American Library Association Conference 2018 highlights

   Listening to Michelle Obama and Carla Hayden have a conversation  2. Reconnecting with Carla Hayden. She remembers me 🙂 – Total fanboy moment 3. Making it into the (room) Michelle Obama talk. Jenifer Moore and I were moderating a panel at the Libraries Ready to Code session until 4:30pm We were at the end […]

Podcast: Traveling to Cuba for Americans

collage of old American cars, cuban newspaper, and street art of che

In this episode Dr. Maria Malyk joins me as we discuss the logistics of traveling to Cuba as Americans, finding and booking Casa Particulars (local rooms for rent w/ families), food, music, cigars, internet challenges, and we share a couple of our most memorable moments in the city. For a detailed write up check our Maria’s write […]

Podcast: Fashion Informatics with designer Shwetambari Mody

Social Informatics Fashion Designer Shwetambari Mody

Fashion designer Shwetambari Mody visits Informatics Overload Shwetambari Mody is an Indian-born, international fashion designer and branding expert living in New York. She is best known for her classic, vibrant, high fashion neck scarves, whose designs and fabrics come together to express both classic and modern elements of the global world. In the podcast, Shwetambari discusses her […]

i3- iSchools Inclusion Institute now accepting applicants

  The application process for the i3 program is open for Summer 2017. The iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) is an undergraduate research and leadership development program that prepares students from underrepresented populations for graduate study and careers in the information sciences. Only 25 students from across the country are selected each year to become i3 Scholars

Should we have robots raking our zen garden?

This month I was able to attend the World Maker Faire held a few minutes away from Queens College. I Volunteered as part of a team showing the Zen Robot Gardener. As technology becomes affordable we will continue to find it in new places. We built a simple a robot to rake a zen garden, […]

Podcast: A Conversation with Elaine Gomez

In this podcast I’m joined by Elaine Gomez, a graduate of the University of Southern California’s MFA program in Interactive Media and Game Design in the School of Cinematic Arts. We discuss the program at USC, empathy in video games, and gender representation in video games and Gamergate.

Podcast: What is a Game?

In this podcast, recorded for an undergraduate course Social Impacts of Video Games, I give a brief synopsis of several popular theories and theorists who try to answer the question, What is a Game?