{"id":629,"date":"2008-04-16T20:26:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T01:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2008-04-16T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T01:26:39","slug":"beth-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Beth Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hello Avatar\" title=\"Hello Avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/images\/Avatar.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"1\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The DeRoy Lecture Series 2007-2008<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nThe Digital Humanities Working Group<\/p>\n<p>present<\/p>\n<p>Beth Coleman<br \/>\n&#8220;Hello Avatar!: Virtual Communities and Networked Subjects&#8221;<br \/>\nFriday, April 18, 12 noon<br \/>\nEnglish Dept seminar room, 10302 5057 Woodward, Detroit, MI<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Beth Coleman is a professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Her research interests include virtual world design and use, networked subjectivity, global media emergence and practice in China, India and Africa, contemporary art and technology, and critical history of race and technology. For excerpts from her forthcoming book, Hello Avatar: A Virtual World Primer and other publications, see her <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.mit.edu\/people\/bcoleman\">website<\/a>. She blogs on emergent media practices at <a href=\"http:\/\/projectgoodluck.com\/blog\/index.php\">Project Good Luck<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DeRoy Lecture Series 2007-2008 and The Digital Humanities Working Group present Beth Coleman &#8220;Hello Avatar!: Virtual Communities and Networked Subjects&#8221; Friday, April 18, 12 noon English Dept seminar room, 10302 5057 Woodward, Detroit, MI Dr. Beth Coleman is a professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Her research interests &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beth Coleman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}