Assistant Professor of Psychology
College of Mount Saint Vincent
Paper Title
“Out of Bounds: Mapping Uptown Youth’s Everyday Mobility through Geotagged Photo-making”
Bio
Jennifer M. Pipitone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. As an environmental psychologist and experiential educator, her research focuses on understanding human-environment relations in multicultural settings locally and abroad. Her Environmental Psychology Lab engages with various qualitative and visual methodologies with the overarching goal of understanding ideas about difference. Situated at the nexus of Western youth culture and digital environments, Jennifer’s most recent research project assesses the thematic content of memes in order to explore what issues are representative of, and significant within, the current sociopolitical context.