Visual & Media Arts Faculty
Eric GordonAssistant Professor (2004) B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of Southern California http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/E/Eric_Gordon Eric Gordon is a scholar of new media, with a special interest in place-based digital communities, social networking, and virtual environments. He has recently published articles in Space and Culture, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Information, Communication and Society. He edited a special issue of Space and Culture on the topic of "The Geography of Virtual Worlds," exploring the ideas of how location matters even in the most virtual of conditions. His book, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities From Kodak to Google is forthcoming from Dartmouth College Press. He is the principal investigator of the The Digital Lyceum (http://digitallyceum.org), an NEH funded project that seeks to build systems and practices around using and preserving digital backchannels for live events. And he received a MacArthur Digital Media and Learning grant for a project called Participatory Chinatown, which investigates the use of 3-D gaming technologies to augment the community planning process. |
