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 critiques discourses about 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." Watch for my first scholarly book, Looking Through You: Digital Holograms and the New Technical Image.
I am posted currently at The University of Tulsa. My professional experience includes two decades in journalism, chiefly as a music critic (last at the Chicago Sun-Times). Learn more in my bio, resumé & CV.
I am posted currently at The University of Tulsa. My professional experience includes two decades in journalism, chiefly as a music critic (last at the Chicago Sun-Times). Learn more in my bio, resumé & CV.
THE LATEST
» » » Publication 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.
» » » Publication alert: Watch for my upcoming article about a hologram exhibit at a museum related to the Tulsa Race Massacre, "Greenwood Rising: Immersion and Interpellation," coming in the spring edition of Oklahoma Humanities.
» » » Looking forward to being back on duty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa this spring! In addition to my Media & Pop Culture course and Music as Social Action seminar, I'll be teaching two new courses I designed this fall while serving as affiliate faculty — Making the News, Making Media — both created to enhance our student-journalist skill sets and contextual history.
» » » Publication 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.
» » » Publication alert: Watch for my upcoming article about a hologram exhibit at a museum related to the Tulsa Race Massacre, "Greenwood Rising: Immersion and Interpellation," coming in the spring edition of Oklahoma Humanities.
» » » Looking forward to being back on duty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa this spring! In addition to my Media & Pop Culture course and Music as Social Action seminar, I'll be teaching two new courses I designed this fall while serving as affiliate faculty — Making the News, Making Media — both created to enhance our student-journalist skill sets and contextual history.
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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 prepping to become a digital hologram, 2015