Reem Hilu, recently promoted to associate professor in Film & Media Studies, is profiled in the latest issue of JCMS (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), the field's flagship journal. 

 

"I propose a different way of thinking about the role computers could or did have as they spread into more homes," Hilu tells JCMS's Juan Llamas-Rodriguez. "What I suggest is that the influence of gender, sexuality, and the companionate family on histories of computing is not isolated to the software and hardware that I discuss, but reframes computers as relational media—technologies that influence, shape, or intervene in relationships between people."

 

Professor Hilu is the author of The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s, published by University of Minnesota Press in 2024. She's currently working on a new book project, tentatively titled Gaming Therapy: A History of Psychological and Therapeutic Games.

 

Read the entire JCMS profile here.