ESRC RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES ON Identities and Consumption
Seminar One
Consumption, cyber-identities and new forms of citizenship
Monday January 30th 2006
12.30 to 5.30pm
University of Bath, Room 3.14, Building 8 West
(Lunch and refreshments in the Foyer of Building 8 West)
Speakers:
Professor James Gee, University of Wisconsin-Madison ‘Pleasure, video games
and projective identities’
Dr Monica Whitty, Queens University, Belfast ‘Presentation of self on Online
dating sites’
Professor Andrea Press, University of Illinois ‘Forms of political and
commercial participation in the new media environment’
Jacob Habgood, LSRI, University of Nottingham ‘Skeletons and broccoli:
Designing educational games for video-game consumers’
Attendance at this seminar is free, but we do need to know how many people
will require lunch by 20 January 2006. For further information, to book a
place at this Seminar, and if you wish to go on the Seminar Series mailing
list, contact:
Dr Christine Griffin
Email: [log in to unmask]
Department of Psychology
Tel: 01225 385293
University of Bath
We can reimburse travel expenses for a limited number of students and
low/unwaged participants wishing to attend this Seminar. Apply in advance to
Chris Griffin.
Details of this and future Seminars in this series are available on Chris
Griffin’s home page at http://staff.bath.ac.uk/psscg
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