JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

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Vicki Mayer

Vicki Mayer is Associate Professor of Communication at Tulane University. Her recent work on media production studies can be found in the co-edited Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries (Routledge, 2009), the forthcoming book Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy (Duke University Press, 2011), and a website dedicated to the history of New Orleans media and cultural production: http://www.medianola.org.