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Touching Feeling Hands: Gender, Race, and Digital Devices
Michele White / Tulane University

December 7, 2022 Michele White / Tulane University Leave a comment

Dr. Michele White examines the metaphors and iconography of hands on digital devices along the axes of race, gender and accessibility.

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Imma with her im/material boxes
Zizi Li / University of California, Los Angeles

October 10, 2022 Zizi Li / University of California, Los Angeles Leave a comment

Zizi Li explores what influencer Imma’s virtual images convey about digital and physical realities.

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Art Imitates LIFE, NFT verifies ART: Walter Benjamin and Vault by CNN
Andy fischer Wright / University of Texas at Austin

August 10, 2021 Andy Fischer Wright / University of Texas at Austin 15 comments

Andy Fischer Wright examines the commodification of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by large media organizations in relation to Walter Benjamin’s (1935) “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

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A Look into Digital Blackface, Culture Vultures, & How to Read Racism like Black Critical Audiences
Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington

April 27, 2021 Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington 10 comments

Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph illuminate some of the ways critical Black audiences resist culture vultures, digital Blackface, and performative activism.

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Substack Will Not Save Us
Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin, Madison

February 1, 2021 Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison Leave a comment

Exploring the design and economics of the newsletter platform Substack, Austin Morris considers both its positive and negative implications for the future of digital media work.

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What Is “Good” Digital Media Work, Anyway?
Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin, Madison

October 26, 2020 Austin Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison One comment

Using new media cooperative Defector as a case study, Austin Morris explores the ethics of online content production and what it means to do “good work” in the digital content industries.

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#FrontlineMessages
Patricia Pisters / University of Amsterdam

April 14, 2020 Patricia Pisters / University of Amsterdam

#Frontberichten allows those who work on the front lines to broadcast their messages to the Netherlands and the world. A striking effect of the COVID-19 crisis that first began in 2020 is an increase of both interpersonal social media and mass media such as national broadcasting. In The Netherlands the news and talk shows on public television have had many […]

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Saving New Sounds: Podcasts and Preservation
Jeremy Wade Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison

February 26, 2018 Jeremy Wade Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 comments

Jeremy Wade Morris explores the oddities and challenges that podcasts present as digital objects.

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