Althea Delwiche博士.D.
- 教授 , 沟通
Althea Delwiche(博士.D. University of Washington) is a 教授 in the Department of 沟通 at 圣赌博平台网站大全 in 圣安东尼奥, 德州. She teaches courses on topics such as virtual world development, transmedia storytelling and mobile gaming.
Delwiche的 研究 is driven by the recognition that our world is being rapidly transformed by participatory knowledge cultures in which people work together to collectively classify, 组织, 合成, and create ideas in radically new ways. The co-editor of the 2012 Participatory Cultures Handbook, her recent publications include a chapter on transmedia storytelling in the anthology The Rise of Transtexts: Challenges and Opportunities, a book chapter about the history of computer bulletin board systems in The Sage Handbook of Social Media, and an article about digital comics preservation for the journal 第一个星期一. Althea is currently working with an undergraduate Undergraduate 研究 in the Arts & Humanities recipient to investigate how virtual worlds can be used to promote empathy and capture oral histories that might otherwise be forgotten.
In 2007, Althea served as co-chair of an international, interdisciplinary conference (State of 玩: Building the Global Metaverse) that explored the implications of transnational virtual worlds. With support from the Martha, David & Bagby Lennox Foundation, she 组织d the 2010 seminar series "Reality Hackers: The Next Wave of Media Revolutionaries" and the 2017 seminar series titled "Propaganda and Political Persuasion."