NEWS

Fox Harrell receives NSF CAREER Award
(Published: Nov 3, 2009)

LCC Faculty member Fox Harrell has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project "Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of tenure-track faculty. His distinction is accompanied by a grant for $535,000. Fox is director of the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab icelab.lcc.gatech.edu.

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Sci Fi Lab Moves to First Sunday of Month from 7-9 pm, EST
(Published: Oct 30, 2009)

The Sci Fi Lab, Georgia Tech's student-run radio show dedicated to "the best in everything science fiction" now airs the first Sunday of every month from 7-9 pm, EST.

The show on Nov. 1 features discussions of costuming in science fiction film and ghost hunting technology as well as an extended interview with LCC professor, bioscience writer, theorist, and author Eugene Thacker.

Be sure to tune in to 91.1 fm on your local dial or, outside the Atlanta area, to WREK . All shows stream live and are available in the WREK archives for one week after the initial show date.

A joint production of LCC and WREK, Georgia Tech's student-run radio station, The Sci Fi Lab is always seeking authors, artists, scholars, scientists, and fans to feature on the show. If you are interested in participating either live or long-distance, please contact show manager Paul Clifton at paulgclifton@gmail.com or Dr. Lisa Yaszek at lisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu.

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DM Alumnus Chaim Gingold's Earth Dragon iPhone Game
(Published: Oct 29, 2009)

DM Alumnus Chaim Gingold, who was the lead game designer for wildly popular Spore Creature Editor is interviewed on Gamasutra about his new iPhone game EARTH DRAGON which also has a cool short Video Trailer on YouTube

Says Chaim: ' iPhone games, and the indie scene, are becoming the creative center of gravity of the gaming world, and I'm excited to be part of it. It feels like a whole new golden era of video games.'

Web page for EARTH GODDESS iphone game

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Edith Blicksilver, Retired Professor, Dies
(Published: Oct 20, 2009)

Professor Blicksilver taught at Tech for a number of years and her classes often featured literature by immigrants who contributed their unique insights to American literature. Additional information on Professor Blicksilver's life is available at AJC Obituary .

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Andrea Wood's Team for AID's Walk Recognized
(Published: Oct 15, 2009)

Dr. Wood's team, which consists of students in her three English 1101 classes, won an ice cream party from Edy's for registering the most students in a team during one of AID Atlanta's competitions. Edy's graciously offered to provide ice cream to the winning team.

Andrea's team has also earned a table in "Team Land" at the AIDS Walk, an honor reserved for groups that raise $1500 or more for the AIDS Walk.

There's a little less than a week left to continue fundraising, but people can still support these civic-minded students.

Go to AIDS Walk and click on Wood's name to make an online donation to the whole team.

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Kenya Devalia, LCC Administrative Manager, Nominated for 2009 Woman of Distinction Award,
(Published: Oct 14, 2009)

The award, which is sponsored by the Women's Leadership Conference, honors women in the Undergraduate, Graduate, Staff, Faculty, and Alumna categories who demonstrate exemplary leadership abilities.

The conference will take place on Friday, October 23, and Saturday, October 24. The recipients of the Women of Distinction Awards will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will take place on Friday.

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Reilly's Chapbook Accepted for Publication
(Published: Oct 14, 2009)

La Petite Mort , a chapbook of poems by STAC Advisor J.C. Reilly was recently accepted by Finishing Line Press .

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Wood Publishes Chapbook, Gorizia Notebook
(Published: Oct 8, 2009)

Inspired by Wood's experience teaching in LCC's Study Abroad program, GORIZIA NOTEBOOK was published by Finishing Line Press.

The book is available on the Finishing Line Press website Finishing Line .

To order, go to New and Forthcoming Books listed alphabetically by author.

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Brittain Fellow Andrea Wood Recognized on CNN
(Published: Oct 2, 2009)

Andrea Wood, who helped to organize the recent Zombie Symposium at Georgia Tech was recently recognized on CNN .

Wood teaches an English 1102 class subtitled "Apocalyptic Nightmares of the Living Dead" and is working on a book about zombies in popular culture.

