{"id":403,"date":"2009-09-08T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-09-10T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:45:43","slug":"purple-blurb-digital-writing-fall-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/09\/purple-blurb-digital-writing-fall-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Blurb &#8211; Digital Writing, Fall 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/if\/purple_blurb\/\">Purple Blurb<\/a> offers readings and presentations on digital writing by practitioners of digital writing. All events are at MIT in room 14E-310, Mondays at 6pm. All events are free and open to the public. The Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and <a href=\"http:\/\/humanistic.mit.edu\/\">Writing and Humanistic Studies.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/nwf_pb.jpg\" alt=\"Noah Wardrip-Fruin.\" title=\"Noah Wardrip-Fruin\" width=\"142\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>September 14 &mdash; Noah Wardrip-Fruin<\/b> is author of <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&#038;tid=11872\"><i>Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies<\/i><\/a> (MIT Press, 2009), co-creator of <i>Screen<\/i> (among other works of digital writing), and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left:10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/mf_pb.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Flanagan.\" title=\"Mary Flanagan\" width=\"142\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>November 2 &mdash; Mary Flanagan<\/b> is author of <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&#038;tid=11870\"><i>Critical Play: Radical Game Design<\/i><\/a> (MIT Press, 2009), creator of <i>[giantJoystick],<\/i> and author of <i>[theHouse]<\/i> (among other digital writing works). She is Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/fh_pb.jpg\" alt=\"D. Fox Harrell.\" title=\"D. Fox Harrell\" width=\"142\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>November 16 &mdash; D. Fox Harrell<\/b> is the creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\/thread\/firstperson\/generational\">GRIOT<\/a> system for computational narrative and author of several works in this system, including <i>Loss, Undersea<\/i> and <i>The Girl<br \/>\nwith Skin of Haints and Seraphs.<\/i> He is assistant professor of digital media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left:10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/mb_pb.jpg\" alt=\"Marina Bers.\" title=\"Marina Bers\" width=\"142\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>November 30 &mdash; Marina Bers<\/b> is author of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.tcpress.com\/0807748471.shtml\"><i>Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom<\/i><\/a> (Teachers College Press, 2007) and creator of the system <i>Zora.<\/i> She is associate professor in the Department of Child Development and adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at Tufts University.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Purple Blurb offers readings and presentations on digital writing by practitioners of digital writing. All events are at MIT in room 14E-310, Mondays at 6pm. All events are free and open to the public. The Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and Writing and Humanistic Studies. September 14 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/09\/purple-blurb-digital-writing-fall-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple Blurb &#8211; Digital Writing, Fall 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,17,4,29,5,13],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-digital","tag-poetry","tag-purple-blurb","tag-teaching","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}