Cohort Year:
2020
Research Interests:
Science and Technology Studies, Games, Educational Media, Computation, History of Science, Media Aesthetics, Platform Studies, Ecology, Political Economy
Education:
MA, Humanities, University of Chicago (2018); BA, Economics, University of Chicago (2018)
Biography
Zach Yost is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, whose research concerns the functions of media within scientific practice, communication, and pedagogy. His dissertation looks at a varied archive of educational, recreational, and scientific “programming games” to explain the role of digital games as a primary cultural form for teaching and experientially mediating our understandings of computation across expert and lay communities. Additional projects address the use of games and other media models in the environmental and social sciences.