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This paper explores the rise of programs in television instruction in the USA during broadcasting’s postwar expansion period. Beginning in professional schools, television training entered the university first through extension school courses, then in full degree programs. This transition to institutions of higher learning entailed key shifts in demographics, pedagogical orientation, and legitimation strategies, while embroiling television in larger struggles over the shifting boundaries of the postwar humanities. Studying the education of early television workers, I argue, raises key questions about processes of worker professionalization vital for developing research on media industries and media labor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper discusses the philosophical significance of 'September 11' by relating it to attempts that have been made throughout the history of philosophy to read particular events as symbols of conceptual change. It draws especially on Susan Neiman's Evil in Modern Thought and Giovanna Borradori's dialogues with Derrida and Habermas, in her Philosophy in a Time of Terror, to relate 'September 11' to Kant's versions of Progress, Providence and Cosmopolitanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarizes examples of late 20th Century regional media arts histories research in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and traces some of their complex connections to major art movements and artists in order to exemplify how the roots of electronic arts histories from diverse regions of the U.S. are interconnected and interrelated in complex and unexpected ways. Learnings from this research are also presented to encourage others to seek out, present, and preserve their regional media arts histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]