Submission Date

7-19-2024

Document Type

Paper- Restricted to Campus Access

Department

Theater

Faculty Mentor

Domenick Scudera

Comments

Presented during the 26th Annual Summer Fellows Symposium, July 19, 2024 at Ursinus College.

Project Description

My research was about analyzing how computer scientists are portrayed in the media. The idea was to do a project that somehow combined ideas of computer science and theater, being that I am a Computer Science major that has done a lot of theater here at Ursinus. I ultimately decided to go with this subject because I wondered how I would act if I was tasked with playing a “computer scientist”. The issue was that most of the computer scientist characters that I could think of were either exaggerated on purpose because of the nature of the film/show that they were in or weren’t realistic enough for my tastes. This was why I decided to handle this research project the way that I did; my goal was to analyze computer scientists in fiction and find out how these portrayals may affect the perceptions of real computer scientists and the field of computer science as a whole. I then wanted to make a short play poking fun at these portrayals in a comedic way.

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