Autor: Julie Cupples

Dr. Julie Cupples is Reader is Human Geography and Co-Director of the Global Development Academy at the University of Edinburgh. Her work spans cultural geography, development studies and media studies. She has been working in Nicaragua since 1990 and has published on questions of development/postdevelopment, gender and sexuality, disasters and environmental risk, elections, municipal governance, neoliberalism and indigenous media. She is the author of Latin American Development (Routledge 2013), the co-editor of Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media (Springer 2015) and the co-author of Communications/Media/Geographies (Routledge 2017). Dr. Kevin Glynn is Associate Professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK.  He is author of Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television (Duke University Press) and coauthor of Communications/Media/Geographies (Routledge).  His research is situated at the intersection of media and cultural studies.  His recent publications have examined Indigenous peoples’ media and globalization, digital media and convergence culture, popular and political cultures of the Americas, decolonial struggles in the new media environment, and intersections between media studies, cultural studies and cultural geography. This research was conducted as part of the project, “Geographies of Media Convergence: Spaces of Democracy, Connectivity and the Reconfiguration of Cultural Citizenship, ” which was funded by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand and explores indigenous and Afro-descendant media practices; the dynamics of media convergence; and intersections between popular culture, politics, cultural citizenship and the media.