Animating the Archive—Tara McPherson

April 22, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm

Digital Scholars 2010
Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite)
Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus

Tara McPherson, University of Southern California

Tara McPherson, University of Southern California

Tara McPherson’s books and edited collections include Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, and Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected (MIT, 2008.)  Interactive Frictions, coedited with Marsha Kinder, is forthcoming from the University of California. She is working on a manuscript on the cultural and racial logics of code. Her new media research focuses on issues of convergence, gender, and race, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship. She is among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a core member of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), and the founding editor of Vectors.

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