Here are the audio podcasts of each talk from the 2009 Frontiers of New Media Symposium. Click on the title of the talk to play as an MP3, or right-click to download for listening elsewhere. (The 2007 podcasts are available here.)
The second Frontiers of New Media Symposium, on September 18th and 19th, 2009, was (in our modest opinions) a great success. Fourteen leading scholars of communication, history, and media came together for two days of lively and provocative conversation about the intersection and future of their fields. The participating scholars, University of Utah faculty, students, [...]
The symposium is over and it was, I think, a great success. Thanks again to David Simmons for sponsoring this meeting and to all the organizers, the tech help, and all of our participants and guests. It was terrific to meet you all, and all of us here enjoyed and profited from our conversations, formal [...]
Our second panel this coming Saturday will continue exploring the persistence of place in supposedly space-annihilating communication networks. It features a mix of history, historical geography, and communications scholarship, grouped under the general theme of “Region, Place, and Geography.” (Here’s the complete symposium schedule.) The speakers on this panel will be Jennifer Light, Craig Robertson, [...]
My post last night (”Sparks“) was supposed to introduce a rundown of some of the topics we’ll be covering at this year’s Frontiers of New Media symposium, but parenthood suddenly intervened. I’m back now to give you a sense of the range of things we’ll be talking about this Saturday. As I said last night, [...]
The way I’ve been summarizing the papers at Frontiers of New Media 2007 probably makes the symposium seem more disjointed and chaotic than it was. I wanted to showcase the variety of topics we discussed there, the creativity of the presenters, the sheer number of exciting and provocative ideas. But what I really haven’t been [...]
