Hi all:<div><br></div><div>Trebor asked me to introduce myself to the list. I'm a PhD student in Communications at Columbia University and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the Yale Information Society Project, the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, the Columbia Center on Organizational Innovation and the Center for Media and Communications Studies at Central European University.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I my work I try connect communications theory with visual sociology, art history and legal theory. My research areas include the role of icons for contemporary societies, the interrelations between visual culture theories and globalization theories, cultural trauma, the history of photography with a special focus on digital photography, visual representations of justice, critical communications studies, digital education and access to knowledge. Website: <a href="http://julia-sonnevend.com/">http://julia-sonnevend.com/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm going to moderate the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; ">ATTENTION, VOLUNTEERISM, AND "PLAYBOR" panel and I am so very much looking forward to it. </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">See you all soon, Julia</span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div>-- <br>Julia Sonnevend<br>PhD Student, Communications<br>Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br><a href="mailto:js3491@columbia.edu">js3491@columbia.edu</a><br><a href="http://julia-sonnevend.com">http://julia-sonnevend.com</a><br>
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