Tara McPherson News

Leading topics on digital humanities, etc

Over the past three months, Critical Studies associate professor Tara
McPherson has presented widely on topics of the digital humanities, learning
and media, and digital publishing. 

In April, her podcast interview "Expanding the Digital Humanities" was published
on the Educause website.

Tara also delivered an invited lecture as part of UC-Riverside's Mellon Speaker
Series "Affect, Technics, Ethics." In  early May, Tara was a plenary
panelist at the ACLS conference in Pittsburgh, PA, as part of a special
session entitled,
"Learned Societies and the Future of Publishing: When Will the Internet Revolution
Arrive?"

In May and in June as part of a Mellon planning grant, Tara hosted two working
group meetings at IML on "Networking Visual Studies." Guests included
academics, non-profit organizers, and corporate affiliates from the U.S. and
abroad, as well as SCA faculty Holly Willis, Josh Kun and Anne Friedberg.
Production grad student Tara Waugh coordinated the events. 

A few wees ago, Tara was a guest on host Farai Chideya's NPR series "News and Notes,"
discussing digital technologies, learning and youth.

Tara was interviewed on NPR in a story about how video games and other
technologies can help kids learn. McPherson works on the MacArthur
Foundation¹s digital media and learning initiative, the story noted. Rather
than incite moral panic that children are playing video games too much, the
initiative strives to really engage the kids and see what they are learning
from these forms, McPherson said.

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Tara McPherson