Marwan Kraidy of Penn Delivers Frontiers of New Media Keynote
Marwan M. Kraidy is the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture,
and Founding Director of the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication
(PARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where
he is also affiliated with the Middle East Center. An expert in global communication
and a specialist in Arab media and politics, he also researches the relationship between
culture and geopolitics, global media industries, theories of identity and modernity,
and the political symbolism of the human body in the public sphere. Currently he is
also a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Kraidy’s work is distinctive for its deep reliance on primary materials, theoretical grounding in a multilingual literature, and a comparative approach across historical periods, geographical sites, cultural forms, and media platforms. Ongoing research focuses on war machines in the digital age (particularly Islamic State), speed, spectacle and security in global communication, and the rise and fall of Turkey in Arab public culture. He teaches courses on globalization, culture and revolution, the body in digital culture, contentious publics, and the geopolitics of popular culture.
Kraidy has published 10 books, penned 120 essays and chapters, won 50 awards for teaching and scholarship, delivered keynote addresses and named lectures worldwide, and advised universities, civil society organizations, foundations, and governments.
His talk at the University of Utah is titled “Burning Man and Laughing Cow: Digital Dissent and Democratic Divides.”