We All Loved Lucy…
In today’s Globe and Mail John Allemang reports on Alan Weisman’s book The World Without Us, where…poof! bam! annihilation! From Allemang: “he describes in loving detail how human stuff will decompose and decay as nature rushes back in…” What’s eternity? “Fragmented radio waves from episodes of I Love Lucy continue their journey into intergalactic space”. I always knew Lucy rocked.
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Associate Professor at Concordia University. BA, Communication/Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. MA, Library & Information Science, UCLA. PhD, Communication, McGill University.
My research and teaching for the last decade or so focuses on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information & communication technologies. Keywords: internet, access, gender, public interest, feminist(isms), policy, media reform, youth, Canadian communication studies, and political economy.
