Making Media Theory

Marcel O’Gorman is a University Research Chair, Professor of English, and Founding Director of the Critical Media Lab (CML), where he teaches courses in digital design and the philosophy of technology, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. O’Gorman has published widely about the impacts of technology on society, including his most recent book Necromedia (2015) and articles in Slate, The Atlantic, and The Globe and Mail. He is also a digital artist with an international portfolio of exhibitions and performances.

1. Making, Media, and Theory
2. Workshop: Conductive Play Dough
3. In Defence of Uselessness
4. Workshop: Useless Box
5. Writing with a Soldering Iron
6. Workshop: Smartphone Basket
7. Designing Technological Comportment: Wearables, Digital Rituals, and Non-Users
8. Workshop: Resistor Case
Epilogue: Dirty Media
Bibliography
Index