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Mirror of Your Mind — Real Life

February 14, 2021 samplereality
How “algorithmic feeds conflate identity with diagnosis”
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

How Fair Is Zoom Justice?

August 19, 2020 samplereality
The same audio processing features in Zoom that eliminate echoes and background noise might also be eliminating high and low frequency audio cues that foster empathy between people.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus, Zoom

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

May 19, 2020 samplereality
This piece by @itstheshadsy is going onto my Intro to a Digital Studies syllabus. It’s a doubleheader of media archaeology and simulation studies.
Tagged DIG101, links, SimCity, simulation, syllabus

A Theory of Zoom Fatigue

April 23, 2020 samplereality
"We are paying attention to ourselves in an odd way"—yes! This idea from @lmsacasas is something I haven't been able to put my finger on until now about teaching through video.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus, Zoom

A Theory of Zoom Fatigue

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 samplereality
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus, Zoom

Creepypasta, ‘Candle Cove’, and the Digital Gothic

April 20, 2020 samplereality
Bookmarking Jessica Balanzategui's piece for the next iteration of my Death in the Digital Age course
Tagged creepypasta, dig215, digitaldeath, gothic, horror, links, syllabus

Creepypasta, ‘Candle Cove’, and the Digital Gothic

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 samplereality
Tagged creepypasta, dig215, digitaldeath, gothic, horror, links, syllabus

A Bestiary of Player Agency

December 6, 2019 samplereality
A loose and overlapping catalog of the kinds of agency choice-based games can give their players
Tagged DIG220, elit, links, syllabus, Twine

Small-Scale Structures in CYOA

December 6, 2019 samplereality
One of the must-read articles about designing structure on choice-based interactive fiction
Tagged DIG220, elit, links, syllabus, Twine

A Bestiary of Player Agency

December 6, 2019 samplereality
A loose and overlapping catalog of the kinds of agency choice-based games can give their players
Tagged DIG220, elit, links, syllabus, Twine

Small-Scale Structures in CYOA

December 6, 2019 samplereality
One of the must-read articles about designing structure on choice-based interactive fiction
Tagged DIG220, elit, links, syllabus, Twine

The 7 Deadly Sins of Interactive Fiction

December 2, 2019 samplereality
I don't agree with every rule here by a long shot. These are more like "things to think about" when creating a certain kind of interactive fiction game.
Tagged IF, links, syllabus, Twine

The 7 Deadly Sins of Interactive Fiction

December 2, 2019 samplereality
I don't agree with every rule here by a long shot. These are more like "things to think about" when creating a certain kind of interactive fiction game.
Tagged IF, links, syllabus, Twine

Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery

October 31, 2019 samplereality
This would make a great introduction the materiality and labor in a class about digital culture and infrastructure
Tagged Amazon, energy, labor, links, materiality, syllabus

Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery

October 31, 2019 samplereality
This would make a great introduction the materiality and labor in a class about digital culture and infrastructure
Tagged Amazon, energy, labor, links, materiality, syllabus

Period-Tracking Apps Say You May Have a Disorder. What if They’re Wrong?

October 30, 2019 samplereality
Worth including on my Gender and a Technology syllabus
Tagged DIG340, gender, links, syllabus

Period-Tracking Apps Say You May Have a Disorder. What if They’re Wrong?

October 30, 2019 samplereality
Worth including on my Gender and a Technology syllabus
Tagged DIG340, gender, links, syllabus

Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People

October 23, 2019 samplereality
A counter to the "red pill" theory of YouTube radicalization
Tagged DIG101, links, radicalization, syllabus, YouTube

Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People

October 23, 2019 samplereality
A counter to the "red pill" theory of YouTube radicalization
Tagged DIG101, links, radicalization, syllabus, YouTube

Surface Reading

September 9, 2019 samplereality
Worth including at the beginning of the semester in an e-lit class
Tagged DIG220, e-lit, links, syllabus

Surface Reading

September 9, 2019 samplereality
Worth including at the beginning of the semester in an e-lit class
Tagged DIG220, e-lit, links, syllabus

My Twenty Favorite Works of Interactive Fiction

August 15, 2019 samplereality
A great overview of some must-play new and newish interactive fiction, including Twine, ChoiceScript, and other platforms.
Tagged elit, links, syllabus, Twine, videogames

My Twenty Favorite Works of Interactive Fiction

August 15, 2019 samplereality
A great overview of some must-play new and newish interactive fiction, including Twine, ChoiceScript, and other platforms.
Tagged elit, links, syllabus, Twine, videogames