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Dalle Vacche's Diva Wins Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2009
(Published: Sep 28, 2009)

Choice , the official publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries in the United States, annually selects a scholarly work for its prestigious award, and this year LCC Professor Angela Dalle Vacche was selected for her study, Diva .

Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema was published by The University of Texas Press in 2008.

For additional information about Diva , go to UT Press .

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Travis Denton's "The Burden of Speech" Runner-Up for DeNovo Prize
(Published: Sep 17, 2009)

Travis Denton's recent book of poetry, runner-up for this prestigious prize in poetry, will be published in Fall 2009 by C & R Press. C&R Press is a non-profit literary organization. The DeNovo Prize is for a previously unpublished American poet. Other criteria include striking language, memorable imagery, intellectual depth, and a respect for diversity in all areas of life.

"The Burden of Speech" was also chosen by Robert Pinsky as a finalist for both the Brittingham and Pollack Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press and nominated by the press for a Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

An individual poem, "To a Buick Skylark," was also anthologized in the newly published Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes.

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Carl DiSalvo at Creativity and Cognition Conference at Berkeley Art Museum
(Published: Sep 14, 2009)

DM assistant professor Carl DiSalvo will be presenting a paper entitled "Local Issues, Local Uses: Tools for Robotics and Sensing in Community Contexts" at the Creativity and Cognition Conference held at the Berkeley Art Museum, October 27-30.

http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/

This paper describes tools to foster community engagement with robotics and sensing technologies. We will discuss the challenges of enabling informed speculation with unfamiliar technologies and the value of a community co-design approach.

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David Jimison and JooYoun art exhibition Sept. 16
(Published: Sep 10, 2009)

David Jimison and JooYoun exhibit Sept. 16:
http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/09/toward-the-sentient-city-interviews/
Digital Media Ph.D candidate David Jimison's new art piece Too Smart City will be commissioned at the Architecture League's Sentient City exhibition from September 17th through November 7th. Too Smart City is a set of three street furniture pieces that come to life with embedded intelligence and robotic systems. For more information visit: http://www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/?p=59
Too Smart City: Three pieces of street furniture – a bench, a trash can, and a sign – offer a comedic challenge to the notion that increasingly “smarter” embedded intelligence and robotic systems are an aspirational goal in the design of objects, environments and services in public space.

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Hye Yeon Nam receives Tertiary Prize
(Published: Sep 10, 2009)

Digital Media PhD student Hye Yeon Nam received a Tertiary Prize, an award of a voucher from Focal Press from the Screengrab exhibition.

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Denton's Poetry Featured
(Published: Sep 8, 2009)

Versedaily.com features a poem from Travis Denton's recent volume, The Burden of Speech: Poems .

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STAC Major Wins NSF Scholarship for Science and Math Education
(Published: Aug 28, 2009)

Senior Lauren Barnes was awarded a Noyce Scholarship and will be awarded $10,000 this year and another $10,000 during her 1-year Master of Arts (MAT) in Teaching (mathematics) at Kennesaw State.

The Robert F. Noyce Scholars Program is an NSF-funded program designed to attract undergrads in STEM fields into K-12 Math and Science education. The Georgia Tech/KSU Noyce scholarship in Math is open to Tech students who have taken at least Calc I, II, III, and one additional math course. This particular Noyce program also aims to prepare Math teachers to be effective teachers of students who are English language learners, so the program includes TESOL certification along with the Math.

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STAC Graduate Featured in Film
(Published: Aug 26, 2009)

Jessica Luza, who graduated in Summer 2007, worked on The Lost and Found Family during her senior year at Tech. The film is being released to DVD via Sony Home Entertainment on Sept. 15.

For additional information, see The Lost and Found Family .

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Head's Hour on London Plinth Featured by Time
(Published: Aug 25, 2009)

Poet Karen Head, who explores the use of New Media to explore poetry, was the only American to appear on the 4th plinth at Trafalgar Square, for which she was featured by Time Magazine's Web .

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Thacker Essay "Swarming: Number vs. Animal?" Published in Deleuze and New Technology
(Published: Aug 24, 2009)

Edited by David Savat and Mark Poster and published by the University of Edinburgh Press, Deleuze and New Technology explores Deleuze's often explicit focus and reliance on the machine and the technological.

The volume offers a collective and determined effort to explore the usefulness of key ideas of Deleuze in thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future and takes seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art.

Other contributors to the volume include William Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, and Bent Meier Sørensen.

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Professor Qi Wang Delivers Talks in Beijing August 4-6, 2009
(Published: Aug 24, 2009)

Professor Wang addressed the Independent Film Production Program, Li Xianting's Film Fund, Beijing .

Wang's current areas of research include representations of history and memory; documentary; contemporary independent and Socialist Chinese Cinema; experimental and dance film. She is writing a book, Writing Against Oblivion: Personal Filmmaking from the Forsaken Generation in Post-Socialist China.

Her most recent work is “Embodied Visions: Chinese Queer Experimental Documentaries by Shi Tou and Cui Zi’en,” which will appear in positions: east asia cultures critique , published by Duke University Press.

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DramaTech AD Recognized in Top 10 Directors
(Published: Aug 20, 2009)

Melissa Foulger was named one of the Top 10 Directors in Atlanta by critic, Bert Osbourne for her production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer produced by Actor's Express on Marietta Street.

For details see The Sunday Paper .

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Amanda Gable Publishes Novel
(Published: Aug 11, 2009)

The Confederate General Rides North: A Novel by former Brittain Fellow was published by Scribner in August.

ABOUT THE NOVEL:

Growing up in Georgia in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Civil War buff Katherine McConnell is so fascinated by stories of the generals that she imagines herself one of them: riding her pony, leading troops to battle. When Kat's mother wakes her early one morning for an impromptu road trip north to find antiques, Kat seizes the opportunity for real adventure. It will be just her, her mother, and their Chevy Impala.

As the navigator, Kat cleverly charts a course that takes them to battlefields and historic sites, following the path of her heroes. She hopes the trip also will provide her beautiful, impulsive mother the means for success. But as they travel farther from home, Kat discovers that each stop brings not only new experiences but new questions. Unexpected revelations test her faith in her mother, her understanding of the war, and her confidence in the trip's outcome; neither her mother's intentions nor the glory and adventure depicted in her history books are quite what they had seemed. When their journey comes to an abrupt halt in Gettysburg and Kat faces the threat of real tragedy, she must make an irrevocable choice about where their ultimate destination -- and her loyalty -- lies.

You can hear Amanda discuss her book on NPR's "City Cafe" .

READINGS in ATLANTA and DECATUR:

July 30, 7:30 p.m., Charis Books & More 1189 Euclid Avenue, Atlanta, 30307
August 11, 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, 30030
Sept. 4-6 Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Square area
Sept. 23, 7:15 p.m. Blue Elephant Bookshop 2091 N. Decatur Road, Decatur, 30033

For reviews of the novel as well as an opportunity to order it, see Amazon .

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Former Brittain Fellow Publishes Book on Film
(Published: Jun 29, 2009)

Chuck Tryon, an assistant professor of English and foreign languages at Fayetteville State University, published Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence (Rutgers).

To learn more about the book, visit Rutgers .

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Telotte Named LCC Interim Chair
(Published: Jun 23, 2009)

Professor Jay P. Telotte is serving as Interim Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC). Telotte is transitioning to leadership of the School as Chair Kenneth J. Knoespel moves to the role of Interim Dean of the Ivan Allen College July 1, 2009.

For more information contact:
Rebecca Keane, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
404-894-1720

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DramaTech Photo in Tony Awards Contest
(Published: May 21, 2009)

TonyAwards.com is sponsoring a photo contest to determine the best theatrical photo, and a picture of a scene from DramaTech's production of Urinetown: The Musical presented Spring 2008 is a finalist in the contest.

To cast a vote, go to Tony Awards to vote 5 stars for the DT photo.

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Knoespel Appointed Interim Dean of Ivan Allen College
(Published: May 18, 2009)

Dr. Kenneth Knoespel, Professor and Chair of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, will serve as interim dean of the Ivan Allen College. The announcement was made May 18, 2009 by Georgia Tech Provost Gary Schuster who stated that "Dr. Knoespel's expertise as an administrator and knowledge of the College led to wide support for his appointment." Knoespel officially assumes leadership of the College on July 1, 2009 when current dean Sue V. Rosser leaves to become Provost of San Francisco State University.

