Dr. Gajjala will be travelling to Europe in October and presenting at the ECREA conference on her most recent projects related to her in-progress
book length project on Affect and Placement in online networks. Following her participation in that conference, she will be travelling to University of
Sussex to give an invited talk at the Media, Film and Music Research Seminar Series , on October 20, 2010.
Several Students graduated from the School of Media and Communication Phd and MA programs on August 7th, 2010.
Names of some of those who graduated are –
Phd:
Brett Billman
Deepa Oommen
Sue Ellen McComas
Primus Chuks Igboaka
Shuang Xie
Precious Yamaguchi
MA:
Sitha Lam
Mitra, R. (2010). Doing ethnography, being an ethnographer: The
autoethnographic research process and I. Journal of Research Practice,
6(1), Article M4. Retrieved [date of access], from
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/184/182/
Hi all,
You are invited – but if everyone actually comes – standing room only;-)
Needless to say I am excited about the businesses my IPC 411 class groups built on Secondlife this semester as part of their grade for the course
on “Performing Digitally Mediated Identities”.
Important to note is that most of these students absolutely new to 3D virtual worlds
(when I asked who among the class had ever even played computer games I only got about 2 or 3 hands raised)
and non-exposed to anything technical and software related. But you wouldnt know that to see their projects.
MORE importantly – most of their group analysis, blogging and the group business plans show that many of them do understand the literacies
and digitally performative and cultural skills that go into such building of virtual/real businesses. I would say the best of the groups in the lot learned
about virtual economies and their the virtual-real communicative and material interdependences of such economies quite well:)
Thanks also goes to the various graduate student researchers who worked with me to help and record the process as we all together work to write up reports and publications based on such building of identities.
The winning team has also been awarded a slot on the facebook application called Cyberdivalive Creations. Feel free to gift your friends on facebook and show off.
An additional note that select creative and hardworking the students from this class engaging the Gender and Race frameworks will be working with me on a women’s studies History month Narrating Cyberselves Project to be presented in March 2009 at the Women’s Center.
Here is a link to an image of a Swim up bar that one of the group’s built (the other groups did a great job – but visually they are not all as showcaseable in 2 D images). Click on the link below.
At the recent NCA convention, I met several of our Alumni, all of whom are doing very well.
Following are a couple items for sharing.
These are only a few, and I am sure there are more and as they come to my notice I will add on.
Faculty Profile of Natalia Rybas
Hsin-I Cheng publishes her first book – “Culturing the Interface”
Brett Barnett published his first book – “Untangling the Web of Hate” – in 2007.
At NCA, several of our currently enrolled graduate students presented and some won best paper awards.
Precious Yamaguchi was one of those won a best paper award – Top Paper for NCA’s APACSD division.
Bridget Long and Samara Anarbaeva also won a best paper award.
and Bridget Long was interviewed about her paper …
– posted by Radhika Gajjala, Graduate Coordinator, School of Media and Communication (formerly School of Communication Studies).
