Mar. 29 - The Ways We Read and Write Now

Rita Raley, University of California – Santa Barbara, is giving a public lecture titled The Ways We Read and Write Now: Transient Displays and Social Practices.

This talk addresses the diverse forms of textual media environments - beyond the desktop - focusing on mobile media and projected display. What are the different modalities of reader/user engagement, distraction, embodied apprehension, and liveness? How might these environments relate to with social exchange, publics, and being-in-common? This talk will equally reflect on the disciplinary implications of textual environments that are about transient display and process rather than the artifact.

When: Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 5 p.m.
Where: Room H-767, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

Rita Raley is Associate Professor of English at UCSB, with appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies. Her primary research interests are digital media and humanist inquiry, with an emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and language. She is the author of Tactical Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and numerous articles on such diverse topics as interventionist art, hacktivism, machine translation, text-based media arts installations, and locative media.

This event is sponsored by the Mobile Media Lab, the Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies Fund, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, and presented by the Screen Culture Research Group.

For more information, contact Charles Acland at c.acland@concordia.ca

Related links:
•    Mobile Media Lab
•    Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies
•    Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
•    Screen Culture Research Group