Craig Robertson Associate Professor of Media and Screen Studies cr.robertson@neu.edu 617.373.7726 Expertise history of information technologies, print culture, the emergence of communications technologies, the intersection of media/identification technologies/surveillance Craig Robertson in the Press Deseret News Passports in a pandemic Americans were not happy. The new passports were seen as a “symbol of eroding trust between citizens and their government,” writes Craig Robertson, an associate professor of media and communication studies at Northeastern University, in the Smithsonian Magazine. The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere Google figures only briefly in the The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, a new book by Craig Robertson, an associate media-studies professor at Northeastern University, but it’s impossible not to think about the little search bars we live with every day while reading it. Craig Robertson for Northeastern Global News Faculty Reads, Volume Four Faculty Reads, Volume Four Northeastern faculty members have written at length on a wide range of topics. Here, we highlight the fourth batch of published works in a feature on recent faculty books. Tracing the passport’s changing role in America Tracing the passport’s changing role in America Nowadays, carrying a passport goes hand-in-hand with traveling abroad. But it wasn’t always that way. Craig Robertson, an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, explores how the modern passport came to be in his new book, The Passport in America: The History of a Document. Robertson highlights the passport’s emergence as an identification […]
Deseret News Passports in a pandemic Americans were not happy. The new passports were seen as a “symbol of eroding trust between citizens and their government,” writes Craig Robertson, an associate professor of media and communication studies at Northeastern University, in the Smithsonian Magazine.
The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere Google figures only briefly in the The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, a new book by Craig Robertson, an associate media-studies professor at Northeastern University, but it’s impossible not to think about the little search bars we live with every day while reading it.