It's been almost a year since I last posted on this blog, but now I pick up the banner again to report on the various ins and outs of driving in Las Vegas. I'm doing this primarily because I'm currently teaching a course at UNLV about social media and the need to do what I preach seems relevant.

Secondarily, the topic of driving, roadways, and transportation issues in general are of some scholarly interest to me, a media studies professor. Media studies?! Transportation?! What's the link, you, good reader, may be asking yourself (if indeed any readers at all are seeing this--which so far looks doubtful)? Well, historically, in the area of social research, transportation and communication were part of similar research area. Malcom Wiley and Stuart A. Rice's (1933) classic volume, "Communication Agencies and Social Life" is an example in which one can see academic critique of newspapers and transportation discussed as related communicative agencies. Not until later that century did transportation split off from its study as a communicative form to become a civil engineering sub-discipline. Through this blog, I, in my minute way, bring these two entities back together. I believe my former mentor, John Durham Peters, would take some delight in this move.