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Recent News Regarding Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marconi is now available in both hardcover and paperback print editions, as an ebook on various platforms, and as an audiobook. Check your favourite website for wherever books are sold, or ask for it at a library near you. Since the last time I updated this blog, a number of new articles and reviews about …
Networking Global Communication in and Beyond the Age of Social Media
I retired from active teaching on December 31, 2017. Since that time, I have been kept busy with ongoing writing activities. I continue to intervene on issues that have concerned me during my academic career, and continue to be active in the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). In October 2018, a group …
Marc Raboy to speak to the Dante Alighieri Society, Ottawa
Marc Raboy will speak about Marconi at Carleton University in Ottawa for the Dante Alighieri Society on May 25th at 6:30 pm. The lecture is in room 252 in the MacOdrum Library. More information is available here.
Marc Raboy’s recent appearances
Presentation at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), Princeton University, “Marconi and the 20th century triumph of radio,” April 7, 2017 Participation as “celebrity author” at BiblioBash, Toronto Public Library, April 27, 2017 Panelist, “Does a biography have the last word?” (with Rosemary Sullivan and Laurent Seksik), Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, April 29, …
CBC Ideas re-broadcasts Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
CBC Ideas with Paul Kennedy is re-broadcasting the episode Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. Listen here.
Marconi now available as audiobook
Marconi is now available as an audiobook at Audible. Narrated by Allan Robertson.
Marconi covered in The Irish Catholic, BBC Mundo, and Il Venerdi
The Irish Catholic (March 30, 2017) BBC Mundo (April 2, 2017) Il Venerdi (weekly supplement of La Repubblica, Rome, April 7, 2017)
Marc Raboy to speak at Ryerson and McMaster
Marc Raboy will speak at Ryerson University on Thursday March 23rd, at 7 pm. The event, organized by Prof. Jeremy Shtern, is sponsored by The Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD), the Ryerson School of Creative Industries and The Global Communication Governance Lab. Venue: Rogers Communications Centre, room 204 …
Latest Marconi reviews, articles and broadcasts
Reviews Journalism History, 42, 3, Fall 2016, 178-179 (Noah Arceneaux) Canadian Journal of Communication, 42, 1, 2017 (Rowland Lorimer) National Post (Zane Schwartz, March 4, 2017) Articles Montreal Review of Books (Sara Spike, February 24, 2017) Huffington Post (Marc Raboy, February 27, 2017) Globe and Mail (Mark Medley, February 28, 2017) CBC Books (March 2, …