
Elizabeth LoshWilliam & Mary | WM
Elizabeth Losh
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This essay seeks to undermine the primacy of Vannevar Bush as an architect of digital culture by reimagining the story of national computing infrastructure through the framework of feminized care work. It argues that early forms of networked computational media were situated in collaborative spaces in which labor oriented around utilization, mainte...
For a few weeks in the summer of 2014, a glimmering LED display on the media façade of the FIESP building in São Paulo, Brazil, cycled through hundreds of selfies, thus presenting a multiplicity of images of solo acts of urban self-fashioning now captured by new practices of closely distant mobile photography. A selfie of a young woman with plucked...
In “Hacking the Classroom: Eight Perspectives” (2014) published in Computers and Composition Online, eight authors discuss the question: “Why does the Higher Ed classroom need to be “hacked,” and how might we hack it?”
http://cconlinejournal.org/hacking/
His use of new communication technologies has associated Obama with youth, progress, volunteerism, and user-generated content. Unlike Republican online flops like ‘McCain Space’ and the Facebook application ‘Pork Invaders’, Obama seemed a master of social media and digital text. However, since taking office Obama’s use of YouTube and Flickr shows a...
This essay examines how remixes that combine human rights footage with popular songs complicate our understanding of the relationship between media production and civic participation. We argue that editing and compositing complicates establishing the authenticity of source material and that rapid dissemination of digital files through distributed n...
Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform the liberal arts—and perhaps the university itself. Indeed, at a time when many academic institutions are facing aust...
Because of rapid transitions taking place in the media landscape and the frequently changing fortunes of political parties, books about digital media and political life often become rapidly dated. Although Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times is very much a document of the Bush administration, many of the essays it contains continue t...
Government media-making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.
Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns...
In the opening of The Birth of the Clinic, Michel Foucault describes his scholarly project about medical epistemology as being "about space, about language, and about death" and "about the act of seeing, the gaze" (ix). Although Foucault exploits the image of the "membrane" as it is observed in living or dead tissue and acknowledges the prominence...
As the physical building of a national library can serve as a tangible expression of political and cultural philosophy, a given digital archive manifests ideological features of the national legacy it preserves and disseminates electronically. Millennial discourses have influenced national library building projects in both physical and digital arch...