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News relating to the Frontiers of New Media Symposium.

2011 Frontiers of New Media Press Release

During the prestigious two-day event, twelve leading scholars of communication, history, and media will come together for two days of lively and provocative conversation about the intersection and future of their fields. The participating scholars, University of Utah faculty and ...

FoNM 2009: New Media and the Environment

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 ...

Sparks

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 ...

Introduction and Invitations

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 ...

A Sneak Preview of Our Keynote Speaker

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 ...

Frontiers of New Media is on Twitter

The Frontiers of New Media symposium now has a Twitter account.  You can follow us at http://twitter.com/fonm for updates about upcoming events and other news.