Spring 2024 Data|Media|Digital Symposium

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The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns for its 6th edition on April 19, 2024.

Join us in the Knight Library DREAM Lab for a full day of presentations on a wide range of topics related to data studies, media studies, and digital studies, showcasing the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced across campus.

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09:15-09:30a  Arrival, morning coffee/pastries
09:30-09:45a  Opening Remarks and Welcome

 

D|M|D Grad Symposium organizers: 

  • Mattie Burkert (CAS/English & Digital Humanities)
  • Maxwell Foxman (SOJC/Media Studies & Game Studies)
  • Courtney Cox (CAS/Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies & Black Studies)

 

09:45-10:45a

 

PANEL A: Digital 

  • Andrew J. Wilson (SOJC), “‘God Bless the South, Brother’: A Paratextual Analysis of War of Rights Steam Reviews”
  • Will Arangelov (SOJC), “Developing Relationships and Self-Disclosure in the Gaming World: A Case Study on the Discord Platform”
  • Intisar Alshammari (English), “Digital Medievalism in the Classroom: Beowulf as a Model”
10:55-11:45a

 

FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

  • Courtney Cox, IRES
  • Lana Lopesi, IRES
12:00-01:00p Lunch for presenters (Bartolotti’s Pizza in EMU)
01:15-02:30p  PANEL B: Media 

  • Emrakeb Woldearegay (SOJC), “Making Dissent Visible through Facebook Activism? The Tale of Three Ethiopians”
  • Stephen Ssenkaaba (SOJC), “Challenging Mainstream Media Narrative through Podcasting: The Case of Uganda’s Youth Podcasters”
  • Asher Caplan (Philosophy), “A Conduct-Based Inquiry Epistemology: John Dewey and the Educationist Response to Disinformation”
02:30-03:30p Abstract workshop and coffee/snack break
03:30-04:45p PANEL C:  Data

  • Nishat Parvez (SOJC), “Examining How Data Journalists in Bangladesh Keep Reporting Honest: Transparency, Ethical Data Visualization, and Protecting Secrets in Investigative Journalism”
  • Maxim Shapovalov (Geography), “Role of Surface Albedo for Explaining Differences of Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet Melt”
  • Genevieve Pfeiffer (English), “What’s Language Got to Do with It? Human-Language Model Entanglement”
  • Audrey Kalman (SOJC), “Denim Archive: Making Meaning of Clothing and Identity through Documentation”

NMCC Spring 2024 Course Listings

now live! spring 2024 course listingsBelow is the NMCC’s pre-approved course list for the spring 2024 term:

 

If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.