{"id":1102,"date":"2025-01-16T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2025-01-16T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:29:49","slug":"upcoming-workshop-empathy-machines-for-mandel-youth-humanities-academy-feb-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/upcoming-workshop-empathy-machines-for-mandel-youth-humanities-academy-feb-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Workshop &#8211; &#8220;Empathy Machines&#8221; for Mandel Youth Humanities Academy, Feb. 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-11.39.22-AM.png?resize=655%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1103\" style=\"width:387px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-11.39.22-AM.png?resize=655%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 655w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-11.39.22-AM.png?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-11.39.22-AM.png?resize=768%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-11.39.22-AM.png?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 21, 2025, Dr. Mike Piero will lead a humanities workshop for high school students interested in Cuyahoga Community College&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri-c.edu\/programs\/liberal-arts-and-sciences\/mandel-center\/youth-humanities-academy\/index.html\">Mandel Youth Humanities Academy<\/a> summer program. His session is titled \u201cEmpathy Machine: VR Immersive Narratives and the Humanities,\u201d and it will feature students experiencing the award-winning VR immersive narrative, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/goliathvr.io\/\">Goliath<\/a><\/em>, which tells the story about a man named Goliath who lives with schizophrenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri-c.edu\/programs\/liberal-arts-and-sciences\/mandel-center\/youth-humanities-academy\/index.html\">Mandel Youth Humanities Academy<\/a> (Cleveland, OH):<\/strong><br>Overseen by Dr. David Busch and as described on MYHA&#8217;s website, &#8220;The Mandel Youth Humanities Academy is a summer program that offers&nbsp;rising high school juniors and seniors in Northeast Ohio an opportunity to broaden their humanities education and get a taste of college coursework.&nbsp;The summer program includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Discussion-based seminars in philosophy, history, art, literature, and religion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Explorations and interactive documentaries in new media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Community-based learning across Cleveland through \u201cCity as Text\u201d experiences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accepted students receive a generous stipend equivalent to a full-time summer job,&nbsp;a personal computer and, as needed, transportation to and from campus.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri-c.edu\/programs\/liberal-arts-and-sciences\/mandel-center\/youth-humanities-academy\/index.html\">Interested students can apply here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Workshop description:<\/strong><br>Contrary to the moral panic(s) surrounding video games, humanities scholars have found vast potential in thinking about virtual reality and video games as empathy machines: technologies that have the potential to expand our understanding of others\u2019 lived experiences. On Meta Quest headsets, students will each experience the award-winning VR Immersive narrative, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/goliathvr.io\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/goliathvr.io\/\">Goliath<\/a><\/em>\u2014a stunning gamified narrative about a man\u2019s experience living with schizophrenia. Through this narrative, participants will start thinking about how technologically-mediated narratives have the capacity to enrich our empathy for others and expand our understanding of our own identities. Dr. Mike Piero will lead a discussion about the power of virtual reality narratives, Goliath\u2019s particular themes, and the importance of critical media literacy to 21st century daily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 21, 2025, Dr. Mike Piero will lead a humanities workshop for high school students interested in Cuyahoga Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,29,47,44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-studies","category-game-studies","category-speaking-engagement","category-teaching","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/goliath.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}