Professor Vincent Mosco, Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen's University, Alberta, will speak on "Knowledge Workers in the Global Economy: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" April 22 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The talk, at 2 p.m. in room 247 of the University Memorial Center, is the first de Castro Visiting Lecture to be hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Global and International Media program and is free and open to the public. The CU-Boulder sociology department is co-hosting the talk.
Professor Bella Mody, the journalism school's first James E. de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies, said the talk is timely and could be of particular interest to people who work in the media.
"Reuters is moving hundreds of journalism jobs to India," Mody said. "Outsourcing of jobs, particularly the growing practice of sending the jobs of U.S. knowledge and communication sector workers to other countries, has become a significant issue in business and labor circles," she said.
Mosco is the author of five books and editor or co-editor of eight books on the media, telecommunications, computers and information technology. His most recent books include "The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power and Cyberspace" published by MIT Press in 2004 and, with co-editor Dan Schiller, "Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism," published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2001.
"The Digital Sublime" won the 2005 Gary A. Olson Award for outstanding book in the field of rhetoric and cultural studies.
Mosco is a research affiliate with the Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy and has held research positions for the U.S. government with the White House Office of Telecommunication Policy, the National Research Council and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He also has worked for the Canadian government with the Federal Department of Communication.
In addition to government work, he has been a consultant to business, trade unions and civic organizations in the United States, Canada, South Africa and Malaysia.
Mosco graduated from Georgetown University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1970 and received his doctorate in sociology from Harvard University in 1975.
For more information on the talk contact Mody at (303) 492-1912.