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Panelists and Moderators, A - I
Craig Anderson Craig Anderson is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University and one of the leading psychologists studying video games and violence. His first research publication, in 1979, concerned one potential contributing factor in the outbreak of riots. His first publication on video game violence appeared in 1987. In 2000 he testified before the Senate on the influence of media violence, and in that year the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published his article (written with Karen Dill) on video games and violence. He wrote the "Human Aggression and Violence" articles for both the Encyclopedia of Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Sociology. John Cacioppo John T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. He is the Director of the Social Psychology Program at The University of Chicago and the co-Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology. Before going to The University of Chicago, Cacioppo served on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame (1977-1979), the University of Iowa (1979-1989), and Ohio State University (1989-1999). The general perspective Cacioppo takes in his research is social neuroscience. Social and biological approaches to human behavior have traditionally been contrasted, as if the two were antagonistic or mutually exclusive. However, the mechanisms underlying the mind and social behavior are not fully explicable by a biological or a social approach alone, and Cacioppo's work combines these approaches. He is the co-author of The Handbook of Psychophysiology, 2nd. Edition (Cambridge UP, 2000), and co-author of "The Psychophysiology of Emotion" in R. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion, 2nd Edition (Guilford Press, 2000).
Sara Diamond Sara Diamond is a television and new media producer/director, video artist, curator, critic, teacher and artistic director. She is currently the Executive Producer for Television and New Media and the Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Diamond is responsible for developing the artistic and professional direction of Media and Visual Arts, developing research perspectives, New Media Institute workshops and think tanks, co-productions, artists' residencies and partnerships, and work study opportunities in key areas. She is also responsible for the publishing initiatives of Media and Visual Arts and the Walter Phillips Gallery as well as collaborations with the Aboriginal Arts program and other departments of the Banff Centre for the Arts. Among her accomplishments at the Centre, Diamond developed and implemented artist based video practice, television co-productions of artists' works in video and video installation support. She has been active in script development, critics' residencies, artists' Internet projects (NOMAD NET) and new media research consulting for authoring tools and interactive media. Diamond also developed the Memory/History creative residency, Dance Screen, the Eight Minute Opera Project and Interactive Screen program. She worked closely with the Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance to develop the self-government project at The Banff Centre and to practice self-government in developing programs for Aboriginal artists as well as curated special screenings for festivals and events such as Mill Valley, California, the Vancouver Film Festival and Video Positive, England. Committed to exploring new forms, she created a prototype development environment for interactive media projects and continues to curate one or two major exhibitions each year. In recent years, she has worked increasingly with research and development projects in software, has consulted in developing interactive media curriculum and events and has created think tanks that bring together cultural industries, new media content producers, artists and investors. Diamond is also a visiting professor at UCLA. See www.BanffCentre.CA/mva/mvastaff/default.htm.
Jack Doppelt Jack C. Doppelt is associate professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, editor and publisher of On the Docket (a web site on the U.S. Supreme Court), the director of the Medill global journalism program, and a faculty associate at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. He is co-author of the widely praised book Nonvoters: America's No Shows, which has generated followup projects, funded by Pew Charitable Trusts, including "YVOTE 2000: Politics of a New Generation" and "YVOTE: A Dialogue with America's No-Shows." Doppelt is also co-author of The Journalism of Outrage: Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America, a book on investigative reporting and its influence on public policy. His expertise is media law and ethics, and the reporting of legal affairs. Doppelt has published numerous articles on libel, the media's influence on the criminal justice system and media coverage of the legal system, including the drug trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and a report for the Inspector General of the Department of Children and Family Services on "Confidentiality, the News Media and the Joseph Wallace Case." A graduate of Grinnell College and the University of Chicago Law School, Doppelt clerked for Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. Moran before becoming an investigative reporter and news producer. As an investigative journalist for the Better Government Association and WBBM-Newsradio in Chicago, he broke stories on court corruption, housing dangers and governmental conflicts of interest. Hubert Dreyfus Hubert Dreyfus is currently Philosophy Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University and has taught at Brandeis University and MIT. His publications include: What Computers (Still) Can't Do, 3rd edition, MIT Press, (translated into ten languages); Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Division I of Being and Time; (with Paul Rabinow) Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics; (with Stuart Dreyfus) Mind over Machine; (with Charles Spinosa and Fernando Flores) Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity; and, recently, On the Internet.
