Saved from Oblivion

The Author: Andreas Kitzmann is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Letters at the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University, Toronto. Prior to his appointment at York University, he was Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Karlstad, Sweden. He received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from McGill University, and has written widely on the impact of communications technology on the construction of identity, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions.

«‘Saved from Oblivion’ is an intellectually ambitious and theoretically sophisticated contribution to a growing field of interest in media and its relation to place… Its theoretical sophistication and intriguing project of linking a certain media practice across concepts of material place in differing media will make it a significant contribution to media studies and theory.» (Jeffrey Sconce, Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University)