Media, by nature, are global. The circulation of media across borders and the technologies that support international communication have long been tied to trends in globalization. As national borders and identities are subverted by transnational and postnational economic and political imperatives, the specificity of place can become blurred and incoherent.  But just as media can contribute to the erasure of distance, they can also reveal deep expressions of culture, identity, and place. The Carsey-Wolf Center’s research in global media is attuned to these tensions and committed to exploring the ways in which media can express culture and change our world.

Global Media projects & initiatives

Peter Bloom (Film and Media Studies), Dominique Jullien (French and Italian Studies), and Sara Weld (German and Slavic Studies)

Magic Lantern: Machines, Toys, and Master Tropes  

Heidi Amin-Hong (English)

Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environments

Katherine Saltzman-Li (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies)

Handbook of Performance in Japan: Regional Roundtables

Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture) and Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies)

Re-Assembly: Popular Politics, Mediation, and the Grammar of Repair  

Peter Bloom (Film and Media Studies) and Stephan Miescher (History)

A Return to the African Personality: Intergenerational Conversations    

Lisa Parks (Film and Media Studies)

Media Inside Out conference

David Novak (Music) and Raquel Pacheco (Anthropology)

Listening to Cumbia

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media

Information and ordering details can be found on the Rutgers University Press website.

Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies)

Mapping Alzheimer’s: A Journey of Friendship and Discovery  

Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies)

Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder  

Hangping Xu (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies)

Translatability/Transmediality: Chinese Poetry In/And the World    

Janet Afary and Roger Friedland (Religious Studies), and Maria Charles (Sociology)

Private Lives-Public Politics: Gender Relations and Gender Ideologies in Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian Countries  

Laila Shereen Sakr (Film and Media Studies)

Glitch Resistance  

Elana Resnick (Anthropology)

Ethnography in the Time of Facebook: Romani Voices and Social Media  

Matto Mildenberger and Leah Stokes (Political Science)

Defenders of the Environment Project