Title: Assistant Professor

Education: EdD in Communication, Computing and Technology in Education - Teachers College, Columbia University; MS in Organizational Communication, Learning and Design - Ithaca College; BFA in Film, Photography and Visual Arts - Ithaca College

Area(s) of Specialty: New Media Theory and Application; Media Economics; Philosophy of Technology;Network Theory; Technoculture Studies

Research Interests: My work focuses on the use of the network as a model for organizing social realities through information and communication technologies. I theorize the epistemological exclusivity engendered by networks which results in nodes being capable of recognizing only other nodes.  I argue that the network imposes a nodocentric filter on the social, so that only elements that can be mapped onto the network (the nodes) are rendered as real. This model is then used to institute a paradigm of progress and development in which those elements outside the network can acquire meaning only by becoming part of the network.  In this content, I am interested in exploring how the paranodal-the space between nodes-becomes an important site for disidentification from the network, correcting the odocentric tendencies of the network and providing alternative models of subjectivation.

Recent Publication or Presentation: See http://ulisesmejias.com

E-mail: mejias@oswego.edu

Office: 10 Lanigan Hall

Office Extension: (315) 312-3525