The Noise Hits All at Once: A Trans History of the Votrax SC-01 Voice Synthesis Chip
Whit Pow / New York University
What happens when an electronic sound becomes legible as a voice?
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The Noise Hits All at Once: A Trans History of the Votrax SC-01 Voice Synthesis Chip
What Remains: The East Marshall Street Oral History and Memorialization Well Project
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University
This article examines VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection and tracing current community-led efforts toward ethical research, oral history, memorialisation, and overdue reburial of the stolen remains.
Read moreRethinking Cultural Specificity through Kpop Demon Hunters
Jennifer M. Kang / Queensland University of Technology
Kpop Demon Hunters exhibits how “K-pop aesthetics” have become a shared cultural resource, complicating discourses surrounding ownership, global-local identity, and the future of the Korean Wave in the global, digital streaming era.
Read moreStereotypes and advocacy in health care: A case study of a Black woman’s story in Grey’s Anatomy Kallia O. Wright / University of Miami
Wright analyzes Dr. Bailey’s heart attack in Grey’s Anatomy, revealing how racial and gender stereotypes shape Black women’s medical treatment and self-advocacy within biased healthcare systems.
Read moreYet Another KPDH Thought Piece: Socially Conscious and Popular?
David C. Oh / Syracuse University
Dr. David Oh investigates how Kpop Demon Hunters has managed to maintain its popular status despite the film’s counterhegemonic tendencies.
Read moreK-pop Beyond the Trend
Crystal S. Anderson / George Mason University
Dr. Crystal Anderson explores how K-pop music maintains relevance beyond the cultural moment, unlike the fast trending nature of other popular Korean music genres.
Read moreFriction in KPop Demon Hunters
Benjamin M. Han / University of Georgia
Kpop Demon Hunters is experiencing an unprecedented global success as an animated film, becoming the most watched content on Netflix with 325.1 million views in ninety-one days following its release. While one might be inclined to identify specific elements of the film that appeal to the global audience, Kpop Demon Hunters prompts us to examine questions of national identity in terms of its Koreanness, as an animated film produced by Sony Pictures and distributed on Netflix, with Koreans making up twenty percent of the film’s creative team.
Read moreSwamp Slop and Fake Moats: On the AI Mediation of Alligator Alcatraz
Diana Flores Ruiz / University of Washington
Diana Flores Ruiz discusses the prevalence of AI use on social media when discussing the Florida ICE facility, aka “Alligator Alcatraz”, and how it’s use often reduces knowledge about what is actually happening in the facility.
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