A folklore professor from the University of Wisconsin will take his audience “back to the new normal” in the digital age during an upcoming lecture that is free and open to the public.

Robert Glenn Howard, professor of Communication Arts and director of the folklore program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, will lecture at 4 p.m. May 14 in the Knight Library Browsing Room.

His presentation, "Back to the Newly-Digital Networked Normal," will cover new communication methods and new media in the digital age. The lecture will explore the possibilities and limits of empowerment through everyday expression in network communication technologies by focusing on the intersection of individual agency and participatory performance.

Howard's research combines rhetorical theory, critical cultural theories, as well as theories of performance and performativity with network graphing methods.

- from the UO Libraries