#ICYMI John Corner reflects on how narrative remains a powerful, dynamic element in public communication. mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/04/01/j...

#ICYMI Photography has gone through many transformations. What do those transformations tell us about media in the present? mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/08/15/s...

#ICYMI How have techno-hegemonies encouraged contagious behaviors that uphold affective capitalism? Raymond Lee explains: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/27/r...

#ICYMI In this speculative essay, Max Haiven proposes the term "playgrom" to better understand contemporary fascism and fascistic politics. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Some visual highlights from the Media Theory Conference at the Coach House, Toronto, 2025 mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/11/12/m...

#ICYMI Computational state violence has only expanded with capitalism's data economy. How does abstraction and rhetoric legitimize such lethal labor? journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

#ICYMI Read our special issue on violent labour and media here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

#ICYMI: N. Katherine Hayles talks about how The Cosmic Web influenced her career. mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

As capitalism continues to depend on data, those of us who use data-driven systems also become responsible for computational state violence: Andrew Fitzgerald journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

MT Conference, Coach House, Toronto 2025 - Preliminary Schedule now available mediatheoryjournal.org/conference-2...

#ICYMI N. Katherine Hayles discusses her writing and thinking process with David Beer. Watch the full interview here: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

In this speculative essay, Max Haiven proposes the term "playgrom" to better understand contemporary fascism and fascistic politics. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

#ICYMI Watch the full video abstract for Iain Chambers' "The Ghosts of Gaza" mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/28/i...

How have military and cinematic camera technologies shaped our sense of realism through the stabilization of motion? journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

#ICYMI Watch the full video abstract for Korinna Patelis' "Have I Got News For You: The Road to Neo-Feudalism": mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/31/k...

How are publications, like RISE, resisting the colonial violence of family policing? journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Media systems do not operate on the whims of military power. They actively shape the conception, execution and perpetuation of war. How, then, are demands specific to media creating "new regimes of logistics, extraction, and violence?" journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

#ICYMI: N. Katherine Hayles talks about her first book The Cosmic Web and its influence on her career. mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

Just jingoism or "neo-protectionist, post-imperial swansong?" Maria Bose assess post-9/11 Hollywood. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Computational state violence has only expanded with capitalism's data economy. How does abstraction and rhetoric legitimize such lethal labor? journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

#ICYMI N. Katherine Hayles talks about how The Cosmic Web influenced her career. mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

Read our special issue on violent labour and media here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Out Now - Media Theory 9.1 Full issue: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt

N. Katherine Hayles discusses her background science, literature and skepticism with David Beer. Watch the full interview here: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

Last chance to register for the Media Theory at the Coach House Conference ! mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

N. Katherine Hayles discusses her writing and thinking process with David Beer. Watch the full interview here: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

N. Katherine Hayles talks about her first book The Cosmic Web and its influence on here career. Watch the full conversation here: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/06/14/n...

#ICYMI Media Theory is having its first conference in Toronto! For more information: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

How have techno-hegemonies encouraged contagious behaviors that uphold affective capitalism? Raymond Lee explains: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/27/r...

#ICYMI Watch the full video abstract for Korinna Patelis' "Have I Got News For You: The Road to Neo-Feudalism": mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/31/k...

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

Photography has gone through many transformations. What do those transformations tell us about media in the present? mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/08/15/s...

Storytelling has become a more dominant and intensive form of political expression in recent years. John Corner emphasizes that research on political communication should engage with story forms, their circulation and subsequent struggles. mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/04/01/j...

What can visibility, opacity, invisibility tell us about possible futures? mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/24/p...

Inaugural conference! Media Theory at the Coach House November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto Keynote speakers: Dr. Shane Denson (Stanford) Dr. Alessandra Renzi (Concordia) Abstracts due: June 30. CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

#ICYMI "[This article engages] with the genocide of the inhabitants of Gaza by the Israeli state and consider its implications in uncovering questions of colonialism, rights, democracy, historical memory and responsibility in the heartlands of the West itself." mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/28/i...

What can the "canal craze" about Mars tells us about noise in media ecologies? mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/24/p...

How does an affective capitalism operate through our "entanglements in interactive communication?" mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/27/r...

#ICYMI Watch the full video abstract for Korinna Patelis' "Have I Got News For You: The Road to Neo-Feudalism": mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/31/k...

Has the emergence of ignorance studies as a subfield advanced Charles Mills' goal of "[galvanizing] people to resist racialized categories of human worth—to challenge the racial contract?" mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/31/l...

#ICYMI Watch Iain Chambers' full video abstract for his paper, "The Ghosts of Gaza," here: mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/28/i...

After receiving an email accusing her of being "unable recognize the inherent racism in [her] 'work'," Shirley Anne Tate reflects on the need for Charles Mills. mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/23/s...

André Brock finds that "[Charles] Mills anticipated that Black aesthetics and philosophy are well-suited for alternative visions of digital practice, design, and use." He explains: mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/12/a...

John Corner reflects on how narrative remains a powerful, dynamic element in public communication. mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/04/01/j...

Watch Korinna Patelis' full video abstract for "Have I Got News for You: The Road to Neo-feudalism": mediatheoryjournal.org/2025/03/31/k...

What do the historical transformations of photography tell us about our understanding of "media" in the present? mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/08/15/s...

How does the conceptualization and contestation of Neo-feudalism reflect problematic cultural and political dynamics? Korinna Patelis answers: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

With generative #AI, what does it mean to "see photographically?" mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/09/16/d...

To what extent does the radical potential that Walter Benjamin saw in montage apply to image-based #AI? mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/10/21/g...