Lonny J Avi Brooks

California State University, East Bay / Chair of the Communication And The Future (CATF) division of the National Communication Association / Chair of the Jewish Culture & Society Committee at Cal State East Bay

dr.brooks@gmail.com

Playing a Minority Forecaster in search of Afrofuturism: where am I in this future, Stewart Brand?

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I share a dream: to ensure that long oppressed racial minority and diverse voices can articulate themselves in the futures imagined in the practices of long- term thinking and in the professional areas of foresight . Promises about the future in the strategic fields of long-term thinking and how they are portrayed in popular culture […]

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Embracing the messy diversity of a Ubicomp state university: Cal State Nowhere is indeed a Somewhere at the fissures of the Ubicomp Present

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**Embracing the messy diversity of a Ubicomp state university: Cal State Nowhere is indeed a Somewhere at the fissures of the Ubicomp Present** Outline of Messy Ubicomp Present Research: Series of four articles/case studies that begins with preamble/preface 1. Embracing the messy present of ubicomp at CSUEB 2. Urgent Evoke–Challenges of serious gaming in shifting […]

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Shifting voices: Seeking the pedagogy of wisdom in gaming, MMO’s (massively multiplayer online games) and locative media

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What do we really want from gaming as educators? As academics we strive to inculcate knowledge and wisdom into our students. However we soon discover how that wisdom is really gained not by passive transmission but by active and immersive engagement with the material and with fellow peers. Jane McGonigal’s recent book, Reality is Broken […]

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