Cole Stratton

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).