Aram Sinnreich was quoted in Forbes on Wednesday, discussing the role of social media in promoting Russian narratives about the war in Ukraine.
Andrew Phelps, Director of the AU Game Center, delivered a paper co-authored with Mia Consalvo of Concordia University at the Northern Star Summit in Game Studies at Nord University in Bodø, Norway entitled “A Fantastic Imagination of Digital Disintegration: The Gestalt and Rhetoric of the Atomization of the Social Network/Virtual World”
Andrew also delivered a keynote at Uppsala University in Gotland, Sweden for their Game Educator Conference, in advance of his service as a judge for the Gotland Game Conference design competition which involves 3 days of playing, presentations, scoring, and awards.
Amy Eisman was a panelist at the PBS annual meeting in San Diego this week at an interactive forum on media ethics with Luis Ortiz, managing director of Latino Public Broadcasting and Morgan Holm, SVP of Oregon Public Broadcasting. Amy had served on the task force revamping PBS editorial standards and practices and has served as a trainer since 2018.
This week, host of Media in the Mix, Grace Ibrahim, was joined by the Founder and Creative Director of the Anacostia Youth Media Festival, Brigid Maher, who is also a tenured associate professor in the School of Communication at American University, a Senior Fellow of the Community Voice Lab at American University, and an award-winning filmmaker.
This is the first-ever Anacostia Youth Media Festival, a groundbreaking initiative producing an arts education event led by youth in historically disadvantaged wards of Washington, DC, while also involving our AU SOC students, faculty and staff. Brigid joins the podcast to talk about their upcoming events, past workshops and more importantly why it's important to involve our students, staff and faculty in initiatives like this The festival will take place this weekend on May 20th, so tune into SOC's podcast to learn all about it.
Social Art and Culture hosted its 2023 Environmental Justice Forum this week and Maggie Burnette Stogner, Executive Director of the Center For Environmental Filmmaking, was a panelist for the session “Clean Air: A Human Right” along with Hannah Ashenafi, Chief Air Quality Compliance Officer for the DC Dept. of Energy & Environment, and Laura Kate Bender, National Assistant VP for the American Lung Association. The session was moderated by Esther Iverem, Producer and Host of “On the Ground" for WPFW 89.3.
We have a triple-win with the University Film & Video Association annual conference in July! Maggie Burnette Stogner and Film & Media Arts MFA grad student Marissa Woods will be screening “Upstream, Downriver” and conducting an Impact Media Workshop. Maggie and Film & Media Arts MFA grad student Rediet Lewi will be presenting a paper they are co-authoring, “Inverting the Colonial Gaze in Environmental Filmmaking”. If anyone other SOC faculty, staff, or students are attending UFVA, please contact Maggie, stogner@american.edu.
