Paul Levinson

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Paul Levinson (* 25. March 1947 in New York ) is an American science fiction - writer and professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University in New York. His novels, short stories and non-fiction books have been translated into 16 languages.

biography

Paul Levinson graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx, attended City College of New York in the 1960s, and received a BA in Journalism from New York University in 1975 ; an MA in Media Studies from the New School in 1976; In 1979 he received his PhD in media ecology from New York University. His doctoral thesis Human Replay: A Theory of the Evolution of Media (1979) was supervised by Neil Postman .

Levinson has been interviewed more than 500 times on local, national and international television and radio as a commentator for media, popular culture and science fiction. He is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world, and his contributions are so important newspapers such as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , New York's Newsday and The New York Sun published. He was interviewed in short Sunday mornings on KNX-AM Radio in Los Angeles from 2006 to 2008 on media-related news events and popular culture. He hosts four podcasts and maintains several blogs. In April 2009, The Chronicle of Higher Education named him one of ten "High Fliers" on Twitter .

In 1985 he co-founded Connected Education and offered online courses for MA degrees. From 1998 to 2001 he was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America .

Since 1998 he has been Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York. He has taught at The New School , 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 lectured and held keynote speeches at conferences at many universities, including the London School of Economics , Harvard University , Baylor University , Copenhagen University , New York University , the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania , and the University of Toronto and wrote over 100 scientific articles.

Prior to his academic career, Levinson was a songwriter , singer, and record producer in the late 1960s and early 1970s , with recordings from The Vogues , Donna Marie of the Archies , June Valli , Jimmy Clanton 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 , Harold Innis , Karl Popper , Carl Sagan , and Donald T. Campbell .

author

Levinson writes science fiction, fantasy, and science fiction hybrids with philosophical overtones, as well as nonfiction books on the history and future of the communications media, the first amendment to the United States Constitution, the importance of space exploration, and topics of popular culture. His work has been translated into Chinese , Japanese , Korean , French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Czech , Polish , Romanian , Macedonian , Croatian , Russian , Turkish , Persian and Arabic .

In 2015, Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion , a collection of essays and science fiction stories co- edited with Michael Waltemathe , and an interview with former astronaut and Senator John Glenn , as well an essay by Guy Consolmagno , the Pope's astronomer .

Levinson has been nominated several times for the Hugo Award , the Nebula Award , the Theodore Sturgeon Award , the Prometheus Award , Edgar Award and the Audie Awards . His novella Loose Ends was a 1998 finalist for a Hugo, a Sturgeon and a Nebula. His novel The Silk Code won the Locus Award for best first novel in 1999.

The central character of The Silk Code , forensic detective Dr. Phil D'Amato, made his first appearance in Levinson's novel The Chronology Protection Case , (published in Analog , September 1995). D'Amato returned in the novels The Copyright Notice Case (Analog, April 1996), The Mendelian Lamp Case (Analog, April 1997), and The Consciousness Plague (2002). The The Pixel Eye (2003), an adaptation of Levinson's The Chronology Protection Case (radio play by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson & Jay Kensinger ) was from the Mystery Writers of America nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Play of the Year of 2002.

Levinson's next novel was The Plot To Save Socrates , a time travel story. The magazine Entertainment Weekly called it "challenging fun." His subsequent novel was Unburning Alexandria , a sequel to The Plot To Save Socrates . The first two chapters of Unburning Alexandria appeared as a novella in the November 2008 edition of Analog, the complete novel was published as an e-book in May 2013 . The next novel in the series, Chronica , was published in December 2014.

Media commentator and speaker

Paul Levinson is a frequent guest on local, national, and international cable and network television, as well as public, commercial, and satellite radio broadcasts.

He appeared in:

  • 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
  • PBS : The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  • CBS : CBS Evening News with Dan Rather , The Early Show
  • ABC : Nightline , World News Now
  • MSNBC : Jesse Ventura's America , Scarborough Country
  • CNN : American Morning , Daybreak , Sunday Live
  • CNBC : Bullseye, Squawk Box , On the Money
  • The History Channel : Modern Marvels , Fantastic Voyage: The Evolution of Science Fiction
  • Discovery Channel : The Inside Story of ... , The Cell Phone Revolution
  • BBC : NewsNight ; #Thinking Allowed
  • CBC : Canada Now ; Newsworld International ; McLuhan: Out of Orbit ; Cross country checkup ; CBC This Morning
  • 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 ; Sound Opinions and Odyssey
  • other radio and TV programs: 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 ; 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

Levinson has been quoted thousands of times in newspapers, magazines, and news services around the world. Some examples are: USA Today , The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Christian Science Monitor , US 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 , Daily Mail , the Toronto Globe and Mail , Associated Press , Reuters, and UPI .

