Chris Robé is a professor in Film and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He focuses on issues of community media, radical filmmaking, and digital activism. He has published essays on radical media in journals like Jump Cut, Media, Culture, and Society, and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

His most recent book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression (PM Press, 2023) concerns the relationship between video/digital media activism and state repression pertaining to animal rights campaigns, counter-summit protesting, Latinx copwatching and community organizing, and Muslim-American youth resistance. If you would like to set up a speaking engagement related to the newest book, feel free to contact his via email.

His new research concerns three areas of interest: conservative digital media activism—particularly related to Florida; street art, graffiti, and political murals mediating tensions around Brexit, neoliberalism, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland; and continuing archival research for a long-term project related to Raymond Williams’ work on film and television.