Event time:
Friday, December 9, 2022 - 12:00pm
Location:
Online via Zoom
Event description:
Join the Yale Center for Environmental Communication for a panel discussion on video gaming and climate change! We will explore the ways in which digital games can be utilized for large-scale social change and discuss our recent report of video gamers’ opinions on global warming. Leading researchers and professionals in the gaming industry will share how they have approached video games as tools to influence public opinions and to address the urgency of the climate crisis.
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Panelists
Deborah Mensah-Bonsu is the founder of Games for
Good, which focuses on harnessing games and industry
for social impact. She and her team consult for console
and mobile studios as well as UNEP’s Playing for the
Planet, where she co-created the Green Game Jam which
won Best Innovation at the PG Mobile Game Awards 2022.
Marina Psaros is the head of sustainability at Unity
Technologies and the author of The Atlas of Disappearing
Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis. She
is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Arsht-Rock
Resilience Center and has led climate change action
programs across the public, private, and non-profit sectors
for over fifteen years.
Jennifer Carman, PhD, is the Deputy Research Manager
at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
She develops and supports survey research on public
attitudes, behaviors, and policy support regarding climate
change both in the U.S. and globally.
Moderator
Lynn E. Fiellin, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at the Yale
School of Medicine and at the Yale Child Study Center,
and the Yale School of Public Health. Her work focuses on
developing and testing novel videogame interventions to
promote health and reduce risk in youth and young adults.
Admission:
Free but register in advance
Open to:
General Public