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Adriana Vecchioli is a French-Italian actress, filmmaker and XR designer, living in Los Angeles. She has co-founded an XR design studio, Velvet Unicorn, in L.A. Formerly a software engineer, she left Twitter to follow her passion for filmmaking. Blending software magic with artistry, Adriana designed immersive experiences for the likes of: Warner Bros., Viacom, The Hunger Games, NBA, Coachella and Snapchat.

Please support her kickstarter campaign, ending July 23, 2021, by visiting the COMIN’ IN HOT page.

UX Design for XR applications and Immersive Storytelling, Circuit Stream Workshop, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR6wZ3hme9g

The Displaced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecavbpCuvkI

How Virtual Reality is Changing Storytelling Forever

medium.com - https://medium.com/the-mission/how-virtual-reality-is-changing-storytelling-forever-3a9836c5300c

New York Times, 360 videos - https://www.nytimes.com/video/360-video

Mad Max Ferry Road - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/

Game of Thrones - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

Dear White People, Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80095698

The Fall of the House of Usher- https://poestories.com/read/houseofusher

Adriana on twitter: @AdrianaVecc

Adriana on Instagram: @AdrianaVecc

Adriana’s website:  www.adrianavecchioli.com

COMIN’ IN HOT on Twitter: COMIN’ IN HOT

COMIN’ IN HOT Campaign: kickstarter

In this second series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with authors, educators and technologists about new and digital literacies in classrooms and community-engaged arts settings.

January 1 - On Technology and New Literacies, with science and technology writer Clive Thompson author of Smarter Than You Think and Coders

January 2 - On Game-Based Learning, with educator Paul Darvasi

January 8 - On Co-creation, with Katerina Cizek from the MIT Open Documentary Lab

January 9 - On Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabara Fister from Project Information Literacy

January 15 - On Memes and Social Movements, with author An Xioa Mina

January 16 - On Deep Fakes and Social Media, with technology researcher Carl Miller

January 29 - On Ways of Hearing, with sound and technology researcher Milena Droumeva

January 30 - On Emoji and Linguistics, with author Vyvyan Evans

In this episode, I speak with Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, about how emoji makes us better communicators and what linguistic and literacy traditionalists are misunderstanding about its power.

Using more emoji does not mean you’ll have more sex >:-( , by Caitlin Dewey - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02/04/using-more-emoji-does-not-mean-youll-have-more-sex/%3foutputType=amp

Singles in America: Match Releases Its Fifth Annual Comprehensive Study on the Single Population - match.mediaroom.com › singlesina...News Releases | Match.com

Where Does the 'Thumbs-Up' Gesture Really Come From?, by Merrill Fabry - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/time.com/4984728/thumbs-up-thumbs-down-history/%3famp=true

BABY SIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARY - https://www.babysignlanguage.com/dictionary/

Emote project - http://www.emote-project.eu/

Bris Abused Emojis - https://showcasesweden.com/bris-abused-emojis

These Emoji Make It Easier for Kids to 'Talk' About Abuse, wired.com - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/06/abused-emoji/amp

The Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year is an emoji, by Lizzie Plaugic - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2015/11/16/9746650/word-of-the-year-emoji-oed-dictionary

The Rebus principle - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus

Coronavirus Emojis, by Vyv Evans - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/language-in-the-mind/202007/coronavirus-emojis%3famp

Shigetaka Kurita: The man who invented emoji, CNN style - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cnn.com/style/amp/emoji-shigetaka-kurita-standards-manual/index.html

The WIRED Guide to Emoji, a complete history - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/guide-emoji/amp

Otto Neurath and the Untold History of the Infographic, nebo - www.neboagency.com

Manga iconography - en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Manga...Web resultsManga iconography - Wikipedia

Inbox: The Original Emoji, by Shigetaka Kurita - https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3639

Meet Scott Fahlman, the Guy Who Created the First Emoticon, culture trip - https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/pennsylvania/articles/meet-scott-fahlman-the-guy-who-created-the-first-emoticon/?amp=1

Bayeux Tapestry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

This is Finland, finland.fi › EmojiWeb resultsKalsarikännit - thisisFINLAND

Unicode, unicode.org - What is Unicode?

Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here - https://www.wired.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions-totally-redesigned-like-button/

Like it or not, the Attention Economy is Adding Emotion, techonomy.com

💙 Facebook Reactions: How They Work, What They Are, And How The 🤗 Care Reaction Button Is Changing The Game 💜

Finnish town considers 'Emoji Street' proposal, BBC news - http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38065216

New York has a new emoji index for its subway system, so we made you an emoji tube map - City Monitor

Pattern of Visual Dominance Behavior in Humans, authors John F. DovidioSteve L. Ellyson - Pattern of Visual Dominance Behavior in Humans | SpringerLink

Why emojified Shakespeare is a must-read - https://foreverbookish.com/2016/01/18/why-emojified-shakespeare-is-a-must-read/

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, Clive Thompson

In this episode, I speak with Milena Droumeva, professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, about how our relationship with sound is shaped by culture, the audio in audio/visual media literacy and the role technology plays in mediating our acoustic environments.

R. Murray Schafer, The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

World Soundscape Project, Simon Fraser University - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

World Soundscape Project Archive, Toronto Niennial of Art - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

About Simond Fraser University’s Music and Sound programs - https://www.sfu.ca/sca/programs/music---sound.html

Professor Barry Truax - https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/

Sound Ecology: A web documentary on noise pollution and our inability to endure silence, National Film Board of Canada - https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/sound_ecology/

Bringing Sound into Urban Public Place Design, McGill, Urban Sound Symposium - https://urban-sound-symposium.org/USS2019/slides/305_Christine_Kerrigan.pdf

Listening as Intervention; Livable Soundscapes, Milena Droumeva - https://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/currentprojects.html

The media literacy movement’s debt to Marshall McLuhan - Alexandar Kuskis, University of Toronto - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298794462_The_media_literacy_movement%27s_debt_to_Marshall_McLuhan

About Foley (Filmmaking) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)

Foley artist shows how sounds effects are made - youtube/E0pOLuklB4s

How to add sound to TikTok videos - Get Savvy with Social - https://getsavvywithsocial.com/how-to-add-sound-to-tiktok-videos/

Buzzfeed Listicles on sound - https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/photos-you-can-here-just-by-looking-at-them

The Social Dilemma, IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/

Sound memes - https://www.memesoundboard.com

The Social Dilemma, Milena Droumeva - Sounding out Sexism in Video Games -kjnhttps://www.ted.com/talks/milena_droumeva_sounding_out_sexism_in_video_games?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

New Wireless Noise-Canceling Tech Is Faster Than the Speed of Sound - https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/noisecanceling-techs-edge-is-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound

Headphone transparency mode on AirPods, Bose, Sony and more: How and when to use it, CNET - https://www.cnet.com/how-to/headphone-transparency-mode-on-airpods-bose-sony-and-more-how-and-when-to-use-it/

The COVIDvoice Project Share your voice. Crush COVID. - https://covidvoice.net

What is lithotripsy?, Hopkins Medicine - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/lithotripsy

#MeToo Sonification Excerpts, Milena Droumeva - https://soundcloud.com/ambient-sonic/sets/metoo-sonification-excerpts

Sounding Out Blog - https://soundstudiesblog.com

Radio Aporee - sound archives https://aporee.org/

In this very short podcast extra, Carl Miller and I discuss Blockchain technology and it's potential to combat deep fakes by authenticating and time-stamping media iterations.

SHOW NOTES:

Podcast EXTRA - Blockchain Technology and Deep Fakes Authentication - SHOW NOTES

Bitcoin Units and Divisibility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Units_and_divisibility

What the Heck is Bitcoin Anyways - https://kabirpost.com/heck-bitcoin-anyway/

Blockchain Explained - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Blackchain. What is Blockchain Technology? How Does it Work? - https://builtin.com/blockchain

On Cryptocoins: I think I know why Satoshi Nakamoto Hides, Tech Power UP - https://www.techpowerup.com/234971/on-cryptocoins-i-think-i-know-why-satoshi-nakamoto-hides

In this episode I speak with pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller about deep fakes, information warfare, and how synthetic media environments are changing democracy and disrupting power systems.

Carl Miller is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He combines data and analysis with immersive, first-hand reporting. His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, was published in 2018 by Penguin RandomHouse.

