The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?

 

Chicago
21 May 2009

 
 

This preconference will showcase new scholarly work that addresses the intersection of history and new media. Presentations during the preconference will cover a range of topics, including:
   contextualization of historical problems in a new media milieu;
    • ideological implications new media predictions;
    • changing place of ‘the virtual’;
    • digital history;
    • transition from print to new media;
    • changing meaning of the ‘global’ in relation to new media;
    • ubiquity, indexing, correlation and access;
    • new media and transformations in the scholarly enterprise.

During the preconference there will be a demonstration of new technologies for collaboration and visualization under development at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago.
 


Sponsors:
University of Illinois at Chicago Department of  Communication

Sage Publications, Ltd.









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