<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">#########################<br class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" class=""><div class="m_5136982691369446382WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<a name="m_5136982691369446382__MailOriginalBody" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> </span></b></a><span class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></i><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts institute of Technology</span></b><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Equity and the Avatar Dream: From Gaming Sexism to Virtualizing the Enemy</span></i><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Thursday, February 15 10am–11:45am (40 min talk starting at 10am, followed by Q&A and discussion)</span><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Social Sciences Research Building Tea Room</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">D. Fox Harrell</span></b></span><span class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> is
Professor of Digital Media & Artificial Intelligence in both the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He founded and directs MIT’s Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory
(ICE Lab), and his research explores the relationship between imaginative cognition and computation. Harrell is concerned with how our social identities are complicated by their intersection with computing technologies including videogames, virtual worlds,
social media, and related digital media forms. With an emphasis on equity, Professor Harrell’s talk will explore how virtual identities both implement and transform persistent issues of class, gender, sex, race, ethnicity, and the dynamic construction of social
categories more generally. He aims to push the boundaries of how computers can be used for creative expression and social empowerment.</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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