Stanley Aronowitz
Abstract:
The Folly of the Technological Fix
Stanley Aronowitz will speak on the folly of the technological fix: open source is a good thing, not a panacea; distance learning loses more than it offers.
Aronowitz will focus, however, on the urgent need for critical theory of the media, treating it as a legitimate field for a wide variety of fields, e.g. humanities such as philosophy and literature, social studies such as sociology, anthropology, psychology and political science. We need more work on the political economy of the media, and dissemination of its results. In addition, media studies should be installed at every level of the curriculum including the Ph.D. programs.
About:
Stanley Aronowitz was born in 1933 and grew up in the Bronx, New York
City. He attended Brooklyn College until he was suspended for
leading a sit-in in the Dean’s office to protest the suppression of the
radical student newspaper. After leaving school he became a steelworker
and then a union organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (now
UNITE) and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers.
Aronowitz received his B.A. from the New School in 1968 and became
associate director of the anti-poverty organization Mobilization for
Youth, where he was also a community organizer. In the early `70s he
founded Park East High School in East Harlem, the first post-war
experimental public high school in New York City, and taught community
studies at the College of Staten Island. He has since taught at the
University of California Irvine, the Center for Worker Education at
City College of the City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate
Center, where he is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology and
Urban Education.
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Ben Chang (Moderator)
About:
Ben Chang is an electronic artist based in Chicago, working with interactive media ranging from virtual reality to collaborative hacking performances. He is an Asssistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses in interactive art.
