Monthly Archives: September 2009
Whew!
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 ...
FoNM 2009: Region, Place, and Geography
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 ...
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 ...
Looking Back at FoNM 2007: Identities
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 ...
Frontiers of New Media 2007: Space
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 ...
Looking Back at FoNM 2007: Distance
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 ...
Looking Back at FoNM 2007: Henry Jenkins Keynote
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 ...
Toby Miller: TV is Dead! TV is Reborn!
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 ...
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 ...