Video games have a unique capacity to generate intimate affects, and my games of choice push us to rethink our assumptions about what constitutes intimacy more broadly.
When All You Have is a Banhammer: The Social and Communicative Work of Volunteer Moderators
Drawing upon interviews, participant observation, and my own experiences as a volunteer community moderator on Reddit, I propose that a significant portion of work performed by volunteer moderators is social and communicative in nature.
Seizing the Memes of Production: Political Memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
“This thesis seeks to understand how different groups of people in Puerto Rico and the diaspora deploy internet memes for political critique. In this work, I analyze three case studies focused on how Puerto Rican groups and individuals use internet memes to express political discontent, make calls to action, engage in catharsis, and seek political change.”
Podcast, Kimberly Juanita Brown: “Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography”
Kimberly Juanita Brown focuses on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers’ interpretation of the event.
Video and podcast: Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
Before fake news dominated headlines, Kevin Young was tracking down its roots.
Podcast: Anne-Katrin Weber, “Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV”
Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
Video and podcast: Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
Stuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it.
