Jack Z. Bratich

Bio: Jack Zeljko Bratich is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He authored Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (2008) and co-edited, along with Jeremy Packer and Cameron McCarthy, Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality (2003). His work applies autonomist social theory to such topics as reality television, audience studies, and the cultural politics of secrecy. His recent book chapter, “When Collective Intelligence Agencies Collide” (in Everyday Life in the (Post)Global Network, eds. Marina Levina and Grant Kien, Peter Lang, 2010) examines social media and network antagonism. He is currently writing a book titled Programming Reality (Lexington, forthcoming), which examines reality programs (on and off television) as experiments in affective convergence.