“Technological Innovations and Effects Across History”
We are excited to announce a special talk by Dr. Mary J. Eberhardinger on Wednesday, March 26 at 18:00 via Zoom.
This is an online seminar. To request event details please send a message to department.
Title: Technological Innovations and Effects Across History
Dr. Mary J. Eberhardinger
Abstract: This presentation will discuss and question a few chosen technological or media innovations throughout history. Examples will include the alphabet, printing press, personal computer, smart phone, and AI. With each iteration across diachronic time, we feel a series of effects shaping how we orient ourselves and to others in everyday life. Whether for better or for worse remains within the eye of the media user. Please join us for a dynamic online talk by Mary Eberhardinger who will discuss media effects from a rhetoric of technology and McLuhan perspective.
Dr. Eberhardinger is a lecturer and researcher of communication with fifteen years of experience. Her areas of interest are critical intercultural communication, rhetoric of technology, and semiotics. Her work has taken her to Asia and various institutions on the East and West coast of the U.S., including Emerson College, SUNY Buffalo, and Carnegie Mellon University. She is an alumna of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program, having lived in the rural, mountainous part of Hyogo, Japan from 2008-2010. After earning a doctorate in rhetoric from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA in 2020, she authored an award-winning book, A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts in 2021.