Verge exposé on the horrific working lives of Facebook content moderator

June 23, 2019 samplereality
“Facebook needs to shut down” says one content moderator.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Verge exposé on the horrific working lives of Facebook content moderator

June 23, 2019 samplereality
“Facebook needs to shut down” says one content moderator.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

AI Ethics: Seven Traps

March 30, 2019 samplereality
The traps that discussions about AI ethics fall into. Especially appreciate "the rule of law" trap, wherein we assume laws about AI will inherently be ethical.
Tagged algorithms, DIG101, ethics, links, syllabus

AI Ethics: Seven Traps

March 30, 2019 samplereality
The traps that discussions about AI ethics fall into. Especially appreciate "the rule of law" trap, wherein we assume laws about AI will inherently be ethical.
Tagged algorithms, DIG101, ethics, links, syllabus

Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics

February 27, 2019 samplereality
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their "spiritual telegraph" to the afterlife.
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, psychic, social_media, syllabus

Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics

February 27, 2019 samplereality
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their "spiritual telegraph" to the afterlife.
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, psychic, social_media, syllabus

Thieves of experience: On the rise of surveillance capitalism

February 6, 2019 samplereality
Pretty thorough review of Shoshana Zuboff’s new book. Key idea is the “extraction imperative” that drives Google, Facebook, etc.
Tagged links, surveillance, syllabus

Thieves of experience: On the rise of surveillance capitalism

February 6, 2019 samplereality
Pretty thorough review of Shoshana Zuboff’s new book. Key idea is the “extraction imperative” that drives Google, Facebook, etc.
Tagged links, surveillance, syllabus

They Will Not Return

February 3, 2019 samplereality
Possible Twine game to include on my Death in the Digital Age syllabus, with shades of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Tagged dig215, interactivefiction, links, syllabus, Twine

They Will Not Return

February 3, 2019 samplereality
Possible Twine game to include on my Death in the Digital Age syllabus, with shades of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Tagged dig215, interactivefiction, links, syllabus, Twine

The Fyre Festival and the Trumpet of Amplification

February 3, 2019 samplereality
Terrific/terrifying post by Mike Caulfield showing that the same principles that underwrote the Fyre Festival apply to disinformation and conspiracy theories
Tagged DIG101, disinformation, links, syllabus

The Fyre Festival and the Trumpet of Amplification

February 2, 2019 samplereality
Terrific/terrifying post by Mike Caulfield showing that the same principles that underwrote the Fyre Festival apply to disinformation and conspiracy theories
Tagged DIG101, disinformation, links, syllabus

Code and data for paper “Deep Painterly Harmonization”

December 17, 2018 samplereality
Maybe I should add “deep painting” to the glitching and databending section of my “Hacking, Remixing, and Design” seminar...
Tagged dig401, hacking, links, syllabus

Code and data for paper “Deep Painterly Harmonization”

December 17, 2018 samplereality
Maybe I should add “deep painting” to the glitching and databending section of my “Hacking, Remixing, and Design” seminar...
Tagged dig401, hacking, links, syllabus

STET by Sarah Gailey

December 11, 2018 samplereality
Short experimental fiction with a fresh take on the AI trolley problem.
Tagged AI, digitaldeath, links, syllabus, trolley_problem

STET by Sarah Gailey

December 11, 2018 samplereality
Short experimental fiction with a fresh take on the AI trolley problem.
Tagged AI, digitaldeath, links, syllabus, trolley_problem

“Blackfishing” on Instagram

December 3, 2018 samplereality
Adding this to future syllabuses, to be paired with Lauren Michele Jackson's digital blackface article in Teen Vogue.
Tagged DIG101, DIG340, gender, links, race, syllabus

“Blackfishing” on Instagram

December 3, 2018 samplereality
Adding this to future syllabuses, to be paired with Lauren Michele Jackson's digital blackface article in Teen Vogue.
Tagged DIG101, DIG340, gender, links, race, syllabus

Atlantic article on the rise of exorcisms

November 21, 2018 samplereality
Adding to my Death in the Digital Age class, where we’re already discussing demons and exorcism in the 21st century
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, syllabus

Atlantic article on the rise of exorcisms

November 21, 2018 samplereality
Adding to my Death in the Digital Age class, where we’re already discussing demons and exorcism in the 21st century
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, syllabus

Before You Make a Thing

November 15, 2018 samplereality
Yeah, I think I’m stealing this for my spring Hacking, Remixing, and Design course.
Tagged dig401, links, syllabus

Before You Make a Thing

November 14, 2018 samplereality
Yeah, I think I’m stealing this for my spring Hacking, Remixing, and Design course.
Tagged dig401, links, syllabus

