Comparative Media Studies Thesis Day

Join CMS/W for thesis presentations by students in the Comparative Media Studies masters program.  Free and open to the public.

10:00-10:30  Coffee and Conversation

10:30  Presentations by:

• Lingyuxiu Zhong “My Pins are My Dreams: Pinterest, Collective Daydreams, and the Aspirational Gap”
• Eduardo Marisca Alvarez “Playful Ventures: Technology Entrepreneurship and Peripheral Innovation in the Peruvian Game Industry”
• Julie Fischer “Creat[e L]ive Treatment of Actuality: Live Documentary Practices for the Rise of Real Time”

12:30  Lunch Break

1:30 Presentations by:

• Rodrigo Davies “Civic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place”
• Denise Cheng “The Future of Work: Blueprints for a Worker Support Infrastructure in the Peer Economy”
• Erica Deahl “Better the Data You Know: Developing Youth Data Literacy in Schools and Informal Learning Environments”
• Jason Lipshin “Network Design: A Theory of Scale for Ubiquitous Computing”