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Podcast and Liveblog: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery” with Miguel Sicart
Miguel Sicart looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
Mary Flanagan
Pushing the boundaries of medium and genre across writing, visual arts, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach.
Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
November 14, we hear from Hilary Sargent of ChartGirl.com — one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites — where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories.
Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
Sonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
Coco Fusco: “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”
New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films […]
Zeynep Tufekci: “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
UNC’s Zeynep Tufekci discusses social media-fueled protests and their boom and bust cycle, drawing on the Gezi protests, Arab Spring, Occupy, and others.
