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Eubanks investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. She shows how automated systems, rather than humans, control which […]
Simone Browne is an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also research director of Critical Surveillance […]
Gabriella Coleman describes herself alternately as a translator, a broker, a gopher, and a trickster as she responds to solicitations by journalists. Studying a secretive network of hackers rendered both […]
This review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital media into three broad but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of digital media, and […]
Hackers and their projects have become routine, authoritative, and public participants in our daily geopolitical goings-on. There are no obvious, much less given, explanations as to why a socially and […]
Dr. Biella Coleman will present From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon. Talk will be followed by Q&A period. Virtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in […]
Gabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, her scholarship covers the politics, cultures, and ethics of hacking. She […]
Tech sector whistleblowers have played an increasingly vital role in exposing racism and toxic workplace environments, algorithmic bias, and other platform harms. But the cost of coming forward with information […]
Lilly Irani is an associate professor of communication & science studies at the University of California, San Diego. She also serves as faculty in the Design Lab, Institute for Practical […]
Based on an ethnographic project in a public high school in a low-income neighborhood in South Los Angeles, this paper argues that access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) cannot […]
An event advertised as the first all-women’s hackathon in Latin America was held in México in 2015. Highly ephemeral but also highly visible, the hackathon functions as a critical site […]