#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 3: Femme Futures

Episode 1: Female Gaze and Immersive Storytelling, with XR creator and filmmaker Adriana Vecchioli

In this episode, I speak with with filmmaker and XR creator Adriana Vecchioli about how video-game aesthetics influence gender representations in VR, the illusion of default perspectives, "making it" in Hollywood and storytelling for frames and spheres.

Please support her kickstarter campaign, ending July 23, 2021, by visiting the COMIN’ IN HOT page.

Adriana Vecchioli is a French-Italian actress, filmmaker and XR designer, living in Los Angeles. She has co-founded an XR design studio, Velvet Unicorn, in L.A. Formerly a software engineer, she left Twitter to follow her passion for filmmaking. Blending software magic with artistry, Adriana designed immersive experiences for the likes of: Warner Bros., Viacom, The Hunger Games, NBA, Coachella and Snapchat.

Layered female protagonists, dark humor and immersive storytelling are the staples of her cinematic language. In 2019 she wrote, produced and starred in ‘How Far’, an award-winning short film. In 2020, she produced and acted in the viral comedy series ’Shoot Your Shot’, written and directed by Tanyaradzwa Fear (‘Doctor Who’), exploring pandemic era love. The series garnered attention for its innovative use of AR filters and remote filmmaking, along with an all-star cast. Adriana Vecchioli is the lead in ‘Portals’, an independent sci-fi feature film directed by Bobby Castro. 

Adriana on twitter: @AdrianaVecc

Adriana on Instagram: @AdrianaVecc

Adriana’s website:  www.adrianavecchioli.com

COMIN’ IN HOT on Twitter: COMIN’ IN HOT

COMIN’ IN HOT Campaign: kickstarter

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SHOW NOTES

UX Design for XR applications and Immersive Storytelling, Circuit Stream Workshop, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR6wZ3hme9g

The Displaced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecavbpCuvkI

How Virtual Reality is Changing Storytelling Forever

medium.com - https://medium.com/the-mission/how-virtual-reality-is-changing-storytelling-forever-3a9836c5300c

New York Times, 360 videos - https://www.nytimes.com/video/360-video

Mad Max Ferry Road - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

Game of Thrones - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

Dear White People, Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80095698

The Fall of the House of Usher- https://poestories.com/read/houseofusher

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

In this second series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with authors, educators and technologists about new and digital literacies in classrooms and community-engaged arts settings.

From co-creation to visual literacy, game-based learning, algorithmic literacy and preparing for the synthetic media revolution, this podcast explores concepts of authentic audiences online, ethics in media-production, emoji, memes, deep fakes and the ways that sound influences our information environment.

Two episodes released every weekend in January 2021

1. Technology and New Literacies], with science and technology journalist Clive Thompson

2. Game-Based Learning, with high school teacher and game-based learning researcher Paul Darvasi, PhD

3. Co-creation, with web documentarian Katerina Cizek from MIT’s Open Documentary Lab

4. Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabara Fister from Project Information Literacy

5. Memes and Social Movements, with author An Xioa Mina

6. Deep Fakes and Social Media, with author and technology researcher Carl Miller

7. Ways of Hearing, with Milena Droumeva

8. Emoji and Linguistics, with author and lingust Vyv Evans, PhD

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode 8: Emoji and Linguistics, Vyv Evans, PhD and author of The Emoji Code

In this episode, I speak with Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, about how emoji makes us better communicators, what literacy traditionalists are misunderstanding about its power and how emojis are jumping off the keypad into civic life & city planning.

Professor Vyvyan Evans, is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication as well as a communications technologist and consultant. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington DC., and has taught at the University of Sussex, Brighton University and Bangor University. He has published 14 books on language, meaning, mind, and digital communication. These include The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning (2015); and The Language Myth: Why Language is Not an Instinct (2014). He is a much sought-after public speaker, and frequently provides his expert opinion on language to the written and broadcast media and his writing has been featured in The New York Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, New Scientist, and Psychology Today, among other publications.

