KEN HILLIS
Associate Professor of Media Studies

Department of Communication Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Online Articles

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Available immediately below are several articles I've published in refereed academic journals; the anthology piece "A Geography of the Eye" (for which I hold copyright); the translation into Portuguese of this article; the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the 2004 translation of Digital Sensations into Portuguese; and book reviews appearing in CTHEORY.

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"The Cosmological Map is also a Journey", Aether: The Journal of Media Geography Fall 2007 (24-27).

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"A Space for the Trace: Memorable eBay and Narrative Effect", Space and Culture 9:2 2006 (140-156).

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"Film Noir and the American Dream: The Dark Side of Enlightenment", Velvet Light Trap 55 Spring 2005 (1-18). Reprinted (2006) in Multicultural Film: Essays, Pearson Publishing.

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"The Dream of a Virtual Life: from Plato to Microsoft", Invited Academic article for inclusion in the museum catalogue "Dream Extensions" to accompany the exhibition "Dream Extensions" (Jan 17-Mar 21, 2004), Museum for Contemporary Art/Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K), Ghent, Belgium, 2004 (94-108). Published simultaneously in Dutch.

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Sensações digitais: Espaço, identidade e corporificações na realidade virtual*
Editora Unisinos, 2004 São Leopoldo - RS - Brasil, 280 pages. Introduction and Chapter 1 (11-75)

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"From Description to Depiction: Free Indirect Discourse and Online Graphical Chat", Culture, Theory and Critique vol. 44, no 1, 2003 (73-89).

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"Spatial Technologies for the Mobile Class: Life in the Cooltown Ecosystem", Geography 88:4 2003 (338-347) (with Jon Lillie).

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"On the Margins: The Invisibility of Communications Geography", Progress in Human Geography 22:4 1998 (543-566).

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"A Geography of the Eye," Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies, Rob Shields, London: Sage 1996 (70-98).

Published in Portuguese as:
"Technologias da realidade virtual: elementos para uma geografia da visão", Revista FAMECOS no. 17 abril 2002 (17-45).

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" Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information, and the City: Some Theoretical and Practical Observations", Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information, and the City, Research Conference Report, Technical Report 96-10, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. 1996 (152-155)

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"GIS, Language, and Disadvantage", GIS and Society: The Social Implications of How People, Space, and Environment are Represented in GIS, Scientific Report for the Initiative 19 Specialist Meeting, Technical Report 96-7, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. 1996 (33-35).

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"The Power of Disembodied Imagination: Perspective's Role in Cartography", Cartographica 31:3 1994 (1-17). (Lead Article)

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"Fractured Flesh", Scott Bukatman. Terminal Identity, Duke University Press, CTHEORY (September 1994).

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"A Cartesian View from Nowhere", Barbara Maria Stafford. Body Criticism, University of Chicago Press, Canadian Journal of Social and Political Theory 17:3 (86-93). CTHEORY (October 1994).

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