Edward Schiappa examines the key sites of debate including schools, bathrooms, the military, sports, prisons, and feminism, drawing attention to the political, practical, and ethical dimensions of the act of defining itself.
Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life
The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics.
Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19
How communities built around improvised music — which themselves are often supported by improvisatory DIY event organizing practices — adapted from in-person livestreamed events.
Triple play, OTT TV, and the Chinese logic of “select commercialization”
“The future of the Chinese online TV industry is increasingly organized as an ecosystem economy.”
Sex, Power, and Technology: A Relational Engineering Ethos As Feminist Utopia
Relational engineering to develop technology that stands in contrast to dominant notions in US tech culture that prioritize profit, scale, productivity, and solutionism.
The Network and the Classroom: A History of Hypermedia Learning Environments
Examining the history of hypermedia knowledge organization tools by looking at both successful and failed experiments in bringing them into classrooms, one can more deeply understand the conceptual origins of the recent generation of networked knowledge tools and how to avoid challenges that have plagued them in the past.
Hillbilly Talkback: Co-Creation and Counter-Narrative in Appalachia
“I explore some of the most common image types used to represent Appalachia in popular media and assess the potential of co-creative documentary practices to create representations which challenge these harmful images.”