SHOW NOTES:

DEMOS - https://demos.co.uk/

A Gentle Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) - https://machinelearningmastery.com/what-are-generative-adversarial-networks-gans/

This cat does note exist - https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

This person does not exist - https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Beirut explosion: How conspiracy theories spread on social media, By Marianna Spring - https://www.bbc.com/news/53669029

The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics
Jayson Harsin / American University of Paris - https://www.flowjournal.org/2008/12/the-rumor-bomb-on-convergence-culture-and-politics-jayson-harsin-american-university-of-paris/?print=print

[Proto-Post-truth] The Rumour Bomb: Theorizing the Convergence of New and Old Trends in Mediated US Politics, By Jayson Harsin - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322785090_Proto-Post-truth_The_Rumour_Bomb_Theorizing_the_Convergence_of_New_and_Old_Trends_in_Mediated_US_Politics

Bots in the Twittersphere: An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings, By Stefan Wojcik, Solomon Messing, Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie and Paul Hitlin - https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/04/09/bots-in-the-twittersphere/

Carl Miller speaks on ‘Policing and Justice for a digital age’ at the (UK) Police Foundation’s annual conference — https://youtu.be/zxO-YH8VWVA

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing, The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/sir-robert-peels-nine-principles-of-policing.html

Peelian Principles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

Crossing Divides: How a social network could save democracy from deadlock, By Carl Miller - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713

Taiwan is making democracy work again. It's time we paid attention - By Carl Miller - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-media

Carl Miller on liquid democracy, TEDTALKS - https://youtu.be/FNL22RvFwn0

DEFcon Hacking Conference - https://www.defcon.org/

10 years on, the Arab spring's explosive rage and dashed dreams: The extraordinary shock of people power gave way to a bitter backlash. So where to now?, by Martin Chulov - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/14/10-years-on-the-arab-springs-explosive-rage-and-dashed-dreams

In this episode I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years.

SHOW NOTES;

Memes to Movemeents: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power, By An Xiao Mina

Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of the word ‘meme' - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes

Amanda Brennan - https://memelibrarian.com /

Meme librarian is a real job — and it’s the best one on the Internet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/21/tumblrs-meme-librarian-has-the-best-job-on-the-internet/

Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture , MIT Press - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/memes-digital-culture

Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs, By Mark Dery - https://www.markdery.com/books/culture-jamming-hacking-slashing-and-sniping-in-the-empire-of-signs-2/

Cave Paintings in Lascaux France - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

Hall of Cats cave paintings -images - https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/268738302751070366/

The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum - https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu

Ancient Romans of Pompeii Loved Street Art Too, By Henri Neuendorf - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-romans-of-pompeii-loved-street-art-too-195643

Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - https://books.google.ca/books/about/Art_as_Activist.html?id=U_CCAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

China's river crab and grass-mud horse, Tactile Technology Collective - https://www.informationactivism.org/en/chinas-river-crab-and-grass-mud-horse.html

Old Spice viral campaign - The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Your_Man_Could_Smell_Like

K-pop fans are taking over 'White Lives Matter' and other anti-Black hashtags with memes and fancams of their favorite stars, By Alicia Lee, CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/kpop-bts-blackpink-fans-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html

30 Cutest Celebrity Cats - Emerald Catron Move over, A-listers: these celebrity cats are the real stars of the show. - https://bestlifeonline.com/cutest-celebrity-cats/

Coronavirus spawns viral TikTok dance about washing your hands, By Ben Cost - https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-spawns-viral-tiktok-dance-about-washing-your-hands/

Learning the Politics of “Digital Dissensus”, By An Xiao Mina - https://civichall.org/civicist/learning-the-politics-of-digital-dissensus/

In this episode I speak with librarian Barbara Fister about the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture.

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age. In the past decade,

EPISODE NOTES:

Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change, Head, Alison J.; Fister, Barbara; MacMillan, Margy, Project Information Literacy - https://projectinfolit.org/publications/algorithm-study/

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

Was software responsible for the financial crisis? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/16/computing-software-financial-crisis

Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651

Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff - - https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/

Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy, Shea Swauger - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006132/software-algorithms-proctoring-online-tests-ai-ethics/

Google and advertising: digital capitalism in the context of Post-Fordism, the reification of language, and the rise of fake news - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-017-0021-4

The History of Google Ads 20 Years in the Making (Infographic)

https://instapage.com/blog/google-adwords-infographic

How Bezos built his data machine, Leo Kelion, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data

Automating InequalityHow High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317

Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks, by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble - http://algorithmsofoppression.com/

