How the systemic proliferation of the “anime girl” avatar in the social VR platform VRChat reflects gendered biopolitics of power and control
Cashing in On Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in The United States
While the public has become aware of issues surrounding data collection, distribution, and analysis in online spaces, this discourse has not fully extended into education.
Disputing Facts, Disputing The Economy: Media Controversies at The Decline of The Peruvian Miracle
The concept of sociotechnical nonfictions highlights the role that expertise and media assemblages played in the (re)production of facts.
Video playlist: 2021 CMS Thesis Presentations
Professor Hendershot: “Restoring the Fairness Doctrine can’t prevent another Rush Limbaugh”
“Rush Limbaugh once boasted he had single-handedly ‘brought AM radio back from the dead.’ It was simultaneously one of the most accurate and least offensive comments he ever made.”
Failure to Disrupt, Justin Reich’s new book on why education needs to focus on incremental improvements, not wholesale reinvention that only benefits the affluent
The book arrives in the middle of a massive social and pedagogical experiment as schools turn to online tools for remote and hybrid education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Equity Rituals: A Case for the Ritual View of Communication in an Era of Precision Medicine
A combination of theory, applied media practices, educational field work, and design to highlight the opportunities that a ritual view of communication presents to advance health equity.
