D. Travers Scott's Blog, page 2
July 1, 2016
Fight video article
My article Participation, Pain, and World-Making: Affective Political Economies of Irish Traveller Fight Videos appears in the journal Television and New Media. Abstract: This article examines media participation through affective political economy, using as a case study the documentary Knuckle, a profile of Irish Traveller fighting. The film incorporates videos recorded by fighters and their
Food Systems publication
My article with Sallie Hambright-Belue, "Pedagogies of Spatial Perception: Collaborative Insights from Rural Food Systems" appears in the journal Space and Communication. Abstract: An ongoing exploration into the teaching of space is the focus of this article. As instructors of architecture and communication, the authors have collaborated on engaging and researching the spatial aspects of a
Food systems student work
This video shows the work done in the Creative Inquiry class Site-Specific Messaging: Communicating Food, Identity, and Culture. I've taught this for two semesters with Sallie Hambright-Belue in the Architecture Department at Clemson, and our client has been Feed & Seed, a food hub in Greenville South Carolina working with Spinx convenience stores. Students from Communication, Architecture,
October 16, 2015
My article "Productive Possessions: Masculinity, Reproduc...
My article "Productive Possessions: Masculinity, Reproduction and Territorializations in Techno-horror" is in the current issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.
June 10, 2015
Upcoming Presentation
I'll be presenting on the history of web practices at the European Communication Research and Education Association's conference "Communication History Bridges and Boundaries" in
Venice, Italy on 16-18 September, 2015 https://ecreahistoryvenice2015.wordpr...
Venice, Italy on 16-18 September, 2015 https://ecreahistoryvenice2015.wordpr...
September 5, 2014
The awesome Sarah Banet-Weiser has a nice description of ...
The awesome Sarah Banet-Weiser has a nice description of my essay on telephone training films from American Quarterly. She's the editor of their flagship journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. They also have my essay available for download: "Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962."
Nice mention in EJMS
A book review in the European Journal of Cultural Studies has nice things to say about my essay, "Intimate threats and intersubjective users: Telephone training films, 1927-1962," originally published in American Quarterly:
The first section, ‘Sound Technologies and Subjectivities’, includes some excellent articles on our technologised interactions with sound, some with a historical focus as in
The first section, ‘Sound Technologies and Subjectivities’, includes some excellent articles on our technologised interactions with sound, some with a historical focus as in
Presenting at ASA in LA
I'll be presenting "Pained Bodies, Passionate Pleasures:
The Affective Economy of Irish Travelers’ Fight Videos" at noon on November 9th at the American Studies Association, meeting in Los Angeles. It will be part of a panel on MMA (mixed martial arts) fighting.
New article on analog synthesizers and gender
I've got a piece in the "Retro Technologies" issue of Technoculture titled, “Music to Moog By”: Gendering in Early Analog Synthesizing in the United States."
August 4, 2013
Article on Telegraph and New Media
Clemson professor draws parallels between old, new technology
By Charmaine Smith-Miles
Posted July 13, 2013 at 9:49 p.m.
Interview with me in the Anderson Independent Mail on the death of the telegraph.
By Charmaine Smith-Miles
Posted July 13, 2013 at 9:49 p.m.
Interview with me in the Anderson Independent Mail on the death of the telegraph.
