Living in the Meat in these Virtually Virtuous Days -Rethinking our digitization
Channel: EFF-Austin
Date: 07/02/2021

Our speaker this month is joey lopez. joey lopez, phd is the Media Lab Director in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Receiving his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. in New Media at UT Austin in the Radio, Television and Film’s ACTLab program, joey lopez has been active in the new media field for over 20 years. Using project-based learning and the ACTLab concept of “Make Stuff, Take Risks and Be Awesome,” joey lopez’s courses engage students in their passions and encourages them to take them outside the classroom and into the real world. His students have gone on to an array of careers and business ownership from stunt persons to Shark Tank winners to teachers, lawyers and newspaper publishers. joey lopez’s research revolves around anthropology, action-based research, and community advocacy. His theoretical explorations include but are not limited to race, gender, entrepreneurship, advocacy, alternative pedagogy and civic engagement. His professional practice includes photography, video, audio, new media, technology consulting and STEAM based community programming. He has worked with the Institute of Texan Cultures, Bexar County, Launch SA, CBS Sports, GA Media, 24 Hour Entertainment, The Smithsonian, JMS Racing, Boost Logic, Spare Parts and many others. In his spare time he road cycles and weight lifts.

In this lecture/discussion new media professor joey lopez explores digital culture, the joys and risks of being a civically engaged citizen while maintaining disruptive resistance to what has become social media norms.

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