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10 Sep 2014

Meaningful Play and Serious Issues by Carrie Heeter

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Time Magazine ran an article last week by game journalist Leigh Alexander on “Sexism, Lies and Video Games: The Culture War Nobody Is Winning” http://time.com/3274247/video-game-culture-war/ Game researchers and game designers who think deeply about who we are when we play videogames and how games affect us will be attending and presenting at the international Meaningful Play conference (http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu) in East Lansing, October 16-18. The Quello Center invites the general public and conference attendees to a pre-conference lecture: “‘Racism, Sexism, and Video Games: Social Justice Campaigns and the Struggle for Gamer Identity’ by Lisa Nakamura. The talk will be on October […]
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09 Sep 2014

Search for Office and Events Coordinator

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The Quello Center at MSU is seeking a highly motivated and outgoing individual to serve as an Office and Events Coordinator. In this role the successful applicant will work closely with the Director to coordinate all academic and outreach activities and events, such as seminars and lectures for the Quello Center. This includes day-to-day visits and reception, events at the Quello Center, and events and activities in other locations in the US and abroad. This person will receive visitors to the Center, assist the Director with his calendar and meetings, manage the offices on a day-to-day basis, support public outreach […]
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31 Aug 2014

Rejuvenating Policy Research and Practice by Johannes M. Bauer

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I often hear laments about the lack of attention of policy-makers to disciplines such as communications, Internet studies, political science, and sociology. Indeed, often it is scholars and advocates arguing from an economic, engineering and law perspective, who are heard. In my view, these disciplines have an inherent “epistemic advantage” over others because one of their driving questions is how to improve (or even “optimize”) the working of a system, either analytically or by trial and error. A classic example is David Clark’s motto, articulated at an IETF conference in the early 1980s, calling upon the community of Internet engineers […]
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31 Aug 2014

Doctoral Opportunities in Media and Information Studies

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The Quello Center is anchored in the Department of Media and Information at MSU, which provides attractive opportunities for doctoral studies with a multi-disciplinary faculty. The Media and Information Studies (MIS) PhD program at Michigan State University would like to hear from outstanding students who wish to join an innovative interdisciplinary program of study at the intersection of the social sciences, humanities, including the study of  socio technical systems, Internet studies, and communication policy and governance. Our diverse faculty develops and applies transformative knowledge about media and society and evolving information and communication technologies. The program engages students to become […]
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27 Aug 2014

Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB) 65th Anniversary Celebration

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Founded in 1949, the MAB held its 65th Anniversary celebration from 25-27 August at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. While focused on business meetings and the presentation of awards, there was a substantive afternoon session that provided broad overviews of the landscape for broadcasting. Speakers included Congressman John Dingle, also a Special Honoree, and Senator Gordon Smith, President of the NAB, and David Oxenford, with Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP. US Senator Carl Levin was also a speaker and received MAB’s 2014 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. The MAB includes public broadcasting as well as commercial, so a number of awards were […]
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23 Aug 2014

Reframing the Broadband Debate in the US

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Fiber initiatives, such as by Google, are being framed by a debate over universal service versus letting the marketplace decide. This is the framing for example of today’s WSJ article on Google Fiber Rollouts. This leads to a bias against such initiatives, as if they are undermining access to the Internet. This issue would be better framed as one of a number of approaches to enabling more competition in the broadband marketplace, which such initiatives are likely to foster, and targeting public policy initiatives on addressing areas that are not being well served by the marketplace. In this instance, the […]
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23 Aug 2014

Series of VIPP Talks on Communication Policy

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Sung Wook Ji, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Media & Information at MSU, has organized a series of lectures for Michigan State University’s Visiting International Professional Program (VIPP) around communication technology and policy issues. The Quello Center will work with Professor Ji to bring the series to a larger audience through a set of interviews and short Webcasts. In addition to Prof. Sung Wook Ji, speakers will include Professors Johannes Bauer, Charles Steinfield, Steve Wildman and Constantinos Coursaris of the Department of Media & Information, and Professor Adam Candeub of the Law School at MSU. Topics will range […]
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21 Aug 2014

Michigan Broadband Conference, Capital Radison, Lansing, 29 October 2014

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Connect Michigan is hosting the 2014 Connect Michigan Broadband Summit, a non-profit organization tasked with facilitating the expansion of broadband access, adoption, and use throughout the state, will host a broadband and technology conference Wednesday, October 29, 2014. As its organisers note: “Broadband and technology are critical to positioning Michigan at the forefront of the digital economy.” The conference will bring together “community leaders from education, libraries, economic development, local government, healthcare, and technology sectors to share and learn cross-collaborative best practices for expanding broadband and technology access, adoption, and use and move Michigan to the forefront of the digital […]
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17 Aug 2014

Quello Director Receives 2014 William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association

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Bill Dutton, the new Director of the Quello Center, received the 2014 William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association, given by CITASA at the July 2014 ASA meeting. (CITASA is ASA’s section on Communication and Information Technology). A list of previous recipients is available at: http://www.asanet.org/sections/citasa_recipients_History.cfm Bill was unable to attend the meeting, given the timing coinciding with his move to MSU, but he sent these words of appreciation: “Dear Colleagues of CITASA, I would like to convey my appreciation to the selection committee and CITASA for honoring me with this career achievement award. It is […]
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17 Aug 2014

MSU’s Department of Media and Information – Early Reflections

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I am just beginning my tenure in the Department of Media and Information at MSU – literally my first days. However, I can already sense tremendous potential stemming from key features of its faculty. Most obviously, the department’s clear joining of media and information studies departs from a common albeit increasingly artificial division between schools of media and communication and schools of information. It makes no sense to separate broadcasting from social media or big data, for example. It is brilliant for these areas to be bridged within the department. To me, this represents one of the most strategically important […]
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