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Information/Race: What Ferguson Can Teach Us About Race, Politics, and Journalism in the Network

On September 30, 2014, the Digital Studies Center hosted a roundtable event entitled “Information Race: What Ferguson Can Teach Us About Race, Politics, and Journalism in the Network.” Above, you can view a video of that roundtable, which was was moderated by Rich Aregood and which featured Wayne Glasker (History),

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Summer 2015 DH Courses

Special Topics in American Studies: American Histories and Futures of Climate Change Instructor: Sara Grossman sargross@andromeda.rutgers.edu Summer 2015 Online Course 5/26-7/2 Description: Climate change touches all aspects of human life. It impacts small and large-scale scenarios, from the choices we make about transportation to the ebb and flow of global

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Annotation Swarm: A Conversation About Ethical Programs

Press, 2015) using the Hypothes.is platform. Hypothes.is is free and open source software that allows for annotation, sentence-level critique, and note-taking on Web documents. Guided by DWRL alumnus Dr. Jeremy Dean, Director of Education at Hypothes.is, the annotation event will open up a conversation about software, rhetoric, and networked life.

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Well Played: Bioshock Infinite

number of scenes during which they must navigate the fictional world of Columbia and its deep-seated racism. We’ll discuss two scenes, “Raffle Park” and “Fraternal Order of the Raven,” and how they implicate the player in the racial dynamics of Columbia. Those attending will have an opportunity to both play

Digital Studies Center

  DiSC is research center that conducts and supports research at the convergence of digital technologies and the various disciplines of the Rutgers-Camden College of Arts and Sciences. DiSC researchers work on a number of ongoing projects, and it also offers an interdisciplinary major and minor in Digital Studies to