These essays appeared together as a feature special section in Volume 8 (2014) of the International Journal of Communication. My thanks to my co-editor Dylan Mulvin (the issue was his idea) and to the authors for their contributions.
Our Intro:
“Temperature is a Media Problem” — Dylan Mulvin and Jonathan Sterne
The Essays:
“The Materiality of Media Heat” — Nicole Starosielski
“Making Sense of Temperature in Early Psychophysics” — Alice R. Christensen
“Drone, Infrared Imagery, and Body Heat” — Lisa Parks
“Seeing the Temperature in Weather Media” — Marita Sturkin
“Burning Man: Heating, Eating and Doing the Calorie” — Jessica Mudry
“Fourier(‘s) Analysis: ‘Sonic’ Heat Conduction and Its Cold Calculation” — Wolfgang Ernst