THOMAS CONNER
Ph.D. in Communication & STS
University professor • Culture journalist • Music critic
Ph.D. in Communication & STS
University professor • Culture journalist • Music critic
My research examines encounters with digital displays — how they manifest presence, representation, and embodiment — within U.S. media and popular culture. I explore the history of holograms and "holograms," and I study how meaning is made within the inherently spectral, uncanny interfaces of "real virtuality." I currently am writing my first scholarly book, Looking Through You: Digital Holograms and the New Technical Image.
I currently am an Affiliate Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa, conducting local research and liaising with student journalists, after serving here as Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies (’23-’24). I'm also teaching writing this year at the Univ. of Central Oklahoma. My professional experience includes two decades in journalism, chiefly as a music critic (most recently at the Chicago Sun-Times). Learn more in my bio, resumé & CV.
I currently am an Affiliate Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa, conducting local research and liaising with student journalists, after serving here as Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies (’23-’24). I'm also teaching writing this year at the Univ. of Central Oklahoma. My professional experience includes two decades in journalism, chiefly as a music critic (most recently at the Chicago Sun-Times). Learn more in my bio, resumé & CV.
THE LATEST
» » » Thank you, students & faculty, for a superlative year of teaching and research as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa. I am thrilled to continue at TU as an Affiliate Professor for ’24-’25, continuing some local research (on the amazing hologram experience at Tulsa's Greenwood Rising museum!) and workshopping media practices with student journalists. Go, Hurricane!
» » » Watch for my next publication, "Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-haptic Apparatuses" (a theoretical survey of digital holograms you can touch!), co-authored with Jason Archer, coming soon in the International Journal of Communication.
» » » Thank you, students & faculty, for a superlative year of teaching and research as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa. I am thrilled to continue at TU as an Affiliate Professor for ’24-’25, continuing some local research (on the amazing hologram experience at Tulsa's Greenwood Rising museum!) and workshopping media practices with student journalists. Go, Hurricane!
» » » Watch for my next publication, "Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-haptic Apparatuses" (a theoretical survey of digital holograms you can touch!), co-authored with Jason Archer, coming soon in the International Journal of Communication.
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Journalism
20 years as a music critic & newspaper editor |
Research
Analyzing cultural histories & media effects of holograms & AR |
Teaching
Two decades teaching comm theory & writing skills |
Cover star (above): Me as a digital hologram, 2015