Joshua Fouts, “Connecting East and West”

Joshua Fouts, director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, spoke at the 5th annual State of Play Gaming Conference in Singapore on Monday, August 20.

Fouts participated on a panel entitled, “Connecting East and West,” which explored the influence of game mechanics on cross-cultural cooperation and the challenge of intercultural communication. The panel also focused on society, governance and virtual worlds as a vehicle for people-to-people diplomacy.

Other speakers on Fouts’ panel included: Cecil Chua Eng Huang, Nanyang Technical University (Singapore), Marko Skoric, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Judge Unggi Yoon, Busan (Korea).

Allen Varney from The Escapist magazine moderated the discussion.

State of Play V: Building the Global Metaverse is a conference on virtual worlds, organized by Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, New York Law School, Trinity Univeristy, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Experts from across disciplines participated in the conference, discussing the future of cyberspace and the impact of these new immersive, social online environments on education, law, politics and society. The Conference runs from August 19-22, 2007 in Singapore.