JOURNAL ARTICLE

Black Freedom, Busing as Media Theory, and Stan VanDerBeek's "Social Media".

  • Published In: JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2025, v. 65, n. 1. P. 61 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Gill, Kirsten Mairéad 3 of 3

Abstract

This article resurrects a prehistory of social media through intermedia artist Stan VanDerBeek's proto-theorization of the term in the early 1970s. I elucidate VanDerBeek's concept of social media through one case study: his 1970 project Panels for the Walls of the World , a collage mural distributed simultaneously to multiple sites in Boston, page-by-page via the new Xerox Magnafax Telecopier. Contextualizing Panels in relation to local struggles for school desegregation, I argue for a media theory of busing that helps us understand both desegregation as a media process and the principles of topographical montage and "cross-talk" operative in the facsimile murals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies. 2025/10, Vol. 65, Issue 1, p61
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:2578-4900
  • Accession Number:189327208
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