VANCOUVER, Wash. 鈥 Students and faculty at Washington State University Vancouver will present a showcase of their research, scholarship and artwork at the 10th annual Research Showcase April 18 in the Firstenburg Student Commons. More than 70 posters and exhibits of research projects, digital artwork and scholarly publications will be on display from 8 鈥 11 a.m. Douglass Rushkoff, author of 鈥淧rogram or be Programmed: Ten Commands for the Digital Age,鈥 will give the keynote address at 1 p.m. in the Dengerink Administration building, room 110. The all events are free and open to the public.
For his keynote talk, "Program or Be Programmed: Play, Participation and Power in the Digital Age," Rushkoff will discuss his premise that we must learn the digital technologies so ubiquitous around us in order not to be controlled by them. He will speak again at 7 p.m. at the Vancouver Community Library downtown branch presenting, "Program or Be Programmed: Thriving in the Digital Landscape,鈥 as part of the city read, #nextchapter.
Rushkoff is a pioneer in the area of new media and popular culture who coined such common terms as 鈥渧iral media鈥 and 鈥渄igital native.鈥 Winner of the Media Ecology Association鈥檚 first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Rushkoff is an author, teacher and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures and institutions create, share and influence each other鈥檚 values. He is technology and media commentator for CNN, and has taught and lectured around the world about media, technology, culture and economics.
鈥淭he Research Showcase allows faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to share the collaborative research and scholarship that emanates from the programs and laboratories of the campus and from partnerships throughout Southwest Washington. Exciting new findings and advances in fields including: environmental sciences, neurosciences, human development, engineering, education, anthropology, history, and creative media and digital culture among many others, will be presented,鈥 said Bob Bates, director of research and graduate education.
For more information about the 2013 Research Showcase, including a list of events, visit .
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CONTACTS
Bob Bates, Office of Academic Affairs, 360-546-9254, bates@wsu.edu
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