The GLOBAL EMERGENT MEDIA (GEM) Lab is a unique research platform centered on the critical study of
The GLOBAL EMERGENT MEDIA (GEM) Lab is a unique research platform centered on the critical study of global new media (including but not limited to digital forms and practices). The Lab combines media ethnographic research and experimentation, digitization and curation projects, and rigorous theoretical analysis and debate. The GEM Lab is in development during the 2015-16 academic year; full progr
04/03/2024
After a bit of (on-theme) delay...our issue of Discourse on "Media and Paranoia" is finally out! https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vol45/iss3/
[download via project muse or dm for pdfs]
Thanks to the folks at Discourse and the brilliant contributors!
Join us next Monday and Tuesday for two events with Eugenie Brinkema, co-presented with the Centre for Expanded Poetics
More details here: http://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2023/12/20/4i46drc080iq8wr6dnuxx8hqora74t
12/02/2020
Culture Machine's special issue on Media Populism is out now! The volume is co-edited by Joaquín Serpe, Giuseppe Fidotta and Joshua Neves, and features contributions from Patrick Brodie, Weixian Pan, Kay Dickinson, and Ish*ta Tiwary. Check out the issue and read more on our website:
Joaquín Serpe, Guiseppe Fidotta and Joshua Neves co-edit special issue of Culture Machine Culture Machine’s special issue Media Populism is now available to access, guest-edited by regular GEM Lab contributors Joaquín Serpe and Giuseppe Fidotta, and lab director Joshua Neves. The international open-access journal’s 2020 volume grows out of and builds on the Lab’s 2017-18 Seminar i...
11/11/2020
GEM Lab member Sanaz Sohrabi has a new film screening at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)! You can watch it online from November 12 to November 18 as part of the festival's "Disrupting History" program - find more details on our news feed:
Sanaz Sohrabi's new film is screening at RIDM The GEM Lab is proud to announce that lab member and resident artist Sanaz Sohrabi’s new film, One Image, Two Acts, will be available to screen online from Nov. 12 to Nov. 18, as part of RIDM’s (Montreal International Documentary Festival) “Disrupting History” program. You can link to the fi...
11/05/2020
Join us next Tuesday Nov. 10 for our seminar on Race and Affectability with Christine Goding-Doty (Africana Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges). Email [email protected] to register. Zoom link and required readings will be provided upon sign-up!
"Race and Affectability" with Christine Goding-Doty Rescheduled to Nov. 10, 3PM Tuesday, November 10th @ 3pm (space still available) Seminar with Christine Goding-Doty (Africana Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges) // Digital Event // Registration is limited + required // Required readings // Contact [email protected] for registration and information on readin...
11/05/2020
We Messed Up, an online discussion between Edward George (Black Audio Film Collective) and Dhanveer Brar (Goldsmiths) moderated by Kay Dickinson (Concordia) is now available to stream on our website:
We Messed Up (Talk) Friday, October 30th, 2pm(Online Event)Conversation with Edward George (Black Audio Film Collective) and Dhanveer Singh Brar (Goldsmiths), moderated by Kay Dickinson (Concordia).
11/02/2020
Join The Platform Lab next Monday, Nov. 9 for a symposium with Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic (University of Bristol) and Dr. Julie Yujie Chen (Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology) on "Just-in-Time Platforms." Dr. Melissa Gregg will be a respondent to the papers.
Just-in-Time Platforms Symposium The Platform Lab invites you a short symposium on "Just-in-Time Platforms" on Monday, November 9, from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST, via Zoom. Please sign up at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/symposium-just-in-time-platforms-tickets-125049970829 This symposium features the work of two scholars whose rese...
10/28/2020
A new essay co-written by Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves, "Pandemic Platforms: How Convenience Shapes the Inequality of Crisis," has been published as part of meson press' open-access collection "Pandemic Media."
Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves featured in new collection "Pandemic Media" A new essay co-written by Dr. Marc Steinberg and Dr. Joshua Neves, "Pandemic Platforms: How Convenience Shapes the Inequality of Crisis," has been published as part of meson press' open-access collection Pandemic Media. Abstract: "This article examines how digital platforms responded to the COVID-19...