Cult Conversations: A Series on Horror, Exploitation and the Gothic · Henry Jenkins

October 30, 2018 samplereality
Terrific look at where horror has been in the past 100 years, and what the genre looks like now.
Tagged cinema, horror, links, syllabus

Cult Conversations: A Series on Horror, Exploitation and the Gothic · Henry Jenkins

October 30, 2018 samplereality
Terrific look at where horror has been in the past 100 years, and what the genre looks like now.
Tagged cinema, horror, links, syllabus

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever

October 23, 2018 samplereality
Adding this to my “Death in the Digital Age” syllabus for the spring.
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, syllabus

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever

October 23, 2018 samplereality
Adding this to my “Death in the Digital Age” syllabus for the spring.
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, syllabus

Amazon Alexa Will Take Over Your Home – The Atlantic

September 22, 2018 samplereality
Will probably add this to my DIG 101 syllabus. And it would pair well with Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Tagged Alexa, DIG101, links, syllabus

Amazon Alexa Will Take Over Your Home – The Atlantic

September 22, 2018 samplereality
Will probably add this to my DIG 101 syllabus. And it would pair well with Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Tagged Alexa, DIG101, links, syllabus

First Monday Volume 23, Number 9

September 16, 2018 samplereality
The entire September 2018 issue of First Monday is devoted to emoji 💛🧡❤️💚💙💜
Tagged emoji, links, syllabus

First Monday Volume 23, Number 9

September 16, 2018 samplereality
The entire September 2018 issue of First Monday is devoted to emoji 💛🧡❤️💚💙💜
Tagged emoji, links, syllabus

GIFs as Disinformation Remedy (aka The GIF Curriculum)

September 16, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, GIFs, links, media_literacy, syllabus

GIFs as Disinformation Remedy (aka The GIF Curriculum)

September 16, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, GIFs, links, media_literacy, syllabus

THE MEANING OF COLORS by Molleindustria

September 13, 2018 samplereality
An MS Painterly send-up of conspiracy culture
Tagged conspiracies, DIG101, links, syllabus

THE MEANING OF COLORS by Molleindustria

September 13, 2018 samplereality
An MS Painterly send-up of conspiracy culture
Tagged conspiracies, DIG101, links, syllabus

The Nimble Tents Toolkit for Rapid Response Research

August 31, 2018 samplereality
Seriously thinking about making a rapid response research project part of my spring “Hacking, Remixing, and Design” seminar.
Tagged dig401, links, syllabus

The Nimble Tents Toolkit for Rapid Response Research

August 31, 2018 samplereality
Seriously thinking about making a rapid response research project part of my spring “Hacking, Remixing, and Design” seminar.
Tagged dig401, links, syllabus

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility

August 30, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, infrastructure, links, syllabus

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility

August 30, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, infrastructure, links, syllabus

AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning

August 23, 2018 samplereality
Just discovered this great AI primer from Liz Daly. Perfect for the syllabus.
Tagged AI, DIG101, links, syllabus

AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning

August 23, 2018 samplereality
Just discovered this great AI primer from Liz Daly. Perfect for the syllabus.
Tagged AI, DIG101, links, syllabus

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one

August 21, 2018 samplereality
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.”
Tagged DIG101, facebook, links, syllabus

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one

August 21, 2018 samplereality
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.”
Tagged DIG101, facebook, links, syllabus

Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World

August 21, 2018 samplereality
A Twine game about rebooting the world after the apocalypse
Tagged games, IF, links, syllabus, Twine

Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World

August 21, 2018 samplereality
A Twine game about rebooting the world after the apocalypse
Tagged games, IF, links, syllabus, Twine

All Those Parties We Didn’t Cry At (Redux)

August 21, 2018 samplereality
Added to my to-play Twine list
Tagged IF, links, syllabus, Twine

All Those Parties We Didn’t Cry At (Redux)

August 21, 2018 samplereality
Added to my to-play Twine list
Tagged IF, links, syllabus, Twine

twitter.com

August 20, 2018 samplereality
Gotta pull this out whenever we talk about infrastructure in class.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

twitter.com

August 20, 2018 samplereality
Gotta pull this out whenever we talk about infrastructure in class.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Battery death is the new horror film staple · kottke.org

August 18, 2018 samplereality
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, syllabus

Battery death is the new horror film staple · kottke.org

August 18, 2018 samplereality
Going to revisit this next semester for my Death in the Digital Age course
Tagged dig215, digitaldeath, links, syllabus

