Alice Robison

Biography

Alice J. Robison (PhD 2006, University of Wisconsin–Madison) is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition studies in the English department at Arizona State University. Her primary research interests are digital literacies and social media; she has published several book chapters and journal articles on those topics. Alice is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Literacies of Backchannels” that explores how people learn to participate in digital social media contexts.

Alice has also advised several digital learning grants sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation. At ASU she is a faculty researcher on the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Laboratory (SMALLab) Project in the Arts, Media, and Engineering program. Previously, she was the academic advisor to the New Media Literacies Project at MIT and a founding member of the GLS research initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Sessions

• Embodying, Designing, and Learning Multimodally with SMALLab
  Wednesday, June 10

  2:00–3:00

  Inn Wisconsin (2nd floor, East/Southeast)
• Respondent, Presentations on Leveraging Game Design for Learning
  
  Thursday, June 11
  11:00–12:30
  Browsing Library (2nd floor, West Central)