Lisa Parks, Ph.D.

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is Professor and Chair of the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research explores uses of satellite, computer and television technologies in a transnational context. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke UP 2005) and co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU Press 2003) & Undead TV (Duke UP 2007). She is working on three new books: Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies, Coverage: Media Space and Security after 911 (Routledge), and Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures (Rutgers UP) with Jim Schwoch.

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