Christine Tomlinson talks to the Institute

By zoom

Christine Tomlinson is a social science lecturer and researcher at the University of California, Irvine and a research assistant with the Digital Democracies Institute. Christine’s work is primarily focused on video games and considers player experiences, interests, and backgrounds as well as hostilities both in gaming spaces and online cultures more broadly.

André Brock talks to the Institute

By zoom

André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech.  He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media.  His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, videogames,  weblogs, and other digital media.  He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American […]

Left and Right, or Being who/where you are – Performances

Online

Performance Dates & Registration Feb 10, 7pm EST Feb 11, 7pm EST Feb 12, 7pm EST Feb 13, 12pm EST Feb 14, 12pm EST Please note: Participants will need Chrome and a laptop or desktop to be able to access the performance (no mobile or iPad access possible). For the best experience, we also recommend […]

Reading Week

Alberto Toscano talks to the Institute

By zoom

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory. He studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research, University College Dublin and the University of Warwick, from which he received his PhD in 2003. He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy […]

Sarah T. Roberts presents to the Institute

By zoom

Judging Themselves: Facebook as Extrastate Sovereign (and Why We Should Worry). In this brief and nascent talk (followed by lively collective discussion), Professor Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) will offer an analysis of what Facebook is _really_ up to with its Oversight Board, and what the activation of that body reveals about Facebook’s vision of itself […]