The Media Crease: Theorizing Culture, Repetition, and Social Difference brings together scholars from The Color of New Media working group at UC Berkeley to examine how patterns of repetition shape media, culture, technology, and social difference.

Building on Abigail De Kosnik's concept of the “media crease”-the traces of return, re-use, and re-engagement with media-contributors explore how new media and technology can entrench colonialism, racism, capitalism, and misogynoir, while also generating disruptive possibilities for resistance, creativity, and collective world-making. Essays analyze cultural and technological phenomena across diverse geographies, from Indigenous ceremony to AI, digital activism to hip-hop, archives to embodied performance. In doing so, the collection demonstrates how culture is made and remade through mediated repetition, and how communities marked by race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora leverage new media and technology to both endure oppressive structures and imagine alternative futures.

Abigail De Kosnik is Associate Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) and an affiliated faculty member of Gender & Women's Studies, Film & Media, and Folklore at University of California Berkeley, USA.

Keith P. Feldman is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, USA.

Ra Malika Imhotep is Assistant Professor of International/Global African Diaspora Studies at Spelman College, USA.

Rashad Arman Timmons is a PhD candidate in African Diaspora Studies and New Media Studies at the University of California Berkeley, USA.