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Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Building a Connective Ethnography with Children Engaged in the Digital Age

Children are seeking their place in contemporary digital cultures, notably through the use of mobile devices, playing a variety of games with friends and accessing social networking platforms, resulting in interconnected performances in the digital setting. Therefore, it was necessary to base it on connective ethnography to track the interactions of a group of children between physical and digital spaces during playtime with peers.

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This event will be held in HYBRID format. Please join us in-person at the Games Institute, EC1 at the University of Waterloo or virtually through Microsoft Teams.

Speaker: Bruna Oliveira

Bruna is a Ph.D. candidate in Education at the Federal University of Sergipe and a visiting researcher at the University of Waterloo. She has been researching topics involving children's engagement with digital games, children's playful experiences with digital technologies, children as content producers, and research methodologies involving children in the digital era.

Friday, April 19, 2024 9:30 am - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Disrupting Disciplinary Divides for Digital Futures

In 2022, The Games Institute (GI) ran its first-ever seed funding competition. Thus far, the GI Seed Program has supported eight interdisciplinary collaborations with $110,000 of funding. In addition to this funding, researchers have used the GI labs, equipment, and staff support to meet their research goals.

The Seed Grant recipients have combined their varied expertise to tackle real-world problems facing indigenous communities, healthcare workers, children with speech difficulties, mothers facing homelessness, citizen scientists, and more by creating local solutions to global problems.

On April 19th, 2024, the seed funding recipients will come together at the GI to present their work to the university community.

This is a free event and all are welcome to attend. Registration is required and lunch is provided.

**This event is in person only. Masks are welcome but not required for this event. Please do not attend if you have any cold, flu, or covid symptoms.**