Lisa Parks, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies, Director of the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, and affiliate faculty in Art and MAT at UC Santa Barbara. She is a media historian and theorist, and her research focuses on satellite technologies and media globalization; critical studies of media infrastructures; media, militarization, and surveillance; environmental media; and digital media technologies and AI. Parks is the author of Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2018) and Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke U Press, 2005).
