With our new facility opening this year, and numerous other elements demanding our engagement on campus, we are in discussions to retool and re-envision our efforts both for this year’s series, and the series going forward into the future. While we may be able to bring in a speaker this spring, our opportunities this year […]
[ics_button subject=”Nicole Black” description=”MAGIC Speaker Series” location=”MAGIC Center” start-date=”2017-04-24 13:00″ end-date=”2017-04-24 2:30″][/ics_button] Title: Censored by Traditional Media, Empowered by Social Media In her talk, Nicole will share her professional background, blogging and social media trajectory, as well as her journalist/author trajectory. In addition, she will discuss the election, including a recent article she wrote that […]
Abstract: They Aren’t Like Me: Developing a Meaningful Game for “Them” Game design and development students at Bradley University recently created Wake Up, Koala!, a game designed to raise awareness for Sjögren’s Syndrome, an auto-immune disorder that affects millions of Americans. The project produced a game that is not only valuable to those affected, but […]
Title: An introduction to the producer role or… how to be invisible and effective by Clive Burdon Abstract: Vicarious Visions is a creator of hit video games with its studio based near Albany, New York. To date, VV has sold over 40 million games worldwide. VV has shaped popular culture with hit video game titles […]
Location: Student Innovation Hall, 1600 Bio: Karen Levy is a research fellow at New York University’s Information Law Institute and the Data and Society Research Institute; beginning in fall 2016, she will be an assistant professor of Information Science at Cornell University and associated faculty at Cornell Law School. Dr. Levy researches how law and […]
Bio: Souvik Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research, on which he completed his PhD from Nottingham Trent University, is on videogames as an emerging storytelling medium. Other interests are Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature and Poststructuralist theory. As a digital humanist, Souvik has managed and curated two projects, one […]
Bio: Kendra Albert is a third-year JD candidate at Harvard Law School. When not in class, she co-runs the interdisciplinary discussion group Angry Tech Salon and its sister video game discussion group, ATS Plays. Before starting school, she worked as a research associate at the Berkman Center. She’s also done stints at CloudFlare, Zeitgeist Legal […]
Bio: Jacob Silverman is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Connection. A contributing editor for The Baffler, he has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He lives in New York. Talk title: What Machines Know: Surveillance Anxiety and Digitizing the […]
For over fifteen years, Dr. Mary Chayko has investigated the experience of digital connectedness – how it feels, how bonds and groupings are made and maintained online, and how the online and the offline intersect in people’s everyday lives. She finds that the online, digital realm is experienced as real in every way — emotional, […]
ABSTRACT:The Internet gets blamed for a lot of things, chief among them for the rise in rudeness, cyber-bullying and harassment. Thing is, it hasn’t caused any of this. The people who act poorly on the Internet generally act poorly in real life, too. We just didn’t have to see, talk or ever interact with most […]
Revitalizing the Professions in an Era of Automation Automation can be designed to complement human work and vocations, or to substitute for the humans now holding those positions. At present, the dominant trend is toward substitution. While often characterized as a dictate of economics, substitutive automation also results from a culture premised on a certain […]
The Promise and Perils of Drone Proliferation The advent and proliferation of unmanned technologies, often referred to as drones, has offered both new opportunities but also new risks. On the one hand, supporters of the technology point to the ways that drones have helped the United States prosecute its counterterrorism mission, killing many suspected terrorists […]