Participants

Gary Gumpert

Gary Gumpert (Ph.D., Wayne State University) is Professor Emeritus of Communication Arts and Sciences at Queens College, City University of New York. He is also a partner in the consulting firm of Communication Landscapers.

His work over the past thirty years has addressed the many nuances in our growing dependency upon mediated communication. Formerly a radio and television producer/director, he is widely published in a variety of journals and books which examine the intricate interconnection of social interaction, urbanization and media technology. He is the author of Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age (Oxford University Press, translation in Japanese, Japan UNI Agency Inc.). He is the co-editor (with Robert Cathcart) of three editions of Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media World. Most recently he has co-edited Voices in the Street: Gender, Media and Public Space and The Huddled Masses: Communication and Immigration and Real Law @ Virtual Space (Hampton Press).

He is the co-founder of Communication Landscapers, a consulting firm which analyzes the nexus of regulation, communication, and media development. His current research focuses on the relationship of new communication technologies and the use of public spaces. He is the sec'y and Vice President of the U.S. chapter of the International Institute of Communication.