Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
Art History and Communication Studies
Associate Professor
Montreal, Quebec
jonathan@sterneworks.org
Office:
(514) 398-6541
Expert In
American culture
Cultural implications of technology
Digital technology
Disability and technology
History and philosophy of technology
History of media
Impact of new media and technology on crime
Media technologies as cultural artefacts
Popular culture
Popular music
Sound technologies role in Western culture
Bio/Research
Jonathan Sterne studies media technologies as cultural artefacts - as bearers of meaning, value, and power. His current projects bring these questions to bear on contemporary phenomena while maintaining an historical perspective. Recent projects pay special attention to the role of sound and soun...
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Bio/Research
Jonathan Sterne studies media technologies as cultural artefacts - as bearers of meaning, value, and power. His current projects bring these questions to bear on contemporary phenomena while maintaining an historical perspective. Recent projects pay special attention to the role of sound and sound technologies in Western culture. He is also increasingly interested in the relationships between disability and technology. Jonathan Sterne is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Professor Sterne earned a B.A. summa cum laude in Humanities (1993) from the University of Minnesota, an A.M. in Speech Communication (1995) and a PhD in Communications (1999) from the University of Illinois. In 2010-11 he was the Anneberg Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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