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 [...]
The third panel at Frontiers of New Media 2007 was loosely grouped under the title of “Identities,” but by this point in the day the ideas flying around had pretty clearly escaped the boxes the original program laid out for them. You can hear or download the audio of the session here (1h 31 min; [...]
My look back at Frontiers of New Media 2007 continues. The first two parts are here and here.
The middle panel of our second day focused on “Space.” It featured Jonathan Sterne, Henry Lowood, and Tara McPherson. Unfortunately only Jonathan’s talk has been preserved as a podcast; you can hear or download the audio of his [...]
As this month’s Frontiers of New Media Symposium approaches, I’m continuing my look back at the 2007 symposium and linking to the podcasts made of our conversations there.
The first panel of the second day of the 2007 symposium focused on “Distance.” This panel featured Lisa Gitelman, Jason Loviglio, and myself. You can hear or download [...]
Frontiers of New Media 2009 is less than two weeks away! As the symposium approaches, I’d like to do a few posts looking back at the 2007 Frontiers of New Media symposium, reviewing the conversations we had there and building a sort of bridge to this year’s symposium. This is made possible by the fact [...]
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 [...]
