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Video Games Remind Us That Not Everything in Life Has a Computable Answer
October 31, 2018
Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article entitled “Video games remind us that not everything in life has a computable answer” for the website Quartz.
Here's an excerpt:
A dozen years ago—before iPhones, before Twitter, when Facebook was still available only in colleges—the media theorist McKenzie Wark predicted that real life would become infected by the numerical obsession of games. “Games are no longer a pastime, outside or alongside of life,” Wark wrote. “They are now the very form of life, and death, and time, itself.” He called the result “gamespace”—a cultural ideal where all meaning is turned into measurable numbers, against which performance can be judged.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Quartz
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A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace
October 29, 2018
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a professor in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, recently wrote a guest column in The Hill entitled "A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace."
Here's an excerpt:
Ongoing Russian violations of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty need to be effectively addressed because they defy a longstanding bilateral agreement and directly threaten our NATO allies. However, the Trump administration’s move to pull out of the treaty is misguided; instead, we should launch a major initiative to strengthen strategic stability between the United States and Russia. The additional notice by national security adviser John Bolton that the United States is “considering its position about New START” — the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — is another example of escalatory rhetoric and illogical action that will undermine, rather than enhance, nuclear security.
Published in: The Hill
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Intelligence Matters: A CBS News original national security podcast
October 29, 2018
Admiral (ret.) James "Sandy" Winnefeld, distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and senior fellow at the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, was a guest host on "Intelligence Matters: A CBS News original national security podcast."
Admiral Winnefeld interviews Norman Roule, who spent decades at the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence managing significant programs related to the Middle East. Roule, who recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia, explains how developments in the Khashoggi matter are being received by Saudi citizens and what senior officials in the Kingdom may do in response to widespread calls for transparency and accountability. Roule also details the many other challenges facing the Kingdom - including its domestic modernization push, the Yemen and Syria conflicts on its borders, and its efforts to build a post-oil economy.
Listen to the podcast interview on CBS News
Published in: CBS News
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Hands-Free Georgia Act Improves Roadway Safety, Still Room for Improvement
October 29, 2018
Robert Rosenberger, professor in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, recently wrote a guest column in Saporta Report entitled "Hands-Free Georgia Act Improves Roadway Safety, Still Room for Improvement."
Read an excerpt here:
The Georgia Hands-Free Act went into effect back in July, banning the use of handheld phones while driving. This is a major change for Georgia drivers, and it’s one we should support. Over the last few years, the U.S. has seen a dramatic spike in traffic fatalities, a 14 percent increase since 2014.
The state of Georgia has been among those to suffer most, with more than double the national rate of increase, the fifth highest in the nation. While it is impossible to be certain that smartphone usage behind the wheel is the most significant cause of the spike, it is a strong possibility. Something had to be done.
The Georgia Tech School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Saporta Report
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Nobel Winner Says Georgia Leads in Clean Energy
October 24, 2018
Marilyn Brown, professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently interviewed by J. Cindy Hill of Georgia Public Broadcasting. The interview covered Brown's thoughts on Georgia's renewable enrgy portfolio and how the state is leading in carbon neutral energy sources. Listen to the entire interview here.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Georgia Public Broadcasting
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Were women ever sacred? Some medieval and modern men would like us to think so
October 17, 2018
Richard Utz, Chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article for Medivalists.net entitled "Were women ever sacred? Some medieval and modern men would like us to think so." In his article, Utz analyzes recent media discussions around chivalry.
Here's an excerpt:
In her October 7, 2018, article for the Washington Post, “Chivalry isn’t dead. But it should be,” Amy Kaufman questions the use of medievalist values like “chivalry” in defense of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation process for his appointment on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kaufman concludes that chivalry, always more literary than real, was not only a “protection racket” because it obliges women to rely on men to protect them from other men, but also only ever protected certain (noble) women. Upon reading her article, I remembered that I had heard similar medievalist statements before, and directly from the White House.
Read the full article here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: Medievalists.net
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Dual-use Research: War and Peace
October 11, 2018
Margaret Kosal, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was recently interviewed in an article published in Research Europe entitled "Dual-use Research: War and Peace." Kosal spoke about the risks to security and proliferation, and to negative impacts on research productivity and freedom.
The article is only available with a subscription, which can be purchased here.The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is a unity of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Research Europe
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High-tech Ideas Being Implemented in Smart Cities
October 4, 2018
The research of Christopher Le Dantec, an associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently featured in a WSB-TV video story about smart cities.
Watch the full video here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: WSB-TV
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More People Are Using NW Corridor Express Lanes
October 4, 2018
The research of Christopher Le Dantec, an associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently featured in a WSB-TV video story about the recently opened express lanes in metro Atlanta.
Watch the full video here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: WSB-TV
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Why Donald Trump's New Space Force Can't Hurt China Like Star Wars Hurt the Soviet Union
October 4, 2018
Margaret Kosal, professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was recently quoted in an article published in the South China Morning Post entitled "Why Donald Trump's New Space Force Can't Hurt China Like Star Wars Hurt the Soviet Union."
Here's an excerpt:
Margaret Kosal, associated professor at Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, said that unlike the neck-and-neck competition between Washington and Moscow during the cold war, the US remains the leader in space, while China is quickly catching up.
She said Beijing’s 2007 destruction of one of its weather satellites had created a harmful cloud of debris in orbit around the Earth, exposing how far China still trails the US in space exploration technology.
The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: South China Morning Post
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The Future is Female! An Interview with Lisa Yaszek
October 2, 2018
Lisa Yaszek, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed about her recent book, The Future is Female!
Here's an excerpt:
How does this collection address intersectionality? On page xvii of your introduction you list “a host of issues, including sexism, racism, environmentalism, colonialism and capitalism”—how are issues of gender, sexuality, race and class linked in these stories?
