ACS Summer Institute keynotes

Joke Hermes (UC Inholland / University of Amsterdam, NL)

Cultural studies and critical literacies: beyond street cred and cynicism
Media literacy has long lost its High Cultural connotation. It is closely connected with the cultural citizenship project in cultural studies... (Read more)
Carol Stabile (University of Oregon, USA)

"OMG UR Gai, Why U Plai Gurll??": Decoding Gender in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), players read gender and communicate on the basis of specific reading practices... (Read more)
Ted Striphas (Indiana University, USA)

Algorithmic Culture
Increasingly we human beings are delegating the work of culture - the sorting, classifying, and hierarchizing of people, places, objects, and ideas - to computational process... (Read more)
Keyan Tomaselli (University of Kwazulu-Natal, SA)

Cultural Studies as Hoax and Parody. What is Literacy in the Age of the Post?
Can Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies be assumed as the exemplar for all societies... (Read more)
John Willinsky (Stanford University, USA)

What's Also Critical About Literacy Then and Now: Its Intellectual Properties
This talk will present a case for considering the intellectual properties of literacy... (Read more)