Professor Uricchio’s research considers the interplay of media technologies into cultural practices, and their role in (re-)constructing representation, knowledge and publics. His most recent books include Media Cultures (2006 Heidelberg), on responses to media in post 9/11 Germany and the US, and We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identities (2008 Chicago).
This lecture will ask how recent social and technological changes, such as ever-faster network speeds and possibilities of aggregating participation, have helped to recontextualize established media forms, enabled the transformation of hierarchies of power and taste, and challenged existing analytic paradigms. How might the study of media, rooted in humanities, arts and social science traditions, respond to the pace of change in media technology and cultural practices? And in those responses, might we find the seeds of change for the humanities, contributing back to the traditions that gave our study form?
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