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Chris Hanson

Sophie Gomprecht — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:25:11 +0000

Biography

After completing a BA in Media Studies at Carleton College, Chris Hanson worked for a number of years in video game, esports, and software development, and later assisted with the planning and production of an educational series and content for PBS. Chris returned to academia in Los Angeles and received his MA and PhD in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first book. (Indiana University Press, 2018), examines the function of time in digital and analog games, and he is currently completing a book about game designer Roberta Williams.

He serves as an advising faculty member for the Goldring Arts Journalism Program in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and he co-teaches the Newhouse course “Esports and Media” with Professor Olivia Stomski (Newhouse). Chris has also taught courses in the Renée Crown University Honors Program and for Project Advance. He serves as the faculty advisor for the university’s Gaming Club and Esports Club, and assisted with the planning and development of ��ϲ��’s and the in Bird Library.

Areas of Supervision

Game studies, game and esports industry studies, television studies, genre, emerging media, avant-garde film and video, and temporality.

Dan Pacheco

Sophie Gomprecht — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:11:51 +0000

Dan Pacheco holds the Peter A. Horvitz Chair of Journalism Innovation at the Newhouse School and is a pioneer in the use of virtual reality for journalism. In 2014 he started and co-produced The Des Moines Register’s Harvest of Change VR project for the Oculus Rift, the world’s first large-scale use of virtual reality by a commercial news organization. Harvest of Change earned an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2015 for its innovative use of 360-degree video for virtual reality.

Previously, Pacheco spent 20 years in the trenches of digital publishing everywhere from Fortune 500 companies to startups. He started his career as an online producer for Washingtonpost.com, where he produced Interact, one of the first online news communities. Subsequently, as a principal product manager at America Online, he oversaw some of the internet’s first truly global community products. In 2005, after pioneering the first implementation of a social networking platform at a U.S. newspaper, he received an NAA “20 Under 40” award. And in 2007, he received a Knight News Challenge grant to build a democratized publishing service that evolved into an eBook platform.

When he’s not teaching, Pacheco is busy exploring new technologies shaping the future of media, which lately means augmented and mixed reality, social VR, chatbots and smart speaker skills.

Roy Gutterman

Ellen Mbuqe — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:01:29 +0000

An expert on communications law and the First Amendment, Roy Gutterman is director of the Newhouse School’s .

He is a graduate of the Newhouse School and the ��ϲ�� College of Law.

At Newhouse, Gutterman was the 2009-10 director of the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program. He also works with the Society of Professional Journalists student chapter and serves on academic integrity committees.

After graduating from Newhouse, Gutterman worked as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, covering local and state government, crime, legal issues and general news. He later clerked for a New Jersey Superior Court judge and practiced business and general litigation.

Gutterman writes and speaks on media law, free speech, the intersection between courts and journalists and legal education issues. He has delivered lectures at the Communication University of China in Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai and National Chengchi University in Taipei.

Gutterman is a program director for the Burton Foundation for Legal Achievement; on the faculty committee for the Government Accountability Project in Washington, D.C., and on the honorary dinner committee for FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

As an undergraduate, he worked at The Boston Globe; The Courier-News in Bridgewater, N.J. The Post-Standard in ��ϲ��; and The Daily Orange. While in law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the law review.