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Paul Levinson
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Birthday
- March 25
- Title
- Professor
- Company
- Fordham University
- Bio
- Paul Levinson's The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. He has since published Borrowed Tides (2001),
The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004),
have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. New New Media, exploring how Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and blogging have changed our lives, was published in September 2009. Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC), and
numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog. Paul Levinson is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City
MY RECENT POSTS
- Mad Men 5.11: Prostitution and
Power
May 28, 2012 01:14AM - Mad Men 5.10: "The Negron
Complex"
May 21, 2012 12:18AM - The Beach Boys in White Plains
May 16, 2012 07:15PM - Bones Season 7 Finale:
Suspect Bones
May 15, 2012 12:43AM - Mad Men 5.9: Don's Creativity
May 14, 2012 04:25PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Oops, pardon my
misspelling of your name,
Maurene :)”
May 13, 2012 04:36PM - “Good point, Maureen -
Olivia's memories are
definitely
something to watch
our for…”
May 13, 2012 04:34PM - “Peter, though, didn't
seem in such bad shape, if
something
bad happened to
Olivia…”
April 21, 2012 12:38PM - “What you're talking
about - "you can only have one
timeline
and
history"…”
March 24, 2012 11:24AM - “Hey, thank _you_
zanelle, for being such an
appreciative
reader.”
February 25, 2012 03:08AM
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V Returns to TV
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- 12 Comments
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