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Christina Vagt is a media theorist, writer, and Associate Professor of European Media Studies in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sebastian Vehlken is a professor of media theory and media history at the ICAM Institute for Cul...
The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies may have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn’t stop us from moving what was supposed to be an in-person Media+Environment panel to a written, online, open-access forum. In the “collective essay” ex...
Media+Environment is an open-access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research edited by Alenda Chang (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara), Adrian Ivakhiv (Environmental Studies, University of Vermont) and Janet...
Alenda Chang (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara), Adrian Ivakhiv (Environmental Studies, University of Vermont) and Janet Walker (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) are Editors-in-Chief of University of California Press’s new...