Vyv on twitter: @VyvEvans

Vyv’s website:  www.vyvevans.net

Vyvyan Evans: YouTube channel

Blog at Psychology Today

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SHOW NOTES

Using more emoji does not mean you’ll have more sex >:-( , by Caitlin Dewey - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02/04/using-more-emoji-does-not-mean-youll-have-more-sex/%3foutputType=amp

Singles in America: Match Releases Its Fifth Annual Comprehensive Study on the Single Population - match.mediaroom.com › singlesina...News Releases | Match.com

Where Does the 'Thumbs-Up' Gesture Really Come From?, by Merrill Fabry - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/time.com/4984728/thumbs-up-thumbs-down-history/%3famp=true

BABY SIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARY - https://www.babysignlanguage.com/dictionary/

Emote project - http://www.emote-project.eu/

Bris Abused Emojis - https://showcasesweden.com/bris-abused-emojis

These Emoji Make It Easier for Kids to 'Talk' About Abuse, wired.com - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/06/abused-emoji/amp

The Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year is an emoji, by Lizzie Plaugic - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2015/11/16/9746650/word-of-the-year-emoji-oed-dictionary

The Rebus principle - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus

Coronavirus Emojis, by Vyv Evans - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/language-in-the-mind/202007/coronavirus-emojis%3famp

Shigetaka Kurita: The man who invented emoji, CNN style - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cnn.com/style/amp/emoji-shigetaka-kurita-standards-manual/index.html

The WIRED Guide to Emoji, a complete history - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/guide-emoji/amp

Otto Neurath and the Untold History of the Infographic, nebo - www.neboagency.com

Manga iconography - en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Manga...Web resultsManga iconography - Wikipedia

Inbox: The Original Emoji, by
Shigetaka Kurita - https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3639

Meet Scott Fahlman, the Guy Who Created the First Emoticon, culture trip - https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/pennsylvania/articles/meet-scott-fahlman-the-guy-who-created-the-first-emoticon/?amp=1

Bayeux Tapestry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

This is Finland, finland.fi › EmojiWeb resultsKalsarikännit - thisisFINLAND

Unicode, unicode.org - What is Unicode?

Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here - https://www.wired.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions-totally-redesigned-like-button/

Like it or not, the Attention Economy is Adding Emotion, techonomy.com

💙 Facebook Reactions: How They Work, What They Are, And How The 🤗 Care Reaction Button Is Changing The Game 💜

Finnish town considers 'Emoji Street' proposal, BBC news - http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38065216

New York has a new emoji index for its subway system, so we made you an emoji tube map - City Monitor

Pattern of Visual Dominance Behavior in Humans, authors John F. DovidioSteve L. Ellyson - Pattern of Visual Dominance Behavior in Humans | SpringerLink

Why emojified Shakespeare is a must-read - https://foreverbookish.com/2016/01/18/why-emojified-shakespeare-is-a-must-read/

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, Clive Thompson

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode 7: Sonic Media and Ways of Hearing, with Milena Droumeva from Simon Fraser University

In this episode, I speak with Milena Droumeva, professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, about how our relationship with sound is shaped by culture, the audio in audio/visual media literacy and the role technology plays in mediating our acoustic environments.

Milena Droumeva, Assistant Professor of Communication and Glenfraser Endowed professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University specializing in mobile technologies, sound studies and multimodal ethnography, with a long-standing interest in game cultures and gender. She has worked extensively in educational research on game-based learning, as well as in interaction design for responsive environments and sonification. Milena is a sound studies scholar, a multimodal ethnographer, and a soundwalking enthusiast, published widely in the areas of acoustic ecology, media and game studies, design and technology. 

Her current SSHRC-funded project is called “Livable Soundscapes” and it explores best practices for soundscape design in cities and civic participation approaches to storytelling with sound. She is co-editor of a newly published edited collection “Sound, Media, Ecology” with Palgrave Macmillan which updates practices and theories of acoustic ecology through the work of contemporary researchers. Milena has been working on sonification for public engagement since 2015, crossing over cultural studies of sound and data representation.

Milena at TedTalks -Sounding out Sexism in Video Games- https://www.ted.com/talks/milena_droumeva_sounding_out_sexism_in_video_games

Milena on twitter: @natuaural

Milena’s website is  natuaural.com

More on Milena’s work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milena-droumeva-46415010/

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SHOW NOTES

R. Murray Schafer, The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

World Soundscape Project, Simon Fraser University - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

World Soundscape Project Archive, Toronto Niennial of Art - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

About Simond Fraser University’s Music and Sound programs - https://www.sfu.ca/sca/programs/music---sound.html

Professor Barry Truax - https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/

Sound Ecology: A web documentary on noise pollution and our inability to endure silence, National Film Board of Canada - https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/sound_ecology/

Bringing Sound into Urban Public Place Design, McGill, Urban Sound Symposium - https://urban-sound-symposium.org/USS2019/slides/305_Christine_Kerrigan.pdf

Listening as Intervention; Livable Soundscapes, Milena Droumeva - https://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/currentprojects.html

The media literacy movement’s debt to Marshall McLuhan - Alexandar Kuskis, University of Toronto - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298794462_The_media_literacy_movement%27s_debt_to_Marshall_McLuhan

About Foley (Filmmaking) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)

Foley artist shows how sounds effects are made - youtube/E0pOLuklB4s

How to add sound to TikTok videos - Get Savvy with Social - https://getsavvywithsocial.com/how-to-add-sound-to-tiktok-videos/

Buzzfeed Listicles on sound - https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/photos-you-can-here-just-by-looking-at-them

The Social Dilemma, IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/

Sound memes - https://www.memesoundboard.com

The Social Dilemma, Milena Droumeva - Sounding out Sexism in Video Games -kjnhttps://www.ted.com/talks/milena_droumeva_sounding_out_sexism_in_video_games?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

New Wireless Noise-Canceling Tech Is Faster Than the Speed of Sound - https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/noisecanceling-techs-edge-is-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound

Headphone transparency mode on AirPods, Bose, Sony and more: How and when to use it, CNET - https://www.cnet.com/how-to/headphone-transparency-mode-on-airpods-bose-sony-and-more-how-and-when-to-use-it/

The COVIDvoice Project Share your voice. Crush COVID. - https://covidvoice.net

What is lithotripsy?, Hopkins Medicine - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/lithotripsy

#MeToo Sonification Excerpts, Milena Droumeva - https://soundcloud.com/ambient-sonic/sets/metoo-sonification-excerpts

Sounding Out Blog - https://soundstudiesblog.com

Radio Aporee - sound archives https://aporee.org/

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode EXTRA: Blockchain and Synthetic Media Authentification

In this episode extra, Carl and I discuss whether deep fakes and synthetic media is the problem that blockchain technology can solve.

Carl Miller is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He combines data and analysis with immersive, first-hand reporting. His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, was published in 2018 by Penguin RandomHouse.

He has written for Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian, appears frequently in the press, and speaks about his work around the world. He’s appeared numerous times on TedTalks stages speaking about cyber-crime, digital democracy and Unlocking Social Media

Demos’ website: https://demos.co.uk/

Carl’s website is  www.carlmiller.co

And he Tweets @carljackmiller

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Podcast EXTRA - Blockchain Technology and Deep Fakes Authentication - SHOW NOTES

Bitcoin Units and Divisibility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Units_and_divisibility

What the Heck is Bitcoin Anyways - https://kabirpost.com/heck-bitcoin-anyway/

Blockchain Explained - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Blackchain. What is Blockchain Technology? How Does it Work? - https://builtin.com/blockchain

On Cryptocoins: I think I know why Satoshi Nakamoto Hides, Tech Power UP - https://www.techpowerup.com/234971/on-cryptocoins-i-think-i-know-why-satoshi-nakamoto-hides

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: New and Digital Literacies

Episode 6: Deep Fakes and Social Media with Carl Miller

In this episode I speak with pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller about deep fakes, information warfare, and how synthetic media environments are changing democracy and disrupting power systems.

Carl Miller is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He combines data and analysis with immersive, first-hand reporting. His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, was published in 2018 by Penguin RandomHouse.

