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Dmt conference   dec. 4, 2018 Rosenwald 301, 2-8pm)

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Affective Games: 2-2:45pm

• Marrissa Ballard: "Playing with Empathy: Exploring Undertale’s Anti-Violence Commentary through Space and Identification"

• Kelly Triece: "From Simoleons to Dollars: The Role of Feeling and Affect on Producing Conspicuous Consumption Behaviors in SIMS Mobile" 

• AJ Barnhardt: "Playing as the Posthuman: SOMA, the Transhuman Project, and the Anxieties of a Non-Corporeal Future"

 

Politics and Place in Videogames: 2:45-3:45pm

• Arianna Gass: "Femmes, Words, Games: A Feminist Prehistory of Twine"

• Asawari Luthra: "Proteus, A Virtual Playground"

• Steven Wyman: "How Game Space Becomes Place in Alan Wake"

• Jenn Jentes: “Imitating Life: Politics Around Gaming”

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Critical Making: 3:45-4:30pm

• Crystal Beiersdorfer: "Untitled: a journey"

• Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield: "Being an Indiscretion"

• India Weston: "Roleplaying Sex Worker Robots: The Collective Worlding of 0-A_SYS"

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BREAK: 4:30-4:45pm

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Digital Image Cultures: 4:45-5:30pm

• Kayla Johnson: "Interacting with Love Live, or How We Participate Within Convergence Culture"

• Zoe Smith: "Wonder Woman’s Thighs and Other Important Movements of the Semi-Animated Superhero Body"

• Gabriel Ojeda-Sague: "Porn’s Home Pages: Various Metaphors"

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Digital Ethics and Network Politics: 5:30-6:15pm

• Chris Gortmaker: "Computing Racial Ethics: What is a Subject Position in the Neoliberal Machine?"

• Marielle Ingram: "Digital Veil or, The Anguish and Ecstasy of 21st-Century Black  Representation"

• Nash Jenkins: "Burn Down The Disco: Reactionary Nihilism and Online Subjecthood in the Post-Truth Era"

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Embodied Sounds and Digital Audio Aesthetics: 6:15-7:15pm

• Josh Remillard: "Sounds of the Body: Transgender Bodies and the Auditory in Dys4ia"

• Benny VanDerburgh: "This is your voice on drugs: t-boy vocal transitions on YouTube"

• Maggie Sivit: "Trial by Podcast: On Serial"

• Michael Esparza: "Uncanny Valley Girls, or: The Too-Cute, Not-Quite-Human Pop Divas of Hypnagogia"

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Media Theories of Form and Audience: 7:15-8:00pm

• Evan Wisdom-Dawson: "Sporadic Media"

• David Garner: "The Endless Loops of Digital Art: Revisiting Deconstructive Binaries and Hermeneutics in Digital Media"

• Dana Glaser: "The Reader Writes Back: Literary Circulation Online"

• Laura Cremer: "DIY Media: Fan Creation in Digital and Historical Contexts"