial aspects of a range of media forms, including film, television, radio, and digital media. The aim of Media Fields Journal is to circulate research on media and space, to function as a testing ground for new disciplinary trajectories, and to facilitate conversatio

ns that advance space, spatiality, and critical practice as crucial topics in the field of media studies.

Media Fields Journal is proud to announce the publication of ISSUE 17: MODULARITY & MODIFICATION, co-edited by Mary Mich...
11/10/2022

Media Fields Journal is proud to announce the publication of ISSUE 17: MODULARITY & MODIFICATION, co-edited by Mary Michael + Charlotte Orzel, featuring eight original, exciting essays on film and media! http://mediafieldsjournal.org

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED! Join us for the (virtual) return of our biannual graduate student conference on NOV 18 and...
12/09/2022

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED! Join us for the (virtual) return of our biannual graduate student conference on NOV 18 and 19, 2022. This year, we'll be exploring ZONES OF MEDIATION. Submissions now open until Sept 26!
More info here: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS! Media Fields Journal is excited to announce the return of its biannual graduate student...
12/08/2022

CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS! Media Fields Journal is excited to announce the return of its biannual graduate student conference, to be held virtually on NOV 18 and 19, 2022. This year's theme is ZONES OF MEDIATION. Submissions open until Sep 12: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

NEW CFP DEADLINE: Media Fields Journal is excited to announce a new October 1 extended deadline for article submissions ...
25/07/2022

NEW CFP DEADLINE: Media Fields Journal is excited to announce a new October 1 extended deadline for article submissions for Issue 18, MEDIA MUTUALITIES, edited by Trinankur Banerjee and Esteban Borunda. Submissions open until Oct 1. More info: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

CALL FOR PAPERS! đź“ťđź“ťđź“ť Media Fields Journal is excited to announce a CFP for Issue 18, "MEDIA MUTUALITIES" to be edited by...
10/06/2022

CALL FOR PAPERS! đź“ťđź“ťđź“ť Media Fields Journal is excited to announce a CFP for Issue 18, "MEDIA MUTUALITIES" to be edited by Trinankur Banerjee and Stephen Borunda. Submissions open until September 1. More info: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

Media Fields is back with our brand-new Issue 16, "Life Cycles," edited by Miguel Penabella and Amaru Tejeda! We are ver...
06/07/2021

Media Fields is back with our brand-new Issue 16, "Life Cycles," edited by Miguel Penabella and Amaru Tejeda! We are very excited to share fifteen new articles from talented authors across the globe with you! http://mediafieldsjournal.org

Self isolating and in need of some decent reading material? Media Fields Issue 15 is OUT! Check out "Media Cultures of t...
25/03/2020

Self isolating and in need of some decent reading material? Media Fields Issue 15 is OUT! Check out "Media Cultures of the Imperial Pacific," edited by the unflappable Tyler Morgenstern and Xiuhe Zhang! Link to issue: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/ Enjoy and share!

NEW: The CFP for Media Fields Issue #16 - "Life Cycles" is now live. "The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UCSB...
28/01/2020

NEW: The CFP for Media Fields Issue #16 - "Life Cycles" is now live.

"The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UCSB Department of Film & Media Studies seeks proposals for papers that address the theme of “Life Cycles” as a critical framework through which explorations in media and space may be more closely examined. In particular, we seek submissions that consider the global dimensions of media life cycles in ways that frustrate stable notions of life and death."

For the full CFP, visit: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

The deadline to submit is June 1, 2020. Please share widely!

19/07/2019
Media Fields Journal - Immediate Delay

"The prospect of an avant-garde introduces a problem of primacy, which we might consider a spatiotemporal problem: in a digital milieu, the position of an avant-garde emerges within technology."

Dive into the aesthetics of a digital milieu with Ryan Ikeda's "Immediate Delay: Temporalizing Aesthetic Experience in Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse's Between Page and Screen." Now available to read online in Media Fields 14: At the Edge

This essay posits aesthetic experience in a digital milieu as matter in time; it blurs the edges of the work of art by considering it a spatiotemporal object. It centers on a work of augmented poetry, Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen (2012). Methodologically, this essay adv...

15/07/2019
Media Fields Journal - She Crawls - She Crawls Out of the TV, or On the Gendered Screen

"The screen, and the edges which confine it, not only extends an ambiguous line between defense and revelation but...also demarcates gendered spaces, the breaching of which inevitably signifies gendered violence."

Check out Jenna Ng's theorization of the screen edges in her piece, "She Crawls Out of the TV, or On the Gendered Screen," in Media Fields 14: At the Edge

Jenna Ng [ PDF Version ] "We must abandon received definitions and categorizations of wha...

08/07/2019

Exciting announcement! Media Fields Issue 14: At the Edge is officially LIVE: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/

Read about everything from cinematic edges, to edge environments, to the experiential edges of m**h labs. Thanks to editors Nicole Strobel and Jeremy Moore for their hard work on this one!

21/06/2019

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24/04/2019
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

There is still time to submit to Media Fields 14: "Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific" before the extended deadline on April 30! Please read the call for submissions linked below and help us share it widely.

http://mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/call-for-submissions/

Recent controversies—from protracted battles over international tariff structures to renewed nuclear sabre rattling between the United States and North Korea, and from the brutalities of offshore migrant detention in places like Nauru to the construction of artificial islands in the South China Se...

02/04/2019
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

We've extended the deadline for submissions to issue #15 of Media Fields, "Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific," to April 30th. Check out the CFP, linked below, and please share widely!

http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

Recent controversies—from protracted battles over international tariff structures to renewed nuclear sabre rattling between the United States and North Korea, and from the brutalities of offshore migrant detention in places like Nauru to the construction of artificial islands in the South China Se...

11/12/2018
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

Hey folks! Can you believe it? Two CFPs in one month! We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting submissions to a brand new Media Fields Journal issue on "Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti) Imperial Pacific!"

Check out the CFP for the new issue, AND the CFP for our 2019 spring conference on Display here: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

Keynote Speakers: Soraya Murray (Associate Professor in Film and Digital Media at University of California Santa Cruz and principal faculty in Art and Design Games and Playable Media), Joshua Neves (Assistant Professor Film Cinema Studies at Concordia, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Glob...

03/12/2018
Media Fields Journal - Call for Papers: Display

The wait is over! The Call for Papers for our 2019 Biennial Media Fields Conference is LIVE! The theme this year is Display: Excess and Visibility in Film, Media, and Culture.

The deadline for applications is January 15, 2019. Please help us share the CFP with your students and colleagues!

Keynote Speakers: Soraya Murray (Associate Professor in Film and Digital Media at University of California Santa Cruz and principal faculty in Art and Design Games and Playable Media), Joshua Neves (Assistant Professor Film Cinema Studies at Concordia, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Glob...

17/09/2018
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

There's still time to submit to Media Fields Issue 14, "At the Edge." Submit your papers on cinematic, televisual, computational, environmental, experiential, and industrial dimensions of media at the edge! More info here: http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

While researching the Hells Angels in the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson wrote “The edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Conceiving of the edge as both a site of orientation and a sharp drop-off, Thompson gestures t...

07/08/2018
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

We are now accepting papers for Media Fields 14: At the Edge. Please read our Call for Submissions at http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

While researching the Hells Angels in the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson wrote “The edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Conceiving of the edge as both a site of orientation and a sharp drop-off, Thompson gestures t...

22/06/2018
Media Fields Journal - Issue 13: Mediating the Anthropocene

"'Mediating the Anthropocene' not only gives rise to theories, m**hods, and practices that explore how the Anthropocene is represented in popular media but also engages ongoing biopolitical exchanges, circulations, and frictions across multiple ecologies of scale. Attuned to the possibilities and the limitations of using Anthropocene as a paradigm, the articles in this issue trouble, negotiate, and expand epistemic understandings of media geographies and temporalities."

Media Fields, Issue 13: Mediating the Anthropocene available now! http://mediafieldsjournal.org/

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13/03/2018

To all those attending SCMS, please join us on Friday March 16 from 8 PM-10 PM (Linden, Mezzanine) for the Graduate Journal Reception! This will be the first networking opportunity of its kind for scholars to learn about publishing opportunities with graduate journals.

Participating journals this year include Mediascape Journal, Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, Cinephile, and Media Fields Journal.

