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Adriana Vecchioli is a French-Italian actress, filmmaker and XR designer, living in Los Angeles. She has co-founded an XR design studio, Velvet Unicorn, in L.A. Formerly a software engineer, she left Twitter to follow her passion for filmmaking. Blending software magic with artistry, Adriana designed immersive experiences for the likes of: Warner Bros., Viacom, The Hunger Games, NB

In this second series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with authors, educators and technologists about new and digital literacies in classrooms and community-engaged arts settings. January 1 - On Technology and New Literacies, with science and technology writer Clive Thompson author of Smarter Than You Think and Coders January 2 - On Game-Based Learning, with educator Paul Darv

In this episode, I speak with Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, about how emoji makes us better communicators and what linguistic and literacy traditionalists are misunderstanding about its power.

In this episode, I speak with Milena Droumeva, professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, about how our relationship with sound is shaped by culture, the audio in audio/visual media literacy and the role technology plays in mediating our acoustic environments.

In this very short podcast extra, Carl Miller and I discuss Blockchain technology and it's potential to combat deep fakes by authenticating and time-stamping media iterations.

In this episode I speak with pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller about deep fakes, information warfare, and how synthetic media environments are changing democracy and disrupting power systems. Carl Miller is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital worl

In this episode I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years.

In this episode I speak with librarian Barbara Fister about the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture. Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a s

Emmy-award winning ⁦web documentarian Katerina Cizek and I discuss co-creation in media, human/nonhuman intelligence and media literacy as an antidote to deep fakes.

In this episode I speak with PHD and high school educator Paul Darvasi about game-based-education, how augmented can be used to animate urban spaces for learning and the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing metrics for evaluating student success.