Publications | Jasmine Erdener

Publications

Surveillance & Society

Surveillant Companionship and the FBI Agent Meme

In 2018, surveillance discourse collided with meme culture through the popular “FBI agent” meme, which showed the surveillant relationship as positive and caring. The government agent answers questions or helps with homework, even drops by to deliver milk. The FBI agent meme satirizes surveillant companionship by highlighting the absurdity of sharing every intimate moment with the surveillant gaze.

Cultural Politics

Prefigurative Politics at Bread and Puppet Theater

Bread and Puppet Theater is one of the oldest self-sustaining and continuously active theaters in the United States and has been enormously influential in both theater and political protest movements since the 1960s. B&P epitomizes the tension at the heart of prefigurative politics, between creative world-building and alternative decision-making structures.

Communication, Culture, and Critique

Infrastructure in the Jungle: Infrastructure and Ideology in the Refugee Camps in Calais and Along the U.S.–Mexico Border

This article examines infrastructures as a tool for managing populations, specifically migrants and refugees, and more broadly, infrastructure as a communicative trope for social belonging and citizenship.

Catalyst. Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

Human/Machine fusions and the Future of the Cyborg

This paper focuses on the cyborg and uses the idea of 'calculated illegibility' to think about cyborg politics.

Oxford University Press

Activist media refer to media forms that serve activist purposes and can have multiple forms, including television, photography, cartoons, radio, newspapers, zines, the Internet, and even the body.

Communication and the Public

Humans of New York and ethical reflections in the digital age

This article examines the ethical dimensions of the HONY blog, specifically focusing on photos of Syrian refugees as presented to Western audiences.