Biography

Forrest Greenwood is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington.  His dissertation, “The Nintendo DS Platform,” seeks to demonstrate how the Nintendo DS handheld game system has shaped and been shaped by a broad range of social, historical, economic, and industrial factors.  The intended aim of this demonstration is to show how the seeds of technology can blossom out into fields of culture — to show how considering both technology and culture alongside one another can yield results not immediately apparent by considering either in isolation.

Forrest also works as a Quality Control Specialist for Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, a sweeping project to digitize the University’s audio-visual media holdings in time for the 2020 bicentennial.  There, he ensures that the project’s digitized film scans meet the quality standards set by the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive.