The Dangers of the ARG
I was very interested in the alternate reality game, especially because it isn’t something I’m familiar with at all. There are tons of...
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Critical Making & Failure
While reflecting on this week’s reading and thinking back to Chun’s ‘The Wonderful Creepiness of New Media’ (and picking up a little bit...
Procedurally Generated Content: A kaleidoscopic experience
For my final project, my object analysis is the game Proteus – a walking simulator where the player simply explores an island. Like...
How are ARGs Conducive to Critical Making?
In class this week, I was curious about what made ARG’s seem so conducive to the practice of critical making. In particular, what is it...
Some Questions about Critical Making
Because we didn’t have a chance to talk about our critical making readings, I wanted to use this post to raise a couple of questions...
Apple, Foxconn, and Ignoring Dark Matter
(tw: mentions of suicide) The first time I heard about the suicide nets outside of Foxconn buildings, a series of factories in China...
some assembly required
I was very taken with Sayers’ discussion of exploded view diagrams as “creativity in a box: prescribed workflows and prefabbed systems...
Recreating the Standard: The Advantage of Recreating Standardized Testing through Critical Making
During my first week as a Preschool teacher, I was shocked at the variety of projects teachers created for their classrooms. Previous...
Exploitative Labor Across Video Game Production Chains
As a brief description, alpha and beta testing in video games are what are referred to as "user acceptance testing," or the testing of...
Thoughts on Praxis
As I’ve delved more into the history of pre-digital and early-digital women’s games, I’m surprised to see the number of scholars who...
Seeing Oneself in the Machine
As in life, so also in my research, I am consistently drawn to objects that produce feelings of estrangement and uncanniness. As these...
Lenticular Logic and LGBTQ+ YouTube
A simplified look at YouTube's structure might look something like this; YouTube provides a platform for content creators to reach...
What Brussels Listens to when it's Windy- I know you better than you do.
It's quite interesting for me to find seemingly odd business partnerships, especially when it comes to companies combining their...
Relationships Between the Logics of Capitalism and the Sciences
The discussion we had about the McPherson article last week in class brought to mind another example that I think helps illustrate for me...
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A lot of our presentations on algorithms had to deal with the negative uses of them. While doing research for my groups topic, risk...
Critical Making in Poetics
Reading Jagoda’s article on Critical Making reminded me of previous work I have done or interacted with in similar modes, but for...
Mass incarceration, control societies, and covert racism
During our discussion of overt and covert racism (as the terms are used by Tara McPherson in “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?”),...
McPherson's Absent Cause
Today in class, while discussing Tara McPherson’s “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?,” we encountered a problem of causality....
"More Human than Human is Our Motto"
Writing about algorithms in long form is a project that's been on my list of things to do for some time now. I'm fascinated by how they...
Journey: Playing with Questions About Identity
“Identity of an individual is based on its ability to create and maintain a narrative on what he thinks of himself. Our identity is then...
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