Join the Comparative Media Studies graduate program as our 2nd-year students present their Master's theses to the public.

• Register here, and the Zoom link will be sent to you

Presentation order:

10am Roya Moussapour, “Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States”

10:45 Kelly Wagman, “Sex, Power, and Technology: A Relational Engineering Ethos as Feminist Utopia”

11:30 Elon Justice, “Hillbilly Talkback: Co-Creation and Counter-Narrative in Appalachia”

Lunch Break

1:00 Andrea Kim, “The Myth of Post-Racial Avatars : Techno-Orientalist Systems and Remediated Bodies in VRChat”

1:45 Will Freudenheim, “The Network and the Classroom: A History of Hypermedia Learning Environments”

2:30 Diego Cerna Aragon, “Disputing facts, disputing the economy: Media controversies at the decline of the Peruvian Miracle”

3:15 Mike Sugarman, “Playing It By Ear: Improvisation and Music Livestreaming during COVID-19”