Lisa Yaszek: Given that intersectionality is technically a critical frame first advocated by black feminists in recent decades, and that most of the women in this anthology were white women from the first part of the twentieth-century, I was actually surprised to find as much intersectionality as I did in these stories! Perhaps not surprisingly, women often used the figure of the alien other to explore interlocking systems of oppression. We see this as early as Leslie F. Stone’s 1931 story “The Conquest of Gola,” which uses a brutal (and sometimes brutally funny) interplanetary battle of the sexes to map the connections between gender discrimination and environmental and economic exploitation. (In fact, it’s interesting to note that while Stone specifically connects masculinity to imperialism, she also recognizes that powerful women might well indulge in sex and gender discrimination as well as any man.)
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Women Write About Comics
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9 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this October
October 1, 2018
Lisa Yaszek, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently written about in The Verge. The popular news and culture website included her recent book, The Future is Female!, in its list of new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out in OCtober.
Here's an excerpt:
Science fiction isn’t usually what first comes to mind when you think Library of America, but the publisher has produced some compilations of authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, and classic novels from the 1950s. This new anthology edited by Lisa Yaszek pulls together some of the best — and forgotten — female authors from the genre between the 1920s and 1960s. Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, saying that it’s an “educational, enjoyable, and significant retrospective of science fiction’s foremothers.
Read the full story here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: The Verge
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How Social Media Affects Your Brain
September 26, 2018
Robert Rosenberger, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently featured in a Buzzfeed video entitled, "How Social Media Affects Your Brain." Specifically, his recent research on Phantom Vibration Syndrome was discussed. Watch the full video here.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of LIberal Arts.
Published in: Buzzfeed
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Medicare Patients Receiving Annual Wellness Visits More Likely to Undergo Key Preventive Health Services
September 21, 2018
Danny Hughes, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics, was recently quoted in a Radiology Business article entitled "Medicare Patients Receiving Annual Wellness Visits More Likely to Undergo Key Preventive Health Services." The article disucssed a recent study he co-authored regarding the effectiveness of annual wellness visits in Medicare patients.
Here's an excerpt:
"Promoting preventive care among the Medicare population is essential to enable the elderly to stay healthy, avoid or delay the onset of disease, and live productive lives,” co-author Danny R. Hughes, executive director of the Neiman Institute and a professor of economics at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in the same statement.Published in: Radiology Business
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Georgia Tech and GSU Establish Global Studies Center
September 20, 2018
The Weather Channel published a recent video about the establishment of the new Global Studies Center, which is a partnership between Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Languages.
Published in: The Weather Channel
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Energy Conversion Through Energy Technology Innovation
September 19, 2018
Yeong Jae Kim, a 2017 Ph.D. graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology School Public Policy, wrote an article in South Korea's Energy News entitled “Energy Conversion through Energy Technology Innovation.” The School of Public Policy is part of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Here's an excerpt:
To cope with climate change, it is urgent to spread clean energy and improve energy efficiency. Everyone knows that many consumers have to buy energy-efficient products, as well as efforts to invest in technology development to spread clean energy and promote widespread use of energy-efficient products. As part of this effort, 22 countries and the European Union will launch Mission Innovation, aiming to double the size of Clean Energy public and private sector Research & Development (RD & D) by 2015-2021.
Published in: Energy News Korea
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It's Getting Real. Virtually Real.
September 17, 2018
Neha Kumar, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, co-authored a story about her work leveraging low-cost VR technologies for underserved learning environments.
Here's an excerpt:
Virtual reality (VR) is no longer solely the stuff of science fiction. As VR headsets become increasingly mainstream and affordable, thanks to major industry actors such as Google and Samsung, a slew of companies have surfaced to explore the more and less understood affordances of this emerging technology. With much of this activity focused on technology-rich parts of the Global North, we were curious to understand what VR might offer a world less saturated by technology. In this article, we describe our experience of introducing immersive, 360-degree VR to a resource-constrained learning environment in Mumbai, India. We also discuss some of the challenges and possibilities of going mainstream with VR, reflecting on the narrowing digital divide and the questions it raises for technology transfer.
Published in: Interactions Magazine
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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
September 17, 2018
Publisher's Weekly gave a starred review to Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor Lisa Yaszek's new book, The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin.
Here's an excerpt:
These 25 distinguished short SF stories from the 1920s to the 1960s evince the important early contributions made to the genre by women authors, who were intrigued by its openness to hitherto unexplored experiences. According to editor Yaszek, women made three major literary contributions to pulp and space-age SF: depth and complexity of emotion, revised gender roles, and sympathetic treatment of alien characters.
Published in: Publisher's Weekly
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History Lesson: Scholars Take Aim at Racist Views of Middle Ages
September 12, 2018
Chair of the Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication Richard Utz was recently quoted by the Christian Science Monitor in a story about race and representation for Medieval histortians.
Here’s an excerpt:
Some feel there should be a stronger separation between academia and politics and object to their colleagues’ more progressive efforts, says Richard Utz, professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
But efforts to purge racial bias have been building momentum, Dr. Utz says, and despite the painful process, some medievalists see a sense of hope emerging.
Published in: The Christian Science Monitor
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Unlikely Political Alliance Emerges on Tech Transparency
September 10, 2018
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy Professor Milton Mueller was recently quoted in a National Journal article about the bipartisan alliance to open up the tech platforms’ algorithms to public scrutiny.
Here's an excerpt:
“If you think you can look at the algorithm and suddenly divine what is the proper, fair way to do this, I think that’s showing a lack of understanding,” said Milton Mueller, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy. “It’s just opening the door to, I think, a nightmare of meddling in the process of managing one of these platforms.”
Published in: National Journal
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