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ALT+4: Rebooting Community After Gamergate Symposium
“Rebooting Community after Gamergate” will be a public symposium celebrating diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Uniting scholars, journalists, game designers, educators, students, and gamers, this symposium will reimagine the cultural and social future of gaming by marking the ten-year anniversary of Gamergate. Lawrence Technological University (LTU) requests funding to support this four-day public symposium on September 19-24, 2024, in Southfield, MI. An interdisciplinary team of faculty in the Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, Communications, and Design at LTU has been working for over a year to plan this symposium. Initial funding, in-kind and talent support from LTU and several institutional, community, and industry partners, the City of Southfield, and several of our Early Middle College high school programs is already in place. The Gamergate symposium will be a community-facing event that builds on LTU’s prior experience of hosting public events, including but not limited to the notable Humanity+Technology lecture series.
The symposium’s primary goal is to explore, analyze, and reflect on the social implications of the racist, misogynistic, fascist movement called “Gamergate.” As scholars and journalists have since pointed out, the harassment tactics that developed during Gamergate have since been deployed in other reactionary and misinformation social media/journalism campaigns.
Gamergate serves as a watershed moment in the history and development of digital media and culture that we do not have the luxury to forget. The Gamergate Symposium will include:
● a series of panels and roundtables on the topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in gaming, journalism and digital culture.
● a convention/demonstration “Gamer Village”–providing participants with opportunities to interact with various gaming-adjacent, industry, and educational organizations
● a game-a-thon–providing opportunities for participants, especially students, to explore future educational paths–such as digital humanities, journalism, cultural studies, philosophy, game studies, game design, and STEM.
Most notably, our three, nationally-recognized keynote speakers will give students the chance to learn from women journalists and academics working in games and culture; these talks will particularly support the Scripps Howard goal of demonstrating an inclusive journalism environment. Our first speaker, Dr. Rachel Kowert, is a psychologist and founder of Psychgeist®, is a multimedia content production studio for the science of games and pop culture. Dr. Kishonna Gray is a professor at the University of Kentucky and author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming. Anita Sarkeesian is a multi-media journalist and author of Feminist Frequency and Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games; as a target of harassment during the original Gamergate campaign, her interactive conversation will be of particular relevance for prospective journalists.
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LTUX 2024
LTUX is a FREE annual campus-wide expo at Lawrence Technological University that combines games, esports, & anime to showcase local talent in the form of local game showcases, cosplay workshops, gaming tournaments, panels, vendors, and more!
Events include panels, indie game demos, an ExtraLife charity stream, an Escape Room, Psychic Drive Arcade, and more! Pop in our Discord to interact with other attendees and join the fun.
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Robotfest 2024
Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of physical science, computer science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Students design, construct, and program the robots. Any robotics kits are allowed in the construction of robots.
Game Competition – A team of students competes to accomplish robotics missions using autonomous robots. Game especially puts math skills to the test.
Exhibition – Each team has complete freedom to show off any creative computer programmed robotics R&D project.
Vision Centric Challenge – Advanced category for Sr. high school and college students.
Bottlesumo – Be the first robot to push intentionally a bottle off the table OR be the last robot remaining on the table. (Level: beginners)
RoboParade – A parade of autonomous robotic floats (Level: beginners)
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Robotfest 2023
Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of physical science, computer science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Students design, construct, and program the robots. Any robotics kits are allowed in the construction of robots.
Game Competition – A team of students competes to accomplish robotics missions using autonomous robots. Game especially puts math skills to the test.
Exhibition – Each team has complete freedom to show off any creative computer programmed robotics R&D project.
Vision Centric Challenge – Advanced category for Sr. high school and college students.
Bottlesumo – Be the first robot to push intentionally a bottle off the table OR be the last robot remaining on the table. (Level: beginners)
RoboParade – A parade of autonomous robotic floats (Level: beginners)
While MIGeekScene does its best to ensure the accuracy of the listings, event details may be changed, events may be postponed, or cancelled without notice. Please confirm with the organizer before making any plans. MIGeekScene is not responsible for events changing, postponing, or canceling.
LTU Expo 2023
LTUX is an annual campus-wide expo at Lawrence Technological University that combines anime, games, and eSports events to present the latest and greatest student projects, local game developers, business partners, cosplay competitions, eSports tournaments, talks, panels, and more!
Join us April 22, 2023 for a FREE campus-wide event celebrating gaming, cosplay, and pop culture. Play student/indie games, listen to game industry talks, and support artist/vendors!
While MIGeekScene does its best to ensure the accuracy of the listings, event details may be changed, events may be postponed, or cancelled without notice. Please confirm with the organizer before making any plans. MIGeekScene is not responsible for events changing, postponing, or canceling.
LTU Expo 2021(Online)
TU Expo, also known as LTUX, is a celebration of game development and eSports. Before we return to our regularly scheduled campus-wide celebration of anime, games, and eSports, we’re going virtual. Now, instead of just one day to celebrate some awesome people and their games, we will be hosting a virtual 6-day event from April 19th through April 24th! Throughout the week, we will host some amazing speakers, panels, and student/indie games, an eSports competition, an awards ceremony, and a charity livestream benefitting ExtraLife of Beaumont Children’s Hospital.
https://www.twitch.tv/statechampsesports
Robotfest 2022
Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of physical science, computer science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Students design, construct, and program the robots. Any robotics kits are allowed in the construction of robots.
Game Competition – A team of students competes to accomplish robotics missions using autonomous robots. Game especially puts math skills to the test.
Exhibition – Each team has complete freedom to show off any creative computer programmed robotics R&D project.
Vision Centric Challenge – Advanced category for Sr. high school and college students.
Bottlesumo – Be the first robot to push intentionally a bottle off the table OR be the last robot remaining on the table. (Level: beginners)
RoboParade – A parade of autonomous robotic floats (Level: beginners)
Events for the Week Apr 15th-21st
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Events for the Week May 14th-20th
Robots, comics, LARP and dolls are in store for you this week.
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