Notes on Contributors

Isabel M. Aguilera holds a PhD in anthropology and is an academic at Universidad Autónoma de Chile. She is currently researching the circulation of representations of Indigenous peoples in the gourmet market. Her research focuses on nation and otherness, everyday nationalisms, and consumption. She is a founding member of the study group Nación Otredad Deseo.Dilruba Çatalbaş is professor of journalism at Galatasaray University. She received her MA in communication studies from the University of Leeds and her PhD in media and communication from the University of London, Goldsmith's College. Her main interests include digital media studies, journalism, political economy, and regulation of media.Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby is professor in the philosophy department at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences. She holds a PhD in philosophy in aesthetics and art theory from the University of Chile. She is the author of Walter Benjamin, la Lengua del Exilio (Walter Benjamin: The Language of Exile) (1997); El filo fotográfico de la historia. Walter Benjamin y el olvido de lo inolvidable (The Photographic Edge of History: Walter Benjamin and the Forgetting of the Unforgettable) (2009); and Disturbios. Ley, imagen, escritura, excepción (Disturbances: Law, Image, Writing, Exception) (2021). Her translation into Spanish of the biography Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life was published in 2020. She is a member of the editorial committee of Ediciones Macul. She is a co-researcher on Fondecyt project 1210997, “Visual Sociology of the ‘Eruption.’”Özlem Danacı Yüce is an associate professor of communication studies at Galatasaray University. She completed her MA in political sciences and international relations at Boğaziçi University and her PhD in communication sciences at the University of Marmara. Political communication, public opinion, and gender and media studies are among her main interests.Stuart Davis is assistant professor of communication studies at the City University of New York, Baruch College, where he is also the chapter chair of the PSC-CUNY, CUNY's faculty and staff union. He is the coeditor of Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (2021). This article is part of a larger project on the limits of digital media activism for progressive social change in Brazil. He is also working on a project examining the decline of US hegemony and the rise of multipolarity within international telecommunications and media industries.Brian Dolber is associate professor of communication at California State University San Marcos. He is coeditor of The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence (2021).Patricio Azócar Donoso is a professor of philosophy at Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, with a master's in gender and culture studies (University of Chile). He is Honorary Professor in the philosophy department at UMCE-Chile and psychology department at Universidad de O'Higgins-Chile and researcher at the Chronobiology and Sleep Laboratory at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol-Brasil and at Laboratorio Transdisciplinar en Prácticas Sociales y Subjetividad (University of Chile). He is also a researcher and member of the Vitrina Dystópica collective and espacio.tierra. He is currently working on a PhD in psychiatry and behavioral sciences (UFRGS-Brasil).Jaime Donoso Espinosa holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Pittsburgh. He is associate professor at the Universidad de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE) in Santiago, Chile. His research is focused on cultural criticism, post-dictatorship narratives, memory, and trauma in Latin America.Rosario Fernández Ossandón holds a PhD in sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is an academic in the philosophy department and Center for the Study of Gender and Culture in Latin America at the University of Chile and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Santiago de Chile. Her research and teaching focus on gender, feminism, affects, power, archives, domestic work, care, performances, and performing arts. She is a founding member of the study group Nación Otredad Deseo.Peter Funke is associate professor of politics at the University of South Florida. He is coeditor of Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017) and The New Global Politics: Global Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century (2017).Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020), and Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies against Financialization (2018). He is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he codirects the ReImagining Value Action Lab.Duru Su Kadıoğlu is a PhD student and research assistant in media and communication studies at Galatasaray University. She earned her bachelor's degree from Bahçeşehir University and her master's degree from Galatasaray University. Her research areas are political economy of media, digitalization of media, media and gender, and alternative media.Malav Kanuga is a postdoctoral researcher at the Media, Inequality, and Change Center. He is editor and publisher of Common Notions Press, as well as a founding member of Making Worlds Cooperative.Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher, and teacher committed to collective liberation, living in Halifax, on unceded and unsurrendered Mi'kmaw territory. He is professor in sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical imagination, radical politics, social justice, and social movements.Adam (A.T.) Kingsmith is a writer, technologist, and mixed media documentarian working at the intersections of political economy and critical mental health. His recent books include Anxiety as a Weapon: An Affective Approach to Political Economy (2023), Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination (2020), and One Road, Many Dreams: China's Bold Plan to Remake the Global Economy (2019). He teaches at OCADU and Humber College and is cofounder of EiQ Technologies, an emotion-AI start-up based in the Design Fabrication Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University.Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is a sociologist and writer. He is associate professor of sociology at University College London, where he leads the Sociology and Social Theory Research Group, and an editor at the British Journal of Sociology. Komporozos-Athanasiou is the author of Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World (2022). His second book project, Real Fake: An Intellectual History of Distortion, documents the historical role of market technologies in shaping our collective understandings of reality and truth. His public writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Guardian, Public Seminar, Roar Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, and other publications.Tanner Mirrlees is associate professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ontario Tech University. Some of his current research examines the geopolitical economy of US and Chinese information and communication technology and media industries; digital technologies and energy transition; video games and warfare; and Left and Right social media tactics. He is the author of Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (2013), Hearts and Mines: The US Empire's Culture Industry (2016), and EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (2019), and the co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (2019), Media, Technology, and the Culture of Militarism (2014), and The Television Reader (2012).Ceren Sözeri Özdal is associate professor at the communication department of Galatasaray University. She earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Galatasaray University and her PhD from Marmara University. She has published on the political economy of the media, media policies, freedom of the press, ethical issues, and discrimination and hate speech in traditional and online media in Turkey. She has been the Ethical Journalism Network's (EJN) Turkey representative since 2015 and a columnist for Evrensel daily.Jorge Pavez Ojeda works as an associate researcher at the University of Tarapacá (Chile) and the Leading Researcher on Fondecyt project 1210997 (2021–23): “Visual Sociology of the ‘Eruption’: Temporality, Mediality, Contagion, and Violence in Images of the Recent Popular Mobilization in Chile.” He holds a master's degree in history from the University of Chile and a doctorate in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France). He is author of Cartas Mapuche. Siglo XIX (Mapuche Letters: Nineteenth Century) (2008) and Laboratorios etnográficos. Los archivos de la antropología en Chile (Ethnographic Laboratories: The Archives of Anthropology in Chile) (2015) and was editor of the journals Anales de Desclasificación (Annals of Declassification) (2005–6) and escrituras americanas (american writings) (2020–21).Hugo Sir Retamales received a joint PhD in sociology and social sciences from the University of Chile and the University of Paris VIII. He is an associated researcher at the Laboratorio Transdisciplinar en Prácticas Sociales y Subjetividad at the University of Chile and adjunct professor at different institutions. He is a member of the Vitrina Dystópica collective and espacio.tierra.Rhon Teruelle is assistant professor of mass communication and social media at Purdue University Northwest. He earned his PhD from the ISchool at the University of Toronto. His work is interdisciplinary and has three streams: social justice, social media, and social movements. His current research project directly addresses racism and racial justice through his study of police whistleblowers and their social media use to fight injustice. He is also interested in exploring the implications of particular new technologies. As a teacher, he is a critical communication, media, and cultural studies generalist. He remains devoted to punk rock music and its fundamental ideologies related to change for the betterment of all.Willy Thayer is professor of philosophy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE, Chile). He is author of La crisis no-moderna de la universidad moderna (The Nonmodern Crisis of the Modern University) (1996, rev. ed. 2002), El fragmento repetido. Escritos en estado de excepción (The Repeated Fragment: Writings in a State of Exception) (2006), Imagen exote (Exotic Image) (2019) and Technologies of Critique (2020). Currently he is director of Ediciones Macul (Santiago) and co-researcher on FONDECYT project 1210997, “Visual Sociology of the ‘Eruption.’”Michael Truscello is associate professor in English and general education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. He is author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure (2020) and coeditor with Ajamu Nangwaya of Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? (2017).Antonieta Vera holds a PhD in political science with a focus on gender studies from l'Université Paris VIII. She is an academic in the philosophy department and Center for the Study of Gender and Culture in Latin America at the University of Chile. Her research focuses on feminist theories, the politics of difference, intersectional analyses of domination, and the modern gender-nation construction. She is a founding member of the study group Nación Otredad Deseo.Todd Wolfson is associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and co-director of the Media, Inequality, and Change Center. He is author of Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014) and coeditor of Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017).

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