Announcements: Class

• 2pm: The first hour of today’s class will take place at the National Black Writer’s Conference.
  • If you’ve registered, you should have received a link.
  • If you haven’t registered, you can check out Kanopy instead; see directions in the Agenda below.
• 3pm: We will meet back in our regularly regular Zoom meeting. Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed.

Agenda 

• 2pm: Choose one of the following:
  • Login to the National Black Writer’s Conference through the link you received in your email.
  • Login to to NYU through login.library.nyu.edu or home.nyu.edu, then watch one of these D&T/gaming documentaries on Kanopy. (Note: If you’re using Safari and the video player doesn’t work, use a different browser.) Some of the documentaries are more than 1 hour long, so you might have to finish watching after class:
    • Returning Fire – Interventions in Video Game Culture (2011, 46 min)
    • Joystick Warriors – Video Games, Violence & the Culture of Militarism (2013, 58 min)
    • Geek Girls – The Hidden Half of Fan Culture (2017, 84 min)
    • Gaming in Color – The Queer Side of Gaming (2014, 62 min)
    • GTFO: Get the F**k Out – Women in Gaming (2015, 76 min)
    • Art of the Game: Ukiyo-e Heroes – Juxtaposing Traditional Art with Pop Culture Icons (2018, 96 minutes)
• 3pm: Shareback in our usual Zoom meeting room. And today there should be time for some of the following:
  • Resource of the day, Medical Bias Clips
  • Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random) 
  • Diversity and Design and accessibility

Assignments

• Due Tuesday, 11/17: 
  • Phase 2, Blog Post #8. Discuss what you did in the 2pm hour of class today (attend the conference, watch a movie on Kanopy, or some of both).
    • Share your thoughts on the conference and/or movie content, in the context of D&T.
    • What did you think about the conference (EventTitan) and/or streaming movie (Kanopy) interfaces? Do you think they offer useful ways to support D&T and remote learning?

Announcements: Extra Credit

• Events: 
  • This week: more UN Internet Governance Forum events on their YouTube channel
  • 11/10 – 11/12: Facing Race: A National Conference
  • All November: Post-Election Programming and Resources (NYU Office of Global Inclusion)
• Web sites and books: 
  • Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America (Univ. of Virginia digitized maps and data): “HOLC’s department of Research and Statistics drew upon its network of realtors, developers, lenders, and appraisers to create a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assessment of more than 200 cities in the country. These assessments included demographic data, economic reports, and the color-coded Security Maps later deemed infamous as instruments of ‘redlining.’”
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (Penguin, 1963). You can skim or read the book online through NYU Libraries.
  • Unmasking Administrative Evil by Adams and Balfour (Sage Publications, 1998). You can load the book through NYU Libraries, then take a look at the summary and skim or read the chapters.