Alan Liu presents a wide-ranging exploration of how cultures historically and in the present first "encounter" new media, and tell themselves about such encounter moments. Alan Liu is the author of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (2004) and the weaver of Voice of the Shuttle online destination for links in the humanities and social sciences.
Hosted by: Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts and Sciences, Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Speech Communication, Foreign Language Building, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, and Society, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory