Raiford Guins, Principal Editor, Journal of Visual Culture, Assistant Professor in Communication and Theatre Arts
Old Dominion University
Three Expertise Keywords:
Black-Public-Sphere, Internet-Radio, Race-and-Technology
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
We have to follow power in all of its various forms of mediation.
Recent Posts:
- Raiford Guins: A Positive Side to Web2.0 (November 16, 2006)
- Raiford Guins: User Generated Content? (November 14, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
Presently, I am working on a subsequent book project that examines the materiality of media technology in relation to various cultural practices of preservation, design, recycling, and restoration tentatively titled Things That Remain: A Poetics of Undead Technology.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262550673.063 (MacArthur Series Article)
Edited C***n Version: Governing Culture Through Control Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
“May I Invade Your Space?” Black Technocultural Production, Ephemera, and Video Game Culture.��� Afro-Geeks Anthology. Ed. Anna Everett. Center for Black Studies Press: UCSB, 2006.
“Ms. Pac Man: An Elegy to Undead Media.” Ephemera. Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular. 2:1 (2006).
“Prosthetists at 33 1/3.” Co-authored with Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future. Eds. Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
