Media Theory

Read Anthony Kelly's "On the Interface of Influencers and Antagonists" here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Read Sonya Petersson's "Pictorial Multimodality and the Case of the Lantern Lectures" here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Read Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Jannie Møller Hartley's "'Argh! The World Doesn't Fit the Model!' Small Acts of Worldmaking in Data Annotation for News Media" here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Read Anthony Kelly's "On the Interface of Influencers and Antagonists" here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Read Katariina Mäkinen's "Male Bodies on Social Media: Colliding Representations, Subjectivities and Digital Technologies" here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Read Siobhan Watters' "What Plato Said: Rehabilitating Food Techniques as Media" here: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Read our special section on "Charles W. Mills and Media Theory!" journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

Media theory 9.2 — Out Now! Media Theory 9.2 (2025) is a standard issue featuring articles by Siobhan Watters, Ma Sirui, Sonya Petersson, Katarina Mäkinen, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Jannie Møller Hartley, and Anthony Kelly. T…

Media Theory 9.2 featuring work by 15 authors, including commentaries by David Beer and N. Katherine Hayles, and a special section on Charles W. Mills edited by Simon Dawes and Anamik Saha.

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#ICYMI What does Black Twitter have to tell us about Western technoculture? André Brock answers: buff.ly/49CEw4U

#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...

Media Theory Conference 2025 Highlights Visit the post for more.

Some visual highlights from the Media Theory Conference at the Coach House, Toronto, 2025

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#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

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#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...