The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference
A Commons Conversation
with Abigail De Kosnik, Professor, Berkeley Center for New Media and Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, Plus Co-Editors Keith Feldman, Rashad Arman Timmons, Ra Malika Imhotep, and Contributing Authors
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Thursday, March 11, 2027
4:00 — 5:00 PM
BCNM Commons, Room B102,
Grimes Engineering Center
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Join the editors and authors of The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026) as they discuss the origins of the edited volume in The Color of New Media Working Group and the major theoretical contributions of their chapters!
The Media Crease brings together scholars from The Color of New Media working group at UC Berkeley to examine how patterns of repetition shape media, culture, technology, and social difference. Building on Abigail De Kosnik’s concept of the “media crease” — the traces of return, re-use, and re-engagement with media — the collection demonstrates how culture is made and remade through mediated repetition and how communities marked by race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora leverage new media and technology to both endure oppressive structures and imagine alternative futures.
About Abigail De Kosnik
Abigail De Kosnik is a Professor at UC Berkeley in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS). She is currently Chair of TDPS. She is the author of The General Library: Piracy and the Politics of Minority Access (forthcoming from MIT Press, 2027) and Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016), and co-editor of The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, 2027).
About Commons Conversations
Commons Conversations is a discussion series hosted by the Berkeley Center for New Media on the impact of new media on our current political and public climate.