Letters to the principal. Statement on academic amnesty.
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Really cool sound recording project
Aleks Kolkowski has been recording all manner of contemporary artists with a 1909 Edison wax cylinder phonograph. The results are pretty incredible. I am especially fond of the electronic music section for its historical juxtapositions. (laptop + circuit bent keyboards + who knows?) + cylinder = Meat Sweats Cylinder by phonographies Theremin + cylinder = …
Also just out, yet another essay entitled “player hater”
in which I consider the web’s audiovisuality. At FlowTV.
Hot off the IJoC Press: The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
International Journal of Communication (IJoC) Publishes Special Section on Academic Labor International Journal of Communication (IJoC) has published a new special section on “The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies.” Edited by Jonathan Sterne, this special section features 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in our field. We may have learned …
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Update from the road : Art + MUNACA
I’ve been enjoying my travel immensely, and walking around Berlin today I thought perhaps I should blog more about my trips various places, since that’s probably more interesting than some of the stuff I do write about. For instance, today I wandered off the street and into a gallery only to discover that they were …
Announcing a new book series on Duke University Press! Now, please help us name it.
Lisa Gitelman and I will be editing a new book series on Duke University Press. As Lisa put it, we “share a taste in books” and we thought it would be a good place to support empirically rich, theoretically engaged work on media, technologies and culture. And yes, of course it will also be a …
Thurs 20 Oct: MUNACA day of support
Thursday is MUNACA family day and a number of profs got together to talk about other stuff we should be doing (full disclosure–I wan’t at the meeting but support the decision). I would definitely join in and cancel class Thursday, if I hadn’t already cancelled class on my syllabus for a preplanned trip (I’ll be …