Day: Last four Wednesdays (First class meeting: May 14, 2008)
Time: 4:00-6:20 p.m.
Location: HSSB 1227
Enrollment Code: 58446
Description:
This seminar will explore the social and cultural implications of wireless telephony.
We will consider the emergence of the wireless industry, uses of cell phones in
different parts of the world, new applications of the technology and its convergence
with other media systems. We will also consider mobile technologies such as MP3
players and PDAs.
Professor Lisa Parks, Film & Media Studies, is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and her research focuses on the uses of media technologies in global contexts. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual and is working on a new book called Mixed Signals: Media Technologies and Cultural Geography. She teaches courses such as Global Media, Television History, Satellite Media, Technology Zones, Advanced Film Analysis, Women and Film, War and Media.
Email: parks@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
