Milne, Esther
Esther Milne is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. She is an investigator in the CRC Low Carbon Living project entitled “Media and Communication strategies to achieve carbon reduction through renovation of Australia¹s existing housing”. Esther publishes widely in the area of media history and is the author of Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence (Routledge, 2010). She is currently writing a book for MIT Press called Email and the Everyday.
Contributions
-
Feature'The vital experience of the glad animal sensibilities made doubts impossible on the question of our speed; we heard our speed, we saw it, we felt it as a thrilling; and this speed was not the product of blind insensate agencies, that had no sympathy to give, but was incarnated in the fiery eyeballs of the...Read more
-
FeatureTo the unrefined or under-bred person, the visiting-card is but a trifling and insignificant piece of paper; but to the cultured disciple of social law it conveys a subtle and unmistakable intelligence. Its texture, style of engraving, and even the hour of leaving it, combine to place the stranger whose name it bears in a pleasant or...Read more
-
ArticlesIntroductionWith its capacity for modelling and “what if” logic, the spreadsheet operates as a media of beginnings and possible futures. It has proved indispensable in organisational life and labour, its failures the stuff of enduring legend about...Read more