He has written for Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian, appears frequently in the press, and speaks about his work around the world. He’s appeared numerous times on TedTalks stages speaking about cyber-crime, digital democracy and Unlocking Social Media

Demos’ website: https://demos.co.uk/

Carl’s website is  www.carlmiller.co

And he Tweets @carljackmiller

Show notes and related links:

The Death of the Gods; The New Global Power Grab

DEMOS - https://demos.co.uk/

A Gentle Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) - https://machinelearningmastery.com/what-are-generative-adversarial-networks-gans/

This cat does note exist - https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

This person does not exist - https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Beirut explosion: How conspiracy theories spread on social media, By Marianna Spring - https://www.bbc.com/news/53669029

The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics
Jayson Harsin / American University of Paris - https://www.flowjournal.org/2008/12/the-rumor-bomb-on-convergence-culture-and-politics-jayson-harsin-american-university-of-paris/?print=print

[Proto-Post-truth] The Rumour Bomb: Theorizing the Convergence of New and Old Trends in Mediated US Politics, By Jayson Harsin - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322785090_Proto-Post-truth_The_Rumour_Bomb_Theorizing_the_Convergence_of_New_and_Old_Trends_in_Mediated_US_Politics

Bots in the Twittersphere: An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings, By Stefan Wojcik, Solomon Messing, Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie and Paul Hitlin - https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/04/09/bots-in-the-twittersphere/

Carl Miller speaks on ‘Policing and Justice for a digital age’ at the (UK) Police Foundation’s annual conference — https://youtu.be/zxO-YH8VWVA

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing, The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/sir-robert-peels-nine-principles-of-policing.html

Peelian Principles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

Crossing Divides: How a social network could save democracy from deadlock, By Carl Miller - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713

Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention - By Carl Miller - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-media

Carl Miller on liquid democracy, TEDTALKS - https://youtu.be/FNL22RvFwn0

DEFcon Hacking Conference - https://www.defcon.org/

10 years on, the Arab spring's explosive rage and dashed dreams: The extraordinary shock of people power gave way to a bitter backlash. So where to now?, by Martin Chulov - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/14/10-years-on-the-arab-springs-explosive-rage-and-dashed-dreams

Podcast EXTRA - Blockchain Technology and Deep Fakes Authentication - SHOW NOTES

Bitcoin Units and Divisibility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Units_and_divisibility

What the Heck is Bitcoin Anyways - https://kabirpost.com/heck-bitcoin-anyway/

On Cryptocoins: I think I know why Satoshi Nakamoto Hides

Blockchain Explained - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Blackchain. What is Blockchain Technology? How Does it Work? - https://builtin.com/blockchain

On Cryptocoins: I think I know why Satoshi Nakamoto Hides, Tech Power UP - https://www.techpowerup.com/234971/on-cryptocoins-i-think-i-know-why-satoshi-nakamoto-hides

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: New and Digital Literacies

Episode 5: Memes and Social Justice Movements, with An Mina

In this episode I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online, and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years..

An Xiao Mina is a technologist, writer and artist. An "An Xiao" Mina is a technologist, writer and artist. She leads the product team at Meedan, a technology non-profit that builds software and initiatives to strengthen global journalism, digital literacy and accessibility of information for the world. The Madeen team she leads are building Check, a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time, and Bridge, a platform for translating social media and messaging app content. Meedan's products support work for clients like ProPublica, First Draft News, UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center, WITNESS, MercyCorps and others, and Check played a key role in innovative digital journalism projects such as Electionland and CrossCheck, both of which won the Online Journalism Awards.

Memesto Movemements: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567159/memes-to-movements-by-an-xiao-mina/

Meedan on twitter : @meedan

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Show notes and related links:

Memes to Movemeents: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power, By An Xiao Mina

Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of the word ‘meme' - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes

Amanda Brennan - https://memelibrarian.com /

Meme librarian is a real job — and it’s the best one on the Internet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/21/tumblrs-meme-librarian-has-the-best-job-on-the-internet/

Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture , MIT Press - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/memes-digital-culture

Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs, By Mark Dery - https://www.markdery.com/books/culture-jamming-hacking-slashing-and-sniping-in-the-empire-of-signs-2/

Cave Paintings in Lascaux France - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

Hall of Cats cave paintings -images - https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/268738302751070366/

The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum - https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu

Ancient Romans of Pompeii Loved Street Art Too, By Henri Neuendorf - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-romans-of-pompeii-loved-street-art-too-195643

Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - https://books.google.ca/books/about/Art_as_Activist.html?id=U_CCAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

China's river crab and grass-mud horse, Tactile Technology Collective - https://www.informationactivism.org/en/chinas-river-crab-and-grass-mud-horse.html

Old Spice viral campaign - The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Your_Man_Could_Smell_Like