For more information contact:
Rebecca Keane, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
404-894-1720

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Head's Sassing Published
(Published: Apr 15, 2009)

For more information on Sassing and an opportunity to read some sample poems, go to WordTech

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Head Publishes Three Poems in The Southern Humanities Review
(Published: Apr 1, 2009)

You can read "Cadavre Exquis, 2007," "Alter Ego," and "Fixtures" in The Southern Humanities Review, Volume 43, Number 1.

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Hye Yeon Nam's Musical Instrument in Wired.com
(Published: Mar 22, 2009)

Digital Media PhD Student Hye Yeon Nam's Tongue Music System is featured in a story in Wired.com .

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Ayoka Chenzira Films Shown in London
(Published: Mar 22, 2009)

Two short Films by Digital Media PhD student and Spellman College Professor Ayoka Chenzira "Hair Piece" and "Alma's Rainbow" will be shown March 28 at the 5th Annual Images of Black Women Film Festival in London. "Hair Piece" offers an animated depiction of the antics performed by many black women in an effort to control their hair. "Alma's Rainbow" is a hip urban sitcom with sepia-toned flashbacks. which recalls Spike Lee's first film, "She's Gotta Have It." The heart of the movie is the struggle between Alma and Ruby . Her live-for-the-moment manner sets an example for both mother and daughter, allowing Alma to take a Rainbow's transition from a street-dancing tomboy into a more sexually self-assured young woman.

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David Jimison Receives NYC Art Commission
(Published: Mar 4, 2009)

Digital Media PhD Student David Jimison and Joo Youn Paek have been awarded a commission for their piece Too Smart City, as part of the Architecture League's exhibition, Situated Technologies:Toward the Sentient City. Too Smart City is a set of street furniture–a trash can, a bench, and an information sign–augmented with computational intelligence and location awareness. In each, the furniture is rendered near useless by its hyper-enthusiastic use of technology to facilitate its service. The result is a comical interactive piece that enables the public to engage in some of the critical issues involved in next generation public infrastructure. http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/89

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Ayoka Chenzira a Star in Bahrain
(Published: Mar 4, 2009)

Digital Media PhD student Ayoka Chenzira was hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain in February where she lectured and ran workshops for local filmmakers and film students. http://bahrain.usembassy.gov/filmstar.html

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Former Brittain Fellow Matthew Roberson Publishes Novel
(Published: Mar 3, 2009)

The University of Alabama Press announces one of its latest offerings in the FC2 (Fiction Collective Two) Series: Impotent by Matthew Roberson (ISBN: 9781573661485).

M— works a dead-end job for the insurance and meager income. He’s in a trough, and asks his doctor for Paxil because he’s worried he’ll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L— is a college dropout and construction worker. He self-medicates with Ambien and, after he accidentally cuts off some fingers, moves to Darvocet, then Zoloft once the cocktail of pharmaceuticals meant to prop him up, puts him to sleep.

Impotent chronicles a time when individuals are reduced to letters on a medical chart and “it is easier to get a refill on a prescription than approval for therapy.” Roberson catalogs the hopes, dreams, and failures of people identified only through abbreviations (D—for Dependent, I—for Insured). Each “case study” exposes a different facet of our medicated society, humanizing a multitude of conditions. Impotent is both important social commentary and engrossing fiction.

Matthew Roberson, the author of 1998.6 (FC2), teaches at Central Michigan University and lives with his wife and children in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

"As the fictions in Impotent accumulate, the book graphically decays, morphs, becomes ruined in front of your eyes. Roberson's work is, in a way, a rewriting of Frankenstein but Impotent is the monster itself - patched up, stitched, sewn together. A hybrid. A mash-up. The book reanimated. Sublime. And 'it's alive!'"—Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and The Blue Guide to Indiana.

