Occupation
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact
3520 Prospect St. NW, Suite 311
Washington
DC
20057
United States
ABOUT
J.R. Osborn is a scholar and experimentalist of communication. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) graduate program at Georgetown University and Co-Director of Georgetown's Technology Design Studio. J.R.'s research explores media history, design, semiotics, communication technologies, and aesthetics with a regional focus of the Middle East and Africa. Dr. Osborn is currently engaged in a number of projects across a variety of media: text, video, interface design, diagrammatics, and digital curation.
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
History Of Religion
History Of Science
Information Technology/Computing
Modernization
Technology
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Visual Culture
Arabic Script And Writing
Graphic Design
Education
PhD
| 2008
| Communication
| University of California, San Diego
MA
| 2003
| Communication
| University of California, San Diego
BA
| 1997
| Religious Studies
| Grinnell College
Abstracts
Digitizing Arabic: A Story of Script Technologies
Printed Letters, Printed Script, Printed Arabic: Methods of Mechanical (and Digital) Reproduction
Unicode and Arabic Script: Historical Legacies and Future Challenges
