Lectures and conversations

CDN Guest Lecture: Kishonna Gray


Bilde
Kishonna Gray
Kishonna Gray Photo: U. Michigan

Augmenting Reality: Intersectional Tech in Digital Gaming.

Guest lecture by CDN advisory board member Kishonna Gray, Professor of Racial Justice and Technology in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship is influenced by her interdisciplinary training and grounded in critical race theory and feminist approaches to knowledge production.

She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Dr. Gray is the author/co-editor of Intersectional Tech, Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live, Woke Gaming and Feminism in Play. She also has a book currently under contract titled Black Game Studies. 

Dr. Gray is a highly sought-after speaker and regularly addresses both academic and industry audiences such as at the Game Developers Conference. She is the winner of a number of awards over the years, including The Evelyn Gilbert Unsung Hero Award and the Blacks in Gaming Educator Award.

About the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN)

CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2023-2033. CDN focuses on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts. We will investigate how the interactions of human authors with non-human agents result in new narrative forms, how the materiality of digital narratives has changed, and how cultural contexts are reshaping the use and function of digital narrative. CDN hosts approximately 40 funded and affiliated researchers and regularly hosts international guest researchers at all career stages.