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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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …