January 2012

January 26, 2012 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
University of Washington iSchool, Seattle, WA
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity

January 27
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Mary Gray, “Digital Divides in Rural America” (part of Place Matters Lecture Series)

January 31, 12:30pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society Luncheon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity

February 2012

February 7
iConference, Toronto Canada
Jessa Lingel, poster on DJs, organizing music collections and technological nostalgia.

February 11-15
CSCW, Seattle, WA
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Video presentation: A Monkey and a Stick Figure: Stories of Remixing and Social Creativity Wednesday (February 15, 11:00–12:30 in Grand B)
Jessa Lingel, note on secrecy and social media in the underground music scene in New Brunswick, NJ.

February 15-17
Webstock, New Zealand
danah boyd gives a talk.

February 16
Rutgers University, Newark NJ
Alice Marwick, panel on “Social Media and Feminism” (co-organized by Jessa Lingel)

February 22
Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity

March 2012

March 1-3
Digital Media and Learning Conference, San Francisco
Mary Gray, danah boyd, Christo Sims and others, Panel, The Politics and Paradoxes of Inclusion
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Meta-remix: Reflecting on four communities built for learning, tinkering, and remixing with code
Alex Leavitt, Panel, “Learning in and around games: Minecraft as Affinity Space”

March 9-12
SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX
Alex Leavitt, “The Open Source Cult(ure) of Hatsune Miku” (solo presentation in Future15 track)
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, “Designing Creative Online Communities for Kids” (Monday, March 12 12:30PM – 1:30PM)
danah boyd, “The Power of Fear in Networked Publics” (Saturday, 11 am solo presentation)

March 15
UNC Chapel Hill
Mary Gray, invited talk

March 16
Fashion Institute of Technology Tech Day, New York NY
Alice Marwick, keynote speaker, fashion blogging, participation and consumption

March 16-18
Local and Mobile, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Mary Gray, Alex Leavitt, and Germaine Halegoua, paper, “Jumping for Fun? Gaming Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare”

March 19-21
Winona State University, Winona, MN
Mary Gray, invited talk, “Digital Divides in Rural America”

March 29-31
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Mary Gray, invited talk, “Queer Digital Media Studies Methologies”

April 2012

April 12-13
University of Chicago, Chicago IL
Mary Gray, invited talk, “Queer Infrastructures”

April 14
Theorizing the Web, College Park, MD
Alice Marwick, talk, “Pinning Down Identity: Consumer Goods and Digital Consumption.”

April 20-21
Innovate/Activate, Berkeley CA
Alex Leavitt, attending

May 2012

May 2-4
Boys & Girls Clubs of America National Conference, San Diego, CA
Alice Marwick, panel, “Teens And Technology: What Does The Research Say And What Does That Mean For Youth Development?”

May 24-28
International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