He has spoken at hundreds of science fiction conventions, international academic conferences and symposiums, most recently at Heliosphere 2017 ("Westworld and the Civil Rights of Robots") and including dozens of talks around the world in commemoration of Marshall McLuhan's birth and on the 50th anniversary of the release of McLuhan's seminal work Understanding Media . He often speaks on topics ranging from time travel to fake news .

Songwriter, record artist and record producer

  • Writer of over 100 songs published by major music publishers in the 1960s and 70s including: Bourne , Chappell , Belwin Mills / Warner Brothers , Bobby Darin 's TM Music, and Sunbury / RCA
  • Recordings of his songs were produced for other artists by Ellie Greenwich , Jimmy "the Wiz" Wisner and Paul Leka
  • Songs written, performed and / or produced by him have been released on the following record labels, among others Columbia , Decca , Philips , Atlantic , Buddah and London Records
  • In 1972 his LP Twice Upon a Rhyme was released on HappySad Records. Levinson was a major artist, songwriter, and producer; New edition on CD from Beatball Records (2009) and new on pressed vinyl from Sound of Salvation Records (2010)
  • Levinson's song Hung Up On Love (co-author 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 on the 2004 compilation CD Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults compiled by Andrew Sandoval . Levinson sang a falsetto harmony on many of The Other Voices' recordings.
  • Levinson's songs Merri Goes Round and Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning) - both co-written with Ed Fox - were recorded by Sundial Symphony (Robbie Rist) and Don Frankel and released by Big Stir Records in 2019.

Bibliography (selection)

Novels

  • Not published in German . (American English: The Silk Code . 1999.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Borrowed Tides . 2001.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: The Consciousness Plague . 2002.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: The Pixel Eye . 2003.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: The Plot To Save Socrates . 2006.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Unburning Alexandria . 2013.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Chronica . 2014.).

Non-fiction

  • Not published in German . (American English: In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday . 1982.). with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and Helmut Schmidt
  • Not published in German . (American English: Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age . 1988.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Electronic Chronicles: Columns of the Changes in our Time . 1992.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Learning Cyberspace: Essays on the Evolution of Media and the New Education . 1995.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution . 1997.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Bestsellers: Wired, Analog, and Digital Writings . 1999.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium . 1999.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet . 2003.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium . 2004.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: New New Media . 2009.).
  • Not published in German . (American English: Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion . 2015.).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Levinson: Human Replay: A Theory of the Evolution of Media  (= # 79 18,852), Volume 40/3. University Microfilms, Int., February 1979.
  2. ^ Norm Goldman: A Conversation with Paul Levinson . In: Book Pleasures: Meet the Author . Knowledge Base. December 2007. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Paul Levinson: Op-Ed: The FCC and Halftime . In: Atlanta Journal-Constitution , February 15, 2003, p. Q2. 
  4. ^ Paul Levinson: Op-Ed: Schwarzenegger and the fame game . In: Atlanta Journal-Constitution , October 12, 2003, p. C1. 
  5. ^ Paul Levinson: Is Spitzer fit to be a pundit? . In: Newsday , April 13, 2009  (currently not available in German-speaking countries)
  6. ^ Paul Levinson: An important cable vote . In: The New York Sun , September 27, 2006. Retrieved November 14, 2019. 
  7. ↑ Jeffrey R. Young: Ten High Fliers on Twitter . In: The Chronicle of Higher Education , Vol. 55, Issue 31, April 10, 2009, p. A10. Retrieved November 14, 2019. 
  8. ^ Frank Withrow: Technology in Education and the Next Twenty-Five Years - THE Journal . In: THE Journal . June 1, 1997. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  9. ^ A b Gale Reference Team: Biography: Levinson, Paul (1947-) . In: Contemporary Authors Online . Thomson Gale, 2007.
  10. ↑ a b Mevio: Personality-driven entertainment . In: Related information: Levinson News Clips . Mevio. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  11. ^ The Soft Edge (1997), pp, xvi-xvii
  12. ^ Lance Strate: Interfacing With the Cosmos . In: Lance Strate's blog Time Passing . December 8, 2015. Accessed November 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ Sam Tomaino: Review of Analog Science Fiction and Fact - November 2008 - Vol. CXXVIII No.11 . In: SFRevu . September 27, 2008. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Levinson, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City