Category: Social Sciences

  • A place for innovation? Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Justice Review

    Design Justice. Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need Sasha Constanza-Chock   Chapter 4 Review Ciudá Lágui – Xul Solar (1939) Where does innovation take place? This may seem like a very simple question, that could be quickly answered. In a traditional perspective, and according to well established vision of a linear mode of innovation, research […]

  • Modularity and Meaning

    Modularity is the second design principle for an Ecological Age.  With separate connected devices for separate functions, like a pen for writing, a watch for monitoring, and even clothing for communication, screen-free technology is automatically modular.  Decentralized functions are easier to understand, but harder to standardize.  They need different knowledge and materials.     Different information, […]

  • Write Your Way Out

    Write Your Way Out

    Typically, journaling is thought of in two ways: old people scrapbooking or teen girls doodling hearts in a diary. It is rare that the word “journaling” is associated with someone improving their mental health and assisting with past trauma and mental illness, but that is becoming more and more common every day. As mental health […]

  • Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 5: From Surveying Land to Surveilling Man (Lia Tarachansky)

    Post by Lia Tarachansky This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — In this chapter, Jacqueline Wernimont builds on the evolution of tracking technologies since the renaissance and hones in on her critique of […]

  • Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 5: From Surveying Land to Surveilling Man (John Murray)

    This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — Today, we take for granted the integration of activity tracking using smart devices. It has become accepted in western society as normal as wearing watches or […]

  • What Counts as a Valuable Body (Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 5, by Sarah Ciston)

    This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — In “From Surveying Land to Surveilling Man,” Numbered Lives connects the tracking of land and bodies at the level of nation-state to the personal tracking devices […]

  • HASTAC 2019

    HASTAC 2019

    I decided to reflect on HASTAC 2019 experience by focusing on a major theme that emerged for me over the course of the conference: De-programming and humanizing education. Several, but not all, of the talks that fall into this category were addressing issues in engineering and computer programming education. Some of these ideas have been implemented […]

  • Thank you, Mozilla

    Thank you, Mozilla

    It has been my great pleasure over the last six years to be on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit Foundation of which the Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary.  Mozilla has thanked me for my service publicly–and now I want to say, “Back at you, Mozilla!”    I joke that I’m […]

  • CCSWG18 Week 3 Write-Up: Race and Code

    CCSWG18 Week 3 Write-Up: Race and Code

    WEEK 3: RACE AND CODE CRITICAL CODE STUDIES WORKING GROUP 2018 Write-Up by Catherine Griffiths Main Thread Race and Black Codes Race and Code Critiques Black Code/Database/Humans Chimeria: Gatekeeper by Fox Harrell The Beloved Community License Other Code Critiques Started This Week Port of Secrets / snippet of anti-code from the Irvine-based GM-less larp community […]

  • Our Mobility, A Research Project

    Our Mobility, A Research Project

    Our mobility—whether it’s walking to a corner store, commuting by bus, driving across town, or flying across the globe—says something about our social advantages and disadvantages, culture, geography, goals, responsibilities, health, and well-being. Learning about the diversity of our mobile lives is one of the motivations behind my research project, Our Mobility. For some people, […]