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Technology
August 3, 2020
Black Software
The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
Charlton D. McIlwain
Hosted by
Jasmine McNealy
In Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (Oxford Univeristy Press), Charlton McIlwain, Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development and professor of media …
Technology
July 27, 2020
Design Justice
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock
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Jasmine McNealy
In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (MIT Press, 2020), Sasha Costanza-Chock, an associate professor of Civic Media at MIT, builds the case for designers and …
Technology
July 20, 2020
Hacking Diversity
The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Christina Dunbar-Hester
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Jasmine McNealy
In Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton University Press, 2020), Christina-Dunbar Hester, an associate professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, explores …
Technology
May 1, 2020
Distributed Blackness
African American Cybercultures
Andre Brock
Hosted by
Jasmine McNealy
Technology has been instrumental in allowing audiences to encounter expressions of culture to which they may have no direct connection. The popular commercial platforms like Twitter and Instagram mediate culture …
Technology
April 29, 2020
Too Smart
How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
Jathan Sadowski
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Jasmine McNealy
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What …
Technology
March 3, 2020
Data Feminism
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein
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Jasmine McNealy
The increased datafication our interactions and permeation of data science into more aspects of our lives requires analysis of the systems of power surrounding and undergirding data. The impacts of …
Technology
February 3, 2020
The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities
Russell A. Newman
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Jasmine McNealy
Three years after the withdrawal of the Open Internet Order – then-President Barack Obama’s attempt at codifying network neutrality by prohibiting internet service providers from discriminating between content – by …
Technology
January 20, 2020
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Ben Green
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Jasmine McNealy
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has captured the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dwellers. But what are the possible drawbacks of …
Technology
October 19, 2018
The Qualified Self
Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
Lee Humphreys
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Jasmine McNealy
Physical journals, scrapbooks, and photo albums all offer their owners the opportunity to chronicle both mundane and extravagant events. But unlike social media posting, this analog memorializing of life happenings …
Technology
August 15, 2018
The Grid
Biography of an American Technology
Julie A. Cohn
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Jasmine McNealy
Though usually a background concern, the aging U.S. electric grid has lately been on the minds of both legislators and consumers. Congress wants to ensure the technological security of this …
Technology
April 6, 2018
The Fabric of Interface
Mobile Media, Design, and Gender
Stephen Monteiro
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Jasmine McNealy
Sewing, knitting, quilting, the crafts related to fabric making, are usually not what we think about when we consider our digital communications devices. Yet, many of the activities that we …
Technology
February 27, 2018
Architectural Intelligence
How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape
Molly Wright Steenson
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Jasmine McNealy
For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic …
Technology
January 29, 2018
The Future
Nick Montfort
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Jasmine McNealy
Popular culture provides many visions of the future. From The Jetsons to Futurama, Black Mirror to Minority Report, Western culture has predicted a future predicated on innovations in technology. In …
Technology
December 21, 2017
Minitel
Welcome to the Internet
Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll
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Jasmine McNealy
When discussing Internet history, many within the United States believe the creation myth of an Internet born in Silicon Valley. But aspects of the Internet that we use for shopping …
Technology
September 13, 2016
Superconnected
The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life
Mary Chayko
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Jasmine McNealy
New technology has made us more connected than ever before. This has its advantages: instantaneous communication, expanded circles of influence, access to more information. And, of course, our connectedness has …
Technology
March 14, 2016
Cultural Code
Video Games and Latin America
Phillip Penix-Tadsen
Hosted by
Jasmine McNealy
Symbols have meanings that change depending upon the cultural context. But how do we discuss symbols, their meanings, and their cultural contexts without an adequate vocabulary? Phillip Penix-Tadsen, assistant professor …
Technology
February 22, 2016
Metadata
Jeffrey Pomerantz
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Jasmine McNealy
What is the "stuff" that fuels the information society in which we live? In his new book, Metadata (MIT 2015), information scientist Jeffrey Pomerantz asserts that metadata powers our digital …
Technology
January 6, 2016
Enjoying Machines
Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin
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Jasmine McNealy
When we consider the television, we think not only about how it's used, but also it's impact on culture. The television, tv, telly, or tube, became popular in the West …
Technology
December 30, 2015
Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media
Peter J. Gloviczki
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Jasmine McNealy
Humans have coped with tragedy using ritual and memorials since the Neolithic era. Doka called a memorial a space invested with meaning, "set aside to commemorate an event such as …
Technology
December 23, 2015
I Am Error
The Nintendo Family Computer-Entertainment System Platform
Nathan Altice
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Jasmine McNealy
The genre of "platform studies" offers both researchers and readers more than an examination of the technical machinations of a computing system. Instead, the family of methodologies presents a humanist …
Technology
November 15, 2015
Knowledge Machines
Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities,
Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder
Hosted by
Jasmine McNealy
By now it is incontrovertible that new technology has had an effect on how regular people get information. Whether in the form of an online newspaper or a Google search …
Technology
October 2, 2015
Reading the Comments
Likers, Haters and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Joseph M. Reagle
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Jasmine McNealy
What do we know about the individuals who make comments on online news stories, blogs, videos and other media? What kind of people take the time to post all manner …
Technology
June 1, 2015
Works of Game
On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
John Sharp
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Jasmine McNealy
That games, particularly video games, could be viewed as art should come as no surprise. And yet, a debate exists over what is and should be considered art with respect …
Technology
May 25, 2015
Privacy in the New Media Age
Jon L. Mills
Hosted by
Jasmine McNealy
That privacy in the digital age is an important concept to be discussed is axiomatic. Cameras in mobile phones make it easy to record events and post them on the …
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