http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 06:11:12 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 06:11:12 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=747177 © Nina Power and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Power was interviewed by Andrew Iliadis on December 30th, 2012 Dr. Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the co-editor of Alain Badiou’s On Beckett (Clinamen), and the author of several articles on European Philosophy, atomism, pedagogy, art and politics. Her book One-Dimensional Woman was published by Zero Books. Dr. Power also writes for several magazines, including New Statesman, The Guardian, New Humanist, Cabinet, Radical Philosophy and The Philosophers’ Magazine. She is reviews editor for The Philosophers’ Magazine and also runs a film club (Kino Fist) in her spare time. She is based in London. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=747830 © Peter Adamson and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Adamson was interviewed by Andrew Iliadis on November 5th, 2012Professor Adamson holds a joint appointment with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During 2012-13, he will be at King’s College London in the Spring term for a research seminar on Late Ancient Philosophy. He has published on a wide range of figures in Greek and Arabic philosophy, including Aristotle, Plotinus, al-Farabi and other members of the Baghdad School, Avicenna and Averroes. However, he has concentrated especially on the output of the translation circle of al-Kindi, who is usually credited with being the first philosopher in the Islamic tradition. This research includes The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the “Theology of Aristotle and Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi. Professor Adamson is also a co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, co-edited with Richard Taylor, and Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries. He has edited three books for the Warburg Institute, the most recent of which, In the Age of Averroes, will appear soon. Professor Adamson hosts the excellent podcast History of Philosophy…Without Any Gaps. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738153 © Rick Williams and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Williams was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on March 4th, 2013 http://www.figureground.ca/rick-williams/Dean Rick Williams is an international, award winning arts and visual communications scholar and documentary photographer and is the Dean of the Division of the Arts at Lane Community College. His research includes theoretical and practical explorations in the use of arts and visual communication as pedagogical tools that help students integrate rational and intuitive intelligences to enhance creativity, intelligence, problem solving, decision making and performance across academic and professional disciplines and life practices. He has published numerous articles and chapters for major journals and books in communications and his own books include an ethnographic/photographic study, Working Hands and Visual Communication: Integrating Media, Art and Science with co-author Dr. Julianne Newton. Dean Williams founded and directs ArtsWork in Education, a non-profit educational organization that works with schools and academic teachers to integrate arts learning processes into core academic subject curricula to facilitate the highest levels of creativity, problem solving and decision making and enhance academic, professional and life performance and achievement. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738155 © Robert McChesney and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. McChesney was interviewed by Justin Dowdall on February 25th, 2013http://www.figureground.ca/robert-mcchesney/Robert McChesney is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on the topic of mass media in the United States and the former host of the weekly NPR radio program “Media Matters” (WILL-AM, Urbana-Champaign). Dr. McChesney cofounded the media reform network Free Press with Washington correspondent John Nichols (The Nation). Free Press is a catalyst for discussion of important issues related to mass media, advocating for the defense of Internet neutrality and criticizing the consolidation of large media conglomerates. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738198 © Gary Genosko and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Genosko was interviewed by Andrew Iliadis on November 25th, 2012Dr. Genosko received his BA in Philosophy at University of Toronto and his MA in Philosophy at University of Alberta. He received his MES at York University and completed his PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University. He held a Canada Research Chair from 2002 to 2012 in Technoculture Studies, and has received SSHRC funding for a number of projects since 2001, as well as participating in a McConnell Foundation grant for community service learning. His most recent book is Remodelling Communication (UTP 2012), and he recently edited a special issue of the journalDeleuze Studies on ‘Felix Guattari in the Age of Semiocapitalism’ (2012). Recent articles by Dr. Genosko have appeared in Cultural studies, Parallax,Cultural Politics, Ctheory; and chapters in The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze, Valences of Interdisciplinarity, The Guattari Effect, and Transforming McLuhan. His previous books include Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction, and Felix Guattari: A Critical Introduction. His forthcoming book When Technocultures Collide is in press with WLUP, and he has contributed many entries to the forthcoming Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary (Continuum). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738215 © Alexandra Juhasz and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Juhasz was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 11th, 2013 http://figureground.ca/alexandra-juhasz/Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, where she teaches media production, history and theory. She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU and has taught courses at NYU, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, Claremont Graduate University, and Pitzer College, on YouTube, media archives, activist media, documentary, and feminist film. Dr. Juhasz has written multiple articles on feminist, fake, and AIDS documentary. Her current work is on and about YouTube, and other more radical uses of digital media. Her first book, AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1996) is about the contributions of low-end video production to political organizing and individual and community growth. Her second book is comprised of transcribed interviews from her documentary about feminist film history, Women of Vision, with accompanying introductions (Minnesota University Press). Her third book, F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, edited with Jesse Lerner, is recently out from University of MN Press. Dr. Juhasz’s innovative “video-book,” Learning from YouTube (2011), is recently published by the MIT Press. Her earlier digital effort is Media Praxis: A Radical Web-Site Integrating Theory, Practice and Politics. She blogs on this and other projects at www.aljean.wordpress.com. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738211 © Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Figure/Ground Communication.Dr. Fitzpatrick was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 4th, 2013 http://figureground.ca/kathleen-fitzpatrick/Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association, and is on leave from a position as Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California. She is the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which was published by NYU Press in November 2011; Planned Obsolescence was released in draft form for open peer review in fall 2009. She is also the author ofThe Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press (and of course available in print), and she is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons. She has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA,Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=724635 © Howard Saul Becker and Figure/Ground Communication.Dr. Becker was interviewed by Gonzalo Ralón and Laureano Ralónon January 12th, 2013 as part of the Figure/Ground scholarly interview series:URL: http://figureground.ca/howard-s-becker/Howard S. Becker is an American sociologist who has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies. In addition, Becker’s book Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance provided the foundations for labeling theory. Becker is often called a symbolic interactionist or social constructionist; however, he does not align himself with either field. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Becker is considered part of the second Chicago School of Sociology which also includes Erving Goffman and Anselm Strauss. Much of Becker’s early work was guided in the Chicago School tradition, in particular by Everett C. Hughes who served as Becker’s mentor and advisor. Other books include Art Worlds (1982), Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It (1998), Telling About Society (2007), Writing for Social Scientists (Second edition, 2007), and Do You Know . . . ? The Jazz Repertoire in Action, with Robert R. Faulkner (2009). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=723795 © John Durham Peters and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Peters was interviewed by Andrew Iliadis on November 26th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground scholarly interview series:http://figureground.ca/john-durham-peters/John Durham Peters is A. Craig Baird professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He received a Ph.D. in Communication Theory and Research from Stanford University in 1986 and is the author of the magisterial Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication and, more recently, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. He has written numerous articles on the history and philosophy of communication. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=722718 © Nicole Starosielski and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Starosielski was interviewed by Justin Dowdall on January 7th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series:http://figureground.ca/nicole-starosielski/Nicole Starosielski is a faculty member at New York University. Her research focuses on the global distribution of digital media, and the relationship between technology, society, and the aquatic environment. She is under contract with Duke University Press for a book that will examine the cultural and environmental dimensions of transoceanic cable systems, beginning with the telegraph cables that formed the first global communications network and extending to the fiber-optic infrastructure that carries almost international Internet traffic. Starosielski has recently published essays on how Fiji’s video stores serve as a nexus of digital media access (Media Fields Journal), on Guam’s critical role in transpacific digital exchange (Amerasia), on the cultural imbrications of cable systems in Hawaii and California (Journal ofVisual Culture), and a photo essay on undersea cables (Octopus). She recently taught at Miami University (Ohio). She received her Ph.D. from UC-Santa Barbara.