Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual
- Lisa Parks
- Art
- 2005
In 1957 Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the…
Digging into Google Earth: An analysis of ''Crisis in Darfur"
- Lisa Parks
- Political Science
- 1 July 2009
Points of Departure: The Culture of US Airport Screening
- Lisa Parks
- Political Science
- 2009
For the past several months I have been conducting an experiment at airport security gates, shooting photographs of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) facilities and screeners to…
Flexible Microcasting: Gender, Generation, and Television-Internet Convergence
- Lisa Parks
- Sociology
- 9 November 2004
Earth Observation and Signal Territories: Studying U.S. Broadcast Infrastructure through Historical Network Maps, Google Earth, and Fieldwork
- Lisa Parks
- Sociology
- 14 September 2013
This article engages with three different modes of Earth observation—historical network maps, Google Earth interfaces, and fieldwork—to develop the concept of “signal territories” and elucidate a…
Mapping Orbit: Toward a Vertical Public Space
- Lisa Parks
- Geology
- 2013
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map (Figure 3.1) first surfaced as a sketch in 1927 entitled “One-Town World.” A decade and a half later, in 1943, Life magazine published a refined version of it called…
The Bandwidth Divide: Obstacles to Efficient Broadband Adoption in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
- V. Pejović, David L. Johnson, M. Zheleva, E. Belding, Lisa Parks, G. Stam
- Economics
- 2012
International Journal of Communication 6 (2012), 2467–2491 1932–8036/20120005 Copyright © 2012 (Veljko Pejovic, David L. Johnson, Mariya Zheleva, Elizabeth Belding, Lisa Parks, Gertjan van Stam).…
From platform jumping to self-censorship: internet freedom, social media, and circumvention practices in Zambia
- Lisa Parks, R. Mukherjee
- Sociology
- 28 February 2017
ABSTRACT This article describes the complex media environment of urban Zambia based on qualitative interviews with 42 active ICT and social media users in Lusaka. After a contextual discussion of…
Satellite Views of Srebrenica: Tele-visuality and the Politics of Witnessing
- Lisa Parks
- Political Science
- 1 December 2001
The images overleaf were taken by US military satellites in July 1995. They reveal alleged mass graves sites in eastern Bosnia, and their public release by the US State Department in August 1995…
A user-driven free speech application for anonymous and verified online, public group discourse
- Michael Nekrasov, Daniel Iland, Miriam J. Metzger, Lisa Parks, E. Belding-Royer
- Computer ScienceJournal of Internet Services and Applications
- 1 November 2018
The design process of SecurePost, a novel tool that allows verified group anonymity to those communicating publicly on online social networks, is explored and how on-the-ground research of user communities guides technological requirements is expanded.
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