Matthew Hockenberry

Matthew Hockenberry is a media historian and theorist whose work examines the media of global production.

Matthew Hockenberry

Matthew Hockenberry (PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University) is a media historian and theorist whose work examines the media of global production. An Assistant Professor of Media Industries at Fordham University, his current book project develops a media history of logistics, exploring critical developments in the epistemology of assembly by tracing how media forms shaped the emergence of logistical production and distribution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is particularly concerned with transitional moments of mediation in the histories of paperwork, telecommunication, and computation.

As a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media and Tangible Media Group he developed Sourcemap, a collaborative platform for mapping supply chains and sharing “where things come from,” and he writes regularly on the state of global supply through the lens of its most emblematic objects.

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Matthew Hockenberry
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Fordham University
45 Columbus Ave., 7th Floor
New York, NY 10023

Email: mhockenberry@fordham.edu
Twitter: @hockendougal

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