My graduate students and I have won a competitive grant through the Future of Information Alliance and the Deutsch Foundation. The $25,000 grant supports the design and initial testing of an iPhone application called “Approach.” The app will guide participants through pathways around campus, listening to audio narratives gathered from people in the local community. The stories tell the often-untold narratives about these spaces and seek to demonstrate that no single story can or should dominate a space. The app will become an important platform for people to tell their stories and includes a feature for participants to upload their own stories to the path. The Approach group includes American Studies graduate students Jessica Walker, Jarah Moesch, Paul Saiedi, and Dan Greene as well Digital Cultures and Creativity student, JB Wills. We will be working on the Approach project alongside their community partner, WAMU 88.5 (our local NPR affiliate).
Similar Posts
My Conference Presentation, “Mapping Virtual Communities”
I will present a paper at this year’s Association of American Geographers conference in New York. My presentation is titled, “Mapping Virtual Communities: Cultural Imaginaries of the Diaspora and the Production of Crisis Maps.” Here are the details and the abstract of my talk.
Invisible and Instantaneous Article Published in Media Theory
My journal article, “Invisible and Instantaneous: Geographies of Media Infrastructure from Pneumatic Tubes to Fiber Optics” — drawn from research…
Mobile Interface Theory: Book of the Year by AoIR!
Mobile Interface Theory was just named the 2012 Book of the Year by the Association of Internet Researchers! This is an amazing…
“Manifesto for Active Learning” Published in The Chronicle
As a result of the opportunity to work as a Lilly Fellow with the Center for Teaching Excellence, I revised my teaching philosophy. The result is my piece, “A Manifesto for Active Learning,” which was just published in The Chronicle for Higher Education.
Student Projects
Graphic Design: Posters (Prompt HERE) [envira-gallery id=”960″] WMATA Metro SmarTrip Kiosk Redesign (Prompt HERE) [pdf-embedder url=”http://jasonfarman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/metro-interaction-screens.pdf”] [pdf-embedder url=”http://jasonfarman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/metro-welcome-screens.pdf”] “The Things…
Privacy and Surveillance Panel with Kojo Nnamdi!
Today I’ll be a panelist for an event hosted by NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi titled “Full Disclosure: Creative Responses to the…