Elizabeth Losh - Public Lectures

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?: THE BAKED PROFESSOR, THE RUNAWAY RÉSUMÉ, AND OTHER CAUTIONARY TALES OF THE DIGITAL CAMPUS
USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy
TBA

THE FOURTH WALL: CAN OPEN SOURCE DO VIRTUAL REALITY?
Computers & Writing Conference
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
May 23, 2008

GAMES WITH PUBLICS: CREATING PLAY EXPERIENCES THAT FOSTER COLLECTIVE ACTION
DigiPen, Redmond Washington
April 11, 2008

THE PLAY'S THE THING: THE ARDEN PROJECT AND THE DILEMMAS OF THE SERIOUS GAMES MOVEMENT
Play: Toward a Critical Concept Concept
University of California, Irvine
April 4, 2008

HACKTIVISM FOR THE MASSES: WIKISCANNER AND THE NORTHWEST BOARDING PASS GENERATOR
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference
San Francisco, CA
March 20, 2008

IS AN 'ACADEMIC BLOG' AN OXYMORON?: A PUBLIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN FACULTY BLOGGERS AND STUDENT BLOGGERS
Humantiech, The University of California, Irvine
October 31, 2007

BLOGSPATS AND VISUAL ARGUMENTS: SEX, RACE, AND PHOTOSHOP
Association of Internet Researchers
Vancouver, Canada
October 19, 2007

ASSEMBLY LINES: WEB GENERATORS AS HYPERTEXTS
ACM Hypertext 2007 Conference
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
September 11, 2007

THE BIRTH OF THE VIRTUAL CLINIC: THE VIRTUAL TERRORISM RESPONSE ACADEMY AS SERIOUS GAME AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL SPACE
SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium
San Diego, CA.
August 4, 2007

INSTRUMENTALISM AND THE ETHICS OF VIDEOGAME PLAY: THE TACTICAL IRAQI CONTROVERSY

The Philosophy of Computer Games
Reggio Emilia, Italy
January 26, 2007

THE PALACE OF MEMORY: VIRTUAL TOURISM AND TOURS OF DUTY IN TACTICAL IRAQI AND VIRTUAL IRAQ
Joint International Conference on Cyber-Games and Interactive Entertainment
Perth, Australia,
December 6, 2006

ON THE GROUND WITH TACTICAL IRAQI
Serious Games Summit
Washington, D.C.
October 30, 2006

SOCIAL MARKETING, PUBLIC RHETORIC, AND THE BRANDING OF A DISEASE
Selling Us to Ourselves: Is Social Marketing Effective HIV PreventionPanel
New York, NY
September 26, 2006

MAKING THINGS PUBLIC: DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNMENT-FUNDED VIDEOGAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATIONS
ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Videogame Symposium
Boston, MA
July 28, 2006

IN COUNTRY WITH TACTICAL IRAQI: TRUST, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE LEARNING IN A MILITARY VIDEO GAME Digital Arts and Culture 2005
Copenhagen, Denmark
December 2, 2005

THE NEW HETEROGLOSSIA OF BLOGS AND WIKIS
Knowledge or Information? Blogs, Wikis, and Listservs
Humanitech, the University of California, Irvine
November 10, 2005

METAL DETECTORS AND DRUG TESTS: PRAGMATISM AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE
Originality, Imitation & Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplary Conference
The Sweetland Writing Center, the University of Michigan
September 24, 2005

USING DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM TO SUPPORT TEACHING AND RESEARCH
READEX Symposium and Workshop
Chester, Vermont
April 29, 2005

VIRTUALPOLITIK: FOSTERING ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION IN THE S.P.I.D.E.R. PROJECT
Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
November 18, 2004

Guest Lectures

BUSH'S MEMEX: COLD WAR TECHNOLOGIES AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
Informatics 131: Human-Computer Interaction
The University of California, Irvine
July 1, 2008

FAILURE IN GAMES
Computer Games III
The University of California, Irvine
April 24, 2008

THE RHETORIC OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 1945-1949
The Social Analysis of Computerization
Information and Computer Science, the University of California, Irvine
July 6, 2006

WRITING IN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
English 398 Graduate Seminar : Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
University of California, Irvine
November 22, 2004

Workshops and Colloquies

ACADEMIC HONESTY COLLOQUY
Campus Writing Coordinator and the Division of Undergraduate Education
University of California, Irvine
Mayl 1, 2008 

UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP (LOMA TECH TALK)
The University of California, Irvine
April 21, 2008

TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
TechExpo 2008, The University of California, Irvine
February 5, 2008

DIY TEXTS
Humanitech, The University of California, Irvine
January 31, 2008

TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA: BLOGS, WIKIS, YOUTUBE, AND SECOND LIFE
The University of California, Irvine
March 21, 2007

PODCASTING
Humanitech, The University of California, Irvine
March 14, 2007