Staff

Anna Notaro

Co-Module Leader Critical & Contextual Studies

Tel: +44 (0) 1382 385654
Email: a.z.notaro@dundee.ac.uk
Room 6020
Level 6, Matthew building

Biography

Media is a highly heterogeneous and inter-disciplinary academic field, my research profile offers a flexible combination of ‘New’ Media and (Digital)Film Studies. The area of New Media Studies which I am developing regards the sociological implications of new media and cyber culture. My most recent research interests address the diverse social, artistic, theoretical and cultural practices which constitute today's digital domains and virtual environments. I am particularly keen on analyzing the development of digital communication technologies from a set of activist and artistic practices and ideologies such as, cross-culturalism, net activism and media philosophy. I focus on a vibrant network of ideas and actions by studying post-human theory, blogs and Internet branding, not disregarding of course the ethical issues at stake such as surveillance-privacy, censorship, gender and ethnicity, and the commercialization of the public sphere. As for my interest in (Digital)Film Studies, I consider how the hegemony of Hollywood’s movie making modalities is increasingly being challenged by the radical new potentialities of the digital media technologies, as evidenced by the rapid rise of the video game (whose relation to film is in itself an area of theoretical investigation destined for rapid expansion). In this light current cinematic research cannot omit an appreciation of the radical impact that the shift to digital techniques of production and presentation is having on the nature of the cinematic experience.

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