Women's Center , the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities , Hereford College and the Media Studies Program . Johanna Drucker, the Robertson Professor in Media Studies, moderated the talk, which was held at Hereford. Kay Neeley, associate professor of technology, culture and communication in the Engineering School, called for reframing the question at hand. Neeley also acknowledged technology's tendency to drift away from and sometimes frustrate expectations. The media has used technology to create a world where nearly every area of life is considered public domain, the panelists said.
Advertisements seep into every empty space.
The imagination will never be a complete prisoner to what a person sees or hears. However, men may begin entering the field in increasing numbers, she observed, as libraries move from simply storing information to determining how it will be recorded and used. Pointing out that everyone looks at a film differently, she expressed confidence that the imagination will never be a complete prisoner to what one sees or hears. Neeley observed that the successes of the feminist movement came in spite of what studies show to have been negative media coverage. Unsworth, who is also an associate professor of English, mentioned a recent book by Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, which predicts an age of computerized personalities where human melds with machine.