"Wanna Play? Race, Gaming, Youth, and the Digital Paradigm Shift"
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Dr. Anna Everett Professor and Chair,Film and Media Studies,
The Lecture is free and open to the public. |
| Everett is a member of a cohort of researchers, activists, and youths invited by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to contribute to its $50 million initiative on the effects of digital technologies are changing the ways young people think, learn, work, play, network, and engage in civic life. Her five books and numerous articles address topics such as the effects on youth of Facebook, computer games, and the blogosphere. In 2001, she occupied the Belle van Zuylen Chair in Women’s Studies and New Media Studies at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 2005, she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of the Center in Kairouan, Tunisia. As lead organizer for four academic conferences, she has received grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. Lecture is sponsored by the University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, the Office of the President, the Division of Student Affairs, Uhuru SaSa, and the NAACP. For more information, please contact Mailee Kue at 874-5829 or maileekue@uri.edu. Multicultural Center |
