THOMAS CONNER
communication researcher . culture journalist
WHAT'S DOING
» » » Honored to be a part of two splendid recent conferences — a panel at AoIR 2020 about human-machine communication ethics and the nifty "zoomposium" about "Performance, Science & Technology" — the virtuality of which did not constrain the interesting and inquisitive conversations.
» » » Would you want a hologram of your deceased relatives at the holiday dinner table? I've published a new essay about holograms and the ways they intersect with grief and death.
» » » My latest journal article, "Pepper's Ghost and the Augmented Reality of Modernity," is now available in the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 3 (1): 57–79.
» » » Honored to be a part of two splendid recent conferences — a panel at AoIR 2020 about human-machine communication ethics and the nifty "zoomposium" about "Performance, Science & Technology" — the virtuality of which did not constrain the interesting and inquisitive conversations.
» » » Would you want a hologram of your deceased relatives at the holiday dinner table? I've published a new essay about holograms and the ways they intersect with grief and death.
» » » My latest journal article, "Pepper's Ghost and the Augmented Reality of Modernity," is now available in the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 3 (1): 57–79.
Journalism
20 years as a music critic & newspaper editor |
Research
Current Ph.D. candidate in Communication & Science Studies |
Teaching
16 years in classrooms from writing skills to social theory |
Cover star (above): Princess Leia dematerializes