http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu University of California New Media Directory Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:53:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The area of "new media studies" has recently emerged at the intersection of humanities, arts, social science, and computer science research into digital, networked technologies and their cultural implications. Research fields in this area include humanities computing, digital and network art, electronic literature, critical internet studies, computer-mediated communication, information ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/directory-of-uc-new-media-researchers-and-programs/ UC Berkeley Center for New Media starts up "Our Goal: To understand the full philosophical, aesthetic, practical and historical significance of the information-age transformations in which we are now immersed, and to place our institution of liberal education at the center of this cultural and technological revolution so we can inform ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/recent-news/ Graduate Student, Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley Paul Nadal is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley working on Asia-Pacific cultural studies, literature, and film. Paul holds a B.A. in English and Ethnic Studies from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA, ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/nadar-paul/ Graduate Student, English Department, UCLA Renee Hudson received her BA in English at Stanford University and is currently a PhD student in English at UCLA. She specializes in twentieth century American literature. Her research interests include media theory, terrorism, and political violence. http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/hudson-renee/ Associate Professor, Germanic Languages, Jewish Studies, UCLA Home page Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography. He is the ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/presner-todd/ Associate Professor, Comparative Literature Program, Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB Home page Sven Spieker is the editor of ARTMargins, an online journal devoted to the visual arts and aesthetic theory in Eastern and Central Europe. At UCSB he specializes in ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/spieker-sven/ Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Davis Home page Seth Forrest is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis where he teaches courses in literature and composition. His research interests cover: poetry and poetics from the British Romantics to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers; sound ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/forrest-seth/ Graduate Student, English Dept., UCLA A former web designer and programmer, David Shepard’s interests center around code as art form and gaming, but he has also done work on early radio. With Alison Walker and Jessica Pressman, he has published Media-Specific Analysis: Analyzing the Specificities of Digital Texts, a web project ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/shepard-david/ Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Davis Andrew Hageman is a doctoral student in the English Department at the University of California, Davis, pursuing his degree with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory, and he is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). His current research ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/hageman-andrew/ Associate Professor of Digital Media, UC Irvine; Associate Director of the UCI Game Culture and Technology Lab; Director of Academic Computing for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Home page Antoinette LaFarge has a particular interest in constructed realities, including computer-mediated performance, net-based improvisation, online role-playing games, avatar ... http://ucnewmedia.english.ucsb.edu/lafarge-antoinette/