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<div align="center"><font size=5><b><u>STS Colloquium<br>
</u></font><font size=4>Monday, September 26, 2005<br>
</font>4:00 p.m., E51-095<br><br>
<font size=5 color="#0000FF">Constructing "Computer Compatible"
Stenographers:<br>
The Transition to Realtime Transcription in Courtroom Reporting<br><br>
</font><font size=5>Greg Downey, University of
Wisconsin-Madison<br><br>
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Greg Downey is a US-based historian and geographer of technology,
employed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2001 in two
departments at once: <br>
Journalism & Mass Communication and Library & Information
Studies. After achieving Master's degrees in computer science and liberal
studies at the University <br>
of Illinois and Northwestern University, respectively, he earned a dual
Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in the subfields of history of
technology and human geography. His area of research and teaching
is the history and geography of information & communication
technology, especially the often hidden labor behind <br>
such technology. <br><br>
The topic of his talk is drawn from an article which is forthcoming in
the January 2006 issue of Technology and Culture, entitled
"Constructing 'computer compatible' stenographers: The transition to
realtime transcription in courtroom reporting". This article
represents one of the threads from his current book project, <i>From
court reporters to closed-captioners: The hidden technology and labor of
subtitling and stenography in the information age</i>, to be published by
The Johns Hopkins University Press in late 2006.<br><br>
Please join us for Professor Downey's colloquium Monday afternoon at 4:00
p.m. in E51-095.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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