Liam Cole Young
Professor Faculty of Public Affairs School of Journalism and Communication Ottawa, Ontario LiamC.Young@Carleton.ca
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Young's research and teaching span four overlapping areas: media theory and cultural techniques, histories of data and information, infrastructure studies, and critical internet studies. He works within what is sometimes called the “civilizational” stream of media theory, typified by Harold Innis...
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Young's research and teaching span four overlapping areas: media theory and cultural techniques, histories of data and information, infrastructure studies, and critical internet studies. He works within what is sometimes called the “civilizational” stream of media theory, typified by Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and Walter Benjamin. This stream understands media as crucial sites of power and struggle, expands the historical scope and corpus with which we consider them, emphasizes questions of materiality, and overlaps significantly with literary studies.
Young is interested how human societies hold together across time and space, so he researches and teaches across a range of topics and periods—from early modern double-entry bookkeeping and state bureaucracies to 20th century pop music and box office charts; from logistical media of ports, shipping containers, and barcodes to the history and rise of sports gambling; from Y2K and the first dotcom crash to the cod fisheries and fur trade of the 17th and 18th centuries; from financialization and blockchain bro culture to common salt and human hands as media of culture. In each case, he is interested primarily in questions of epistemology (how we know about these things) and infrastructure (how they are built into and operate in the world).
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Young is interested how human societies hold together across time and space, so he researches and teaches across a range of topics and periods—from early modern double-entry bookkeeping and state bureaucracies to 20th century pop music and box office charts; from logistical media of ports, shipping containers, and barcodes to the history and rise of sports gambling; from Y2K and the first dotcom crash to the cod fisheries and fur trade of the 17th and 18th centuries; from financialization and blockchain bro culture to common salt and human hands as media of culture. In each case, he is interested primarily in questions of epistemology (how we know about these things) and infrastructure (how they are built into and operate in the world).
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