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 [...]
Hello! Thank you for visiting the Frontiers of New Media Symposium. My name is Rob MacDougall. I study and teach the history of communication technology, and I am delighted to be the new Simmons Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Communication at the University of Utah. I’ve only recently arrived here, and like every other [...]
We are very excited to have as our keynote speaker, Dr. AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean of the School of Information at U.C. Berkeley. Her address to the Symposium will occur on Friday, September 18 at 6:00PM in the Eccles Auditorium of the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.
In the meantime, if you just can’t wait to hear [...]
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