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Matt Canute is the tech lead at the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. He provides technical and data management support for the various research streams. With a background […]
Nik Marda is a technical lead for AI Governance at Mozilla, where his work supports Mozilla’s mission to build products, make investments, and lead campaigns that make AI safer and […]
Danielle Wood is an associate professor in the Program in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and holds a joint appointment in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics & […]
Miliaku Nwabueze is an anti-disciplinarian constellation architect, chaos orchestrator, and glitch enthusiast who splits her time between New York and Atlanta. She is a queer, Igbo-Black American originally born and […]
Whit Pow is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their work is forthcoming in Camera Obscura and has been published in […]
ABSTRACT The study of digital games is necessarily a study of software and computers and their politics, histories, and imbrications in systems of power. Critical game studies as a field […]
Yeonhee Cho is a PhD candidate in information science at the University of Washington, holding an MSEd in learning sciences from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in media […]
Rianna Walcott is a postdoctoral fellow in the Black Communication and Technology Lab at the University of Maryland, and part of the DISCO Network. Walcott will be joining the Department […]
ABSTRACT Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on October 31, 2022 has left Black Twitter reeling in the wake of over a year of turbulence, with constantly changing affordances rendering the […]
ABSTRACT This field review explores the phenomenon of crypto-games (digital games built on blockchain technologies) and new racialized forms of play-based labor. Through examining Axie Infinity, a crypto-game made in […]
Zara Rahman is a British-Bangladeshi author and researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Her book, Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our […]