On Queer/Feminist Sound & the Digital Archive | Charles Eppley
Over the past several years, there has been a sonic awakening. The study of sound and its effects on knowledge, identity, culture, and history...
Digital Comfort Food
Rather than write another commentary on a recent event, or a critique on some new internet privacy issue, I’ve decided to write about a...
Rise of the Machines
American human beings hate their hands and it’s killing me. More to the point: modern Americans would rather wave their hands in front of...
Masturbating alone, together: A review of Escargotesque or, What is Experience? By M.H. Bowker (Punctum Books, 2015) | Norberto Gomez, Jr.
“When there are no bathrooms, no bedrooms, no rooms of any kind, you have to masturbate during ‘showers,’ … hiding behind the largest...
Fake It Til You Make It: The Trouble With Internet News Hoax Sites
Did you hear about the deep fried rat at KFC? Or how about the two Floridians who were arrested for selling golden tickets to...
Social Media’s Double-Edged Sword: The Palatability of Privilege in the Transgender Community | Jane Ninivaggi
In February, of 2014, Blake Brockinton was crowned homecoming king at East Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, in December he led a...
#Blackout2015: A Tale of Bad Public Relations, An Unexpected Firing, and a Power Move by Reddit Moderators
I went on a little road trip to Vermont this past week with my girlfriend, spending some time in the mountains and enjoying the...
Let’s Play: The Shining | Norberto Gomez, Jr.
The world of popular gaming mirrors the development of Hollywood action films: grandiose attempts at virtuality, holograms, and 3-D fantasies, with non-stop violence,...
My kind of social media
I’m antisocial. Sure, when I’m off at school it’s different. I’m in “people mode” so often that sometimes I forget just how much of...
U.S. Government Should “Turn Away” from Their Own Counter-Radicalization Program | Jane Ninivaggi
The White House hosted a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, during which Obama discussed concrete steps world powers “can take to develop community-oriented approaches...