Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies.
Dr Halpern is an assistant professor at the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College in History and an affiliate in the Culture and Media Studies Department and in the Design Studies MA program at Parsons the New School of Design. In her work, she studies the histories of digital technologies, cybernetics, the human and cognitive sciences, and design. She especially focuses on histories of big data, interactivity, and ubiquitous computing.