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SUMMARY:Lisa Nakamura\, “Women of Color and the Digital Labor of Repair”
DESCRIPTION:This paper traces the history of women of color labor creating the material infrastructure for digital media\, moving from the sixties to the present day to demonstrate why and how this gendered and racialized labor has been devalued and made invisible. Their work maintaining and creating digital networks has traditionally been defined as menial\, thereby extracting it of its status\, standing\, and cultural and economic value. The refusal to define this work as “real” work set the stage for our contemporary moment’s hostility against women of color’s work witnessing and documenting racism online and moderating digital environments. While paid content moderation deploys underpaid women and people of color (Roberts\, 2019)\, when these same people report user violations relating to race and gender to social media platforms they are far more likely to be banned or suspended than other users (Gillespie\, 2018). This paper analyzes two social media campaigns by young women of color to demonstrate how they envision and enact the labor of digital repair. \n\n\n\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Director of the Digital Studies Institute and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan.  She is the author of several books on race\, gender\, and the Internet\, most recently Racist Zoombombing (Routledge\, 2021\, co-authored with Hanah Stiverson and Kyle Lindsey) and Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT\, 2020\, as Precarity Lab).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-nakamura-women-of-color-digital-labor-of-repair/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:James Wynn\, “There’s No Place Like Home: Promotional Narratives\, Science Fiction\, and the Case for Mars Colonization”
DESCRIPTION:Given the enormous impact that colonialism has had\, and continues to have\, in the United States\, scholars frequently look to our colonial past to understand the American present. This focus on the past\, though valuable\, has discouraged attention to newly emerging colonial enterprises. Perhaps one of the more conspicuous neo-colonial projects has been the push towards planting human colonies on Mars. In James Wynn’s talk\, he will explore one of the many problems addressed by the rhetoric of this current colonial moment: How do you persuade people to leave their indigenous communities to start new ones in a foreign and sometimes hostile place? To explore the current rhetorical solutions to this problem\, Wynn will assess the strategies used by science fiction writers to help audiences imagine life and human settlement on Mars. By comparing their efforts to lure people to the red planet with the “promotional literature” created by supporters of the English colonization of North America in the early modern period\, he will show that though these colonial enterprises face similar rhetorical challenges\, the material-historical contexts in which they occur significantly influence the available means for addressing them. \n\n\n\n\nJames Wynn is Associate Professor of English and Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching explore science\, mathematics\, and public policy from a rhetorical perspective. His first book Evolution by the Numbers (2012) examines how mathematics was argued into the study of variation\, evolution\, and heredity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most recent monograph Citizen Science in the Digital Age explores how the Internet and Internet-connected devices are reshaping the landscapes of argument occupied by scientists\, lay persons\, and governments. Currently\, he is awaiting the publication of Arguing with Numbers\, a collection of essays co-edited with G. Mitchell Reyes whose contributors investigate the relationship between rhetoric and mathematics. He is also working on a new book project on the rhetoric of Mars colonization.Professor Wynn teaches classes in Rhetoric of Science\, Rhetoric and Public Policy\, Climate Change\, Argumentation\, and Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mars-colonization-james-wynn/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:2021 CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join our graduate students as they present their Master’s theses to the public. \n\n\n\nApril 16\, 202110am-12\, 12:30-4Register here\, and the Zoom link will be sent to you\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPresentation order: \n\n\n\n10am Roya Moussapour\, “Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States” \n\n\n\n10:45 Kelly Wagman\, “Sex\, Power\, and Technology: A Relational Engineering Ethos as Feminist Utopia”11:30 Elon Justice\, “Hillbilly Talkback: Co-Creation and Counter-Narrative in Appalachia”Lunch Break1:00 Andrea Kim\, “The Myth of Post-Racial Avatars : Techno-Orientalist Systems and Remediated Bodies in VRChat” \n\n\n\n1:45 Will  Freudenheim\, “The Network and the Classroom: A History of Hypermedia Learning Environments” \n\n\n\n2:30 Diego Cerna Aragon\, “Disputing facts\, disputing the economy: Media controversies at the decline of the Peruvian Miracle” \n\n\n\n3:15 Mike Sugarman\, “Playing It By Ear: Improvisation and Music Livestreaming during COVID-19”
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations-2021/
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Sterne\, “Diminished Vocalities: On Prostheses and Abilities”
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Jonathan Sterne provides a brief overview of some of the themes of his new book\, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (Duke\, December 2021) and a deeper dive into the approach to the voice he develops therein. Impairments are usually understood as the physical or biological substrates of culturally produced disabilities\, but in the book\, Sterne considers them as a political and theoretical problem in their own right. Impaired voices present a particularly interesting problem. Most discussions of the voice frame it as a human faculty that is connected to self and agency\, as when we say that a political group “has a voice\,” or when the tone of voice is taken as expressing a speaker’s inner meaning or selfhood. But how to understand voices that are produced prosthetically?  In this talk Sterne will consider his own experiments with vocal prostheses alongside projects and practices that locate voice outside the human body\, and that question its connection to agency.  He concludes with some reflections on the capture of voices by corporations like Otter.ai in their contract with Zoom.  Bonus for those who like their talks to be “meta”: this will be a talk on Zoom that will theorize the condition of talking on Zoom. \n\n\n\n\nJonathan Sterne (sterneworks.org) teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.  He is author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (Duke\, 2021); MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012)\, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke\, 2003); and numerous articles on media\, technologies and the politics of culture.  He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge\, 2012) and co-editor of The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (Minnesota\, 2016).  With co-author Mara Mills\, he is working on Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed\, and he has a new project cooking on artificial intelligence and culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jonathan-sterne-diminished-vocalities-prostheses-abilities/
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