Re: [-empyre-] Immersion

2015-10-19 Thread Sergio Basbaum
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Gordon, Patrick and empyreans, Thank you for once again puting good food for tought in the empyre list. This is a fascinating debate. It adresses some topics I've been into for years, so I couldn't resist posting. In the last years I

[-empyre-] Compulsion and gay hook-up apps

2015-10-19 Thread Mathew Gagne
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- My PhD research broadly focuses on the impacts of gay hook-up technologies (Grindr, Scruff, Hornet, Growlr, Tinder, etc) among queer men in Beirut. However, for the purpose of my contribution, I want to think about compulsion from the ge

[-empyre-] Week 3: Jacob Gaboury (US), Matthew Gagne (CA/ LB), Ava Lew (CA), and Natasha Dow Schüll (US)

2015-10-19 Thread Patrick Keilty
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Welcome to Week 3. I am pleased to introduce guest discussants Jacob Gaboury (US), Matthew Gagne (CA/ LB), Ava Lew (CA), and Natasha Dow Schüll (US). Jacob Gaboury is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Visual Culture at Stony Brook U