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(Originally aired: 01-05-98)
PAUL LEVINSON PhD
Scholar /
Intellectual
University Professor of
Media Studies
Author: "The Soft Edge - A
Natural History of the
Information Revolution"
www.paullevinson.info
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Paul
Levinson writes science fiction, sf/mystery and popular and scholarly
non-fiction. The Silk Code won the Locus award for Best First Novel of
1999. His novel The Consciousness Plague won the 2003 Mary Shelley Award
for outstanding Fictional Work. He has published 29 science fiction
stories, some of which are now available on fictionwise.com. His novella
"Loose Ends" was a 1998 Hugo Award finalist, a finalist for the 1998
Sturgeon Award, and a finalist for the 1997 Nebula Award. The radioplay
of his novelette "The Chronology Protection Case" was nominated for an
Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play of 2002. Digital McLuhan won the 2000
Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship. His work has been
translated into twelve languages.
Paul Levinson has published seven non-fiction books.
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium, was published
worldwide in hardcover by Routledge in 1999; trade paperback edition
2001. Digital McLuhan won the 2000 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding
Scholarship. WIRED's Kevin Kelly said about Digital McLuhan, "Paul
Levinson completes McLuhan's pioneering work. Read this book if you want
to decipher life on the screen." The New York Times said "Levinson
performs a useful service ... [he] applies McLuhan's work to almost
every facet of modern communications" and in another article "Digital
McLuhan presents McLuhan in a new light, [for] a generation grappling
with the transforming effects of cyberspace, cell phones and virtual
reality." Digital McLuhan is included on Robert Anton Wilson's "
Recommended Reading List," of "the bare minimum of what everybody really
needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about
the 21st Century." Professors in graduate and undergraduate classes
around the world use this book to help their students put the Internet
into perspective. The book has been published in Japanese and Chinese
and translations are underway in Croatian, Romanian, and Korean.
The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information
Revolution (Routledge hardcover 1997, trade paperback 1998) received
major critical acclaim -- ranging from WIRED ("Remarkable in both
scholarly sweep and rhetorical lyricism...") and The Financial Times of
London ("a book that is both full of insights and provocative") to
Amazon.com's Cyberculture editor ("Levinson has a knack for making his
reader feel intelligent and respected") and Analog ("...defies the
critics of technology") -- and the book was the subject of a 90-minute
talk he gave at Borders at New York City's World Trade Center, which
aired on C-SPAN's "About Books" on February 28, 1998. It is used in
university classes around the world with its comprehensive view of where
our communications technologies have been and where they are going.
Translations of The Soft Edge are available in Portuguese, Polish,
Turkish, and Chinese.
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Paul Levinson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Levinson BA, MA, PhD (born 1947) is an
American
author
and
professor of
communications and
media studies at
Fordham University in
New York City. Levinson's
novels,
short
fiction, and
non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages.
As a commentator on
media,
popular culture, and
science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many
local, national and international television and radio shows. He is
frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world and
his
op-eds have appeared in such major papers as the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York's
Newsday, and the
New York Sun. He is interviewed in a short weekly spot early
Sunday mornings on
KNX-AM Radio in Los Angeles, on media-related news events and
popular culture. He hosts four podcasts and maintains several blogs.
In 1985 he co-founded
Connected Education, offering
online courses for
Masters credit. He served as President of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1998 to
2001.
He is presently Chair of the Department of Communication and
Media Studies at
Fordham University. He previously taught at the
New School for Social Research,
Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Hofstra University,
St. John's University,
Polytechnic University of New York,
Audrey Cohen College and the
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI). He has given
lectures in classes and conferences at many universities including
the
London School of Economics,
Harvard University,
New York University, and the
University of Toronto and authored over 100 scholarly articles.
Prior to his academic career, Levinson was a
songwriter,
singer
and
record producer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with
recordings by
the Vogues, Donna Marie of
the Archies and
Ellie Greenwich. As a
radio producer he worked with
Murray the K and
Wolfman Jack.
Levinson's work is influenced by
Isaac Asimov,
Thomas Jefferson,
John Stuart Mill,
Marshall McLuhan,
Karl Popper,
Carl Sagan, and
Donald T. Campbell.
Education
Paul Levinson graduated from
Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx, attended the
City College of New York (CCNY)
in the 1960s, and received a BA in journalism from
New York University in 1975; an MA in
Media Studies from the
New School for Social Research in 1976; and a PhD from
New York University in
media ecology in 1979. His doctoral dissertation, Human
Replay: A Theory of the Evolution of Media (1979), was mentored
by
Neil Postman.
Author
Levinson writes
science fiction,
fantasy, and
sf/mystery
hybrids with
philosophical undertones as well as non-fiction about the
history and future of
communications media, the
First Amendment, the importance of
space exploration, and
popular culture themes. His work has been translated into
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, Portuguese, Czech,
Polish, Romanian, Macedonian, Croatian, and Turkish.
He has received acclaim for his writing, including multiple
nominations for the
Hugo,
Nebula,
Sturgeon,
Prometheus,
Edgar and
Audie Awards. His novel The Silk Code won the
Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1999.
The central character of The Silk Code,
NYPD
forensic detective Dr.
