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I am a Mellon “Alliance for Networking Visual Culture” Fellow at the University of Southern California’s NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, 18 July-11 August. Before that, I’m mostly on vacation in Los Angeles. I return to Montreal mid-August.

I am a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2010-11 academic year. Having gotten some major writing projects off my desk, I have turned my attention to interviewing people about signal processing, and reading about the same, as well as disability studies, digital… Continue reading Spring 2011

(apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely) International Journal of Communication Feature Special Section on Academic Labor and Administration in Communication Studies Edited by Jonathan Sterne Academic labor today is characterized by a series of disconcerting trends: an increasingly casualized professoriate; universities that increasingly depend on chronically undercompensated part-time and graduate student labor to support their… Continue reading Academic Labor in Communication Studies — Call for Papers, Commentary and Multimedia (Deadline 1 June 2011)

I am a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2010-11 academic year. I am really making a push to get the final edits off my desk for MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, 2012), so pardon my slowness on other… Continue reading Winter 2011

I am a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2010-11 academic year. I am making final edits to the manuscript for MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, 2012) and assembling materials for The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012ish). I am… Continue reading Fall 2010