News on Platforms & Infrastructure
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 […]
Huan He is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University and holds a PhD in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California. From 2022–2023, He was […]
Lida Zeitlin-Wu is a scholar of media, race, and visual culture whose work explores the rationalization of sensory experience and selfhood under techno-capitalism. She received her PhD in Film & […]
Dannah Dennis, program officer for the Data Fluencies program, examines how college students use hyperlocal anonymous platforms through her research on Yik Yak’s Bucknell University community.
ABSTRACT This field review provides a critical history and overview of the two most popular for-profit meditation apps, Calm and Headspace, which have seen a dramatic uptick in downloads in […]
Julián Posada is a sociologist and information scientist whose work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, and inequality. He focuses on labor rights and community justice in technology development. […]
Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist who studies formations of personal, political, and gendered subjectivities, with a particular focus on social media. Much of her research has been centered in Nepal […]
Edward Ongweso Jr. is the finance editor at Logic(s) magazine and the cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast on the political economy of technological innovation. His work has appeared […]
Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, gender, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using […]
In this interview with Lorena Regattieri, Program Director Catalina Vallejo and Program Assistant Eliana Blam ask the researcher and activist about her work on environmental activism and the political economy of digital infrastructures in Brazil.