Explainer GIFs for link-averse media consumers…Perfect for my DIG 101, where we’re discussing animated GIFs next week and Internet conspiracies a few weeks later.
Explainer GIFs for link-averse media consumers…Perfect for my DIG 101, where we’re discussing animated GIFs next week and Internet conspiracies a few weeks later.
An MS Painterly send-up of conspiracy culture
An MS Painterly send-up of conspiracy culture
A good Emoji resource, with hex codes FOR ALL THE EMOJI
A good Emoji resource, with hex codes FOR ALL THE EMOJI
Seriously thinking about making a rapid response research project part of my spring “Hacking, Remixing, and Design” seminar.
Seriously thinking about making a rapid response research project part of my spring “Hacking, Remixing, and Design” seminar.
We touched upon Lisa Park’s critique of the hypervisibility/weird invisibility of antenna trees yesterday in DIG 101. Wish we could have spent more time on it.
We touched upon Lisa Park’s critique of the hypervisibility/weird invisibility of antenna trees yesterday in DIG 101. Wish we could have spent more time on it.
Just discovered this great AI primer from Liz Daly. Perfect for the syllabus.
Just discovered this great AI primer from Liz Daly. Perfect for the syllabus.
Key quote: “It is unclear what other criteria Facebook measures to determine a user’s score, whether all users have a score, and in what ways they’re used.”
Key quote: “It is unclear what other criteria Facebook measures to determine a user’s score, whether all users have a score, and in what ways they’re used.”
A Twine game about rebooting the world after the apocalypse
A Twine game about rebooting the world after the apocalypse
A tool to shrink recognized commands in Inform in order to create limited parser games. Good for games about power and agency.
A tool to shrink recognized commands in Inform in order to create limited parser games. Good for games about power and agency.
Added to my to-play Twine list
Added to my to-play Twine list
Gotta pull this out whenever we talk about infrastructure in class.
Gotta pull this out whenever we talk about infrastructure in class.
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course
A birds-eye view of the state of the field, plus a good assortment of links to digital literature old and new.
A birds-eye view of the state of the field, plus a good assortment of links to digital literature old and new.
Nintendo sees emulation only through the lens of IP, sadly. What about preservation, access, or pedagogy?
Nintendo sees emulation only through the lens of IP, sadly. What about preservation, access, or pedagogy?
A great critique of that awful earnest bromide "Teach the controversy" from Michiko Kakutani
A great critique of that awful earnest bromide "Teach the controversy" from Michiko Kakutani
As usual, @shannonmattern's new course on maps as media looks awesome. Gorgeous design, but even better, wonderful pedagogy.
As usual, @shannonmattern's new course on maps as media looks awesome. Gorgeous design, but even better, wonderful pedagogy.
Some great resources here for teaching the intersectionality of "Get Out"
Some great resources here for teaching the intersectionality of "Get Out"
There are a lot of deep fake articles out there, but I think this is the one I'll use in Intro to Digital Studies this year.
There are a lot of deep fake articles out there, but I think this is the one I'll use in Intro to Digital Studies this year.
You can easily apply Holt and Vonderau’s critique of the discourse around data centers in “Where the Internet Lives” to Microsoft’s discourse about its undersea data center.
You can easily apply Holt and Vonderau’s critique of the discourse around data centers in “Where the Internet Lives” to Microsoft’s discourse about its undersea data center.
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
Dark Content is a video series on the dark web about people who perform commercial content moderation on the open web.
Dark Content is a video series on the dark web about people who perform commercial content moderation on the open web.
Every once in a while it's worth resurfacing this xkcd explainer of free speech.
Excellent digital forensics work on QAnon. Surprise! Most QAnon posters also post on videogames and Men’s Rights.
“algorithms can often exacerbate underlying societal problems”
Paige Morgan's engagement with Tsing's theory of nonscalability is worth including in my DIG 401 (Hacking, Remixing, and Design) class.
Another great piece by Whitney Phillips, one of the best thinkers about toxic media. A critique of they way the news has covered QAnon conspiracists.
Worth including on my DIG 101 syllabus, where I will have a whole section on conspiracies.
A good look at how affordances of platforms could enable a kind of crackpot hermeneutics.
A Buzzfeed piece on the way fringe political groups hijack social media platforms.
Fantastic report from Data & Society on the ways the media inadvertently amplifies the messaging of hate groups
Posts navigation