https://frontiersofnewmedia.org Historical and Cultural Explorations of Region, Identity, and Power in the Development of New Communications Technologies Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:39:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.13 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/dr-ronald-deibert-to-deliver-keynote-address-to-2013-frontiers-of-new-media-symposium/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:39:35 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?p=739#comment-225 Yes, all talks will be posted to the Web. We hope to have them up as soon as possible after the event. ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/dr-ronald-deibert-to-deliver-keynote-address-to-2013-frontiers-of-new-media-symposium/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:43:56 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?p=739#comment-223 Will this keynote be posted to the web at some point? It would be great to watch the keynote, even if we aren’t able to attend. Thanks, Adeel ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/the-exaggerated-death-of-time-and-space/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:29 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?p=611#comment-107 [...] a great job recording the various presentations. You can see the list of videos here. In particular, see Richard White’s talk on railroads – a phenomenal presentation. My friend Fan Yang’s talk is also quite [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/sharon-leon/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:10:05 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=158#comment-34 [...] How are new media changing what we do as scholars—both what we can do, and what we should do? Sharon Leon (George Mason) described her work at the Center for History and New Media, building powerful new [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/kevin-deluca/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:09:48 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=161#comment-33 [...] Miller (University of California-Riverside) and Kevin DeLuca (University of Utah) began the day by raising tough questions about the impact of media [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/rob-macdougall/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:05:38 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=156#comment-32 [...] a wrap-up session, a wide-ranging discussion in which we worked to synthesize what had gone before. Rob MacDougall (University of Western Ontario), this year’s David Simmons Visiting Professor, gave a talk [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/fred-turner/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:05:23 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=45#comment-31 [...] state to harden its borders, controlling those who are citizens and excluding those who are not. Fred Turner (Stanford) described the Pepsi pavilion at the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair to illustrate his work on [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/toby-miller/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:05:07 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=38#comment-30 [...] Toby Miller (University of California-Riverside) and Kevin DeLuca (University of Utah) began the day by raising tough questions about the impact of media technologies on our environment. Miller challenged our sense of electronic media as “clean” or “green”, urging us to think of our iPods, laptops, and Blackberries as “toxic, industrial age machines,” built to break and destined for landfills. DeLuca juxtaposed the physical beauty of the West with the physical and mental “pollution” created by constant, instant communication. Dylan Wolfe (Clemson) and Erich Schienke (Pennsylvania State) offered more optimistic visions of the relationship between the environment and new media. Wolfe discussed ways environmental activists use new media to defend the natural world, while Schienke described his work on information systems as tools of ecological governance in the People’s Republic of China. [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/william-j-turkel/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:04:26 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=42#comment-29 [...] other scholars designed to make academic work more collaborative, relevant, and accessible to all. William Turkel (University of Western Ontario), already at the forefront of digital methods in history, discussed [...] ]]> https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/past-symposiums/2009-symposium/scholars/jennifer-s-light/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:04:11 +0000 https://frontiersofnewmedia.org/?page_id=50#comment-28 [...] geography, and communications scholarship, organized around relationships between media and place. Jennifer Light (Northwestern) discussed the history of cartography—making maps—as an imperfect aid to [...] ]]>