Media Dialogues: A Scholarly Roundtable

In lieu of a one-time and in-person roundtable conversation, the following discussion took place between October 10 and December 15, 2017. We asked scholars from a variety of media studies traditions to contribute to a text document that was being updated on Google Drive. The shared document afforded each scholar the opportunity to contribute to the conversation at his or her own convenience, thereby enabling the discussion to develop organically during the ten-week period. The online format was thus our own attempt to experiment with the concept of media dialogues. Our eight panelists were Miranda Banks (Emerson College), Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University), James Buhler (University of Texas at Austin), Nina Cartier (Northwestern University), Liz Greene (Liverpool John Moores University), Lori Lopez (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Miguel Mera (City, University of London), and Jacob Smith (Northwestern University). We encouraged each panelist to share links to websites and videos, and we have added images from these links in order to preserve the interactive experience of the original conversation.