Colloquia: John Atanasoff and the New Civilization
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
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| Location: | 223 Atanasoff Hall |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Laurel Tweed, |
| Phone: | 515-294-6516 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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John Atanasoff, a great American scientist with family origins in Bulgaria, invented the digital computer in 1939, creating the basis for the development of new information technologies. The ABC computer fundamentally changed interpersonal and public communication, as the model of digital mediated communication of societies by Burkart/Hoemberg has shown. One of the unrealized dreams of John Atanasoff was to invent a common alphabet for people all over the world. With the help of the digital computer, we now can communicate online, in a global space, and realize intercultural dialogue through methods previously unknown. Can we say that a new digital civilization was born? Changes are present in three under-systems of culture: technologies, social organization, and ideology.
Professor Zlateva Minka is a the UNESCO Chair in Communications and Public Relations and Professor of Journalism and Public Relations at Sofia University in Bulgaria. She is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, IPRA, and EUPREA and faculty coordinator of the European Union's Program Socrates/Erasmus at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication department at the University of Sofia. Minka teaches courses on Genres in Journalism, Reporting, History of Russian Journalism, Hstory and Theory of Public Relations, Writing for Public Relations, Media and Public Relations, Media Systems and Society, and Media Education. She is the author of Bridging the Space to Consensus: Public Relations, Journalism and Media (2008). Minka has presented lectures and papers on journalism and public relations at more than 70 congresses and conferences across the globe.