As his publications suggest, Dreyfus thinks of himself as an applied philosopher reflecting on the bearing of the work of existential thinkers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on current cultural developments such as the attempt to create artificial intelligence, and the effect of the Internet and various technologies that facilitate action at a distance on everyday human interactions. Noah Falstein has been a professional computer and video game developer since 1980. He has worked for many of the major game companies, including LucasArts, 3DO, Dreamworks Interactive, Disney Interactive, and created many hit titles. He is a former Chairman of the Computer Game Developer's Association, and he sat on the Violence in Games committee of International Game Developer's Association. Noah has designed a game for East3 to help kids with ADD control their problems through Neurofeedback, and he is currently completing a game funded by the NIH to teach nutrition to 9-12 year-olds. Future projects include games to help kids with cancer stay on their treatment plans, and a game to help young women avoid unwanted pregnancies. Noah has been a speaker for many conferences and professional organizations including the Game Developer's Conference, E3, UCLA, Loyola-Marymount University, San Francisco State University, Digital Hollywood Conference, Software Publisher's Association, and the European Multimedia Association. Jonathan Freedman Professor Jonathan Freedman is a leading academic voice in North America arguing that there is no proven connection between violent entertainment and violent behavior, a conclusion he drew again in 2000 after he completed a comprehensive review of the research. He is the author of many articles on the subject, including "Effect of Television Violence on Aggressiveness" (1984), "Television Violence and Aggression: What Psychologists Should Tell the Public" (1992), and "Violence in the Mass Media and Violence in Society: The Link Is Unproven" (1996). Jeanne Funk Jeanne Funk is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Psychology Department at the University of Toledo. The problem of violence in society and its impact on children is her general area of research interest. Specifically, she examines the impact of media violence, particularly violence in video and computer games, on children's adjustment and behavior. She is currently working on several projects in this area. One study evaluates relationships between playing moderately violent games and empathy in kindergarteners. She is also conducting focus groups to learn about children's experience of game playing. She is involved in outcome research on a violence prevention program being carried out in area schools. She testified before the Senate in March 2000 about video game violence, and has many publications and presentations. See www.utoledo.edu/psychology/FunkVita.html.
Jeffrey Goldstein Jeffrey Goldstein was professor of psychology at Temple University
(Philadelphia) and visiting professor at the University of London, and is now with the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. His books include The Psychology of Humor (Academic Press), Sports, Games, and Play (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), Aggression and Crimes of Violence (Oxford University Press), which won the Best Book award from the International Society for Research on Aggression, 1988, Sports Violence (Springer-Verlag), Toys, Play and Child Development (Cambridge University Press), and Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment (Oxford University Press, 1998), which he edited with support from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. With Joost Raessens he is currently preparing the Handbook of Computer Game Studies for MIT Press. Goldstein is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. As a consultant on children and media, Prof. Goldstein summarizes scholarly research for clients around the world. He is chairman of the National Toy Council (London) and serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (New York) and the Netherlands Institute for the Classification of Audiovisual Media. Founder and CEO of Girl Games, Laura Groppe is an entertainment industry leader and a pioneer in producing technology for teen girls. She has been recognized by publications including Forbes, Time, and Newsweek as a leader in hands-on knowledge of the teen girl demographic, and she is in constant demand as a speaker at conferences on technology and teens. In her previous life, Laura had a successful seven-year career in Hollywood. Laura's talents and contacts in the entertainment industry have proven to be tremendous assets in helping Girlgames succeed. Her entertainment achievements include an Academy Award in 1992 for Best Short Film, "Session Man", four MTV awards in 1994 for co-producing R.E.M.'s music video "Everybody Hurts", and an award for "Best Cinematography" at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in 1994 for co-producing the feature film, "Suture". Tom Gunning Tom Gunning works on problems of film style and interpretation, film history and film culture. His published work (approximately one hundred publications) has concentrated on early cinema as well as on the culture of modernity from which cinema arose, relating it to still photography, stage melodrama, and magic lantern shows as well as wider cultural concerns such as the tracking of criminals, the World Expositions, and Spiritualism. His concept of the "cinema of attractions" relates the development of cinema to other forces than storytelling, such as new experiences of space and time in modernity, and an emerging modern visual culture. His book D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Cinema traces the ways film style interacted with new economic structures in the early American film industry and with new tasks of story telling. His forthcoming book on Fritz Lang deals with the systematic nature of a director's oeuvre and the processes of interpretation. He has also written on avant-garde film, both in its European pre-World War I manifestations and the American avant-garde film up to the present day, and on the relation between cinema and technology. The historical factors of exhibition and criticism and spectators' experiences throughout film history are recurrent themes in his work.
Terry Hackett Terry Hackett works to develop compelling on-line educational software for businesses. He is a former Director of Educational Programs at Jellyvision, Inc. in Chicago. He designed an interactive CD-ROM series for elementary schools called That's a Fact, Jack! Read. The program immerses students in a game show environment and questions them on content from any one of 450 young adult literature titles. The game's interactive design, which uses thousands of sequenced audio files to simulate a human conversation, helped lay the groundwork for the popular entertainment trivia game show You Don't Know Jack. Terry has a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he studied technology in education.
See The Jellyvision web site
Marjorie Heins Marjorie Heins is the director of the Free Expression Policy Project at NCAC. She was a First Amendment litigator at the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991-98, where she directed the ACLU's Arts Censorship Project. She is the author of Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence and Youth (Hill & Wang, 2001) and Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars (New Press, 1993; 2nd edition 1998). She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, taught at Boston College Law School, directed the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office in 1990, and spent seven unforgettable years as a staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts. She is now addicted to life in New York City and, when not obsessing over censorship issues, is frequently found in a balcony box at the Metropolitan Opera. J.C. Herz J.C. Herz is the author of Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds (Little Brown 1997) and the CEO of Joystick Nation Inc., which applies the principles of game design to the development of networked applications in the business world. Prior to founding the company, she was a columnist at the New York Times, where she wrote a weekly essay on the art and science of interactive entertainment. J.C. sits on the National Research Council's Committee on Creativity and Information Technology, and advises a number of Internet start-up companies. She lives, works, and plays in Manhattan. |
