Joshua Miner

Joshua D. Miner is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. He specializes in Indigenous film and media theory, critical health studies, digital media studies, and the cultural impacts of interactive design. His recent work has examined the relationship between Indigenous screen aesthetics and the settler structures of digital media technologies, appearing in Screen Bodies, The Computer Games Journal, Information, Communication & Society, Gamevironments, Surveillance & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and other journals and collections. 

His current book project, Biased Render: Digital Images and Settler Culture, explores the settler politics of digital image synthesis and the tactical responses of designers across video games, social media and emerging cinema, with a particular focus on digital modeling and rendering as modes of algorithmic embodiment. Rooted in Indigenous futurist perspectives on digital media production, Biased Render explores a range of practices that intervene in the designed structures of digital media.

Since coming to KU, he has taught courses in global Indigenous film and media, video game theory and design, film and media aesthetics, documentary and experimental media, activist media theory, and sound design.