Events

 

Date: April 22, 2009

Time: 2 P.M.

Location: SCILS Faculty Lounge, Room 323, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick

The Department of Journalism and Media Studies and the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies invite you to attend presentations by this year's postdoctoral fellows at the Center for Cultural Analysis.

 

David Parisi

"I Couldn't Feel, So I Tried To Touch:
Computer-Generated Tactility in the Video Game Apparatus"

and

Jelena Karanovic

"Contentious Europeanization:
Activism against Software Patents in the European Union"

 

DAVID PARISI is a postdoctoral fellow in New Media Literacies at the Center for Cultural Analysis. He received his PhD in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University and an MA in Political Theory from the University at Albany. His dissertation, Touch Machines: An Archeology of Haptic Interfacing, investigated the relationship between touch and media technologies, detailing the emergence of a scientific tactility in late nineteenth-century psychophysics discourse and demonstrating its relevance to the design of new media interfaces.  His work has appeared in the journal Senses and Society and in the edited volume Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education (IGI, 2008).

JELENA KARANOVIC was trained in cultural anthropology and French studies at New York University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis, where she is developing a project entitled "Free Software, Public Valuation, and the Reconfigurations of Media Literacy." Her dissertation, entitled Sharing Publics: Democracy, Cooperation, and Free Software Advocacy in France, is an ethnographic study of political and cultural activism around software. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted offline and online in 2004 and 2005, she examines how French voluntary associations that promote free software have linked hacker contentions about property rights in software to long-standing national debates about the common good, processes of EU integration and the "free-market" globalization.