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"Wanna Play? Race, Gaming, Youth, and the Digital Paradigm Shift" -- Anna Everett

Mon, Oct 15, 2007, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location: 
Communications 150 (Studio C)

This two-part talk consists of Professor Everett's recent work on digital and new media that includes her participation in the MacArthur Foundation's "field-building" endeavor conceptualized as the Digital Media and Learning Initiative.  Professor Everett will discuss her involvement in this multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative, particularly her work on youth experiences with digital media technologies and computer games.  This aspect of her work focuses on the racialized meaning-encryption-decryption feedback loop at work in contemporary popular computer games.  Her interest is in the extent to which video games' readerly and writerly narrative structures draw upon and are imbricated in such traditional meaning-making media as film, television, comic books, and other print media, which in turn informs the problematic racial discourse at work in popular games such as RockStar's Grand Theft Auto game franchise and Bully, among others.
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Digital Media with support from the Arts Research Institute.