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    Hi All —

    Please see below, reposted from the NYCDH Announcements Group —
    http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/

    Gregory T. Donovan started the topic Inaugural NMDD Spring Lecture
    Series @ Fordham in the forum NYCDH Announcements

    “The New Media and Digital Design Program’s Inaugural Lecture Series
    Fordham College at Lincoln Center
    Spring, 2015

    Further details on each lecture below, information on how to RSVP
    without a Fordham ID to follow.

    Thursday, February 12, 2015 (4:00-6:00 P.M.)
    Government With the People: Digital Media and Re/Designing Government
    Beth Noveck, Former White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer and
    Director of the White House Open Government Initiative

    Monday, February 23, 2015 (4:00-6:00 P.M.)
    Connecting to Rural America from All Over the World: Hollow: An
    Interactive Documentary
    Guided Screening with Elaine McMillion, Documentary Filmmaker; and
    Jeff Soyk, Art Director for Design and User Experience

    Thursday, March 12, 2015 (3:00-5:00 P.M.)
    Humanist Games
    Mary Flanagan, Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities,
    Dartmouth College; Founder, Titlfactor Game Research Lab

    Monday, April 27, 2015 (4:00-6:00 P.M.)
    Digital Media with a Mission
    Amy O’Leary, Editorial Director of Upworthy.com

    Government With the People: Digital Media and Re/Designing Government
    Beth Noveck, Former White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer and
    Director of the White House Open Government Initiative

    Thursday, February 12, 2015
    4:00-6:00 P.M.
    Lowenstein Hall, South Lounge

    This lecture is given in memory of Joseph Dembo.

    Beth Noveck’s work proposes government with the people, a new vision
    of governance in the digital age. She argues that new media
    technology and policy can foster more open and collaborative
    government, allowing people and institutions to work together to solve
    problems, make decisions, resolve conflict and govern more
    effectively.

    Noveck is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make
    Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful, she
    is also co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds.
    Currently, she is Director of The Governance Lab (www.thegovlab.org)
    and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance,
    organizations that strive to improve people’s lives by changing how we
    govern.

    A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Noveck has been
    named one of the “Foreign Policy 100” by Foreign Policy; one of the
    “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company; and one of the
    “Top Women in Technology” by the Huffington Post.

    Connecting to Rural America from All Over the World: Hollow: An
    Interactive Documentary
    Guided Screening with Elaine McMillion, Documentary Filmmaker; and
    Jeff Soyk, Art Director for Design and User Experience
    Monday, February 23, 2015
    4:00-6:00 P.M.
    Lowenstein Hall, South Lounge

    The term “documentary” was coined by John Grierson, father of the
    documentary film, as the “creative treatment of actuality.” Digital
    and social media open up enormous potential for completely new kinds
    of documentaries: films that constantly update themselves with
    breaking information, are shaped by users, engage communities through
    social media collaboration, and are made more persuasive through
    personalization.
    Hollow: An Interactive Documentary an award-winning example of those
    emergent capabilities. This new media film project invites viewers
    into the story of McDowell County, West Virginia – and the story of
    small town America today: of rural communities facing changes beyond
    their control, of boom and bust economies, and challenges and triumphs
    of every size.

    By design, this documentary is a participatory project that examines
    rural America through the eyes and ears of its subjects. Using
    interactive technology, it allows viewers to experience McDowell
    Country through guided access to 35 important stories from the
    project, combining video portraits, data visualizations, photography,
    community-generated content and grassroots mapping to bring the
    stories to life.

    The project won a prestigious Peabody Award in 2013, and has been
    presented at the New York Film Festival, MIT’s Open Documentary Lab,
    Harvard’s Berkman Center, and the Museum of Moving Image, among
    others.

    Humanist Games
    Mary Flanagan, Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities,
    Dartmouth College; Founder, Titlfactor Game Research Lab

    Thursday, March 12, 2015
    3:00-5:00 P.M.
    Lowenstein Hall, South Lounge

    Flanagan is an artist, educator and designer whose works have
    included everything from game-inspired art, to commercial games that
    shift people’s thinking about biases and stereotypes. In 2003,
    Flanagan established the game research laboratory Tiltfactor to invent
    “humanist” games and take on social issues through gaming.

    Her interest in play and culture led to her widely-praised book,
    Critical Play. Her fifth academic title, Values at Play in Digital
    Games, with philosophy Helen Nissenbaum, was recently released from
    MIT.

    Flanagan has been a Fellow with the American Council of Learned
    Societies the Brown Foundation, and has served on the White House
    Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Academic Consortium on Games
    for Impact. She has been supported by commissions and grants from The
    British Arts Council, the National Science Foundation, the National
    Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institute of Justice.

    Digital Media with a Mission
    Amy O’Leary, Editorial Director of Upworthy.com

    Monday, April 27, 2015
    4:00-6:00 P.M.
    Lowenstein Hall, South Lounge

    In early 2015, FCLC’s own Amy O’Leary announced she would be leaving
    The New York Times to become Editorial Director of Upworthy.com.

    O’Leary is a noted multimedia storyteller who learned the trade as a
    producer for This American Life and quickly showed herself to be a
    journalist and editor able to think as fluently in text and audio as
    she can in data and wireframes. An adept and perceptive reporter,
    O’Leary covered sexism in the videogame industry a year before
    #gamergate. A creative adoptor of new technologies, she once
    live-tweeted one of her own keynote addresses. At the Times, O’Leary
    also proved herself an astute digital strategist, co-authoring last
    year’s widely discussed Innovation Report.

    As she moves to Upworthy, O’Leary takes her digital savvy to social
    issues. “The world needs as much attention as possible on the stories
    that matter most,” she says. “Whether that’s climate change, income
    inequality, health or immigration,” she explains, “today we have to be
    willing to get out there, into the street fight for human attention
    that is the Internet, and be willing to deploy our strengths as
    storytellers to make sure the most impactful ideas reach real people,
    where they’re at.”

    O’Leary will close the Lecture Series by coming back home to Fordham,
    Lincoln Center, to talk about where she’s at and what matters most in
    digital media with a mission.

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