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Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s remembers Professor Emeritus Vincent Mosco
February 16, 2024
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Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s is remembering Professor Emeritus Vincent Mosco, who died suddenly on Feb. 9 in Orlando, FL. He was 75.
Dr. Mosco first arrived at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 1984, joining the Department of Sociology, before moving to the School of Journalism at Carleton 카지노게임사이트. He returned to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s as Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society in 2003, a position he held until 2011 when he retired.
Dr. Mosco grew up in Manhattan카지노 게임 컬렉션s Little Italy and won entry to Regis High School, one of New York카지노 게임 컬렉션s most prestigious secondary schools. He then attended Georgetown 카지노게임사이트 in Washington D.C. and went directly into the PhD in Sociology program at Harvard 카지노게임사이트.
Vincent Mosco, a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, also held the position of Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society from 2003 until 2011.
He taught at a number of universities during his career, including 카지노게임사이트 of Massachusetts 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Lowell, Georgetown 카지노게임사이트, Temple 카지노게임사이트, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, and Carleton. In 2016 he was appointed distinguished professor at the New Media Centre, Fudan 카지노게임사이트 School of Journalism and Communication, in Shanghai.
He was the author, co-author or co-editor of 27 books and more than 200 articles and reports, mainly focusing on the political, economic and social impact of new communication technologies. His award winning books include The Digital Sublime (2004), The Political Economy of Communication (2009), and To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (2014).
He is remembered as a generous colleague, serious scholar, and committed mentor to many colleagues and graduate students. He was an integral part of the Communications and Information Technology research stream in the Department at that time, teaching and supervising many students who have gone on to successful scholarly careers.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Vinny was a great mentor to me when I first arrived at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, offering sage research and writing advice and always being available for a lively exchange of ideas. His book The Digital Sublime was published in that year, and was an inspiration in terms of how a political-economic critique could simultaneously be a beautiful piece of writing카지노 게임 컬렉션, says Professor Martin Hand, current head of the Department of Sociology.
A memorial gathering is planned for later this spring.
