Caitlin Fisher
Caitlin Fisher is a theorist, creative writer, and web artist with broad
interdisciplinary interests. Her research and teaching focus on the social
and cultural aspects of communication technologies, hypermedia, feminist
theory, and digital multimedia work. Her most recent publication is These
Waves of Girls, a hypermedia novella that won the Electronic Literature
Organization’s 2001 Award for Fiction. She currently teaches Fine
Arts Cultural Studies at York University.
Ningwakwe - Priscilla George
Priscilla George is Anishnawbe from the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation
in Southern Ontario. She firmly believes in the holistic approach to literacy
and to life: balancing the Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body. An educator
for over thirty-five years, George developed the literacy program at the
Native Women’s Resource Centre in Toronto in 1987. She has also
authored books on Native Literacy for national projects with Parkland
Regional College and with the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition.
Robert K. Logan
Robert Logan is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of
Toronto and cross-appointed to OISE’s Curriculum Department. His
research interests include the origin of speech, the evolution of language,
the use of computers in education and work, and the history of information
processing and education. He was a collaborator with Marshall McLuhan
on many projects and has been a member of the board of directors of the
McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto. Prof. Logan was also a Senior
Fellow in the Department of Environmental Studies at York University.
He is the author of The Sixth Language (winner of the Suzanne K. Langer
Prize of the Media Ecology Association in 2000) and The Alphabet Effect
(first published in 1986 and to appear in a second edition by Hampton
Press in 2003).
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