Year: 2018

Spotify began November 2018 with an announcement that they reached 87 million subscribers. News outlets from the Wall Street Journal to The Verge, and Variety to The Hollywood Reporter covered this news as a competition with Apple Music, and the overall shifting of the music industry. However, little was said about the real impact on music consumption as social activity or the excess profits this generates for everyone…Continue Reading DR. DAVID ARDITI’S ESSAY ON DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

November 14, 2018 Noon in COBA 239 BIO Dr. Sonja Watson is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her areas of specialty are Afro-Panamanian and Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Culture, Hip Hop, and Critical Race Theory. Dr. Watson…Continue Reading SONJA WATSON – COLLOQUIUM – GLOBALIZATION, TRANSCULTURATION, AND HYBRID IDENTITY IN PANAMANIAN MUSIC: REGGAE EN ESPAÑOL

The Center for Theory’s Director, Dr. David Arditi, recently published an article in Popular Music and Society. (2018). Digital Subscriptions: The Unending Consumption of Music in the Digital Era. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 302-318. Source: Digital Subscriptions: The Unending Consumption of Music in the Digital Era…Continue Reading DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: THE UNENDING CONSUMPTION OF MUSIC IN THE DIGITAL ERA

October 17, 2018 Noon in University Hall 432…Continue Reading MIRIAM ROWNTREE COLLOQUIUM – (DIS)COMPOSED DWELLING: WRITING RUINS OF DISASTER

October 31, 2018 Noon in COBA 239 What is the role of social theory in the information age? What kinds of theories are best suited to analyzing the social uses of digital technologies, and for using digital technologies in new ways to study the social? In this talk I will attempt to contribute to several ongoing conversations…Continue Reading GABE IGNATOW – COLLOQUIUM – SOCIAL THEORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE