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
» » » 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 at The University of Tulsa!
» » » Publication and conference alert: "Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-haptic Apparatuses" — our theoretical survey of digital holograms you can touch, co-authored with Jason Archer — is now published in a special section of the International Journal of Communication. We're excited to discuss this and other related projects and theories at the Uncommon Senses V conference, May 7-11 at Concordia Univ. in Montreal!
» » » Publication alert: I was inspired to write this new piece about the latest — and maybe most troubling — relevance of Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee."
» » » Publication and conference alert: "Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-haptic Apparatuses" — our theoretical survey of digital holograms you can touch, co-authored with Jason Archer — is now published in a special section of the International Journal of Communication. We're excited to discuss this and other related projects and theories at the Uncommon Senses V conference, May 7-11 at Concordia Univ. in Montreal!
» » » Publication alert: I was inspired to write this new piece about the latest — and maybe most troubling — relevance of Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee."