Lisa Parks, Ph.D.
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Santa Barbara, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Lisa Parks, Ph.D. is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (www.cits.ucsb.edu) at UC Santa Barbara. Parks is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke UP, 2005), and Coverage: Aero-Orbital Media After 911 (forthcoming Routledge 2014), and is working on a third book entitled Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies. She is co-editor of: Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures (Rutgers UP, 2012), Planet TV (NYU, 2003), Undead TV (Duke UP, 2007), and, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (U of Illinois, forthcoming). Parks has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, McGill University, University of Southern California, and will be a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in winter 2014. She is currently a co-PI on two major research grants in the fields of ICT4D and Internet Freedom. |
| Interests | Media Studies Research, Travel, Film, Hiking, World Politics, Arts, Sailing, Yoga, Paint by Numbers, Reading |