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about me: I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a home in Communication and interests in new media, mobility, infrastructure, and television. I hold a PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media from North Carolina State University. My dissertation focused on the informationalization of infrastructure with a particular focus on smart and critical infrastructure.
I am excited about the recent publication of my coauthored book, The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital (2023) published by University of Minnesota Press. The book was written collaboratively by six people: Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alex Monea, Kate Maddalena, Joshua Reeves, and myself.
I have been an Adjunct in at Villanova University since 2013 and am currently teaching Theories of Organizational Communication and Graduate New Media (Spring 2025)!
Photo taken outside of 30th Street Station, Philadelphia while attending Mobilities in Motion Conference at Drexel University, March 2011.
I am interested in the way that terms such as "smart" have been used to build a vision of a world made better with information technologies. It's been 15 years and am still waiting for the Smarter Planet to arrive :)
Contact Kathleen Frazer Oswald at kathleen.oswald@villanova.edu
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