Edward Snowden NSA FILES: DECODED, By EWEN MACASKILL and GABRIEL DANCE - https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

The Fiduciary Model of Privacy, Jack M. Balkin, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3700087

VPN Usage Surges During COVID-19 Crisis [Infographic], Niall McCarthy

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/17/vpn-usage-surges-during-covid-19-crisis-infographic/?sh=7ac8e6ab7d79

Failure to Disrupt, By Justin Reich - https://failuretodisrupt.com/

CONspirituality: A weekly study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism - https://conspirituality.net/about/

Emmy-award winning ⁦web documentarian Katerina Cizek and I discuss co-creation in media, human/nonhuman intelligence and media literacy as an antidote to deep fakes.

EPISODE NOTES:

High Rise (Out My Window) web documentary - http://highrise.nfb.ca/

MIT Open Documentary Lab - http://opendoclab.mit.edu/

Co-creation Studio at MIT - https://cocreationstudio.mit.edu/

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms - https://cmsw.mit.edu/collective-wisdom-co-creating-media-within-communities-across-disciplines-and-with-algorithms/

Petroglyphs in Gobustan - Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, UNESCO,

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1076/

Detroit Narrative Agency - Allied Media Conference, https://alliedmedia.org/projects/detroit-narrative-agency

Grace Lee Boggs - Rest in Power Grace Lee Boggs, American Revolutionary Film, https://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com/

Google Sidewalk Labs - https://www.sidewalklabs.com/

Jason E. Lewis - https://jasonlewis.org

More on Jason E.Lewis’ work in Part 6: Media Co-Creation with Non-Human Systems - https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/collective-wisdom-part-6/release/1?source=post_page---------------------------

Blackfoot philosopher Leroy Little Bear - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Little_Bear

Witness: see it. film it. change it. - witness.org

Open Doc Lab MIT Co creation lab every Tuesday webinars - https://www.glunis.com/XX/Unknown/545983178790726/MIT-Open-Documentary-Lab

In this episode I speak with PHD and high school educator Paul Darvasi about game-based-education, how augmented can be used to animate urban spaces for learning and the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing metrics for evaluating student success.

EPISODE NOTES:

On Blind Protocol - DowDown the Rabbit Hole: How To Turn Your Class into an Alternate Reality Game, By Paul Darvasi

http://www.ludiclearning.org/2015/08/19/down-the-rabbit-hole-how-to-turn-your-class-into-an-alternate-reality-game/

The Ward Game

http://www.ludiclearning.org/

Ratched show IMDB listing https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7423538/

Netflix Link - https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80213445

Gone Home (video game about coming home and clues)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/232430/Gone_Home/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Home

What Remains of Edith Finch

https://store.steampowered.com/app/501300/What_Remains_of_Edith_Finch/

Her Story

https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/Her_Story/

Grand Theft Auto V - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V

Paul’s Doctorate paper - Under the Hood: An (Auto) Ethnographic Study of How White Adolescent Males Critically Engage with Race in Grand Theft Auto V,

https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37454

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/271590/

1979 Revolution: Black Friday - https://www.gamesforchange.org/game/1979-revolution-black-friday/

Serious games - https://www.game-learn.com/what-is-a-serious-game/

Is augmented reality (AR) the next level of gaming?, a report by Ericsson - https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/consumerlab/reports/ready-steady-game

Understanding the Pokemon GO phenomenon, Jessica Webb, https://blinkux.com/ideas/understanding-pokemon-go-phenomenon

The Guardian - Urban gamification: can Pokémon Go transform our public spaces?, Francesca Perry - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/22/urban-gamification-pokemon-go-transform-public-spaces

3 AR Ganes to Try During Pandemic, Ryan Anderson - https://arpost.co/2020/05/07/3-ar-games-try-during-pandemic/

Spinning and Winning: How Peloton is revolutionizing fitness, technology, and everything in between , Charlotte Alumni, Digital Initiative - https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/spinning-and-winning-how-peloton-is-revolutionizing-fitness-technology-and-everything-in-between/

Peloton - incentivizing exercise

Dear White People - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5707802/

Artificial Intelligence in Education - 5 Main Roles Of Artificial Intelligence In Education , by Lisa Plitnichenko, eLearning Industry - https://elearningindustry.com/5-main-roles-artificial-intelligence-in-education