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Cole Stratton

Ph.D. Candidate, Associate Instructor

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Office:
Franklin Hall M030D
Email:
stratton@iu.edu

Social Media

  • twitter
  • instagram
  • youtube

Research and Creative Interests

  • new media
  • smartphones
  • political economy of media
  • media history
  • Media Industries
  • Technology
  • advertising and consumer culture
  • power
  • digital cultures
  • drones
  • AR/VR
  • photography
  • cinema
  • media ecology
  • political ecology of media

Biography

Teaching

  • MSCH-C249 Media Technologies & Culture (Fall 2021)
  • GEOG-G306 Media and the Environment (Spring 2021)
  • CLLC-L120 Introduction to Smartphone Studies (Fall 2020)
  • MSCH-C207 Introduction to Media Industry & Management (Spring 2017, Spring 2018)
  • MSCH-A315 Advertising & Consumer Culture (Fall 2017)

Publications

  • Stratton, Cole. (2020). Platform politics: Software as strategy in Apple’s platform ecosystem. First Monday, 25(2).
  • Stratton, Cole. (2017). Book Review: Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski. The Information Society, 33(1): 50–51.

Conference Papers

  • “The Political Ecology of iPhone 5c Polycarbonate,” Common Ground: The 5th Annual Media School Graduate Conference, 2021.
  • “Ergonomics and the Multi-Scalar Design Politics of the Smartphone,” National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, 2020.
  • “The Smartphone as World-Ecology: Conceptualizing and Mapping the Planetary Processes in your Pocket,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, 2019.
  • “Towards a Political Ecology of the iPhone 5C,” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, 2018.
  • “Accumulation by Connectivity: Infrastructure and Value in Facebook’s Global Expansion,” Landscapes, Space and Place (LSP) conference, Indiana University Bloomington, 2018.
  • “Making Commerce Ubiquitous: Smartphones, Beacons, and the Practice of Connected Shopping,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, 2017.
  • “Being as Working: The Mobile Image Interface & Perceptual Capture in Modern Capitalism,” National Communication Association (NCA) conference, 2016.
  • “Commerce by Design: Beacons, Smartphones & The Production of Networked Commerce,” IDRH Digital Humanities Forum, University of Kansas, 2016.
  • “What is a Smartphone For? Power and Control in Apple’s Advertising,” Communications Crossroads Conference, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2015.

Invited Lectures

  • “Ergonomics and the Multi-Scalar Design Politics of Everyday Life,” The Media School Arts & Sciences Colloquium, Indiana University Bloomington (4/17/2020).
  • “VR Journalism: A New Medium + An Old Industry,” Kern Award Presentation, The Media School Arts & Sciences Colloquium, Indiana University Bloomington (4/5/2019).
  • “The Smartphone Ecology,” The Media School Arts & Sciences Colloquium, Indiana University Bloomington (10/19/2018).
  • “Locating The iPhone: The Cultural Materialism of Smartphones,” University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Journalism, Advertising & Media Studies Colloquium (3/13/2014).

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  • 20 students complete graduate degrees
  • Graduate students receive achievement awards
  • Grad students present research at 5th annual Common Ground conference
  • Media School faculty, students to present at SCMS conference
  • 23 faculty, students to present at NCA convention
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