Event Title
Digital Work, Material Consequences: Approaches to our Virtual World
Location
CB1-105
Start Date
4-11-2017 10:00 AM
End Date
4-11-2017 11:00 AM
Description
In turbulent political, economic, and social times, we are forced to confront one of the most enduring "hard problems" of Academia in general: What is the broader significance of our work as scholars in the societies and communities in which we live? How does our analysis and criticism of cultural objects impact the cultures in which those objects are created, circulate, and take on meaning? For our work as digital humanists and media scholars, we're faced with the additional challenge of defining and justifying how creating, playing, and critiquing digital objects intersects with and impacts material life.
This roundtable will open up a space for all participants to describe how they have approached these questions with their research and projects, regardless of form or format. Each group of roundtable participants will have an opportunity to describe a particular research project they have been working on to the group that they feel addresses the topic of the roundtable, after which there will be a 20 – 30 minute open discussion about how our approaches to addressing this hard problem differ, intersect, and interact in a multiplicity of ways. The participants come from a variety of disciplines and are all working on creating, playing, or critiquing digital worlds and spaces, pursuing research through non-traditional formats (video essays, podcasts, blog posts, forums, etc.), or researching digital objects such as video games, virtual reality environments, simulations and modeling, digital reading and writing, interactive media, digital social networks, and digital visual culture.
Digital Work, Material Consequences: Approaches to our Virtual World
CB1-105
In turbulent political, economic, and social times, we are forced to confront one of the most enduring "hard problems" of Academia in general: What is the broader significance of our work as scholars in the societies and communities in which we live?
