By Matthew Kenney (Bachelor of Media Studies; Press Play URA) Working on this project over the course of the last few months has truly been an amazing experience. On top of allowing me to work with extremely interesting archival material […]
On March 21st, a group of eager game players joined Dr. Fiona P. MacDonald for an interactive game test of her ongoing project titled “Gaming the Anthropocene” during our seventh Tech Talk of the 2022/23 school year. This exciting and […]
By Rachel Pickard Rachel Pickard is a settler student living on the unceded territories of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples and a SpokenWeb Research Assistant. Below are her thoughts and considerations after attending the Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Coordinating Hub’s […]
Call for Submissions // Press Play How do you do art and research in public? The Press Play! Project seeks 4 undergraduate students (2 teams of 2 students) to participate in a paid, mentored project that translates visual or sound-based […]
Mind the Gap, It’s There on Purpose: The Exclusion of Sound & Oral Histories in Western Academia Written by Rachel Pickard, Undergraduate student and SpokenWeb RA at UBCO. This series of blog posts has been written in reflection to the […]
On November 15th, 2022, the AMP Lab welcomed Dr. Diana Carter, Lucas Quesada, Yarubi Díaz Colmenares, and Bibiana Cortés who presented on their ongoing research around inclusive language usage among Spanish speakers tweeting on Twitter. Their presentation consisted of three […]
This is a posting for a Principal Research Chair Fellow in Trans-Pacific Digital Platform Studies (2023-24) at UBC Okanagan. Dr. Kyong Yoon is looking to recruit a new MA or PhD student in Digital Arts & Humanities who will contribute to trans-Pacific digital platform […]
On October 18, 2022, the AMP Lab was lucky enough to participate in a truly unique Tech Talk presented by PhD student and hilarious stand-up comic Sarah Cipes. Sarah presented on her ongoing work with editing audio files from within […]
Critical Remediations: SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellowship (UBC Okanagan campus) **DEADLINE EXTENDED** We invite applicants for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in critical approaches to literary audio, creative and critical remediations, performance, media archaeology, book history and print culture, digital humanities, and/or the […]
Hearing the Okanagan: A Closer Look at The Pocket Desert Radio Documentary This post is the second of a three-part series about the importance and relevance of oral histories and audio recordings based on research conducted on The Pocket Desert […]