K-pop fans are taking over 'White Lives Matter' and other anti-Black hashtags with memes and fancams of their favorite stars, By Alicia Lee, CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/kpop-bts-blackpink-fans-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html

30 Cutest Celebrity Cats - Emerald Catron Move over, A-listers: these celebrity cats are the real stars of the show. - https://bestlifeonline.com/cutest-celebrity-cats/

Coronavirus spawns viral TikTok dance about washing your hands, By Ben Cost - https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-spawns-viral-tiktok-dance-about-washing-your-hands/

Learning the Politics of “Digital Dissensus”, By An Xiao Mina - https://civichall.org/civicist/learning-the-politics-of-digital-dissensus/

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: New and Digital Literacies

Episode 4: Algorithmic Literacy, with Barbara Fister

In this episode I speak with librarian Barbara Fister from Project Information Literacy about their study Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms. We discuss the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture. Naturally, Barabara named many great book names on subjects discussed, see the show notes for a great reading list on these topics and more.

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age. In the past decade, PIL has surveyed and interviewed almost 21,000 U.S. college students and released 12 groundbreaking research reports that examine how they interact with information resources for school, for life, for work, and most recently, for engaging with the news. All of PIL’s work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Barbara Fister, librarian, writer and friendly curmudgeon, co-authored Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms in her position as PIL’s Scholar-in-Residence, alongside Senior Researcher Margy MacMillan, and PIL’s Executive Director and Principal Investigator Alison J. Head

Project Information Literacy website: www.projectinfolit.org

Project Information Literacy on twitter : @projectinfolit

Barbara Fister : https://barbarafister.net/

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Show notes and related links:

Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change, Head, Alison J.; Fister, Barbara; MacMillan, Margy, Project Information Literacy - https://projectinfolit.org/publications/algorithm-study/

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

Was software responsible for the financial crisis? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/16/computing-software-financial-crisis

Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651

Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff - - https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/

Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy, Shea Swauger - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006132/software-algorithms-proctoring-online-tests-ai-ethics/

Google and advertising: digital capitalism in the context of Post-Fordism, the reification of language, and the rise of fake news - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-017-0021-4

The History of Google Ads 20 Years in the Making (Infographic)

https://instapage.com/blog/google-adwords-infographic

How Bezos built his data machine, Leo Kelion, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data

Automating InequalityHow High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317

Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks, by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble - http://algorithmsofoppression.com/

Edward Snowden NSA FILES: DECODED, By EWEN MACASKILL and GABRIEL DANCE - https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

The Fiduciary Model of Privacy, Jack M. Balkin, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3700087

VPN Usage Surges During COVID-19 Crisis [Infographic], Niall McCarthy

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/17/vpn-usage-surges-during-covid-19-crisis-infographic/?sh=7ac8e6ab7d79

Failure to Disrupt, By Justin Reich - https://failuretodisrupt.com/

CONspirituality: A weekly study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism - https://conspirituality.net/about/

#WeMakeMedia

a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.

#WeMakeMedia Season 2: New and Digital Literacies

Episode 3: Media Co-creation, with Katerina Cizek

In this episode I speak with Emmy-award winning web documentarian Katerina Cizek about her research with the Co-creation Studio at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and 209 report titled Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms.

We discuss how collective practices surface issues of agency and equity; human intelligence being but one part of the larger planetary puzzle; and how media literacy might be the best way to address the epistemological times we are living in.

Katerina Cizek is a Canadian documentary director and a pioneer in digital documentaries. She is the Artistic Director, Co-Founder and Executive Producer of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). From 2008-2015, Cizek directed the National Film Board of Canada's Highrise series on life in residential skyscrapers, including the 2010 world's first 360 degree web documentary Out My Window, winner of the inaugural IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and an International Digital Emmy for best digital program: non-fiction, and the 2011 webdoc One Millionth Tower, which lets users explore a highrise complex in 3D virtual space, as Toronto residents re-imagine their neighborhood.

Also, learn more about her documentary Seeing Is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News in a blog I wrote about documentaries to watch in media literacy classroom contexts.