"Matthew Roberson’s Impotent contains sharp, energetic writing, as well as cleverly structured narratives that keep a strong hold on the reader’s interest. The book reaches, too, for a larger message: We’ve become a society that relies on pharmaceuticals, and our culture has become so commercial that we look to products to solve our problems, instead of ourselves." —Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief.

For a limited time, you can purchase a copy for $9.77, which is 30 percent off the retail price.To purchase a copy at the discounted offer, good through June 1, 1009, call (800) 621-2736 and mention sales code E12009.

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Nitsche's Book Published by MIT Press
(Published: Mar 3, 2009)

Assistant Professor Michael Nitsche's Video Game Spaces. Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds explores the move to 3D graphics. That move represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games and suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and how we play them. Video Game Spaces investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis.

Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D game worlds and the new challenges they pose.

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CM launches the new website
(Published: Mar 2, 2009)

Thanks to the hard work of CM student Paul Stamatiou there is a new Computational Media Program website. Check it out. http://lcc.gatech.edu/compumedia/

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Three LCC Poets Publish in On-Line Journal
(Published: Dec 8, 2008)

Poems by Professors Karen Head, J.C. Reilly, and Robert Wood are featured in the first issue of ouroboros.

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Pollock article, "The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator," Published by MIT
(Published: Sep 24, 2008)

The article appears in a volume edited by Sherry Turkle, The Inner History of Devices .

Anne Pollock completed her PhD in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT in 2007 and joined LCC this Fall after spending a postdoctoral year at Rice.

Another article, “Pharmaceutical Meaning – Making Beyond Marketing,” was recently published by the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

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Will Wright's SPORE released
(Published: Sep 5, 2008)

DM Alumni Chaim Gingold and Kate Compton were part of the development team. Chaim led the team that designed the Creature Editor and Kate was one of the principle artists making planets. Will Wright is a recipient of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen Award for Progress and Service and has twice been the keynote speaker at the Living Game Worlds Symposium, offering us one of the first looks at SPORE when it was in development.

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LCC Professors "Conquer" England
(Published: Jul 8, 2008)

While teaching in the Oxford program Dr. Bob Wood and Dr. Karen Head are also busy sharing their poetry with various British audiences.

On Tuesday, July 15, Head and Grace Bauer (award winning poet from Nebraska) will read at Worcester College. The following Tuesday (July 22), Bob and Lauren Rusk (Stanford) will read.

Additionally, Karen is reading in London at the Poetry Cafe on Wednesday, July 8.

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Dr. Wood's Poem Appears in Poetry Midwest #21
(Published: Apr 6, 2008)

The issue also includes a poem by Jack Stewart, Brittain Fellow 1992-95.

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Head Receives Editor's Choice Book Award
(Published: Feb 11, 2008)

Karen Head's poetry collection, My Paris Year, receives first annual Editor's Choice Book Award for excellence in poetry. The volume will be published in mid-September.

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Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, featured today on the PBS homepage as part of Independent Lens' web exclusive
(Published: Jan 18, 2008)

Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, a downloadable video game about eating, obesity, and the politics of nutrition, reconstructs a playful, small-scale society in which players own and operate a restaurant, purchase groceries, create and share recipes, and make nutritional decisions over the life of a character.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive.html
http://www.pbs.org/

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CNN.com Reports on Digital Media's Winter 2007 Demo Day
(Published: Jan 11, 2008)

CNN.com provided coverage of the Digital Media program's Winter 2007 Demo Day. The segment can be watched online here on CNN

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Auslander's Liveness Translated into Slovenian
(Published: Jan 3, 2008)

The second edition of Dr. Phil Auslander's Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture was recently translated into Slovenian, V Zivo: Uprizarjanje v mediatriziani kulturi, and is the most recent volume in a Slovenian series on performance.

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Game Daily featured article by Dr. Celia Pearce "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Video Game Makers Sh
(Published: Dec 13, 2007)

Game Daily - December 13, 2007 Dr. Celia Pearce of GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY believes the video game industry has yet to really take advantage of the huge opportunity female gamers present ... During the upcoming holiday season, consumers will spend billions of dollars on video games. While their commercial success is unquestionable, it's amazing to think that video games have become so successful while almost willfully excluding a sizable chunk of the population – women. Link to complete article

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