Fernando Elichirigoity

228 Gregory Hall
(217) 244-1414
elichi@illinois.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (History of Science)
M.S.L.I.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research

Affiliations

Research Associate Professor of Communications
Associate Professor of Media Studies

Course Specialties

History of Communication
Mobile Technologies and Society
Globalization and Information
Financial Assemblages

Background

Elichirigoity is the author of Planet Management: Limits to Growth, Computer Simulation and the Emergence of Global Spaces (Northwestern University, 1999) and several articles on Financial Technologies of the Self, Classification of Business Information, and Neuroeconomics. He was an Ahmanson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and has been repeatedly included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent at Illinois.

Research/Creative Endeavor

Elichirigoity’s current research interests include global production and consumption of financial news, cultural economy, history of new media, technologies of persuasion, the attention economy, and sociotechnical construction of global spaces.