Phil D'Amato, made his first appearance in Levinson's novelette,
"The Chronology Protection Case", (published in
Analog magazine, September 1995). D'Amato returned in "The
Copyright Notice Case" novelette (Analog,
April 1996), "The Mendelian Lamp Case" novelette (Analog,
April 1997), and in subsequent novels The Consciousness Plague
(2002), and The Pixel Eye (2003). An adaptation of Levinson's
"The Chronology Protection Case" (radioplay by Mark Shanahan with
Paul Levinson & Jay Kensinger) was nominated by the
Mystery Writers of America for the
Edgar Award for Best Play of 2002.
Levinson's most recent book is
The Plot To Save Socrates, a time travel novel.
Entertainment Weekly magazine called it "challenging fun"
Novels
Non-fiction books
- In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl
Popper on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (editor and
contributor) with Forewords by
Isaac Asimov and
Helmut Schmidt (1982) Humanities Press
ISBN 0-391-02609-7
- Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age
(1988) JAI Press
ISBN 0-89232-816-9
- Electronic Chronicles: Columns of the Changes in our Time
(1992) Anamnesis Press
ISBN 0-9631203-3-6
- Learning Cyberspace: Essays on the Evolution of Media and
the New Education (1995) Anamnesis Press
ISBN 0-9631203-9-5
- The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the
Information Revolution (1997) Routledge
ISBN 0-415-15785-4
- Bestseller: Wired, Analog, and Digital Writings
(1999) Pulpless
ISBN 1-58445-033-9 [includes fiction and non-fiction]
- Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
(1999) Routledge
ISBN 0-415-19251-X
- Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital
Age, On and Off Planet (2003) Routledge
ISBN 0-415-27743-4
- Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium
and How It Has Transformed Everything! (2004) Palgrave
Macmillan
ISBN 1-4039-6041-0
Media commentator
Paul Levinson is a frequent guest on local, national, and
international cable and network television and public, commercial,
and satellite radio programs.
These have included:
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Fox News: The
O'Reilly Factor,
Your World with Neil Cavuto,
The Big Story with
John Gibson, Fox Magazine; News special, The
New Millennium: Science, Fiction, Fantasy
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PBS:
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- CBS:
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,
The Early Show
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ABC:
Nightline,
World News Now
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MSNBC:
Jesse Ventura's America,
Scarborough Country
- CNN:
American Morning,
Daybreak,
Sunday Live
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CNBC:
Bullseye,
Squawk Box,
On the Money
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The History Channel:
Modern Marvels, "Fantastic Voyage: The Evolution of
Science Fiction"
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Discovery Channel: The Inside Story of..., "The Cell
Phone Revolution"
- BBC:
NewsNight (TV);
Thinking Allowed (radio)
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CBC:
Canada Now (TV);
Newsworld International (TV); Special,
McLuhan: Out of Orbit (TV); Cross-Country Roundup
(radio); CBC This Morning (radio)
-
NPR:
All Things Considered;
Talk of the Nation;
Morning Edition;
The Diane Rehm Show;
On the Media;
The Connection;
On Point;
Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi; Tech Nation with
Moira Gunn;
New York & Company;
Chicago Public Radio's
Sound Opinions and Odyssey;
Wisconsin Public Radio;
Minnesota Public Radio
-
satellite radio:
Sirius
- other radio and TV: Los Angeles CBS radio
KNX-AM; New York CBS radio
WCBS-AM and
WFAN;
Bloomberg radio;
AP radio; Detroit's
WJR-AM
Mitch Albom Show;
CNN radio;
Voice of America (radio & TV);
C-Span;
Reuters TV;
Wall Street Journal Radio;
WABC-TV;
Today in New York,
WNBC-TV;
WCBS-TV;
Good Day New York,
Fox 5;
WB-11;
UPN-9; CUNY-TV;
Inside Edition
Paul Levinson has been quoted thousands of times in newspapers,
magazines, and news services around the world. Some of these are:
USA Today,
The New York Times,
Washington Post,
Christian Science Monitor,
U.S. News and World Report,
Los Angeles Times,
New York Post,
New York Daily News,
Newsday,
Boston Globe,
The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Houston Chronicle,
Hollywood Reporter,
Billboard,
Wired,
Smithsonian Magazine, London
Daily Mail,
the Toronto Globe and Mail, the
Associated Press,
Reuters, and
UPI.
Songwriter, recording artist,
and record producer
- Writer of over 100 songs published in 1960s and 70s by major
music publishers including
Bourne,
Chappell, Belwin Mills/Warner
Brothers,
Bobby Darin's TM Music, and
Sunbury/RCA
- Recordings of his songs were produced by
Ellie Greenwich, Jimmy "the Wiz" Wisner, and Paul Leka for
other artists
- Songs he wrote, performed and/or produced were released on
record labels including
Columbia,
Decca,
Philips,
Atlantic,
Buddah and
London Records
-
Twice Upon a Rhyme, 1972 LP released on
HappySad Records, as principal artist, writer, and producer
- Levinson's song Hung Up On Love (co-writer Mikie
Harris, produced by
Ellie Greenwich and
Mike Rashkow) was recorded by Levinson's trio The Other
Voices and released on
Atlantic Records in
1968;
this recording was included in
Rhino Handmade's 2004 compilation CD
Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults,
compiled by
Andrew Sandoval. Levinson sang falsetto harmony on many of
The Other Voices' recordings.
References
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