“10 Gaps for Digital Literature” – Serge Bouchardon #ELO18 Keynote

August 17, 2018 samplereality
A birds-eye view of the state of the field, plus a good assortment of links to digital literature old and new.
Tagged DIG220, elit, links, syllabus

“10 Gaps for Digital Literature” – Serge Bouchardon #ELO18 Keynote

August 17, 2018 samplereality
A birds-eye view of the state of the field, plus a good assortment of links to digital literature old and new.
Tagged DIG220, elit, links, syllabus

Nintendo’s Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites

August 13, 2018 samplereality
Nintendo sees emulation only through the lens of IP, sadly. What about preservation, access, or pedagogy?
Tagged fms321, links, syllabus, videogames

Nintendo’s Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites

August 13, 2018 samplereality
Nintendo sees emulation only through the lens of IP, sadly. What about preservation, access, or pedagogy?
Tagged fms321, links, syllabus, videogames

The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump

August 12, 2018 samplereality
A great critique of that awful earnest bromide "Teach the controversy" from Michiko Kakutani
Tagged links, syllabus, truth

The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump

August 12, 2018 samplereality
A great critique of that awful earnest bromide "Teach the controversy" from Michiko Kakutani
Tagged links, syllabus, truth

Maps as Media – Fall 2018

August 12, 2018 samplereality
As usual, @shannonmattern's new course on maps as media looks awesome. Gorgeous design, but even better, wonderful pedagogy.
Tagged digitalhumanities, links, maps, syllabus

Maps as Media – Fall 2018

August 12, 2018 samplereality
As usual, @shannonmattern's new course on maps as media looks awesome. Gorgeous design, but even better, wonderful pedagogy.
Tagged digitalhumanities, links, maps, syllabus

Horror Blackademics: The Get Out (2017) Syllabus

August 11, 2018 samplereality
Some great resources here for teaching the intersectionality of "Get Out"
Tagged horror, intersectionality, links, syllabus

Horror Blackademics: The Get Out (2017) Syllabus

August 11, 2018 samplereality
Some great resources here for teaching the intersectionality of "Get Out"
Tagged horror, intersectionality, links, syllabus

Why Reddit’s face-swapping celebrity porn craze is a harbinger of dystopia

August 10, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged conspiracy, deepfake, DIG101, links, syllabus, truth

Why Reddit’s face-swapping celebrity porn craze is a harbinger of dystopia

August 10, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged conspiracy, deepfake, DIG101, links, syllabus, truth

Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center

August 9, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center

August 9, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

PYMK: A Controversial Facebook Feature’s 10-Year History

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
Tagged DIG101, links, surveillance, syllabus

PYMK: A Controversial Facebook Feature’s 10-Year History

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
Tagged DIG101, links, surveillance, syllabus

Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web | The New Yorker

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Dark Content is a video series on the dark web about people who perform commercial content moderation on the open web.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web | The New Yorker

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Dark Content is a video series on the dark web about people who perform commercial content moderation on the open web.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Who are QAnon supporters? The QAnon subreddit, analyzed with data. – Vox

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Excellent digital forensics work on QAnon. Surprise! Most QAnon posters also post on videogames and Men’s Rights.
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus

What HBR Gets Wrong About Algorithms and Bias · fast.ai

August 7, 2018 samplereality
“algorithms can often exacerbate underlying societal problems”
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

The consequences of framing digital humanities tools as easy to use | hc:20283 | Humanities CORE

August 7, 2018 samplereality
Paige Morgan's engagement with Tsing's theory of nonscalability is worth including in my DIG 401 (Hacking, Remixing, and Design) class.
Tagged dig401, digitalhumanities, hacking, links, syllabus

How journalists should not cover an online conspiracy theory | Opinion | The Guardian

August 7, 2018 samplereality
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.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

This is why Alex Jones has been able to get away with exploiting social media – The Washington Post

August 6, 2018August 22, 2018 samplereality
Worth including on my DIG 101 syllabus, where I will have a whole section on conspiracies.
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus

Unintended Consequences to Google Context Cards on Conspiracy Videos?

August 2, 2018August 22, 2018 samplereality
A good look at how affordances of platforms could enable a kind of crackpot hermeneutics.
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus

Yelp, The Red Hen, And How All Tech Platforms Are Now Pawns In The Culture War

June 26, 2018 samplereality
A Buzzfeed piece on the way fringe political groups hijack social media platforms.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

The Oxygen of Amplification | Data & Society

May 23, 2018 samplereality
Fantastic report from Data & Society on the ways the media inadvertently amplifies the messaging of hate groups
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus
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