“How records are made” — sent to me by a colleague. That’s right: it’s not the concert performance, it’s a “planned illusion!” How did a 1956 corporate documentary get it right when so many scholars have gotten it wrong? (Original source; http://www.archive.org/details/SoundAndTheS)
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
A Glimpse of the Future of English-Language Higher Education
For obvious reasons, I can’t discuss many details of the admissions process to our graduate programs in Communication Studies in this space (so please don’t ask if you applied and are reading this). However, I must note a change this year which I think may foretell of something bigger to come down the road. Every …
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Two Position Papers
Instead of blogging on the road, I did some light editing on my book (oh yeah, that) and wrote two position papers for the upcoming conference at the University of Virginia: “Connections: Media Studies and the New Interdisciplinarity.” They’re both pretty fast and loose, though, so they’re perfect for a blog. As I sometimes say …
Two New Blogs on Books + One on Speech
This is overdue, but I am pleased to announce two new blogs on the future of books by friends who are also publishing books on books this summer, Andrew Piper and Ted Striphas. See: The Book Report and The Late Age of Print and on a not-totally-unrelated topic: Money/Speech — Okay, I’m off to California …
New Configurations of Academic Privilege?
So recently in my travels I encountered a colleague who has ascended to a high level administrative post at his school. We know each other as scholars and are academic friends. He’s the kind of person who I’m happy to see at a conference and with whom I’m happy to share a drink when the …
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Ten Words You Don’t Want to Hear From A Flight Attendant About Her Last Landing At Your Upcoming Destination
“I’d never had a flight where so many people vomited.” I finally got on a plane Friday morning and was talking with the flight attendant, who was on the Montreal-La Guardia flight that actually landed Thursday before the cancelled the rest. The above quote sums up her description of the turbulence. My flight was fine …
Baby’s First Skype Lecture
I am sitting at home writing this when I’m supposed to be in New York City. I had two flights cancelled today and after 5 hours in the airport was sent home, which was too bad since I was scheduled to give a talk at NYU this evening. Instead of giving up, we used Skype, …