Thinking Through Digital Media ─ Transnational Environments and Locative Places

Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Placescharts media practices that migrate between documentary, experimental, narrative, animation, game, and performance through digital technologies and networks. The book offers a means of conceptualizing digital media by looking at projects that think through digital media. Hudson and Zimmermann analyze over 130 projects at the intersections of imbedded technologies, transitory micropublics, human-machine interface, migratory histories, affective geographies, and critical cartographies to forward a set of speculations about how things work together rather than what they represent. The book focuses on digital media from different cultures to frame ongoing debates on topics such as participation/surveillance, global warming, virtual migrations, flexible labor, structural inequality, and perpetual war by artists, coders, activists, students, and intellectuals in some of the most dynamic, innovative sites for digital media, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestine, Italy, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and United States.

Dale Hudson is Associate Teaching Professor of Film and New Media Studies and Curator of Film and New Media at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He previously taught at Amherst College and Ithaca College, USA. His work appears in journals, including American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, and Screen, and in anthologies.

Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Screen Studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College, USA. She was the Shaw Foundation Endowed Chair in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and has taught at the Nigerian Film Institute, as well as delivered lectures and conducted workshops on documentary and new media theory and history in many countries. Her books includeReel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film; States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; andMining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories.