TALK: Rhetorics of the Technological Sublime - The New, the Shiny and the Symbolic
David Morley (University of London)
Tuesday, February 17 / 12-2 PM / FREE / Refreshments
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

In this talk, David Morley, professor of Media & Communications at Goldsmiths’ College, surveys the history of ‘techno-futurism’ and questions the validity of rhetorical claims concerning what technologies ‘do’ to people. Drawing on anthropological studies of technologies in use, Professor Morley discusses how people in specific contexts live with TV, computers and the cell phone. Professor Morley’s books include Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies (1992) and Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity (2000).

The event is co-sponsored by the IHC and the Center for Film, TV and New Media (UCSB)

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