Stanford University Department of Communication
fturner@stanford.edu
“…the material, technical and organizational elements of prototypes are always also potentially symbolic. Advocates within an engineering firm or a political campaign can turn them into stories. Outsiders such as journalists can also take them up and turn them into the elements of national or even global memes. In each case, particular sociotechnical configurations become […]
I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. I’m able to share the first chapter here with the Culture Digitally community, and am very much hoping to hear your thoughts. Chapter 1: Introduction Today we find ourselves surrounded by […]
Hi All — here’s a link to my article on the Family of Man for Public Culture: http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/24/1_66/55.abstract