Have Asian Americans created a new “home” through New Media (streaming, on demand, online)? Advances in technology have changed audiences access to media—with a tremendous impact on both consumers and producers of content. How has that impact affected Asian Americans on both a personal and community level? What’s behind the rise of Asian American YouTube stars? What are Asian Americans seeking online? Hear
an expert panel’s insider-perspective and contribute your thoughts on Asian Americans and New Media.

Panelists include: 

Vivek Bald | Vivek is a scholar (MIT) and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. His works include Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, and the films Taxi-vala/Auto-biography and Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music. Bald is currently working on several transmedia projects aimed at recovering the lost histories of South Asian workers who came to the United States in the early 20th century.

Chris Dinh | Chris is an actor, writer, and producer. He and Viet Nguyen co-wrote Crush the Skull, Crush the Skull 2, and Things You Don’t Joke About. He was also a co-writer on a number of viral and award-winning sketches and web-series through his work with Wong Fu Productions. He recently produced and co-wrote Wong Fu’s first feature film, Everything Before Us and Cherry Sky Film’s feature version of Crush The Skull which was awarded the Nightfall Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Jenn Fang | Jenn is founder of Reappropriate.co, one of the web’s oldest and most popular blogs dedicated to Asian American feminism, pop culture, and politics. Her writing has been featured in Quartz, BlogHer, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, Asian Americans for Obama, Angry Asian Man, Northwest Asian Weekly, Change.org, Blog for Arizona, and The Nerds of Color. Jenn is also co-curator of AAPI Rewind, a weekly digest of AAPI news and commentary.

Brad Schofield | Brad is the Senior Director of Product Management & Marketing Operations at Comcast of Greater Boston Region. Comcast’s On Demand destination, Cinema Asian America, offers a wide range of films created by and/or about Asian Americans and is available to all Comcast customers nationwide. Cinema Asian America reflects the characteristics of Asian America and its cinema: diverse, dynamic and innovative.