06/04/2017
Program

The sixth biennial Media Fields conference starts today! Join us at UCSB for a slate of wide-ranging presentations on the topic of RUINS, including keynotes from Marwan Kraidy and Rahul Mukherjee. Full program here: https://mediafields.wordpress.com/conferences/media-fields-6-ruins-april6-7-2017/program/

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 Screening: The Overnighters (dir. Jesse Moss, 2014) 7:00 PM – Po***ck Theater at UCSB Featuring a Q&A with director Jesse Moss Free of charge, reservations required to guaran…

17/01/2017
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"Mediating the Anthropocene" call for submissions! Consider submitting and share widely!:)

How does media studies perspective enable new visions of and engagements with the environment? What would an ecological conception of media be?

Send your submissions for Media Fields Journal issue #13, Mediating the Anthropocene by April 17! Full CFP:

http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

13/01/2017
Media Fields 6: Ruins (April 6-7, 2017)

Time's running out! Abstracts for our spring conference on RUINS are due this weekend. Full CFP here:

Call For Papers Ruins: 2017 Media Fields Conference University of California, Santa Barbara April 6-7, 2017 Submission deadline: January 15, 2017 Keynote speakers: Marwan Kraidy (Anthony Shadid Cha…

14/12/2016
Media Fields 6: Ruins (April 6-7, 2017)

One month left to submit abstracts for the 2017 Media Fields Conference "RUINS":

Call For Papers Ruins: 2017 Media Fields Conference University of California, Santa Barbara April 6-7, 2017 Submission deadline: January 15, 2017 Keynote speakers: Marwan Kraidy (Anthony Shadid Cha…

01/11/2016
Media Fields 6: Ruins (April 6-7, 2017)

E-waste. Breakdown. Climate change. Technical obsolescence. Shipwrecks. Check out the CFP for Media Fields 2017 Conference, RUINS:

Call For Papers Ruins: 2017 Media Fields Conference University of California, Santa Barbara April 6-7, 2017 Submission deadline: January 15, 2017 Keynote speakers: Marwan Kraidy (Anthony Shahid Cha…

27/05/2016
Media Fields Journal - Issue 11: Surveillance States

If you're looking for some early summer reading, check out Media Fields' latest issue, Surveillance States, edited by Danny Grinberg and Lisa Han. The issue features articles by Lisa Parks, Alexander Champlin, Jason Farman, Mark Andrejevic, Simone Browne, Beth Capper, Michael Litwack, Andrea Miller, Gavin Smith, Anirban Gupta-Nigam, Scott Sundvall, and Thomas Stubblefield: http://mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/

19/03/2016

If you haven't already, check out the current issue on Digital Distribution edited by Jennifer Hessler and Juan Llamas Rodriguez. It features articles by Jennifer Holt, Simon Lindgren, Ramon Lobato, Patrick Vonderau, Chuck Tryon, David Arditi, and more! http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org

21/01/2016
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

There's still time! CFP for our Media and Migration issue has been extended to February 15. Get your submissions in soon.

A recent New York Times article reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis ranked smartphones on par with food and shelter as part of the “21st Century migrant’s essentials.” Smartphones equipped with maps and GPS allow displaced Syrians to navigate unknown territories. They also allow access to crucial…

30/11/2015
Media Fields Journal - Issue 10: Digital Distribution

Coming to you from the Peer 1 data centers in NYC, it's Media Fields Issue 10: Digital Distribution! Twelve entries exploring the distributions of power resultant from the digital turn. Click, like, and share away:

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05/11/2015
Media Fields Journal - Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions! The CFP for our Issue 12, Media and Migration, is now live. See details and please share widely:

A recent New York Times article reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis ranked smartphones on par with food and shelter as part of the “21st Century migrant’s essentials.” Smartphones equipped with maps and GPS allow displaced Syrians to navigate unknown territories. They also allow access to crucial…

28/09/2015

Hot off the press! Issue 9 of Media Fields Journal, Spaces of Protest, is now live. The issue features insights on everything from to playful disruptions in urban spaces. A big shoutout to editors Alston D'Silva and Greg Burris, as well as all of our contributors! Read it here: http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org/

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