Department of Media and Communications public lecture
Date: Tuesday 11 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Marc Raboy
Respondent: Professor Paddy Scannell
Chair: Professor Robin Mansell
A century before the Internet, the world went wireless when the Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi discovered how to use radio waves for communication. Marconi, arguably the most important precursor to today’s world of mobile, wireless communication, was also an entrepreneur, diplomat and global media celebrity. His life and times are the subject of a new biography by Marc Raboy.
Professor Raboy has blogged about the subject at The first company that wanted to ‘connect the world’ wasn’t Google or Facebook.
Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University and author of Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World.
Paddy Scannell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan.
Robin Mansell () is Professor New Media and the Internet at LSE.
The Department of Media and Communications () undertakes outstanding and innovative research and provides excellent research-based graduate programmes for the study of media and communications. The Department was established in 2003 and in 2014 our research was ranked number 1 in the most recent UK research evaluation, with 91% of research outputs ranked world-leading or internationally excellent.
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