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Since January 2009, Media Nola has been a collaboration of Tulane students, programmers, archivists, and staff working with archivists and nonprofit organizations around the city to tell the history of important sites of New Orleans cultural and mediated production from 1880 to 1980. It is an ongoing project.

Used in conjunction with the Media Nola map [1], these pages offer a geography of cultural and mediated production as part of overlapping networks of people, resources, and organizations located throughout the city. Often studied in isolation as the history of “music” or “newspapers,” this site aims to illustrate similarities between different crafts and industries that frequently shared what Pierre Bourdieu called a “habitus,” or the dispositions that rise from shared social, political, and economic conditions. The map and wiki pages provide a new lens through which to look at the types of production shared by neighborhoods and their residents, as well as a site for envisioning how production in the city cut across racial, gender, or class lines. I hope that people using this site will use it as both a reference and a research tool for understanding some of the dynamics of production in relation to a culture that producers actively contribute to representing.

Your feedback is appreciated in helping us achieve these goals.

-- Dr. Vicki Mayer, Tulane Department of Communication, vmayer@tulane.edu