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Joshua Neves
Director
Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) lab
Associate Professor in Film and Moving Image Studies
Canada Research Chair
2011 - PhD, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Joshua Neves' research centers on global and digital media, with a particular focus on video, TV, and digital culture; China, Asia and the Global South; cultural theory and political theory; media urbanism; (over)development. He is co-director of the Media Theory working group (Center for Transcultural Studies).
He is the co-editor (with Marc Steinberg) of In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround (Institute of Network Cultures, 2024); lead author of Technopharmacology (Univ of Minnesota Press / Meson Press, 2022); author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Duke University Press, 2020); co-editor (with Bhaskar Sarkar) of Asian Video Cultures: in the Penumbra of the Global (Duke University Press, 2017). Dr. Neves has co-edited journal special issues examining: Media & Paranoia: New Attentional Forms; Optimization; and Media Populism; among others.
His work is published in Media Theory, Cultural Critique, Social Text, Discourse, Film Quarterly, Sarai, Made in China Journal, Cinema Journal, The Media Fields Journal, Culture Machine, Rethinking Chinese Television, A Companion to Documentary Film History, The Routledge Companion to Risk and Media, Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture, among others.
Dr. Neves' current book projects include a monograph examining media and development in the age of the fourth industrial revolution; and an edited collection (with Marie Martraire) examining video/art in the age of internet television.
Masha Salazkina
Collective Member
Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
Concordia University Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Cultures
PhD (Yale University)
Masha Salazkina's work incorporates transnational approaches to film theory and cultural history. Her first book In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico (University of Chicago Press, 2009) positions Eisenstein's unfinished Mexican project and theoretical writings within the wider context of post-revolutionary Mexico and global cultures of modernity. She co-edited the collections Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema and Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (both from Indiana University Press).
Dr Salazkina has published essays in Cinema Journal, Film History, October, Screen, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, KinoKultura, and many edited collections on topics such as geopolitics of film and media theory; theorizations of World Cinema; political histories of amateur film production, history of film festivals of Asian, African, and Latin American Cinema; international networks of radical political filmmakers in the 1960s-70s; Soviet-Italian film institutional exchanges; the history of the Soviet film institute (VGIK); translations of Marxist film theory in Italy and Cuba; the reception of Soviet culture in Latin America; Soviet-Indian film co-productions. She has also been coordinating translations and publications of film writings from around the World.
Her current research centers on the shared cinematic cultures of global socialisms and in the 20th century.
Marc Steinberg
Collective Member
Associate Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
Graduate Program Director, MA & PhD, Cinema
PhD (Brown University), MA (McGill University), BA (McGill University)
Marc Steinberg is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, and director of The Platform Lab. His research focuses on animation, media industry studies, and digital media, focusing on the rise of digital platforms in particular. He is author of the award-winning book Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) which historically situates the practices of merchandising or the media mix in relation to the anime industry. Along with its expanded Japanese translation it won the ITRA-BTHA Book Prize (Senior Prize) from the International Toy Research Association (2014), and the Japan Society for Animation Studies Book Prize (2015). His second monograph, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Commercial Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), tracks the platform-led transformation of film, media, and Internet cultures. Offering a comparative study of the platform economy with a focus on Japan, the book examines the managerial, medial, and social functions of platform theories and practices. His third book, Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), co-written with Rutvica Andrijasevic, Julie Yujie Chen and Melissa Gregg, takes a longer view of management’s entanglement with media, presenting an essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor.
His article “From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a Prehistory of the Digital Economy” was recently published in Organization Studies, and other work has appeared in Asiascape: Digital Asia; Social Media + Society; Journal of Visual Culture; Theory, Culture & Society, among other journals.
He is currently at work on three related projects. The first examines the effect media platforms have on animation production and circulation, with a continued focus on media industries and transmedia practices in the wake of platformization. The second maps the intersection of management theory and just-in-time systems, with an eye to how just-in-time manufacturing meets on-demand streaming in services such as Netflix. The third project analyzes convenience as a retail strategy (e.g. convenience stores) and as a promise by digital platforms.