Aaron Barlow
| Aaron Barlow | |
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| Born | 19 December 1951 - Durham, NC |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Cultural Studies |
| Notable works | The Rise of the Blogosphere |
| Website | |
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Aaron Barlow (born December 19, 1951) is a Cultural Studies scholar. He is an Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York.
Barlow was born in Durham, NC. He earned his B.A. at Beloit College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at The University of Iowa with a dissertation on Philip K. Dick.
Barlow's specialty is the impact of technology on contemporary American culture. His series of 'blogosphere' books, The Rise of the Blogosphere,Blogging America: The New Public Sphere, and Beyond the Blogosphere: Information and Its Children (with Robert Leston), explores the impact of New Media on American society and culture. He has also written two books related to film and the film industry,The DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, and Technology and Quentin Tarantino: Life at the Extremes.
In 2011, he edited a volume of essays written by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers called One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, Barlow himself having served in Togo (88-90). The book won a silver medal in the Travel Essay category of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards His academic career includes two years as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso as a Fulbright Fellow from 1985 to 1987. Since 2013, he has been Faculty Editor of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and Executive Editor of the Academe blog.
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