Featured Spring Subject, “Media Effects of Stereotyping and Morality: Racism and Resistance”
Study the way media stereotypes can shape audiences’ emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior.
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Adding Depth to the Popular Discussion of Transgender Rights
Professor Edward Schiappa’s new book carefully surveys recent public debates about a vital societal issue.
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New whitepaper: “Just Joking! Deepfakes, Satire, and the Politics of Synthetic Media”
The Open Documentary Lab, Co-Creation Studio, and WITNESS collaborate to answer the question “who decides what’s funny, what’s fair, and who is accountable?”
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Video: Alexandra To, “Uplifting Us: Design Opportunities in Centering Racialized Experiences in Games”
Alexandra To describes some of the game design opportunities present in centering the experiences of people of color from the beginning.
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Video: Craig Robertson, “‘Information at Your Fingertips’: The Filing Cabinet and the Gendering of Information Work”
When information became a thing that could exist at the end of your fingertips, those fingers belonged to women.
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Conference Call for Papers: “Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice”
October 5-7, 2022, join a forum for diverse constituencies to express their views and to showcase findings on videography as a creative tool in the quest for social justice.
Recent Posts
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The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century
Edward Schiappa examines the key sites of debate including schools, bathrooms, the military, sports, prisons, and feminism, drawing attention to the political, practical, and ethical dimensions of the act of defining itself.
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Video: “Graphic Materiality, Trauma, and Expressionist Comics: Artist’s Talk With Leela Corman”
Graphic novel creator Leela Corman talks about her graphic novels and short comics on the topics of generational and personal trauma, New York City history, Polish-Jewish life, and amateur women’s wrestling.
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Civic Design Initiative launches The Deep Listening Project
Its goal is to develop a sustainable communications infrastructure for collaborative climate adaptation.
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Video: Edward Schiappa, “The Transgender Exigency: The Role of Media Representation”
The collision of prejudice and visibility has led to a series of controversies that involve “regulatory definitions” imposed by institutions or legislatures, some of which are the subject of Schiappa’s forthcoming book, The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex & Gender in the 21st Century.
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Video: Memorial Colloquium in Honor of Jing Wang
At this Colloquium, we publicly honored our beloved colleague’s life and work, featuring brief talks by some of those who knew her best.
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Video, Nick Thurston: “Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access”
As buzz terms like “post-truth” and “deep fake” remind us, the social lives of documents are entwined with the techno-political conditions of the communities who produce, save and share them.
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Authenticity, Interactivity, and Collaboration in Virtual Reality Games: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
“In this paper, we document and summarize the studies associated with our 4-year design project, Collaborative Learning Environments in Virtual Reality (CLEVR).”
