Kari Kraus

Kari Kraus is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland, and an affiliated faculty member with the UMD Human–Computer Interaction Lab. Kraus’s work focuses on new media and the digital humanities, digital preservation, game studies and transmedia storytelling, and speculative design. Her diverse collaborations and projects include preserving virtual worlds, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), storytelling in the service of education and design, and Exploring Invisible Traces in Historic Recordings, which used audio forensics techniques to help recover provenance information about undated recordings. In 2015, she entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Kraus writes occasionally for the New York Times and the Huffington Post.
http://www.karikraus.com

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