About the Speaker:
          Dr John Armitage teaches in the Division of Media & Communication, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Northumbria University, United Kingdom (UK).  Dr Armitage’s main research and teaching interests are in the areas of critical and cultural theories of new media and information communications technologies, cultural studies, modernism, and postmodernism. He is the founder and co-editor, with Dr Ryan Bishop (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Douglas Kellner (UCLA) of the International Journal Cultural Politics.  Dr Armitage is also an Associate Editor of Theory, Culture & Society and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Visual Culture, Critical Discourse Studies, Culture & Organisation, Critical Perspectives on International Business, and the Asian Journal of Information Management.  He is also the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2000), Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (Sage, 2001), and the co-editor, with Dr Joanne Roberts, of Living with Cyberspace: Technology & Society in the 21st Century (Continuum, 202). 
Dr Armitage is the editor of various journal issues and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on cultural theory, technology, and politics. His writings have appeared in journals such as New Left Review, Body & Society, Radical Philosophy, Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Organizational Change Management, International Studies Review, Left Curve, Cultural Politics, CTHEORY, Parallax, Critical Perspectives on International Business,  Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, The Review of Pedagogy, Education, & Cultural Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, Theory, Culture & Society and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and have been translated into Dutch, Spanish, Korean, German, and Chinese.