Vaparedes

Biographical sketch

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I am a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media. I hold a PhD from the Media Arts and Practice program at USC School of Cinematic Arts. I am also a member of FemTechNet. Before UCLA, I taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in the School of Media Studies at The New School. I sometimes use Wikipedia in the classroom and am a member of the FemTechNet Wikipedia Committee. I also coordinate Wikipedia edit-a-thons at universities, usually on the topic of feminism and technology. My research interests include: new media art, Chicana/o media, media histories, historic monuments related to film & television exhibition and production.

Course Information

• FALL 2015, SPRING 2016 & FALL 2016: New Media, Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• FALL 2014: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology at The New School
• FALL 2013: Dialogues in Feminism and Technology at The New School

Description

Course topics address a range of issues and themes drawn from the history of the feminist engagement with science and technology and from contemporary feminist work in technology and media (The New School); or the social and cultural dimensions of new media histories and practices (UIUC).

Student Work

These articles were created during courses I've led or co-facilitated:

• Decriminalizing sex work
• A Feminist Dictionary
• Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics
• Caroline R. Jones
• Gladys Kathleen Parkin
• Esfir Shub

These articles were contributed to during courses I've led or co-facilitated:

• Marie Boivin
• Marie Lachapelle
• Anna Morandi Manzolini
• Judith Graham Pool
• Jillian Tamaki

Articles I've Created

• Shooting of Meagan Hockaday

Professional Presentations about Wikipedia Editing

Upcoming

Past

• Feminist Encounters with Wikipedia panel on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. with Dean Anne Balsamo, Marcea Decker, Dorothy Howard, and Antoinette LaFarge with Veronica Paredes as moderator at Wollman Hall (Room B500), 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10003 on The New School campus. Sponsored by School of Media Studies. Link to poster. Link to New School event announcement. Link to livestream feed.
• 2015 SCMS Workshop: "Storming Wikipedia: FemTechNet’s Distributed Pedagogy to Improve the Digital Cultural Archive," Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• The Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday, to be held on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners. FTN talk starts around 01:11:49 at this archived livestream video.
• Anne Balsamo, Lisa Nakamura, Liz Losh & Veronica Paredes (2014), "Unit 4 -- Class #3: Teaching Wikipedia Editing", Connected Courses, October 20, 2014.
• V. Paredes (2013), “FemTechNet Wikistorming,” PANEL: Feminist Interventions: The FemTechNet DOCC 2013, 2013 CUNY IT Conference 2013, New York, NY, December 2013.

Projects

• Co-chair (with Deckdeckdeck) of FemTechNet Wikipedia Committee(last active 2017)
• Member of Prairie Futures Research Cluster (2016)
• Co-Facilitator of Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at UIUC (March 5, 2016)

Tasks List

• Ricardo Valverde // mentioned here UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center