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About Jasmine McNealy
NBN Episodes hosted by Jasmine:
August 3, 2020
Black Software
In Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (Oxford Univeristy Press), Charlton McIlwain, Vice Provost for …
July 27, 2020
Design Justice
In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (MIT Press, 2020), Sasha Costanza-Chock, an associate professor of Civic Media …
July 20, 2020
Hacking Diversity
In Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton University Press, 2020), Christina-Dunbar Hester, an associate …
May 1, 2020
Distributed Blackness
Technology has been instrumental in allowing audiences to encounter expressions of culture to which they may have no direct connection. The popular co…
April 29, 2020
Too Smart
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 purp…
March 3, 2020
Data Feminism
The increased datafication our interactions and permeation of data science into more aspects of our lives requires analysis of the systems of power su…
February 3, 2020
The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities
Three years after the withdrawal of the Open Internet Order – then-President Barack Obama’s attempt at codifying network neutrality by prohibiting int…
January 20, 2020
The Smart Enough City
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has captured the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, a…
October 19, 2018
The Qualified Self
Physical journals, scrapbooks, and photo albums all offer their owners the opportunity to chronicle both mundane and extravagant events. But unlike so…
August 15, 2018
The Grid
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 en…
April 6, 2018
The Fabric of Interface
Sewing, knitting, quilting, the crafts related to fabric making, are usually not what we think about when we consider our digital communications devic…
February 27, 2018
Architectural Intelligence
For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architect…
January 29, 2018
The Future
Popular culture provides many visions of the future. From The Jetsons to Futurama, Black Mirror to Minority Report, Western culture has predicted a fu…
December 21, 2017
Minitel
When discussing Internet history, many within the United States believe the creation myth of an Internet born in Silicon Valley. But aspects of the In…
September 13, 2016
Superconnected
New technology has made us more connected than ever before. This has its advantages: instantaneous communication, expanded circles of influence, acces…
March 14, 2016
Cultural Code
Symbols have meanings that change depending upon the cultural context. But how do we discuss symbols, their meanings, and their cultural contexts with…
February 22, 2016
Metadata
What is the "stuff" that fuels the information society in which we live? In his new book, Metadata (MIT 2015), information scientist Jeffrey Pomerantz…
January 6, 2016
Enjoying Machines
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 po…
December 30, 2015
Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media
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…
December 23, 2015
I Am Error
The genre of "platform studies" offers both researchers and readers more than an examination of the technical machinations of a computing system. Inst…
November 15, 2015
Knowledge Machines
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 …
October 2, 2015
Reading the Comments
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 po…
June 1, 2015
Works of Game
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 considere…
May 25, 2015
Privacy in the New Media Age
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 …