AUTHOR
PROFESSOR
Exploring technology, design,
and the human experience
About Me
I am an award-winning author of two books and a professor of American Studies and Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am also the Associate Dean of the Graduate School. My most recent book, Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World (Yale, 2018), was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology. It received positive reviews in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Australian Book Review, and the Marginalian.
professor
American Studies and Immersive Media Design
University of Maryland, College Park
Author
Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World (Yale Univ. Press, 2018)
Administrator
Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Books
Jason Farman’s books look at the history of technology, design, and the impact on the human experience. His research thinks across eras to help us understand the contemporary moment through a historical lens.
Book Reviews
“Farman proposes a radical shift of viewing time not as individual but as collective, which is inherently a radical act of empathy — the willingness to accept another’s time as just as valuable as our own.”
Maria Popova, The Marginalian
About Delayed Response
“One of the most interesting and resonant explorations of contemporary media culture that I’ve read. Farman’s wide-ranging, lively storytelling makes the book consistently engaging, and his argument for waiting as humanistic good is truly inspired.”
William Powers, author of New York Times bestseller Hamlet’s BlackBerry
About Delayed Response
“For those who want to understand the rich history and material culture of pauses and less-than-prompt rejoinders, Delayed Response is the book we’ve been waiting for.”
Lydia Pyne, the Los Angeles Review of Books
About Delayed Response
“In our frantic, overstimulated era, is it at all possible to be unruffled by red lights, buffering icons or the long lines at the DMV? Mr. Farman thinks so.”
Emily Bobrow, Wall Street Journal
About Delayed Response
Bylines and expert appearances
Notable Achievements
Awards and Recognitions
contact
jfarman@umd.edu
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