Media Studies

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Mal Ahern
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Associate Professor, Robert Jolin Osborne Professor of Cinema and Media Studies

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Related Research

Diana Flores Ruíz, “AI Prompt Generation and Anti-Blackness: On the Creative Assets of Suppressing Dissent,” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, May 5, 2026
Owens, Golden M. “Lana, Alexa, & ChatGPT: AI Surveillance and Too Hot to Handle Golden M. Owens / University of Washington – Flow.” Flow 32, no. 2 (2026). https://www.flowjournal.org/2026/03/surveillance-too-hot-to-handle/.
Diana Flores Ruíz, “Swamp Slop and Fake Moats: On the AI Mediation of Alligator Alcatraz” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 32, no 2, December 1, 2025
Ruíz, Diana Flores. "Split Rein or Whip? On the Production of Infrastructural Integrity at the US-Mexico Border." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (2025): 162-168. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2025.a973995.
Owens, Golden. “Robotic Slaves and Where to Find Them: Racial(ized) Servitude in The Jetsons.” Flow 32, no. 1 (2025). https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/10/robotic-slaves-and-where-to-find-them-racialized-servitude-in-the-jetsonsgolden-m-owens-university-of-washington/.
Mal Ahern, "Media Infrastructure and Historical Materialism," in In Focus: Images and Infrastructures, ed. Ahern and Dhaliwal, JCMS 65, no. 1 (Fall 2025): 195-201.
Mal Ahern and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, "Modes of Visual Production," in In Focus: Images and Infrastructures, ed. Ahern and Dhaliwal, JCMS 65, no. 1 (Fall 2025): 156-161
Mal Ahern and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, eds, In Focus: Images and (Infra)structures, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (Fall 2025), 156-201.
Owens, Golden M. “From Maid to Machine: Her, Hegemony, and the Twenty-First-Century Mammy.” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 5 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3998/jcms.18261332.0064.513.
Diana Flores Ruíz; Review: Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground, by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez. Film Quarterly 1 June 2024; 77 (4): 103–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2024.77.4.103