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, [...]
I’ve already received a few responses from the Frontiers of New Media participants to my request for abstracts, earlier articles, outlines in progress, etc.–both to help me in my role as commentator but also to introduce you to one another and get our conversations started here in advance of the symposium itself. To those of [...]
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 [...]
