[Studentfolk] Techno-Mischief: Negotiating Exaggeration Online in Quarantine

[Moriarty, Megan]

Techno-Mischief: Negotiating Exaggeration Online in Quarantine<https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/techno-mischief-negotiating-exaggeration-online-in-quarantine/>

Please consider registering for this FREE webinar<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Mn3X1YBmTaOwiZlaYcyEFQ?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1r4rSwH6i_EhWQFDrKdn6IN6VuakzPKPbZAa3mbHdAkfBe8UGKTEHH9uc_aem_jUPlHZqXYCYnxzK3zLVurQ#/registration> <https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Mn3X1YBmTaOwiZlaYcyEFQ?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1r4rSwH6i_EhWQFDrKdn6IN6VuakzPKPbZAa3mbHdAkfBe8UGKTEHH9uc_aem_jUPlHZqXYCYnxzK3zLVurQ#/registration> (Hosted via Zoom) on Wednesday, February 12, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET


The Folklore & Science section of the American Folklore Society hosts a virtual presentation to highlight the senior prize winner’s contribution to the intersection between folklore and science. This year, Dr. Anna Beresin (emerita; University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA) presents her prize-winning study “Techno- mischief: Negotiating exaggeration online in quarantine,” as part of an interdisciplinary panel that includes two scholars of education & psychology as discussants: Dr. Frederick Erickson (emeritus; UCLA) & Dr. Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley).

Abstract: In 2023, Anna Beresin co-edited with folklorist Dr. Julia Bishop Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation. This presentation presents one of Anna’s chapters in that book, along with the backstory of how her interest in negotiated exaggeration emerged. Hint: it had to do with captive gorillas. The book is available in entirety for free download through Open Book Publishers<https://www.annaberesin.com/play-books>

Presenter Bios:

Anna Beresin has two PhDs from the University of Pennsylvania, one in the Psychology of Education, and one in Folklore.  She is known for really bad puns.

Developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik’s research explores how young children come to know about the world around them. The work is informed by the "theory theory" -- the idea that children develop and change intuitive theories of the world in much the way that scientists do. Her books include The Gardener & The Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells us About the Relationship between Parents & Children (2016) and The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind (2001).

Anthropologist of education Frederick Erickson’s work concerns the microethnography of classroom and family interaction, and especially how this interaction affects disadvantaged students. He has also written extensively on qualitative research methods for social and educational research. Among his publications is the award-winning book, Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life (2004).





Daisy Ahlstone
Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs
Doctoral Student | Comparative Studies & Folklore
Ohio State University
ahlstone.1 at osu.edu

Creator & Producer of Folkwise<https://linktr.ee/folkwise>
Writer at MycoLore<https://daisyahlstone.substack.com/>
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