nashjenkinsDec 13, 20183 min readIt's What's Inside That Counts: Rendering The Visceral Internet(A Review of "I Was Raised On The Internet," Museum of Contemporary Art") There is probably an irony to be located somewhere within the...
Jenn JentesDec 8, 20181 min readDigital Media and the Human ConditionAs this is my final blog post in the final week of class, I feel like it is appropriate to think on the class as a whole. During our...
David A. GarnerDec 6, 20187 min readA Mediated Media Experience, A Review of I Was Raised on the InternetApologies, classmates, I forgot to post my review of the MCA's I Was Raised on the Internet. My review below! The Museum of Contemporary...
margareteDec 3, 20182 min readAccidentally Dining with the Vectoral ClassLast week I was invited to an investment strategy event hosted by an emerging startup company called VestedWorld, a traditional venture...
Steven WymanDec 3, 20182 min readWark and Morgan StanleyFor the last blog post, I thought it would be appropriate to reach back to what I found to be one of the most interesting texts we read...
jremillardDec 2, 20182 min readFreerice.com and Digitally Distancing OurselvesI remember in junior high and high school, one of the options that our teachers often used to pacify students when we had finished our...
acstanfieldDec 2, 20182 min readSleep Dealer's Dystopic Finale In class, I mentioned that the future that Sleep Dealer may be gesturing towards is one in which Mexico is liberated from America’s...
maesparzaDec 2, 20183 min readSome Ultimately Irrelevant Musings on Freelance Labor as an Undergrad For money, I shelved books in college. Occasionally, patrons would approach me with questions, and I’d respond with something muttered or...
LauDec 2, 20183 min readThe Newness of the PastI was very struck by an idea that came up in class this week: the newness, or strangeness, of the past. As someone who recently opted...
kellytrieceDec 2, 20183 min readDisembodied Automation: The Invisibility of Labor in Digital Economies Automation has become a new battleground for the physical body. I found myself in the ethical dilemma when checking out at Walmart just...
Dana GlaserDec 2, 20183 min readFuturity/FuturismI have leftover questions about Marez’s concept of futurity, as opposed to futurism, in the introduction we read of Farm Worker Futurism....
benny vanderburghDec 1, 20183 min readThe next 11 yearsThere is no question that corporate-controlled technologies are an already alive dystopia for workers across classes, races and...
indiawestonDec 1, 20182 min readImagining Nuclear FuturesA recent post by kamelia, entitled "Our Nuclear Future" (link here: https://uofcmediastudies.wixsite.com/dmt2018/blog/our-nuclear-future)...
Jenn JentesDec 1, 20182 min readParty like a Rockstar?Although this week’s topics were generally depressing, there was one thing we discussed shortly that really caught my attention- the...
asawariDec 1, 20183 min readThe Heaviness of Being (a Victim) ”The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest countries on earth (second-to-last on the United Nations’ Human Development...
kameliaNov 30, 20182 min readOur Nuclear FutureSince this week has been about generally depressing topics such as the exploitation of labor and how our technology is harming if not...
nashjenkinsNov 29, 20182 min readPolitical Vision and Affect in Science FictionBy no stretch of the imagination am I a scholar of science fiction, but I've long been interested in the thematic of dystopia that tends...
clbeiersdorferNov 28, 20184 min readAre hackers cool? During yesterday’s conversation people kept asking about why we use the term “hacker” instead of “programmer.” This idea got me thinking...
EvanNov 28, 20183 min readtekilaAlex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer envisions the American Dream at its nightmarish (though by no means unimaginable) extreme—as one character...
kameliaNov 26, 20183 min readModding as Critical MakingA lot of what we read this week had me thinking about modding games and how game mods can be critical making. At what point do these mods...
