Category: Social Sciences

  • 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, […]

  • Bibliography: blockchain and whisper networks

    The bibliography that follows is a first iteration of works that I’m gathering to explore epistemological and structural parallels between distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain) and whisper networks (as defined as “An informal chain of conversations among members of an oppressed or marginalized group about oppressors who need to be watched because of predatory behavior” […]

  • Generate an Annotated Bibliography with Zotero

    I started a PhD program this semester, and I vowed not to repeat some of the mistakes of my master’s thesis. I mean, I made many mistakes, but two are relevant here: I did not do a good job of tracking what I read. This meant that I when I would try to find Smart […]

  • From Love Letters to Facebook Messages: Has Technology Ruined Romance?

          Technology has transformed the way we function as a society. Tasks that would be time consuming are now made quicker to complete, creating convenience in our lives where there would otherwise be a series of steps to fulfill, all thanks to technology. From the way we travel, to the way we communicate, […]