Katerina on twitter : @katciz

To learn more about Kat’s work: https://arts.mit.edu/artists/katerina-cizek/

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Show notes and related links:

High Rise (Out My Window) web documentary - http://highrise.nfb.ca/

MIT Open Documentary Lab - http://opendoclab.mit.edu/

Co-creation Studio at MIT - https://cocreationstudio.mit.edu/

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms - https://cmsw.mit.edu/collective-wisdom-co-creating-media-within-communities-across-disciplines-and-with-algorithms/

Petroglyphs in Gobustan - Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, UNESCO,

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1076/

Detroit Narrative Agency - Allied Media Conference, https://alliedmedia.org/projects/detroit-narrative-agency

Grace Lee Boggs - Rest in Power Grace Lee Boggs, American Revolutionary Film, https://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com/

Google Sidewalk Labs - https://www.sidewalklabs.com/

Jason E. Lewis - https://jasonlewis.org

More on Jason E.Lewis’ work in Part 6: Media Co-Creation with Non-Human Systems - https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/collective-wisdom-part-6/release/1?source=post_page

Blackfoot philosopher Leroy Little Bear - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Little_Bear

Witness: see it. film it. change it. - witness.org

OpenDoc Lab MIT Co creation lab every Tuesday webinars - https://www.glunis.com/XX/Unknown/545983178790726/MIT-Open-Documentary-Lab

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#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode 2 : Game-based Learning, with educator Paul Darvasi

In this episode I speak with PHD and high school educator Paul Darvasi about game-based-education, how augmented reality can be used to animate urban spaces for learning and the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing metrics for evaluating student success.

Paul teaches high school English and media studies at Royal St. George's College in Toronto, Ontario. He’s a lifelong gamer who holds a Master’s degree in Educational Technology (MET) and am a PhD from York University’s Faculty of Education with a research focus on video games and education. He designed The Ward Game, a pervasive novel study, and co-designed Blind Protocol, an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) to instruct high school students on privacy and surveillance. His case studies on The Ward Game and Gone Home will be published as chapters in an upcoming book on frontier teachers from ETC Press. Paul writes and speaks about game-based learning and integrating a variety of games and game elements in classroom settings.

Paul on twitter : @PaulDarvasi

To learn more about Paul’s work: ludiclearning.org

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Show notes and related links:

On Blind Protocol - DowDown the Rabbit Hole: How To Turn Your Class into an Alternate Reality Game, By Paul Darvasi

http://www.ludiclearning.org/2015/08/19/down-the-rabbit-hole-how-to-turn-your-class-into-an-alternate-reality-game/

The Ward Game

http://www.ludiclearning.org/

Ratched show IMDB listing https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7423538/

Netflix Link - https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80213445

Gone Home (video game about coming home and clues)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/232430/Gone_Home/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Home

What Remains of Edith Finch

https://store.steampowered.com/app/501300/What_Remains_of_Edith_Finch/

Her Story

https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/Her_Story/

Grand Theft Auto V - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V

Paul’s Doctorate paper - Under the Hood: An (Auto) Ethnographic Study of How White Adolescent Males Critically Engage with Race in Grand Theft Auto V,

https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37454

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/271590/

1979 Revolution: Black Friday - https://www.gamesforchange.org/game/1979-revolution-black-friday/

Serious games - https://www.game-learn.com/what-is-a-serious-game/

Is augmented reality (AR) the next level of gaming?, a report by Ericsson - https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/consumerlab/reports/ready-steady-game

Understanding the Pokemon GO phenomenon, Jessica Webb, https://blinkux.com/ideas/understanding-pokemon-go-phenomenon

The Guardian - Urban gamification: can Pokémon Go transform our public spaces?, Francesca Perry - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/22/urban-gamification-pokemon-go-transform-public-spaces

3 AR Ganes to Try During Pandemic, Ryan Anderson - https://arpost.co/2020/05/07/3-ar-games-try-during-pandemic/

Spinning and Winning: How Peloton is revolutionizing fitness, technology, and everything in between , Charlotte Alumni, Digital Initiative - https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/spinning-and-winning-how-peloton-is-revolutionizing-fitness-technology-and-everything-in-between/

Peloton - incentivizing exercise

Dear White People - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5707802/

Artificial Intelligence in Education - 5 Main Roles Of Artificial Intelligence In Education , by Lisa Plitnichenko, eLearning Industry - https://elearningindustry.com/5-main-roles-artificial-intelligence-in-education