Lisa Parks
Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies , University of California-Santa Barbara

Lisa Parks, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and is a Research Associate of the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke University Press 2005) and Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies (forthcoming) and is co-editing Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures with James Schwoch. Other recent publications focus upon satellite media and world conflict, the visualization of infrastructures, and e-waste. Parks was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2006/2007 and in recent years has given invited lectures in Germany, Bosnia, Hungary, Spain, Denmark, Slovenia, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and the US.