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Nicole Starosielski

Nicole Starosielski

Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Project: Media Hot and Cold

Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. She is author of The Undersea Network (Duke University Press, 2015), which charts the development of transoceanic cable systems, beginning with the nineteenth century telegraph network and extending to today’s fiber-optic infrastructure. She is also co-editor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (Routledge, 2016). Her current project, Media Hot and Cold, traces the relationship between media technologies, embodied perception, and thermal conditions.