Department of Communication

Michele White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. She teaches Internet and new media studies, television and film theory, visual culture studies, gender and queer theory, and critical race and postcolonial studies. Her field is media and visual culture studies with an emphasis on the theories that can be developed and deployed for researching new media technologies and the representations and political implications that occur with the Internet. In her book, The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship, which MIT Press published in 2006, White considers how spectatorial positions are produced by Internet settings. She is currently working on two book projects: Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay and Elements of the Internet: Rethinking the Network and Information Technology Workers. Her published articles include: "Where Do You Want to Sit Today? Computer Programmers' Static Bodies and Disability" Information, Communication and Society 9, 3 (2006); "Television and Internet Differences by Design: Rendering Liveness, Presence, and Lived Space," Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 12, 3 (2006); "My Queer eBay: 'Gay Interest' Photographic Images and the Visual Culture of Buying," in Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire, ed. Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Nathan Epley. London: Routledge Press: 2006; and "The Aesthetic of Failure: Net Art Gone Wrong," Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 7, 1 (2002).

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