THOMAS CONNER
Mediatician
#communication #media studies #journalism #writing #editing
#pop culture #music #history #Woody Guthrie #cultural studies
#HMC #CMC #STS #visual studies #holograms #AR
Mediatician
#communication #media studies #journalism #writing #editing
#pop culture #music #history #Woody Guthrie #cultural studies
#HMC #CMC #STS #visual studies #holograms #AR
Prepping to become a digital hologram, 2015
Media scholarPhD in Communication & STS from UC San Diego. Research critiques discourses about encounters with 3D display tech (holograms & AR) — how they manifest human presence, representation, and embodiment — and visual intersections with AI. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa, teaching media history, theory, inquiry, pop culture, and journalism.
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Culture journalist
20+ years as an award-winning writer, critic, and editor, last seen as the music columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Cultural criticism published in The Washington Post, Down Beat, This Land, The Forward, and more. Currently an occasional contributor to the Tulsa World, plus state and regional magazines and media outlets.
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The latest
» » » The smaller conferences are always so enriching. Thanks so much for the invite to Uncommon Senses V, a superlative gathering of sensory-studies researchers, and for the dynamic Q&A following my presentation with Jason Archer about our ongoing studies of haptic holograms (building on our recent theoretical paper). Great stuff, great people, great poutine!
» » » Thrilled that I have been selected as a Faculty Champion by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a program designed to strengthen connections between campus journalists and their surrounding communities. I look forward to working with the CCN team and the new cohort on behalf of media students!
» » » Publication alert: Excited to announce that a magazine article touching on my new research into spectator interactions with a digital hologram exhibit at Tulsa experience museum Greenwood Rising has published — sort of! Thanks to utterly irresponsible DOGE cuts, Oklahoma Humanities lost its NEH funding, meaning they couldn't go to press with the spring-summer edition of Oklahoma Humanities magazines. However, a lovely PDF of the issue is available here, so please enjoy "Greenwood Rising: Immersion and Interpellation" beginning on p.14.
» » » Publication alert: I was inspired to write this new piece about the latest — and maybe most troubling — relevance of Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee."
» » » Thrilled that I have been selected as a Faculty Champion by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a program designed to strengthen connections between campus journalists and their surrounding communities. I look forward to working with the CCN team and the new cohort on behalf of media students!
» » » Publication alert: Excited to announce that a magazine article touching on my new research into spectator interactions with a digital hologram exhibit at Tulsa experience museum Greenwood Rising has published — sort of! Thanks to utterly irresponsible DOGE cuts, Oklahoma Humanities lost its NEH funding, meaning they couldn't go to press with the spring-summer edition of Oklahoma Humanities magazines. However, a lovely PDF of the issue is available here, so please enjoy "Greenwood Rising: Immersion and Interpellation" beginning on p.14.
» » » Publication alert: I was inspired to write this new piece about the latest — and maybe most troubling — relevance of Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee."